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Game Boy

Game Boy
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Manufacturer Nintendo
Product family Game Boy line
Type Handheld game console
Generation Fourth generation
Retail availability
  • JP: April 21, 1989
  • NA: July 31, 1989
  • EU: September 28, 1990
  • RU: 1995
  • SER: 1996
Introductory price Game Boy:
¥?/US$89.95/AU$?
Discontinued March 23, 2003
Units sold Worldwide: 118.69 million(including Game Boy (Play it Loud!), Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light and Color units)
Media ROM cartridge ("Game Pak")
CPU Sharp LR35902 core @ 4.19 MHz
Display LCD 160x144 pixels, 2.6 in
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 (Japanese: ゲームボーイ Hepburn: Gēmu Bōi?) is an 8-bit handheld video game device with interchangeable cartridges developed and manufactured by Nintendo, which was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989 (1989-04-21), in North America on July 31, 1989 (1989-07-31) and in Europe on September 28, 1990 (1990-09-28). It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line and was created by Satoru Okada and Nintendo Research & Development 1. This same team, led by Gunpei Yokoi at the time, is credited with designing the Game & Watch series as well as several popular games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Redesigned versions were released in 1996 and 1998 in the form of Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Light (Japan only), respectively.

The Game Boy is Nintendo's second handheld system following the Game & Watch series introduced in 1980 and it combined features from both the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game & Watch. It was either bought as a standalone unit or bundled with the puzzle game Tetris.


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