Gameboy Spectacular

In my earlier years I can remember when Game Boy Pocket came out (1996). It was the hottest thing to sneak into class as it fits in your pocket. I can remember one commercial on T.V that featured a kid getting busted with his GBP (Game Boy Pocket in cool acronym form) and having to turn it in to his teacher.

GBP was my very first video game system and holds very fond memories of my initiation into nerdom. The oldest games I have are "Donkey Kong Land(1995)", "Star Wars"(1991), and "Asteroids and Missile Command(1995)". Besides these gems are the good Pokemon games, e.g: Red, Blue(1998 Red and Blue), Yellow(1999), Gold, and Silver(2000 Gold and Silver). With a mishmash of other great games that wont be mentioned as of now.

There is a staggering selection of hand held systems with the title "Game Boy" produced by Nintendo. The line starts with the large and in charge original: Game Boy. This bad boy was released in 1989. In 1995 Nintendo released a series of color shelled Game Boys dubbed "Play it Loud Game Boys".

The next big change in the Game Boy line would happen in 1996 with the release of Game Boy Pocket. In 1998 Nintendo released a slightly bigger model than the Game Boy Pocket called Game Boy Light (exclusively released in Japan). In 1998 Nintendo also released the Game Boy Color. The first Game Boy to feature color graphics and an ifrared communications port making the need for a link cable obsolete. The next installment in the Game Boy Franchise was Game Boy Advanced (my favorite Game Boy). Released in 2001 it changed the basic structure of the Game Boy from a taller console to a wider one and added right and left bumbers. The Game Boy Advance SP was released in 2003 and featured a flip open design and a front-lit screen. In 2005 Nintendo improved on the SP design and released the Game Boy SP+ in North America. The final installment in the Game Boy line was the Game Boy Micro, the first non-backwards compatible with Original Game Boy or Game Boy Color games it could only play Game Boy Advance games.

*Image from Wikipedia.org. Information from Nintendo.com.