US Platinum Videogame Chart". The Magic Box. Archived from the original on April 21, 2007 . Retrieved September 27, 2007. While the 128 x 112 images are laughably low resolution compared to the standards of today, images taken on a Game Boy Camera are imbued with a quirky charm you can’t find anywhere else. It’s why there’s a growing, passionate community of Game Boy Camera photographers that are keeping the camera relevant as an artistic form of expression so many years later. My silver Special Pikachu Edition GBC was gifted to me for my 10th birthday; any Pokemon fan knows how symbolic this age is. Along with Pokemon Gold, I also received Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (not a bad platformer overall) and Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers (A loose retelling of the classic Jekyll/Hyde episode from the original series). Those three were there in the beginning, though I obtained other games over time - including most of the other Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon games. Others were borrowed. Some I did miss out on and didn't get to play until the merciful 3DS VC a decade ago. Game Boy Color (1998) [ edit ] Game Boy Color - Atomic Purple Game Boy Color - Dandelion Game Boy Color - Mirinda Basic colors [ edit ]

Another color released at the same time was "Atomic Purple", made of a translucent purple plastic similar to the color available for the Nintendo 64 controller. Other colors were sold as limited editions or in specific countries.

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Showing my bias here. This was my Game Boy Color, and it was the first video game system I ever owned. Love you forever, my little baby. Yellow maybe seems ostentatious to some, but this is the most subtle, charming, beautiful yellow on the color spectrum. Also, it reminds me of Pikachu, which is good. I have so many fond memories of it. It was my first Game Boy, I actually got it before the original which my older cousin gave me when they thought it was broken (I fixed that one, it just had a bent spring for the battery slot) If blue is mixed with red at all - even 99% blue & 1% red - it's a variant of purple. It's really that simple. No red in it, it's blue - any red at all, it's purple. More red than blue is magenta, and more blue than red is indigo, exactly in the middle is a true purple. The Game Boy and Game Boy Color were both commercially successful, selling a combined 32.47 million units in Japan, 44.06 million in the Americas, and 42.16 million in other regions. [9] [10] At the time of its discontinuation in 2003, the combined sales of the Game Boy were the best-selling game console of all time. Surpassed in sales by the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Switch the trio are now the fourth-best-selling console, the third-best-selling console and the second-best-selling handheld of all time. Sales of the console were in part driven by the success of Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Crystal, with combined sales of 29.5 million units, making them one of the best selling-video games of all time.

Trainman, Steve (May 12, 1999). "Retailers Coming to E3 with High Expectations". Game Week. 5 (17). Some use of " " in your query was not closed by a matching "". Some use of " " in your query was not closed by a matching "". Game Pak Troubleshooting - All Game Boy Systems". Nintendo of America customer support. Archived from the original on September 28, 2017 . Retrieved September 27, 2017.The power wires for the front-light were getting pinched by the replacement shell, so that the front of the shell was being pushed out, lifting the buttons a mm or two higher than they should be. I fixed it by shaving the plastic where the wires were passing through so the shell would rest flush where it wanted to. Imagineer Glow-In-Dark - light green glowing in dark - Prize in Imagineers Multi Racing Championship [N64] Contest - 2000pcs made (Japan, 1996) a b c "Consolidated Sales Transition by Region" (PDF). Nintendo. April 26, 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2016 . Retrieved October 23, 2016. Introducing Game Boy Color". Nintendo Power. p. 85: Nintendo. November 1998. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: location ( link)

a b c Fahs, Travis (July 27, 2009). "IGN Presents the History of Game Boy". IGN. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010 . Retrieved August 6, 2022. a b Umezu; Sugino; Konno. "Nintendo 3DS (Volume 2 – Nintendo 3DS Hardware Concept)". Iwata Asks (Interview: Transcript). Interviewed by Satoru Iwata. Nintendo. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012 . Retrieved March 7, 2011.And lo, the internet did rage. "It's not blue," they said. "That's bloody purple." Some people compared it to the colour of a Game Boy Advance; others said it was more like a GameCube. Blurple.

Thanks to recent gadgets and modifications that have breathed new life into the ’90s camera, it’s never been a better time to jump into the hobby. A successor to the original beast that was the Game Boy, the Game Boy Color unsurprisingly featured a colour screen, giving Nintendo's handheld games a whole new lease of life. While we sadly don't have exact figures for each of the two consoles separately, the Game Boy and Game Boy Color sold a whopping 118.69 million units between them, with 501.11 million games being sold, too. Nintendo Game Boy Color Console Information – Console Database". ConsoleDatabase.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2011 . Retrieved February 19, 2011.Changing the Color Palette on Game Boy Advance Systems". Customer Service. Nintendo. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009 . Retrieved January 4, 2009. This blinding yellow console was the perfect Pokémon Yellow accompaniment... well, unless you splashed out on the Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition bundle. If you wanted to advertise your love for the electric mouse without having little Pokémon pictures all over your console, though, this was your best bet. Colourful, but classy. Grape Image: Nintendo According to my highly accurate vacuum spectrometer... it could be 4.61% more indigoish[1] (a very scientific term). Jk