Game boy color history

Two years later, in , Nintendo came out with a new version called the Game Boy Light. Though this console was only available in Japan, it allowed users to play without having a light by backlighting the screen. This was a huge advance to hand held systems which had never been seen before. Later that same year in , Game Boy released the newest innovation in hand held gaming—a colored monitor.

It was released the next year in America, putting old and new Game Boy enthusiasts back into the buying mood. Since no other hand held gaming system had offered colored graphics, this was considered the newest technology available. This, in conjunction with the rejuvenated battery life of the console, made the Game Boy Color one of the biggest successes of handheld gaming ever.

The original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color combined managed to sell over million units worldwide. In , Game Boy released a new design for their classic handheld game console. This new style was the Game Boy Advance. Rather than playing on a vertical system, the Game Boy Advance spread out horizontally, which actually turned off some of the diehard original Game Boy enthusiasts. However, the new innovations of technology allowed for many more hours of battery life, as well as the backlighting feature otherwise not found in the US at the time.

In addition to the classic buttons on the face of the system, the Game Boy Advance also featured two buttons on the top of the system, allowing for even more functions to be executed at once. The Game Boy Advance would reign for four strong years, dominating the handheld gaming industry.

The Game Boy name would finally come to an end in when Nintendo released the newest and currently most innovative technology in the handheld gaming market — the Nintendo DS. This is a new system that contains two different screens and 10 buttons, twice that of the original Game Boy specifications.

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