History of consoles part 5 (game boy)

## Gameboy by Nintendo  The gameboy is a handheld console developed by Nintendo and it was first released on April the 21st 1989 in japan and then July the 31st in North America. The gameboy was the first ever handheld console developed by Nintendo. The gameboy did very well and it was the best selling handheld consoles compared to other consoles of that time like the game gear and the Atari lynx. There are 1,049 know games to be on the gameboy. The screen size is 4,7 x 4,3 cm and it was capable of producing 4 shades of grey. The gameboy got discontinued March the 23rd 2003. ## Specs -CPU- Sharp LR35902 core @ 4.19 MHz -Graphics- LCD 160x144 pixels, 47x43 mm -RAM- 8 kB internal S-RAM (can be extended up to 32 kB), 8 kB VRAM -power- x4 AA batteries (upto 30 hours game play) -resolution- 160 x 144 ## How many consoles did they sell? They sold a very impressive 118.69 gameboys worldwide. ## What was the best selling games?  Tetris was the best seller on the gameboy, they sold 30.26 million copies. The game was also sold as a bundle (gameboy + tetris). ## What was the official retail price? -USA- $89.95 -Japan- ¥9,800