Platform archive · Nintendo
Game Boy
Nintendo’s monochrome handheld favored battery life, durability, and a compact cartridge library. Regional revisions and the Color-compatible transition kept the platform active for more than a decade.
Hardware launch era1989
Physical games945
Documented packages945
Hardware variants0
Game BoyNintendo
Launch information
The platform’s opening chapter
- Hardware era
- 1989
- Launch region
- Catalog regions documented per game
- Primary physical format
- See individual game records
- First documented physical release
- April 21, 1989
- Latest documented physical release
- July 1, 2000
- Special editions and variants
- 0
Best-known releases
Platform-defining collector highlights
Complete physical checklist