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Gameboy Color

A new, redesigned version of Nintendo's immensely popular Game Boy. The Game Boy Color could display up to 32 colors on screen at any one time and was much smaller than the original Game Boy, on par with the Game Boy Pocket.

The system was itself available in multiple colors. The logo for Game Boy Color spelled out the word COLOR in the five original colors in which the unit was manufactured. They were named:

  • Strawberry
  • Grape
  • Kiwi
  • Dandelion
  • Teal

Another color released at the same time was "Atomic Purple", made of a translucent purple plastic.

It had better battery life and used only two AA batteries (the original Game boy used four).

The keys are laid out so it's pretty easy to play with one hand for most people and adds an IR game link to the wired one (top left pointed to by ^COMM in the picture to the right).

It is a reflective LCD display so it needs light to be seen (again like the original Game Boy), but does work in less light than the original.

There is a fair market in used Game Boy Color units and used games even now, but beware that games with batteries like many Pokemon games will forget the saved games (shows as "The save file is corrupted!") and the batteries are soldered in.

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