Nintendo GameBoy Color - Light Purple Console

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Due to its backward compatibility with Game Boy games, the Game Boy Color's launch period had a large playable library.

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Commentary on the legacy of the Game Boy Color has been shaped by the perception that the handheld was as an incremental and transitional upgrade of the Game Boy rather than a completely new handheld release.

Milder reviews included those by Arcade, who conceded that the colors were "very impressive" but "not as eyeball-popping as you might have hoped for [. Game Boy Color was compatible with hundreds of original Game Boy games, and also played games that were specially enhanced for Game Boy Color (though it cannot play Game Boy Advance games). Accessories and add-on peripherals abound, enhancing the playing experience with vibrating feedback to in-game bumps and crashes, extra battery power and even a clever camera package that allows players to capture, tweak and print images. They have been fully set up which means, as well as the adjustable brightness (tapping the top left of the console) and adjustable colour pallettes (tapping the top right of the console) an in-built menu can be opened to change these also, as well as adjusting the screen positioning, 'pixel' model, changing the colour settings, etc.It was released on 21st October 1998, in Japan, and later released in November of the same year to international markets. La console ricevuta é in perfette condizioni, vetro nuovo e scocca intatta, oltre all’ottimo imballaggio. The 'look' of the games is quite dated, and the sound quality is similarly old-fashioned, but the games are great fun to play, and work perfectly well.

The last Game Boy Color game ever released is the Japanese exclusive Doraemon no Study Boy: Kanji Yomikaki Master, on July 18, 2003. I think it's a great portable gaming system to introduce to young children, who haven't been introduced to gaming yet. All refurbished products go through our Refurbish and Inspection process to insure workability and are backed by a 1 year warranty. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. It will be a fully working product however its likely the original accessories maybe missing or would be replaced by 3rd party or compatible items.As with the original Game Boy, it has a custom 8-bit processor made by Sharp that is considered a hybrid between the Intel 8080 and the Zilog Z80. The GBC is backward compatible with all  Game Boy games, allowing players to play their favourite  Game Boy titles on the new colour screen. Nintendo of America reported a sale of one million units from launch to December 1998, [29] and two million by July 1999.

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