Due to its backward compatibility with Game Boy games, the Game Boy Color's launch period had a large playable library. The American English spelling of the system's name, Game Boy Color, remains consistent throughout the world.

Although this marked a transition away from the OG hardware, the Game Boy line continued to enjoy almost 100% backwards compatibility up until the Micro variant of the Game Boy Advance in 2005. The beginning of this article lists the rules exactly as I stated, and the cover of every box of "Pokémon Gold/Silver" (as well as all those other games) lists them as GameBoy Color games that happen to be playable without the color on the original GameBoy. Nintendo of America reported a sale of one million units from launch to December 1998, [29] and two million by July 1999. 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 [.Edit: I'm confused, I don't remember seeing Turtles II or Wario Blast the first time I looked at this list. Retail chains in the United States reported unexpectedly high demand for the console, with executives of FuncoLand reporting "very pleasant and unpredicted" sales and Electronics Boutique stating "the entire Game Boy Color line just exploded, including accessories" upon release. Development for the Game Boy Color began in 1996, [13] when Nintendo received requests from game developers for a more sophisticated handheld platform, who said that even the latest iteration of the original system, the Game Boy Pocket, had insufficient hardware. It's not an incorrect answer, but I personally feel that using a 3rd-party emulator is against the spirit of the question. Over thirteen years, Game Boy has become the planet's most loved handheld with over 100 million units sold.

I’ve been collecting GB games again and some of them, like Mega Man V, are sooo hard to justify spending the money for. As some consoles are often bundled with games, it is helpful to know what they are actually selling for too.

A smaller, lighter revision of the hardware, the Game Boy Pocket, also arrived that year, and the console’s true successor – the Game Boy Color – would launch worldwide two years later alongside the western release of Pokémon. In the west, it's Bugs Bunny on both NES and GB, but in Japan it's Roger Rabbit on the Famicom and Mickey Mouse on the GB. Plus, it's a shame that CaTrap was the only uncommonly known title to appear in the list, when in my opinion, games like Crystal Quest, Hunt for Red October, and Bubble Ghost are much better titles than CaTrap.