Nintendo GameBoy Color - Light Purple Console

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Part of the problem is the replacement buttons themselves. I compared them with real GBC buttons, and the replacements are in fact about 1mm shorter overall and are molded slightly different on the inside (where they touch the membranes). So turns out they are a little more sensitive to the gaps caused by the issues I identified above. The Game Boy Camera is half gadget, half video game, and ahead of its time, sporting a rotatable lens for taking selfies. However, it’s the software that makes the Game Boy Camera stand out even today. Please leave it to the makers of the Pokémon games, Game Freak, to come up with likely the strangest camera ever produced. a b "Technical data". Nintendo of Europe GmbH. Archived from the original on February 7, 2023 . Retrieved February 4, 2018.

If blue is mixed with red at all - even 99% blue & 1% red - it's a variant of purple. It's really that simple. No red in it, it's blue - any red at all, it's purple. More red than blue is magenta, and more blue than red is indigo, exactly in the middle is a true purple. Imagineer Glow-In-Dark - light green glowing in dark - Prize in Imagineers Multi Racing Championship [N64] Contest - 2000pcs made (Japan, 1996) Nintendo formally announced the release of the Game Boy Color on 10 March 1998. [14] All remaining new units were sold by March 31, 2003. [9] Hardware [ edit ] Technical specifications [ edit ] For more curious color conundrums Science Girl recommends reading up on the very non-existent nature of magenta [2]! An Okay ish article linked... I don't have anything earth-shattering to say about the Game Boy Color. It was the first console I could really call "my own" — lime-green coloured, so it stood out next to all the other home consoles I had to share with my brother. But the GBC? It was mine.Fahs, Travis (July 27, 2009). "IGN Presents the History of Game Boy". IGN . Retrieved February 20, 2023. Day, Ashley (May 2006). "Game Boy Color" (24): 41–43. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Showing my bias here. This was my Game Boy Color, and it was the first video game system I ever owned. Love you forever, my little baby. Yellow maybe seems ostentatious to some, but this is the most subtle, charming, beautiful yellow on the color spectrum. Also, it reminds me of Pikachu, which is good.

If you’re interested in this mod, the creator links the adapter’s design file, though you’ll need access to a 3D printer to make one. Another color released at the same time was "Atomic Purple", made of a translucent purple plastic similar to the color available for the Nintendo 64 controller. Other colors were sold as limited editions or in specific countries. Introducing Game Boy Color". Nintendo Power. p. 85: Nintendo. November 1998. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: location ( link)This blinding yellow console was the perfect Pokémon Yellow accompaniment... well, unless you splashed out on the Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition bundle. If you wanted to advertise your love for the electric mouse without having little Pokémon pictures all over your console, though, this was your best bet. Colourful, but classy. Grape Image: Nintendo Trainman, Steve (May 12, 1999). "Retailers Coming to E3 with High Expectations". Game Week. 5 (17). I would only have to wait three more years for my wish to be granted, with a fresh new Game Boy Advance in my greedy little hands. The bulky purple handheld brought me into a whole new dimension of color, graphics, and world-building that was previously impossible. I got to play reimagined classics like Super Mario Advance 2, team up with friends in The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, and fight eco-terrorists in Pokémon Ruby. They were more than just games, but teaching and social tools that helped me to develop into the weirdo I am today. The retro camera is a playground for the imagination and it’s now, thanks to certain devices and techniques, the perfect time to jump in. Technical data". Nintendo of Europe GmbH. Archived from the original on February 7, 2023 . Retrieved May 24, 2017.

The Game Boy Color (commonly abbreviated as GBC) is an 8-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on October 21, 1998 [6] and to international markets that November. It is the successor to the Game Boy and is part of its product line. Critics like IGN consider it more akin to a hardware revision than a next generation product. [7] I still own my old GBC, and it does function. It has some battle scars from being dragged almost everywhere by a Pokemon-obsessed kid, and up/down on the directional pad have input delays. Most importantly, it was the first video game system I could call my own. Before that point, any gaming I did was on systems at my aunt's or at another babysitter, or the PC games available at school. This wasn't the system that started my love for Nintendo, but it certainly helped cement it! The Game Boy Camera is fun, but some have figured out ways to improve it. One Game Boy Camera photographer strapped a smartphone lens onto his Game Boy Camera for an F1 race ( link to gallery).The Game Boy and Game Boy Color were both commercially successful, selling a combined 32.47 million units in Japan, 44.06 million in the Americas, and 42.16 million in other regions. [9] [10] At the time of its discontinuation in 2003, the combined sales of the Game Boy were the best-selling game console of all time. Surpassed in sales by the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Switch the trio are now the fourth-best-selling console, the third-best-selling console and the second-best-selling handheld of all time. Sales of the console were in part driven by the success of Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Crystal, with combined sales of 29.5 million units, making them one of the best selling-video games of all time. US Platinum Videogame Chart". The Magic Box. Archived from the original on April 21, 2007 . Retrieved September 27, 2007. Pokémon - Special Pikachu edition yellow & blue w/ logo, artwork & colored buttons (bundled w/ Pokémon Yellow) The power wires for the front-light were getting pinched by the replacement shell, so that the front of the shell was being pushed out, lifting the buttons a mm or two higher than they should be. I fixed it by shaving the plastic where the wires were passing through so the shell would rest flush where it wanted to.

Nintendo do a fine line in purple (or purple-adjacent) consoles, from the gorgeous Indigo GameCube to the GBA or the looks-indigo-to-me Switch Lite. Not much to say about this rich purple GBC, other than we like it and we think it's good. Grape, even. a b "First Alone in the Dark Screenshots for Game Boy Color". IGN. August 4, 2000. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015 . Retrieved March 24, 2015. Ferrero SpA competition - yellow w/ Happy Hippo Logo & Happy Hippo Character "Max Mutig" (came bundled with the game "Das Geheimnis der Happy Hippo Insel")(limited to 111 units) (Germany, 2001) In YouTuber ConorSev’s video, he improves the Canon EF lens adapter design to fix the lens’s focus. Despite the absolute ridiculousness of the massive lens on the tiny camera, it works surprisingly well.a b Umezu; Sugino; Konno. "Nintendo 3DS (Volume 2 – Nintendo 3DS Hardware Concept)". Iwata Asks (Interview: Transcript). Interviewed by Satoru Iwata. Nintendo. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012 . Retrieved March 7, 2011. Johnston, Chris (1998). "Hands On: Game Boy Color". GameSpot. Archived from the original on June 7, 2019 . Retrieved November 13, 2022. The deep purple Game Boy Color is actually totally fine, but it’s bested by the much cooler transparent purple hardware. (That one’s coming up.) Maybe you asked your grandpa for a Game Boy Color for Chanukah, and you told him you wanted the “purple” one. You probably meant the cooler purple one, the one that everyone else had. But Grape threw a wrench into things, so Pop-Pop bought you this guy instead. Again: Fine! But not what you wanted. a b c Fahs, Travis (July 27, 2009). "IGN Presents the History of Game Boy". IGN. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010 . Retrieved August 6, 2022.