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- | ======Game Boy====== | ||
- | {{ :fig:hardware:gb_.jpg}}The little handheld that could. [[company:nintendo|Nintendo]]'s **Game Boy** (and family) had, pretty much, a monopoly on the handheld market until the [[hardware:psp|PSP]] showed up. Its first challengers, the [[game_gear|Game Gear]] and [[lynx|Lynx]], tried to out muscle it with more power and colour screens, while later competitors like the [[ngp|Neo Geo Pocket]] and [[wonderswan|WonderSwan]] mimicked its basic capabilities, but didn't get a chance to match its library. It held them all off with a diverse range of software. Or maybe just //[[game:pokemon_series|Pokémon]]//. | ||
- | There have also been some interesting hardware revisions and curious peripherals as is typical of any hardware with a long life and large user base. | ||
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- | =====Personality===== | ||
- | ====Audio==== | ||
- | ====Visual==== | ||
- | The Game Boy's visual style is largely defined by its 'four shades of grey'. Throughout its life careless developers struggles to make //readable// games as they sought to match what the 16-bit systems were doing (see: [[company:rare|Rare]], license game developers). | ||
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- | The first hardware version, the 'brick', was more green than grey, and busy games tended to get blurry in motion. So these graphic quirks also influenced the system's library. The Game Boy Pockets had nicer, and greyer, screens, which had less or no motion blur and were a little less particular about light conditions. | ||
- | ====Design==== | ||
- | ====Library==== | ||
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- | =====Periphera===== | ||
- | ====Adaptors for other hardware==== | ||
- | Bits of hardware used to play Game Boy games on other systems. | ||
- | ===Gameboy Booster / GB Hunter=== | ||
- | Not-so-good adaptor for playing GB games on [[N64]]. | ||
- | * [[http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/gbbooster.html|Gameboy Booster & GB Hunter]] on Chris Covell's Homepage. | ||
- | ===Super Game Boy=== | ||
- | ===Super Game Boy 2=== | ||
- | ===Wide Boy=== | ||
- | Adaptor for playing Game Boy games on the [[nes|Famicom]]. | ||
- | * [[http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/wideboy.html|Wide Boy]] on Chris Covell's Homepage. | ||
- | ===Wide-Boy64=== | ||
- | Allows playing GB and GBC games on the [[N64]] | ||
- | * [[http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/wideboy64.html|Wide-Boy64]] on Chris Covell's Homepage. | ||
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- | =====See also===== | ||
- | *[[sb:recommended:gameboy]] | ||
- | *[[http://www.chrismcovell.com/GameBoyDecline.html|The Decline of the Game Boy in Numbers]] - Article by Chris Covell analysing software released. | ||
- | *[[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=36990|Game Boy mono games with unexpected link-cable multiplayer]] - SB forum thread. |