Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Game Boy

Index Game Boy

The is an 8-bit handheld game console which was developed and manufactured by Nintendo and first released on the 100th anniversary of Nintendo in Japan on, in North America on and in Europe on. [1]

103 relations: AA battery, AAA battery, AC adapter, All Media Network, Alleyway (video game), Americas, Ampere, Astro Boy, Atari, Atari Lynx, Australian dollar, Backlight, Baseball (1983 video game), Bloomberg Businessweek, Bournemouth, Central processing unit, Contrast (vision), D-pad, Direct current, Electric battery, Electroluminescence, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Europe, Famitsu, Fiscal year, Fourth generation of video game consoles, Frame rate, Future US, Game & Watch, Game Boy accessories, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Game Boy family, Game Boy Micro, Game Boy Printer, Game Gear, Game Link Cable, Game On (exhibition), GamePro, Glossary of video game terms, Gunpei Yokoi, Handheld game console, Imagine Publishing, Intel 8080, International Data Group, Japan, Kilobit, Kilobyte, Liquid-crystal display, List of Game Boy colors and styles, ..., List of Game Boy games, Manchester United F.C., McGraw-Hill Education, Megabit, Microvision, Millimetre, Motion blur, National Toy Hall of Fame, NEC, New York City, Next Generation (magazine), Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo eShop, Nintendo Life, Nintendo Research & Development 1, North America, Osamu Tezuka, Phone connector (audio), Pixel, Play It Loud!, Pokémon (video game series), Pulse-code modulation, Random-access memory, Read-only memory, Rechargeable battery, Retro Gamer, ROM cartridge, San Francisco, Satoru Okada, Satoshi Tajiri, SeaQuest DSV (video game), Sega, Sharp Corporation, Super Game Boy, Super Mario Land, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super-twisted nematic display, Switch, Tennis (1984 video game), Tetris, Tetris (Game Boy), The Gainesville Sun, The Guardian, TurboExpress, United States dollar, Virtual Console, Volt, Yakuman (video game), Yen sign, Ziff Davis, Zilog Z80. Expand index (53 more) »

AA battery

The AA battery—also called a double A or Mignon (French for "dainty") battery—is a standard size single cell cylindrical dry battery.

New!!: Game Boy and AA battery · See more »

AAA battery

An AAA or triple-A battery is a standard size of dry cell battery commonly used in low-drain portable electronic devices.

New!!: Game Boy and AAA battery · See more »

AC adapter

An AC adapter, AC/DC adapter, or AC/DC converter is a type of external power supply, often enclosed in a case similar to an AC plug.

New!!: Game Boy and AC adapter · See more »

All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

New!!: Game Boy and All Media Network · See more »

Alleyway (video game)

is a video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo as a global launch title for the Game Boy.

New!!: Game Boy and Alleyway (video game) · See more »

Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

New!!: Game Boy and Americas · See more »

Ampere

The ampere (symbol: A), often shortened to "amp",SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units.

New!!: Game Boy and Ampere · See more »

Astro Boy

Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.

New!!: Game Boy and Astro Boy · See more »

Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.

New!!: Game Boy and Atari · See more »

Atari Lynx

The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit handheld game console that was released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America, and in Europe and Japan in 1990.

New!!: Game Boy and Atari Lynx · See more »

Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

New!!: Game Boy and Australian dollar · See more »

Backlight

A backlight is a form of illumination used in liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

New!!: Game Boy and Backlight · See more »

Baseball (1983 video game)

is a 1983 video game from Nintendo, one of the first early titles for the Family Computer.

New!!: Game Boy and Baseball (1983 video game) · See more »

Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

New!!: Game Boy and Bloomberg Businessweek · See more »

Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, long.

New!!: Game Boy and Bournemouth · See more »

Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

New!!: Game Boy and Central processing unit · See more »

Contrast (vision)

Contrast is the difference in luminance or colour that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) distinguishable.

