THE HISTORY OF GAME BOY. This essay explains the history of Nintendo's Game Boy. It's pretty technically in-depth. (includes references)
Title: THE HISTORY OF GAME BOY. This essay explains the history of Nintendo's Game Boy. It's pretty technically in-depth. (includes references)
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 588 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
THE HISTORY OF GAME BOY. This essay explains the history of Nintendo's Game Boy. It's pretty technically in-depth. (includes references)
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 588 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Introduced in 1989 as a big, neutral-gray brick of a B&W portable game machine, the Nintendo Game Boy may have been considered instantly obsolete by some. A Z80 chip, something that had fallen out of use with personal computer manufacturers halfway through that decade, powered it. Its display was monochrome and LCD with a resolution of 160x140. Four AA batteries supplied about 20 hours of play. In an age when the NES and late 80s …showed first 75 words of 588 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 588 total…over 150 million units. The question now should be: Can Nintendo continue this for another 12 years? The Game Boy Advance is certainly a start. The Game Boy has never been more popular and shows no signs of ever slowing down. When will the great Game Boy empire fall? Only one can guess.
MacDonald, Mark and Chou, Che "Game Boy Advances"
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), July 2001, pgs. 82-99
"Nintendo" Nintendo of America, Inc., 2001
September 12, 2001, www.nintendo.com