Nintendo Gameboy (GB)

Nintendo Gameboy (GB): A big hand please... (1959 words)
by davidbuttery - written on 05.07.02 (Very useful, 213 readings)
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I feel like a veritable dinosaur in writing about this product. After all, this isn't the Game Boy Advance, it's not the rather older Game Boy "Color" (now, wasn't that a rip-off? You needed a SNES as well!), it's not even the (in itself virtually pensionable) "Pocket Game Boy". No, what we have here is the machine that started it all - and, in many ways, blasted the entire handheld market from a niche sector for hardcore enthusiasts into the mainstream - ladies and gentlemen I give you the good old, 100-million-plus-selling, Nintendo Game Boy itself. Just let me drag myself away from playing with Alfred Chicken for a minute (no ...

A Colourful Life (1062 words)
by Bezman - written on 20.11.00 (Very useful, 546 readings)
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Well, it’s been over ten years since the original Gameboy was released. The questions are: do I like them, are they any good and should you buy one. First let us take a look at what Gameboys actually exist. The original was released slightly before the Game Gear. The Gameboy merely had a green and yellow screen – not even proper black and white. However, there was one feature that ensured that the Game Gear was never more than a broken piece of glass in the Gameboy’s foot. Low battery consumption. Whilst the Game Gear lasted 3 or 4 hours with six batteries, the Gameboy lasted for nearly 20 using 4. It was this that motivated the ...

Nintendo Gameboy (GB): Nintendo Gameboy a look back (1467 words)
by Eddie35 - written on 11.06.04 (Very useful, 246 readings)
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Note this review covers only the black and white Gameboy, now superceded by the Gameboy Advance system, but I think you'll learn a lot about the Gameboy itself and why it became so popular in the 1990's. The Nintendo Gameboy originally came out several years before it's 1989 us debut and Japanese debut in the same year. There were many portable games and console before the gameboy. Sega of Japan (not the US Sega) actually released a couple of portable consoles before the game gear came out. Then later of course came, those cheap, but mildly entertaining Tiger games that cost like $10 at the supermarket. However, those consoles were ...