New!!: Game Boy and Contrast (vision) · See more »

D-pad

A D-pad (short for directional pad or digital pad; also known as a control pad) is a flat, usually thumb-operated four-way directional control with one button on each point, found on nearly all modern video game console gamepads, game controllers, on the remote control units of some television and DVD players, and smart phones.

New!!: Game Boy and D-pad · See more »

Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

New!!: Game Boy and Direct current · See more »

Electric battery

An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections provided to power electrical devices such as flashlights, smartphones, and electric cars.

New!!: Game Boy and Electric battery · See more »

Electroluminescence

Electroluminescence (EL) is an optical phenomenon and electrical phenomenon in which a material emits light in response to the passage of an electric current or to a strong electric field.

New!!: Game Boy and Electroluminescence · See more »

Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

New!!: Game Boy and Electronic Gaming Monthly · See more »

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

New!!: Game Boy and Europe · See more »

Famitsu

is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Enterbrain, Inc. and Tokuma.

New!!: Game Boy and Famitsu · See more »

Fiscal year

A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is the period used by governments for accounting and budget purposes, which vary between countries.

New!!: Game Boy and Fiscal year · See more »

Fourth generation of video game consoles

In the history of computer and video games, the fourth generation (more commonly referred to as the 16-bit era) of games consoles began on October 30, 1987 with the Japanese release of NEC Home Electronics' PC Engine (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America).

New!!: Game Boy and Fourth generation of video game consoles · See more »

Frame rate

Frame rate (expressed in or fps) is the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images called frames appear on a display.

New!!: Game Boy and Frame rate · See more »

Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

New!!: Game Boy and Future US · See more »

Game & Watch

Game & Watch (Gēmu & Uotchi; called Tricotronic in West Germany and Austria) is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991.

New!!: Game Boy and Game & Watch · See more »

Game Boy accessories

This is a list of video game accessories that have been released for the Game Boy handheld console and its successors.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Boy accessories · See more »

Game Boy Advance

The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Boy Advance · See more »

Game Boy Color

The Game Boy Color (GBC) is a handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo, which was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and was released in November of the same year in international markets.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Boy Color · See more »

Game Boy family

The Game Boy line is a line of handheld game consoles developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Boy family · See more »

Game Boy Micro

(stylized as GAME BOY micro) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Boy Micro · See more »

Game Boy Printer

The Game Boy Printer, known in Japan as the, is a thermal printer accessory released by Nintendo in 1998, which ceased being manufactured in early 2003.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Boy Printer · See more »

Game Gear

The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990 in Japan, in April throughout North America and Europe, and during 1992 in Australia.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Gear · See more »

Game Link Cable

The Nintendo Game Link Cable is an accessory for the Game Boy line of handheld video game systems, allowing players to connect Game Boys of all types for multiplayer gaming.

New!!: Game Boy and Game Link Cable · See more »

Game On (exhibition)

Game On is the first major international touring exhibition to explore the history and culture of computer games.

New!!: Game Boy and Game On (exhibition) · See more »

GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

New!!: Game Boy and GamePro · See more »

Glossary of video game terms

This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.

New!!: Game Boy and Glossary of video game terms · See more »

Gunpei Yokoi

, sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer.

New!!: Game Boy and Gunpei Yokoi · See more »

Handheld game console

A handheld game console is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls, and speakers.

New!!: Game Boy and Handheld game console · See more »

Imagine Publishing

Imagine Publishing was a UK-based magazine publisher, which published a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines.

New!!: Game Boy and Imagine Publishing · See more »

Intel 8080

The Intel 8080 ("eighty-eighty") was the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel and was released in April 1974.

New!!: Game Boy and Intel 8080 · See more »

International Data Group

International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) is a Chinese-owned, American-based media, data and marketing services and venture capital organization.

