Game Boy
From Sega Retro
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Game Boy | |||||
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Manufacturer: Nintendo | |||||
Variants: Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Color | |||||
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The Game Boy (ゲームボーイ) was released in 1989 and was Nintendo's second foray into the handheld market (Game & Watch being the first). It was met with great critical acclaim.
In 1998 Nintendo released their last revision of the Game Boy, the Game Boy Color. Because the Game Boy Color was more powerful than the initial release it had games exclusive to it. In this way the Game Boy Color can be seen as the DSi or New Nintendo 3DS equivalent to the original Game Boy. The unit was so successful that even games that could be played on the original Game Boy were being touted as Game Boy Color exclusives on their packaging.
Games that can be played on either were shipped in black carts while Game Boy Color exclusives were transparent and had a bulge sticking out on the top front of the cartridge. For the sake of cohesion, Sega Retro will refer to these black cart games as Game Boy Color games as that is what their packaging states.
Like the competing Sega Game Gear, both players needs a copy of the game and a link cable (GB Link Cable) for the multiplayer.
Contents
Sega support
All of the Sega-related games for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color were exclusive to Japan. Sega did not develop games for either system, but they did publish the Game Boy Color game Sakura Taisen GB2: Thunderbolt Sakusen. The Puyo Puyo games were handled by Compile while the other Color games were handled by Media Factory. The two games for the original Game Boy model were handled by Pony Canyon and Tecmo.
List of Sega games for the Game Boy
- Penguin Land (1990)
- Head-On (1990)
List of Sega games for the Game Boy Color
Games marked with asterisks(*) are true Game Boy Color exclusives.
- Pocket Puyo Puyo Sun (1998)
- Puyo Puyo Gaiden: Puyo Wars (1999)
- Columns GB: Tezuka Osamu Characters (1999)
- Arle no Bouken: Mahou no Jewel (2000)
- Sakura Taisen GB: Geki Hanagumi Nyuutai! (2000)*
- Pocket Puyo Puyo~n (2000)*
- Sakura Taisen GB2: Thunderbolt Sakusen (2001)*
Other Game Boy games also released for Sega systems
Game Boy
- Animaniacs
- Batman Forever
- Battletoads
- Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
- Best of the Best: Championship Karate
- Block Hole
- Bomb Jack
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- BreakThru!
- Bubble Bobble
- Bubsy II
- Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition
- Caesars Palace
- Captain America and the Avengers
- Casino FunPak
- Championship Pool
- Chase H.Q.
- Choplifter III
- Chuck Rock
- Cliffhanger
- College Slam
- Cool Spot
- Cutthroat Island
- Darius II
- Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
- Disney's Aladdin
- Donald in Maui Mallard
- Double Dragon
- Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone
- Dropzone
- Earthworm Jim
- Elevator Action
- Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land
- F-15 Strike Eagle
- Faceball 2000
- Fatal Fury 2
- FIFA International Soccer
- FIFA Soccer 96
- Foreman for Real
- Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
- Frogger
- Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf
- Gear Works
- George Foreman's KO Boxing
- Hit the Ice
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal
- Ishido: The Way of Stones
- James Pond II: Codename RoboCod
- Joe & Mac
- Jordan vs Bird
- Joshua & The Battle of Jericho
- Judge Dredd
- Jungle Strike
- Klax
- Krusty's Fun House
- Last Action Hero
- Lemmings
- Lemmings 2: The Tribes
- Madden NFL 96
- Madden NFL '95
- Marble Madness
- Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible
- Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
- Micro Machines
- Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament
- Monopoly
- Monster Truck Wars
- Mortal Kombat
- Mortal Kombat 3
- Mortal Kombat II
- Mr. Nutz
- Ms. Pac-Man
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition
- NBA Live 96
- NFL Quarterback Club
- NFL Quarterback Club '96
- NHL 95
- NHL 96
- Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
- Nobunaga's Ambition
- Olympic Summer Games
- Pac-Attack
- Pac-Man
- Paperboy
- Paperboy 2
- PGA European Tour
- PGA Tour 96
- Pinball Dreams
- Pinocchio
- Pit-Fighter
- Primal Rage
- Prince of Persia
- Puyo Puyo
- Puyo Puyo Tsuu
- Puznic
- Q*bert
- R-Type
- Rampart
- Riddick Bowe Boxing
- Road Rash
- Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
- Shaq Fu
- Shikinjoh
- Side Pocket
- Snow Bros.
- Solitaire FunPak
- Space Invaders
- Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
- Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
- Spiritual Warfare
- Spirou
- Star Trek Generations: Beyond the Nexus
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Advanced Holodeck Tutorial
- Stargate
- Street Racer
- Super Off Road
- Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- T2: The Arcade Game
- Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
- Tesserae
- Tetris Plus
- The Humans
- The Incredible Crash Dummies
- The Jungle Book
- The King of Fighters '95
- The Lawnmower Man
- The Lion King
- The Pagemaster
- The Smurfs
- The Smurfs Travel the World
- Tintin in Tibet
- Toy Story
- True Lies
- Turrican
- Universal Soldier
- Urban Strike
- World Cup USA 94
- Worms
- WWF Raw
- Xenon 2: Megablast
- Zool
- Zoop
Game Boy Color
- Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
- Bust-A-Move 4
- Cannon Fodder
- Casper
- Disney/Pixar's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- Disney's Aladdin
- Disney's Donald Duck Quack Attack
- Dropzone
- DX Jinsei Game
- European Super League
- Frogger
- Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge
- Grand Theft Auto 2
- Klax
- Marble Madness
- Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible
- Monopoly
- Mr. Driller
- Mr. Nutz
- Paperboy
- Prince of Persia
- Puyo Puyo Sun
- Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2
- Rampage World Tour
- Rampart
- Road Rash II
- Rox 6=Six
- Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
- The Black Onyx
- Tintin in Tibet
- Worms Armageddon
Optimised for Super Game Boy
- Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
- Disney's Aladdin
- FIFA International Soccer
- FIFA Soccer 96
- Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal
- Madden NFL 96
- Madden NFL '95
- Ms. Pac-Man
- NBA Live 96
- NHL 95
- NHL 96
- Olympic Summer Games
- Pac-Attack
- PGA European Tour
- PGA Tour 96
- Puyo Puyo
- Puyo Puyo Tsuu
- Shaq Fu
- Space Invaders
- Spirou
- The King of Fighters '95
- The Pagemaster
- The Smurfs
- Tintin in Tibet
- Toy Story
- Urban Strike
References
Non-Sega consoles |
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Nintendo |
Nintendo Entertainment System (1983) | Game Boy (1989) | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990) | Nintendo 64 (1996) | Game Boy Color (1998) | Game Boy Advance (2001) | Nintendo GameCube (2001) | Nintendo DS (2004) | Wii (2006) | Nintendo 3DS (2011) | Wii U (2012) | Nintendo Switch (2017) |
Sony |
PlayStation (1994) | PlayStation 2 (2000) | PlayStation Portable (2004) | PlayStation 3 (2006) | PlayStation Vita (2011) | PlayStation 4 (2013) | PlayStation 5 (2020) |
Microsoft |
Xbox (2001) | Xbox 360 (2005) | Xbox One (2013) | Xbox Series X (2020) |
Mobile |
iOS | Android | Windows Phone |
Other |
Atari 2600 (1977) | ColecoVision (1982) | PC Engine (1987) | R-Zone (1995) | Game.com (1997) | WonderSwan (1998) | Neo Geo Pocket Color (1999) | N-Gage (2003) | LeapFrog Didj (2008) | Stadia (2019) |