What could you play on a Game Boy?

What games can you play on a Gameboy Pocket?

The Gameboy Pocket can only play Gameboy games. Gameboy advance and Gameboy color game…

What is the best Game Boy?

The best Gameboy model is the Gameboy Advance AGB 01. Out of the 118.69 consoles Nintendo Gameboy sold, 81.58 million consoles were the Gameboy Advance. Its popularity is due its form being easy to hold and much more.

What is the most popular Game Boy Color game?

The best-selling game on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color is Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow, which released in 1996 and sold over 46 million units worldwide.

Is an old Game Boy worth anything?

An original Game Boy can be worth up to $1,500 today.

Playing the Gameboy in 2022

What is the rarest Game Boy game?

1 Spud's Adventure

Spud's Adventure is the rarest and most expensive game on the Game Boy. This adventure game was released in Japan and North America in 1991 by publisher Atlus. This game featured a cast of vegetables and the player controls Spud, a potato that is tasked with saving Princess Mato.

What is the rarest Game Boy?

Pink Heart Gameboy DMG

It's known as the “Pink Heart Gameboy” a Gameboy so rare that there's rumoured to be the only one in the world. A 1 of 1 official Gameboy that was actually featured on Nintendo's website, and nobody until a few years ago thought it was real.

Do they still make Gameboys?

Several redesigns were released during the console's lifetime, including the Game Boy Pocket in 1996 and the Game Boy Light in 1998 (Japan only). Production of the Game Boy continued until 2003, well after the release of its second successor, the Game Boy Advance, in 2001.

Can you still play Game Boy games?

Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games will all be available, but the GBA titles will be exclusive to people who pay for the more expensive Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack tier — the same one you previously paid for if you wanted N64 and Sega Genesis titles.

What age is Game Boy?

April 21, 1989: Nintendo releases the Game Boy in Japan

The Game Boy was an 8-bit handheld console that supported interchangeable cartridges, although its screen could only display games in four colors of gray.

What was the last Game Boy Color game?

The last Game Boy Color game ever released is the Japanese exclusive Doraemon no Study Boy: Kanji Yomikaki Master, on July 18, 2003. The last game released in North America is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, released on November 15, 2002.

When was the last Game Boy game released?

The last games to be published for the system were the Japan-only titles Shikakei Atama o Kore Kusuru: Kanji no Tatsujin and Shikakei Atama o Kore Kusuru: Keisan no Tatsujin, which were both released on March 30, 2001.

How to get Game Boy games?

Revealed as part of the recent Nintendo Direct event, Nintendo has made classic Game Boy games available as part of the basic Nintendo Switch Online subscription, while Game Boy Advance games are now a part of the premium Expansion Pack upgrade for Switch Online.

What is the oldest Game Boy?

The Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989.

What is the smallest Game Boy?

It's a little over an inch in length, and 0.7 inches in width, and weighs a paltry 4.8 grams, or about as much as an individual AirPod. Armed with a 72×40 Monochrome OLED display and 2MB of onboard storage, the Thumby comes with 5 games pre-loaded and allows you to add more using a MicroUSB cable.

What is the longest Game Boy game?

How much did a Gameboy cost in 1989?

The original Game Boy, launched in 1989 for a mere $89.99, would only cost $169.73 today (at a 88.6 percent inflation rate).

Why are old games still so expensive?

Out of Print, Out of Luck. This kind of goes without saying, but game publishers aren't producing retro games anymore. The number of old game cartridges and discs out there will never increase. That produces a natural scarcity that, in many cases, drives up prices over a long enough period of time.

What is the most expensive vintage game?

The only non-Mario game on this list, and for a brief moment in 2021, the most valuable game in existence, comes in the form of a copy of the original The Legend of Zelda game, which kicked off the legendary fantasy franchise with its release on the NES in 1987.

What is the oldest color game?

Galaxian (1978) was the first game to use RGB colors.

Why was Game Boy so popular?

The games could load quickly and play for a long time, making life easy for players. It wasn't flashy, but it was exactly what consumers wanted. On top of all this, the Game Boy's simple and effective design replicated the layout of the tried-and-tested NES controller (already popular for TV play).

How many Game Boy Color only games are there?

The list of Nintendo Game Boy Color games includes 918 licensed releases from the platform's launch in 1998 to the final release in 2003.