New!!: Game Boy and International Data Group · See more »

Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

New!!: Game Boy and Japan · See more »

Kilobit

The kilobit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage.

New!!: Game Boy and Kilobit · See more »

Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

New!!: Game Boy and Kilobyte · See more »

Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals.

New!!: Game Boy and Liquid-crystal display · See more »

List of Game Boy colors and styles

This is a list of case colors and styles that have been produced for the Game Boy line of handheld systems since 1989.

New!!: Game Boy and List of Game Boy colors and styles · See more »

List of Game Boy games

The Game Boy portable system has a library of games, which were released in plastic ROM cartridges.

New!!: Game Boy and List of Game Boy games · See more »

Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

New!!: Game Boy and Manchester United F.C. · See more »

McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is a learning science company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

New!!: Game Boy and McGraw-Hill Education · See more »

Megabit

The megabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information.

New!!: Game Boy and Megabit · See more »

Microvision

The Microvision is the first handheld game console that used interchangeable cartridges.

New!!: Game Boy and Microvision · See more »

Millimetre

The millimetre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI unit symbol mm) or millimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.

New!!: Game Boy and Millimetre · See more »

Motion blur

Motion blur is the apparent streaking of moving objects in a photograph or a sequence of frames, such as a film or animation.

New!!: Game Boy and Motion blur · See more »

National Toy Hall of Fame

The National Toy Hall of Fame is an American hall of fame that recognizes the contributions of toys and games that have sustained their popularity for many years.

New!!: Game Boy and National Toy Hall of Fame · See more »

NEC

is a Japanese multinational provider of information technology (IT) services and products, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

New!!: Game Boy and NEC · See more »

New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Game Boy and New York City · See more »

Next Generation (magazine)

Next Generation (also known as NextGen) was a video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future Network USA).

New!!: Game Boy and Next Generation (magazine) · See more »

Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

New!!: Game Boy and Nintendo · See more »

Nintendo 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo.

New!!: Game Boy and Nintendo 3DS · See more »

Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

New!!: Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System · See more »

Nintendo eShop

The Nintendo eShop is a digital distribution service powered by the Nintendo Network for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and by a dedicated online infrastructure for the Nintendo Switch.

New!!: Game Boy and Nintendo eShop · See more »

Nintendo Life

Nintendo Life is a website that relates heavily on Nintendo products, including video games and software.

New!!: Game Boy and Nintendo Life · See more »

Nintendo Research & Development 1

(R&D1) was Nintendo's oldest development team.

New!!: Game Boy and Nintendo Research & Development 1 · See more »

North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

New!!: Game Boy and North America · See more »

Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, animator, and film producer.

New!!: Game Boy and Osamu Tezuka · See more »

Phone connector (audio)

A phone connector, also known as phone jack, audio jack, headphone jack or jack plug, is a family of electrical connectors typically used for analog audio signals.

New!!: Game Boy and Phone connector (audio) · See more »

Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, dots, or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.

New!!: Game Boy and Pixel · See more »

Play It Loud!

Play It Loud! may refer to.

New!!: Game Boy and Play It Loud! · See more »

Pokémon (video game series)

Pokémon is a series of video games developed by Game Freak published by Nintendo as part of the Pokémon media franchise.

New!!: Game Boy and Pokémon (video game series) · See more »

Pulse-code modulation

Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals.

New!!: Game Boy and Pulse-code modulation · See more »

Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used.

New!!: Game Boy and Random-access memory · See more »

Read-only memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.

New!!: Game Boy and Read-only memory · See more »

Rechargeable battery

A rechargeable battery, storage battery, secondary cell, or accumulator is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use.

New!!: Game Boy and Rechargeable battery · See more »

Retro Gamer

Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games.

New!!: Game Boy and Retro Gamer · See more »

ROM cartridge

A ROM cartridge, sometimes referred to simply as a cartridge or cart, is a removable enclosure containing ROM designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console and to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.

