![]() Many dual 'black cart' games would also play perfectly well on the original monochrome console, although the sexier Color-exclusive games came on clear cartridges which let you glimpse the board inside. GBC launched, appropriately, in a range of eye-catching colours and was fully backwards compatible with the existing Game Boy library. Nintendo's granddaddy of handheld gaming suddenly had a new lease of life, but in the West the release of the game was followed just weeks later by the arrival of a new console - the Game Boy Color - and it was on that wonderful system that many of us caught our very first Pocket Monster.Ī colour update to the original DMG-001 - which had previously been revised in the smaller form of Game Boy Pocket - was a long time coming, but after nine years Game Boy Color finally gave handheld Nintendo gamers the proper upgrade they'd been waiting for. ![]() It was 1996 in Japan and 1998 in North America (and a year later in Europe) when the ageing Game Boy got an unexpected shot in the arm thanks to a little game named Pokémon.
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