![]() Released almost seven years into the Game Boy’s lifecycle, Pokémon Red and Green (Game Freak, 1996) gave a new lease of life to the aging Nintendo portable. The adapter allowed Nintendo Game Boy cartridges to play on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System home console. The record for first portable cartridge adaptor is held by the Nintendo Super Game Boy (1994). Tetris (14 June 1989)Ī launch title for the Nintendo Game Boy in North America, Tetris (Bullet-Proof Software, 1989) was the first video game compatible with the Nintendo Game Link Cable. ![]() Although less technologically advanced than the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, the Nintendo Game Boy was cheaper and required less batteries. Released in 1989, the original Nintendo Game Boy was an 8-bit portable console that could display four different shades of olive green on its 160 by 144 pixel display. ![]() With this iconic console now turning 30, we look back at some of the biggest moments in its history. The Game Boy first went on sale in Nintendo's Japanese heartlands in April 1989 and quickly became a phenomenon with amazing games, groundbreaking peripherals and brilliant successors such as the Nintendo Switch. ![]()
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