Game Boy

Game Boy

Manufacturer	Nintendo
Product family	Game Boy line
Type	Handheld game console
Generation	Fourth generation
Retail availability	JP April 21, 1989 NA August 1989 EU September 28, 1990
Discontinued	2003
Units sold	Worldwide: 118.69 million, including Game Boy (Play it Loud!), Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light and Color units
Media	Game Boy cartridges.
Best-selling game	Tetris, 30.26 million (pack-in/separately) Pokémon Red and Blue, 23.64 million approximately (as of January 18, 2009).
Predecessor	Game & Watch
Successor	Game Boy Pocket (redesign) Game Boy Light (redesign) Game Boy Color (successor)

The Game Boy (ゲームボーイ, Gēmu Bōi), is an 8-bit is a handheld video game console. It was Nintendo's first game console in the Game Boy range. It was their first portable console to use game cartridges, so it could play more than one game, and you could take it anywhere. Since 1989 the range has grown to include not only the original, but also many other consoles such as Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Micro. All of these (except the Game Boy Micro) can play Game Boy games as well.

The Game Boy has a green screen that can show four shades of grey or dark green. Like the NES, it has four buttons and a cross-shaped direction all control. The console has a single speaker, but can be used with stereo headphones. As many as four Game Boys can be connected together with special wires for games with more than one player.

The idea for the Game Boy came from Gumpei Yokoi, who also made many other Nintendo video game consoles.

Nintendo made Game & Watch games before the Game Boy and later the Nintendo DS after the Game Boy.

Games

• Super Mario Land
• Tetris (Which was included with the Game Boy)
• Alleyway
• Baseball
• Tennis