Game Boy
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| Manufacturer | Nintendo |
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| Product family | Game Boy line |
| Type | Handheld game console |
| Generation | Fourth generation |
| Release date | |
| Discontinued | October 1998[3] |
| Units sold | Worldwide: 118.69 million, including Game Boy (Play it Loud!), Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light andColorunits |
| Media | Game Boycartridges. |
| Best-selling game | Tetris,30.26 million(pack-in/separately) Pokémon RedandBlue,23.64 million approximately(as of January 18, 2009).[4] |
| Predecessor | Game & Watch |
| Successor | Game Boy Pocket(redesign) Game Boy Light(redesign) Game Boy Color(successor) |
TheGame Boy(ゲームボーイ,Gēmu Bōi),is an 8-bithandheld video game console,first released in Japan in April 1989. It was later released inNorth Americain July 1989 and then inEuropein September 1990. It isNintendo's firsthandheldwith switchable games. The Game Boy is also one of thefirst portable consolesto use gamecartridges,meaning the games are interchangeable. The Game Boy family eventually expanded to include theGame Boy Color,Game Boy Advance,Game Boy Advance SP,andGame Boy Micro.The Game Boy was discontinued on 23 March 2003.
The Game Boy has a green screen that displays fourshadesof dark green (gray for theGame Boy Pocket). Like theNES,the Game Boy has two face buttons, start and select, and a cross-shapeddirectionpad. The console has a singlespeaker,and it can be used withstereoheadphones.As many as four Game Boys can be connected together with the Game Boy Link Cable.
The Game Boy was invented byGunpei Yokoi,who was also responsible for creating the unsuccessfulVirtual Boyand the successfulGame & Watchgames.
Recently, the Game Boy was compared to all Nintendo handhelds and systems released between 1989 and 2016 to see how long each one's battery life lasted, and the Game Boy beat all the other systems with 30 hours of battery life. The Game Boy provided the most game play at its time and currently still does.
Best-selling games
[change|change source]- Super Mario Land
- Tetris(Included with the Game Boy)
- Alleyway
- Baseball
- Tennis
Sources
[change|change source]- ↑White, Dave (July 1989). "Gameboy Club".Electronic Gaming Monthly.No. 3. p. 68.
- ↑"retrodiary: 1 April – 28 April".Retro Gamer(88).Bournemouth:Imagine Publishing:17. April 2011.ISSN1742-3155.OCLC489477015.
- ↑"Consolidated Sales Transition by Region"(PDF).Nintendo. April 26, 2016. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on May 1, 2016.Retrieved2016-10-23.
- ↑"ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum".Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association.Archived fromthe originalon 2009-05-15.Retrieved2009-01-18.
