Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months Batteries Included: 1 Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo Color: Grape EAN: 0045496710613 Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Color Publisher: Nintendo Sales Rank: 5631 Studio: Nintendo
Amazon.com: The Game Boy is that small, colorful handheld video game system clutched by folks playing it everywhere. Popular among a wide age group, including a good number of airport-lounging power executives, the Game Boy has a true hardcore fan base comprised of millions (and millions) of kids around the globe.
Nintendo's Game Boy debuted in the late '80s and has since sold more than 60 million units worldwide, far outpacing other hand-held game systems. With a catalog of more than 1,000 games and dozens of add-on peripherals, Game Boy is a monster of a hand-held game system, and a remarkably affordable one at that.
Early March 1998 brought the release of the Game Boy Color system, an upgraded version of the original black-and-white system. It is equipped with an 8-bit CPU, doubling the original Game Boy's computing power. The small LCD screen can display up to 56 colors simultaneously (out of a 32,000-color palette), delivered via boosted video-processing memory that provides remarkably sharp and vibrant graphics.
The hundreds of available games vary from tremendously compelling to instantly forgettable. Quality or not, the entire library of games designed for the original system is playable on Game Boy Color, but buyers should note that not all Game Boy Color games will work on the original Game Boy system.
The Game Boy Color system is available in an exotic array of colors and special editions. Accessories and add-on peripherals abound, enhancing the playing experience with vibrating feedback to in-game bumps and crashes, extra battery power, and even a clever camera package that allows players to capture, tweak, and print images. --Eric Twelker
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - GBC- FYI-( Game Boy Color)
This is the best system that they did come out with beside's the GBA and GBA SP and technically the original game boy advance really wasn't all that great it was just a spin off of the game boy color the only difference smaller games the GBA SP is pretty good back light on screen and charger that plugs in to my wall yeah it's nice but it doesn't quite have the same old feeling I get when I play the game boy color the GBC bring's back a lot of good old memories excellent games for that system even when I look here or at gamestop or electronic boutiques I alway ask for the older games you just can't beat old school no matter how hard you try yeah some of the newer game's are alright but I still like old school games nothing beats them better the GBC is exactly like the GBA SP only the GBC doesn't fold and doesn't have the smaller games that's the only difference and the GBC does have a charger that can plug in to the wall because I looked into it on this website: [...].
Rating: - Game Boy Color
I had the teal game boy color for the longest time and loved it to peices but I gave it to my cousins so oh well I'm getting a new game boy color in purple this time either way the game boy color is excellent the double aa bateries in the game boy color can last for the longest time ever trust me on this I know that for a fact that they can really last long my one cousin was playing my game boy color around christmas time about six years ago and we stayed up until 12:00 midnight playing totally angelica on the game boy color. if your buying a game boy color you won't be disappointed it exactly like the game boy advance sp only with out the screen light that's the only bad thing is that you have to by a light for it.
Rating: - Better than an SP
This is the origanal Gameboy Color its not some crappy SP this was amazing due to all the colors on the screen and the size was better than a gamegear for sure. Most of the titles are great and take full advantage of the colors many people say that it's not that great only because there is no backlight,
but who cares anyone remember the Gameboy Light? And how did that turn out, horrible nintendo did mot want to take another risk like that and they were right backlights and graphics don't make a game console
*cough gamegear cough* its the games for the console and these games are awesome so if you want dust off your old library of Gameboy color games go for it youll be sorry if you don't
Rating: - Pathetic, Prefer original GameBoy
The gameboy color was good but i really like the 1989 gameboy the grey one that takes 4 batteries
Rating: - what can i say?
Game Boy Color was the first hand held game I got back when it was still available at wal-mart. Though I got the teal version, it came bright in color and with the two pokemon games I wanted. Battery life is good even for someone that played it for four or five hours, though as others said the screen needs light to be able to play it. Now having lost my teal colored unit I've decided to for this purple one.
- GBC- FYI-( Game Boy Color)
- Pathetic, Prefer original GameBoy
