Game Boy emulation is a tricky topic, and it's clear that Nintendo has gone above and beyond for these releases. For example, the original screens on the Game Boy Advance were notoriously dim, so ...

The Game Boy series, which encompasses seven different handheld consoles, has a legacy that is respected to this day, and millions worldwide acknowledge its importance in gaming history.

Games Platforming Games The best Game Boy games of all time Features By Graeme Mason Contributions from Jasmine Gould-Wilson, Emma-Jane Betts last updated July 8, 2025 ...

The Game Boy Advance was my first handheld, but I always enjoyed using it to play games for the original Game Boy or Game Boy Color, such as the first two generations of Pokémon and Paperboy.

But these Game Boy games are so rare that the ordinary fan may never get to add them to their collection. Here are the 5 rarest Game Boy games that you may never get to own, no matter how big of a ...

The Game Boy might not have been the best platform for Mega Man's trademark action and the quick reflexes needed to reduce Dr. Wily's latest range of malevolent mechs to scrap, but Mega Man 5 on ...

A Game Boy was designed to play games and not as a developer’s toy, so it doesn’t exactly roll out the red carpet for the hacker.

The Game Boy Advance hit the market on March 21, 2001 in Japan and on June 11 of that same year in the US. Its launch was met with excitement from the press and consumers alike, who were ready for ...

Game Boy Advance marked a huge leap forward—not only benefiting from a technology bump up to 32-bits but also a radical design change, switching from portrait to landscape.

All Game Boy and Game Boy Color games and a few (mostly early) Game Boy Advance games store their saves on SRAM, a kind of memory that loses its data when not connected to a power source.

The original Game Boy had a rather poor screen that could manage 160×144 with about 4 levels of grayscale. The new screen needed to encompass this but with as small a physical size as possible.

While Nintendo carried the original Game Boy almost by itself in the mid-to-late '90s, the Game Boy Color audience was far more receptive non-Nintendo offerings.