New!!: Game Boy and ROM cartridge · See more »

San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

New!!: Game Boy and San Francisco · See more »

Satoru Okada

Satoru Okada (岡田 智 Okada Satoru) was the general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles (such as the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and Nintendo DS consoles).

New!!: Game Boy and Satoru Okada · See more »

Satoshi Tajiri

is a Japanese video game designer best known as the creator of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise and the founder of video game developer Game Freak.

New!!: Game Boy and Satoshi Tajiri · See more »

SeaQuest DSV (video game)

seaQuest DSV is a real-time simulator/strategy game depiction of the seaQuest DSV television series for the Super NES and Genesis.

New!!: Game Boy and SeaQuest DSV (video game) · See more »

Sega

Sega Games Co., Ltd., originally short for Service Games and officially styled as SEGA, is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with offices around the world.

New!!: Game Boy and Sega · See more »

Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai-ku, Sakai.

New!!: Game Boy and Sharp Corporation · See more »

Super Game Boy

The is a peripheral that allows Game Boy cartridges to be played on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System console.

New!!: Game Boy and Super Game Boy · See more »

Super Mario Land

Super Mario Land is a 1989 side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for their Game Boy handheld game console.

New!!: Game Boy and Super Mario Land · See more »

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and colloquially shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America.

New!!: Game Boy and Super Nintendo Entertainment System · See more »

Super-twisted nematic display

A super-twisted nematic display (STN) is a type of monochrome passive-matrix liquid crystal display (LCD).

New!!: Game Boy and Super-twisted nematic display · See more »

Switch

In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can "make" or "break" an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.

New!!: Game Boy and Switch · See more »

Tennis (1984 video game)

is a sports game developed and released by Nintendo for the NES.

New!!: Game Boy and Tennis (1984 video game) · See more »

Tetris

Tetris (Тетрис) is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov.

New!!: Game Boy and Tetris · See more »

Tetris (Game Boy)

is a puzzle video game for the Game Boy released in 1989.

New!!: Game Boy and Tetris (Game Boy) · See more »

The Gainesville Sun

The Gainesville Sun is a newspaper published daily in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central portion of the state.

New!!: Game Boy and The Gainesville Sun · See more »

The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

New!!: Game Boy and The Guardian · See more »

TurboExpress

The TurboExpress is a handheld video game console by NEC Home Electronics, released in late 1990 in Japan and the United States as the TurboExpress Handheld Entertainment System.

New!!: Game Boy and TurboExpress · See more »

United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

New!!: Game Boy and United States dollar · See more »

Virtual Console

, also abbreviated as VC, is a line of downloadable video games (mostly unaltered) for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home gaming consoles and the Nintendo 3DS portable gaming console.

New!!: Game Boy and Virtual Console · See more »

Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

New!!: Game Boy and Volt · See more »

Yakuman (video game)

is a 1989 mahjong video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for its handheld Game Boy (as one of the launch titles of the system in Japan).

New!!: Game Boy and Yakuman (video game) · See more »

Yen sign

The yen sign (¥) or the yuan sign (¥/元) is a currency sign used by the Chinese yuan (CNY) and the Japanese yen (JPY) currencies.

New!!: Game Boy and Yen sign · See more »

Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis, LLC is an American publisher and Internet company.

New!!: Game Boy and Ziff Davis · See more »

Zilog Z80

The Z80 CPU is an 8-bit based microprocessor.

New!!: Game Boy and Zilog Z80 · See more »

Redirects here:

Dot matrix with stereo sound, Game Boy (original), Game Boy Classic, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Mono, Game Boy Play-It-Loud!, Game Boy Pocket, Game Goy, Game boy, Game boy lite, Game-boy, GameBoy, Gameboy, Gameboy light, Gameboy pocket, Gameboys, Gēmu Bōi, Nintendo GB, Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo GameBoy, Nintendo Gameboy, Original Game Boy.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »