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The Game Boy ( Japanese: ゲームボーイ) is a series of battery powered handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo. It is the best selling game system to date. The Game Boy was the second portable system created by Nintendo (the first being the Game & Watch series starting in 1980).

1 Versions

The Game Boy console went through several design iterations, without significant changes to its computing power, since its release in 1989.

1.1 Game Boy

The original Game Boy was released on April 21, 1989 in Japan and in August, 1989 in the United States. Based around a Z80 processor, it had a tiny black and green reflective LCD screen, an eight-way directional pad, and two action buttons. It played games from ROM-based media contained in small plastic detachable units called cartridgesIn a variety of electronic equipments, a cartridge (in video game terms, cart game pack or Game Pak can be one method of programming different functionality, providing variable content, or a method by which consumables may be replenished. The term cartrid (sometimes abbreviated as carts). The game that really pushed it into the upper reaches of success was TetrisNintendo Game Boy Tetris is a video game invented by Alexey Pajitnov whilst he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, inspired by a pentominoes game he had purchased earlier. The game Tetrominoes or tetrads, shapes composed of 4 blocks each, a.

CPU: 8-bit Z80 at 4.194304 MHz
RAM: 8 kbit internal
ROM: 256 kbitA Kilobit is a unit of information storage 1 Kilobit 103 bits 1000 bits bit 10bits 1024 bits See also Binary prefix Units of information., 512 kbit, 1 Mbit, 2 Mbit and 4 Mbit and 8 Mbit cartridges
Video RAM: 8 kbit internal
Sound: 4 channel stereo sound. The unit only has one speaker, but headphones provide stereo sound
Display: Reflective LCD 160 x 144 pixels
Screen Size: 66 mm (2.6 in) diagonal
Color Palette: 4 shades of gray
Communication: Up to 4 Game Boys can be linked together via serial ports
Power: 6 V, 0.7 W (4 AA batteries provide ~35 hours)

1.1.1 Game Boy Pocket

In 1996 Nintendo released the Game Boy Pocket, a smaller, lighter unit that required fewer batteries. It had space for 2 AAA batteries, which would provide roughly 10 hours of game play. The Game Boy Pocket has a smaller link port, requiring an adapter for linkage with the older Game Boy. The port's design was carried on to all later GB models.

1.1.2 Game Boy Light

Only available in Japan, the Game Boy Light was about the same size as the Pocket, uses 2 AA batteries instead of the pocket's AAAs, and has a backlit screen for improved visibility. Its backlit screen obviously impacts its battery life, but it is unclear by how much.

1.2 Game Boy Color

Main article: Game Boy Color

Released in November of 1998, the Game Boy Color (also referred to as GBC) added a color screen to a form factor slightly larger than the Game Boy Pocket. It also has double the processor speed, twice as much memory, and an infrared communications port. A major draw of the Game Boy Color was its backwards-compatibility (that is, a Game Boy Color is able to read older Game Boy cartridges). This became a major feature of the Game Boy line, since it allowed each new launch to begin with a significantly larger library than any of its competitors. (For an example of a similar marketing strategy, see Sony's PlayStation.)

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