Game Boy: Difference between revisions

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| units sold = 118.69&nbsp;million (including all variants and [[Game Boy Color]])<ref name="Nintendo 2016">{{Cite web |date=April 26, 2016 |title=Consolidated Sales Transition by Region |url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1603.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427084600/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1603.pdf |archive-date=April 27, 2016 |access-date=October 23, 2016 |publisher=Nintendo}}</ref>

| media = [[Game Boy Game Pak]]

| successor = [[Game Boy Color]]

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The '''Game Boy''' is a [[handheld game console]] developed by [[Nintendo]], launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America later that year and other territories from 1990 onwards. Following the success of the [[Game & Watch]] single-game handhelds, Nintendo developed the Game Boy to be more like a portable [[Video game console|console]], with interchangeable cartridges. The concept proved highly successful and the Game Boy became a [[cultural icon]] of the 1990s and early 2000s.

 

 

== Hardware ==

The Game Boy uses a custom [[system on a chip]] (SoC), to house most of the components, named the ''DMG-CPU'' by Nintendo and the ''LR35902'' by its manufacturer, the [[Sharp Corporation]].<ref name="Copetti 20192">{{Cite web |last=Copetti |first=Rodrigo |date=February 21, 2019 |title=Game Boy / Color Architecture – A Practical Analysis |url=https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413195021/https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/ |archive-date=April 13, 2024 |access-date=April 29, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

 

!Depth

|{{cvt|32|mm}}

|{{cvt|27|mm}}

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! rowspan="2" |Memory

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| colspan="3" |'''External:''' (in the game cartridge) up to 1&nbsp;MB ROM, up to 128&nbsp;KB RAM

|Up to 30 hours

|Up to 10 hours

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!Sound

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![[Input/output|I/O]]

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!Controls

== External links ==

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110128120244/http://www.gameboy.com/ Official website] archived at the [[Wayback Machine]]