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hey guys today I'm here with my review of the Game Boy Color so the Game Boy Color was the first real successor to the original Nintendo Game Boy that was came out all the way back in 1989 now of course there were a couple of game boys in between for example there was the Gameboy pocket like right here but it was pretty much the exact same as the original Gameboy of course it was much much smaller besides that played the same game same graphics all that kind of stuff another also was another game was the Gameboy light on this was actually a much rarer pan only and it was again very similar to the Gameboy pocket except the fact that it did have a backlit screen took double-a batteries however once the gameboy color came out it was the like I said the first real successor to the Gameboy on it featured a twice as fast processor twice as much RAM it had a full color screen so it had a lot going for it so it's going to show you guys all about it so to start with let's go and just take a look around the console so that it did come in quite a few different colors I actually have a green and a blue one here but actually as you can see in the logo those were some of the five colors came in like a red color a purple this green a yellow blue and also came in quite a few other colors but for just today I just go ahead and show you my green one I believe it was Kiwi but don't quote me on that but definitely a very very vibrant color um so from the screen actually I'll go ahead and just pull up the Gameboy pocket just as a comparison the screen was actually a little bit smaller than on the Gameboy pocket I'm not so sure how well you guys could see that but it was a decent bit smaller however they both had the same resolution and of course the game would color whereas this one was just you know black and white this way actually was capable of I believe about 50,000 colors or so although again don't quote me on exactly what that it was but it was definitely a very nice looking screen especially compared to the Gameboy pocket um of course it does have the standard a B your d-pad and you're starting slight buttons from the original game boys um very very nicely done Porsche gnome just what you expect from a Game Boy you do have one speaker and actually just while I'm just showing you guys you can see here it had a really nice kind of texture that should delight picks it up really nicely here um that was something that Nintendo actually I wish that would be something that they would continue to do was that this plastic I mean this boy here I've had it for 12 years or so and I mean there's no scratches on it so that was something they really did right with the Game Boy Color I mean you just couldn't scratch them really I mean of course the screen a little bit but you know for something this old that was pretty impressive the way they use that plastic I'm so flipping around on the bottom you do have a an AC adapter where you go ahead and just plug it into the wall so that was nice you know it had pretty good battery life obviously if you can just plug it in it's not a big deal I'm over here we do have a headphone jack so flipping around on this side there's not a hole I can see it does kind of keep the same sort of bulge from the Gameboy die augen just pull it in here so you guys can see I mean this kind of keep the same general shape but instead of having this kind of these little grooves that are cut out specifically for the batteries and the gameboy color had a little bit more rounded which actually did feel really nice in the hand you know it really count did lock in so it was bellows that was a pretty cool feature of course you do have your volume button and you do have your Gameboy link cable as well as a little port for lanyard or / accessories so up on the front I mean you have the game cartridge I'll get back to that just in a second but one thing that was pretty unique about the Game Boy Color was the fact that it actually did have an infrared so basically the way it worked and very few games took advantage of this but basically each Gameboy had one and this was only in the Game Boy Color they didn't have it in any previous versions as well they did not keep it in the Game Boy Advance basically what you could do is you take the infrared ports roughly about like that just keep them a couple inches apart and then for certain games like I said there were very few I believe we're about less than 20 or so but basically go ahead and send high scores and do different things like that just totally wirelessly which back then was pretty cool and of course you did still have the Gameboy link cable so you can do that too which was what most of the games used I'm so coming around here that's pretty much all you do have is on/off switch and of course the Game Boy Color since it was a how-to did have a color screen like the kind of contrast dial from previous game boys I'm so flipping it over here you have your game cartridge slot and of course one really unique thing especially back then the fact the gameboy color actually took original Game Boy games so that was really cool I mean this was one of the very first consoles to actually feature backwards compatibility so that was really cool because you know a lot of times when a new console came out back then is like well you have to buy on the games for it but not most of the people who bought a game what color had the original Gameboy game so you go ahead just swap them right in they work so as you can see here you have some labels and everything like that and of course the gameboy color does take two double-a batteries as you can see here the screen definitely did look pretty nice on the gameboy color so it wasn't I mean obviously compared to no the iPhones and PS PS of today is nothing really all that impressive but again this was back in the days where you know everything was black and white you know so it was a definitely a really nice set to finally get some color on a gameboy now as far as the graphics were they're actually fairly improved from the Gameboy pocket and the Gameboy the 1989 Gameboy um now it's kind of hard to say exactly how good they were um I kind of tend to think that they were somewhat comparable to the NES the original Nintendo um maybe not quite on that level but they were still a pretty decent of course I mean this back then I mean this was on a tiny little handheld so that was definitely a really cool feature um yeah should go ahead and play some pretty nice-looking games most of them didn't kind of tend to be RPG that was really what the gameboy color was really good at such as the Pokemon series as well as quite a few more however there are all kinds of really cool games for the Game Boy Color so that's about it for my review of the Game Boy Color so guys the Game Boy Color was my very first Gameboy my very first handheld console um and I really really got a ton of you said it was such a great console back then I mean I was it was so awesome that should be able to play with your friends and of course this was back when Pokemon was huge so that was the main draw you know you know you go grab your link cable go trade your Pokemon you go fight each other which was just enormous back in the late 90s but regardless of all that there's still such so many great games for the Game Boy Color and yes of course there is I mean if you're wanting to just play the games you know you might be better served with a Game Boy Advance or maybe even a Game Boy dance SP which of course do play all the original Game Boy games was the Game Boy Color games but guys you know if you grew up with it like me or you know this is just kind of the way yet play I mean you know it's just kind of same way where you know you've got like Sega Genesis games etc etc like maybe the Xbox 360 but you know what why would you want to play that when you guys go ahead and play it on the real deal on it anyways though guys if you're interested in get picking up a gameboy color there's not a whole lot to look out for obviously a handheld console of any type you have to watch out for the obvious kind of wear and tear and as always all with all game boys make sure that when you turn on the screen it will actually go ahead and boot up you won't see any kind of scan lines broken or anything like that um so that's pretty much it and about the last thing I guess I would say would be um take a look right here at the cartridge shot if there's a lot of wear that kind of just kind of tends to tell you how much it was worn but generally as long as you can go ahead pop a game in to the gameboy color that you're thinking about and as long as it works pretty much you're set to go because a game boys were built really really robustly there really wasn't a whole lot that did go wrong on to my guys we're interested in picking one up they're really pretty these days I definitely recommend you do it game would call was a fantastic console anyway guys thanks for watching