Game boy line dead

The Game Boy line of portable game consoles date back to the first 'brick' released in The Game Boy Pocket , a smaller, lighter and more power-efficient version of the Game Boy was released in It featured nothing more than that and a black-and-white LCD display, as opposed to the greenish dot matrix screen of the original Game Boy.

Another iteration, the, was released exclusively in Japan, featuring a green back-lit display. In , Nintendo released the Game Boy Color , featuring the same design as the Game Boy Pocket, but including a 32,color display with a maximum of 56 different colors on screen at any given time. During the launch of the Nintendo DS in , Nintendo claimed that the new handheld was the company's "third pillar" rather than a true successor to the Game Boy line, but of course this information was false because in , Nintendo of America 's George Harrison stated that the Game Boy line would be dead by the year This fact was also proven false, especially since the GBA and its redesigns were discontinued in and system sales ended in mid- and with the unparalleled success of the Nintendo DS.

The strict approximation doesn't seem to hew to the reported battery life, which demonstrates that the Nintendo or the battery makers were treating the issue of battery life very conservatively. The Light uses 2xAA batteries and boasts 20 hours of play without the backlight and 12 hours with it on.

The power requirements have also decreased slightly to 3v, 0. Thus it requires an average of mA to run. According to the datasheet, at mA we have approximately mAh. If we divide the mA by the mAh, we get about 10 hours on a pair of AAs. One hopes that the stated power requirements were taking the backlight into consideration.

I have seen quotes of battery life of hours. The games themselves are typically larger, from MB. I suspect that the battery life is more impressive if it runs monochrome Game Boy games than if it is running Color Game Boy games because those extra features are not being used. Compared to the original DMG, the Color seems to have less life. I would say that with 4 AA batteries meaning you need to replace the batteries once , you can probably get the same amount of playtime as you would with a DMG.

In the later video, the relatively short time for the Game Boy is because one of his children turned it off prematurely. However, both systems were running monochrome Game Boy games, and I cannot tell for certain what game was in the DMG, but it appears both videos used the same game in the DMG. I think it is Super Mario Land.

For the Color it was Top Rank ing Tennis. Super Mario Land has an attract mode, but Top Ranking Tennis has animation and music on its title screen, so the cartridges seem pretty fair.

However, if a true Color game were being played, I would certainly think that the time would be significantly shorter. Labels: Game Boy , Technical Discussion. Raifield October 14, at AM.

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