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Game Boy Original B&W version and Box Game Boy light and Box (Japan only) Clear case Astroboy edition (Japan only) Various GB Pocket color variations including clear Limited Edition Famitsu Model-F GB Pocket, availible as a prize give away only THE RANT: Who here doesn't have a Game Boy? This was not the first portable game system to have interchangeable carts (that distinction goes to the Epoch Game Pocket Computer) but it was by far the most successful.

In fact, it is arguably the most successful game system of all time. The concept was simple, take the popular handheld LCD game format, slap a cheap dot matrix screen on it and you've got a game system you can play in the car. No one knew how incredibly popular and successful the machine would be.

I remember when this thing came out (I was in sixth grade.) I got one for Christmas that year and had fun with Tetris and Super Mario Land. I thought it was neat, but didn't think anything more about it. Apparently other people out there were way more impressed with this machine than I ever was. Saturday night fever rated pg. This machine reinvented handheld gaming as something to be taken seriously by the wider gaming community. Up until the Gameboy handheld games were cheap single game LCD units that offered a small distraction, not much more than kid's toys to everyone else.

Now you could enjoy games with practically the same depth as the ones at home. This thing sold like wildfire, and it wasn't long before other companies like Sega and Atari entered the handheld gaming market with their own superior color consoles. But a funny thing happened; Despite being horribly overmatched in terms of hardware and processing power, the GameBoy thrived while it's competitors shrank away.

This happened for several reasons, the first being price. A Game Boy debuted at $89 in 1989, and the price quickly dropped to $49 once competition showed up. Sega's and Atari's machines cost well over $100. The second was software, Gameboy benefited from cross licensing of popular NES titles like Castelvania, Gradius, Ninja Gaiden, etc. Sega and Atari had no name games.

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The third was Tetris. That game alone sold the GameBoy enough to make it a toy for yuppies and not just a kid's thing. Since then the game Boy has sold Millions of units and Billions of games, and may have kept Nintendo on the map while the N64 took a beating from the PS1 in the late 90's. Eventually by 1995 or so the Game Boy started to get a little old.

Nintendo messed around with different color cases, repackaged the machine in a smaller case called the 'Game Boy Pocket,' made a (Japan only) backlit machine called the 'Game Boy light' (which has become a very much sought after collector's item,) and finally got around to making a Gameboy with a color screen, called appropriately the 'Game Boy Color.' This actually pumped new life into the Gameboy, an 8-bit system, at a time when people were enjoying 32 and 64 bit systems at home. But by the late 1990's the GameBoy's appeal had finally started to wane. New systems from Bandai and SNK threatened to steal GameBoy's thunder. It was only through the mind numbing Pokemon franchise that Nintendo kept the Game Boy going.