Gameboy

Since its Release at 1989 the Gameboy was sold more than 100 million times and therefore is the most popular handheld in the world. This small device has revolutioned the market about portable game consoles, because now it was possible to play all your favourite games whereever you are. The Gameboy is coming with an 14-grayscales display and its metallic sound is quite romantic.
The Games are - like NES-Games - saved on small GameModules, which are simply put in a slot at the backside of the Gameboy. This System is still in use on all portables around the market right now. Even the Controls are quite similar to the NES ones. They are contained of 2 Menu - Buttons (Start and Select) and Controling-Buttons (A and B).
For this popular device you can get several extensions and addons: First of all, there is a link-cable to connect 2 Gameboys together and play against a friend of yours. You can even share your Highscores. There was even a small light you could attach to your Gameboy so you can still play even if its to dark to see the display.

First, the Gameboy was available only on one color: Everybody remembers this shiny gray but after some time, it was just a step ahead to sell the Gameboy in lots of different colors. 1997 the system was made even smaller, so that it became even more portable and nice to carry along: TheGameboy Pocket was born. This change made the glorious success even greater.

After the Release of the Gameboy Color one year later, about 1998, Nintendo achieved it again, to revolutionalize the Pocket-Game Market, because now you could enjoy your Games in Color. The Gameboy Color is equipped with a TFT-Color-Display to show 56 Colors out of 32.000 simultanously. Through the Boom of that small toy Pokémon the Selling-Process was even easier and reached limits no one had ever thought of.
With the Gameboy Color there came some new devices to accompany the handheld: With the Gameboy Camera one was able to take pictures and save them to a small memory card or even print them with the Gameboy Gameboy Printer on special Gameboy Print Papier with sticky backside. But even Highscores or Screenshots of the game could be printed easily.

2001 Nintendo took the next Step in mobile-Playing-Devices: TheGameboy Advance. The actual Version of the Gameboy is even more handy, has more power and even more colors. It can display up to 32.000 Colors at a time and is working with a 32 Bit Processor. For the first Time, the Sound of the Gameboy was improved, so it could play polyphone sounds and some more enjoyable music. You can even plug your headphones into it, so youre not disturbing other people while playing.

But Nintendo took right another step in the future: With the Gameboy Advance SP - a Gameboy Advance with Laptop-Design. Technically there is no difference to the usual Gameboy Advance, but it has one clean advantage: Its display has its own backlight!