This Generation would look at Nintendo and say that their handhold is the Nintendo DS,
they wouldn't be wrong but way back before I was born there was the Nintendo Game and Watch, the original Nintendo Hand-held. This, however, I did not have as it was way before my time, the first Nintendo hand-held console I ever got was the successor to the Game and Watch.
The Nintendo Game Boy, Developed by Gunpei Yokoi
This chunky console was about the same same as the original Nintendo DS and quite a bit thicker and the cartridges were roughly 4 times the size of a normal DS cartridge. It came out over here in Europe in 1990 and since then has sold 118.69 units worldwide and if you thought that the DS had lots of version and upgrades... you're wrong!
The Game Boy actually went on to have a total of 7 different models and over 80 different colours and styles between them!
You had the:
Game Boy - The Original
Game Boy Pocket - Which was a smaller edition
Game Boy Light - An edition that had a backlight for the screen
And then you had the Game Boy Colour which came which new games that were in full colour.
The next upgrade was the jump from 8-bit to 32-bit with the Game Boy Advance which was capable of giving you Graphics akin to the SNES but portable!
Upgrades to the Game Boy Advance were:
Game Boy Advance SP - Which was a stylish Flip-top edition of the GBA
and the Game Boy Micro which was a MUCH smaller edition with a clearer and brighter screen.
As you can tell the Game Boy was massively popular and sold MILLIONS of each of the different versions of it, it was the console that started and lead portable gaming into where it is now
Toku-R
they wouldn't be wrong but way back before I was born there was the Nintendo Game and Watch, the original Nintendo Hand-held. This, however, I did not have as it was way before my time, the first Nintendo hand-held console I ever got was the successor to the Game and Watch.
The Nintendo Game Boy, Developed by Gunpei Yokoi
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| The Nintendo Game Boy showing Tetris |
The Game Boy actually went on to have a total of 7 different models and over 80 different colours and styles between them!
You had the:
Game Boy - The Original
Game Boy Pocket - Which was a smaller edition
Game Boy Light - An edition that had a backlight for the screen
And then you had the Game Boy Colour which came which new games that were in full colour.
The next upgrade was the jump from 8-bit to 32-bit with the Game Boy Advance which was capable of giving you Graphics akin to the SNES but portable!
Upgrades to the Game Boy Advance were:
Game Boy Advance SP - Which was a stylish Flip-top edition of the GBA
and the Game Boy Micro which was a MUCH smaller edition with a clearer and brighter screen.
As you can tell the Game Boy was massively popular and sold MILLIONS of each of the different versions of it, it was the console that started and lead portable gaming into where it is now
Toku-R
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