Game Boy line

The Game Boy line of portable game consoles date back to the first 'brick' released in 1989. Designed by Gunpei Yokoi, also responsible for the Game&Watch portable single-game systems, the Nintendo Game Boy was the very first portable game system to use interchangeable cartridges. The Game Boy Pocket, a smaller, ligher and more power-efficient version of the Game Boy was released in 1996. It featured nothing more than that and a black-and-white LCD display, as opposed to the greenish dot matrix screen of the original Game Boy. Another iteration, the Game Boy Light, was released exclusively in Japan, featuring a green back-lit display.

In 1998 Nintendo released the Game Boy color, featuring the same design as the Game Boy Pocket, but including a 32,768-color display with a maximum of 56 diffrent colors on screen at any given time.

2001 saw the release of the Game Boy Advance, later followed by the Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Micro.

Family

 * Game Boy (system)
 * Super Game Boy
 * Game Boy Pocket
 * Game Boy Color
 * Game Boy Advance
 * Game Boy Advance SP
 * Game Boy Player
 * Game Boy Micro