When did the first Game Boy come on the market?

The Game Boy is considered a cult object of the 90s. Through the Game Boy, Nintendo ushered in an era of new game consoles, also called handhelds. Unlike a PlayStation or an Xbox, these consoles can easily be used on the go. This also heralded Nintendo's launch of the successful Pokémon series.

When did the first Game Boy come out? Here's what it looks like!

On April 21, 1989, the first Game Boy appeared on the Japanese market. Only on September 28, 1990, the Game Boy was then also available in Germany.

1. The first Game Boy appeared on the market had just a memory capacity of 8 KB and a screen resolution of 160 x 144 pixels.
2. Also, the Game Boy used a whole 4 AA batteries and consumed their energy in no time.
3. The Game Boy has been sold to date a whole 118 million times.
4. Since 1998, users could now also acquire the Game Boy Color, through which the games and cartridges, if they were so developed, could also be experienced with color.
5. Games developed directly for the Game Boy Color could display 56 colors.

So it went on with the Game Boy

1. Already in 2000, the Game Boy Advance appeared, through which new games could be played in much better quality.
2. Die Leistung entsprach etwa der eines Super Nintendo Systems im Kleinformat.
3. Der erste Nintendo DS mit Sprach- und Touch-Funktion wurde dann im Jahr 2005 auf den europäischen Markt gebracht.