Nintendo Clear Game Boy Color (GBC)

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We believe partnering with other likeminded companies is a great way to help each other out and ultimately make products that are better for the end consumer. However, Henk Rogers brought the Soviet Union-made game, Tetris, to the attention of Nintendo of America.

In the 7-color modes, the sprites and backgrounds are given separate color schemes, and in the 10-color modes the sprites are further split into two differently-colored groups; however, as flat black (or white) was a shared fourth color in all but one (7-color) palette, the overall effect is that of 4, 6, or 8 colors. Game, Case, Cover Art, Manual: The original game disc with the original cover art and original instruction manual in a plastic game case. Due to its backward compatibility with Game Boy games, the Game Boy Color's launch period had a large playable library. The internal reaction to the Game Boy at Nintendo was initially very poor, earning it the derogatory nickname " DameGame" from Nintendo employees, in which dame (だめ) means "hopeless" or "useless".Various Game Boy and Color games have been re-released on newer Nintendo consoles through its digital distribution services.

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Despite its simple graphics and lack of a well-known brand, Tetris's suitability for a handheld platform convinced Nintendo president Minoru Arakawa to port and bundle it with the Game Boy.At the time of its discontinuation in 2003, the combined sales of the Game Boy were the best-selling game console of all time. The link cable was originally designed for players to play head-to-head two-player games such as in Tetris. In 1995, Nintendo of America announced that 46% of Game Boy players were female, which was higher than the percentage of female players for both the Nintendo Entertainment System (29%) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (14%). To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.

The resultant product was backward compatible with all existing Game Boy software, a first for a handheld system, allowing each new Game Boy product launch to begin with a significantly larger game library than any of its competitors. The last game released in North America is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, released on November 15, 2002. All the corners of the portrait-oriented rectangular unit are softly rounded, except for the bottom right, which is curved. A clear 'skeleton' Famitsu Model-F edition appeared in 1997, which had only 5,000 units released, and a clear yellow edition.in Japan and September 3, 1996, in North America: [45] a smaller, lighter unit that required fewer batteries. It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. Travis Fahs for IGN noted whilst "the Game Boy Color's life was relatively brief", it "built up a small library of excellent games", including Wario Land 3 and Pokémon Gold and Silver, and a "unique" and "previously unheard of" line of successful third-party games, including Dragon Warrior Monsters, Metal Gear Solid and Yu-Gi-Oh!

Having the best time revisiting my childhood, graphics are what you’d expect for something that old but it’s exactly as i remembered it. As a result, Tetris was bundled with the Game Boy in every region except Japan on its release, [21] which occurred in Japan in April 1989, followed by North America in July, and Europe in September of the following year. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. wikipedia|year={{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}|month={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}|day={{subst:CURRENTDAY}}}} {{Information |Description={{en|Nintendo Game Boy Color in the clear purple plastic casing. For dozens of select Game Boy games, the Game Boy Color has an enhanced palette built-in featuring up to 16 colors—four colors for each of the Game Boy's four layers.RetroSix is a small team of people who have been in the gaming industry and retail business since 2013, and sold consoles, controllers and even designed our own controllers and consoles. This was soon added due to public demand, along with new Game Boy Pocket units of different colors (released on April 28, 1997), some of them new to the Game Boy line. The Japanese Game Boy Light in Gold and Silver system are similar to the Gold and Silver Game Boy Pocket systems, however unlike the Game Boy Pocket, the Game Boy Light has a built in light that the light can be turned on or off. Tetris for the original Game Boy is the best-selling game compatible with Game Boy Color, and Pokémon Gold and Silver are the best-selling games developed primarily for it. attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.