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Poll What's The Best Game Boy Color Game?
A splash of colo(u)r
The granddaddy of modern handheld gaming, the Game Boy, got an unexpected shot in the arm in the mid-'90s when a little game named Pokémon released and gave the ageing hardware a new lease of life. The updated Game Boy Pocket hardware might have slimmed down the bulky original DMG-001, but it was the long-awaited arrival of the...
No magnifying glass needed
Recently we've been getting quite a bit of use out of our classic handheld systems. It can be a lot of fun to jump back to your original Game Boy or Game Boy Color to play one of the first Pokémon games, or to see how high of a score you can line up in Tetris. If you're playing with a standard non-backlight screen you may...
Jon compares the past to the present
New Pokémon Snap is recreating the past of Pokémon Snap with the help of the Instax Mini Link. Yes, in case you missed it, Fujifilm's smartphone printer is now compatible with the Switch - allowing you to print out photos from all of your games. If you're still unsure about whether this device is worth forking...
Random You Can Now Play The Original Game Boy Tetris In Online Multiplayer
Linking up
Not long ago we shared the work of Game Boy hacker stacksmashing, who has been doing intriguing mods with the retro portable. They had managed to connect to the link cable process in the original Tetris to manipulate the pieces that would drop when playing multiplayer. It was just a bit of fun, but from a technical perspective it meant...
Random What Is This, A Game Boy For Ants?
Say hello to the least comfortable way to play Game Boy games
While the original Game Boy was hardly the most portable of devices, Nintendo iterated on the concept over the years to produce more pocket-friendly versions of the system, with the Game Boy Micro (the final product to carry the famous branding) being so small that many people found it...
Random The Game Boy Has Finally Grown Up To Become The 'Game Man'
You're a man, not a boy
The Game Boy turns 32 this year, but, unlike most entering their fourth decade on this planet, it has remained surprisingly small. Thankfully, the Grumpy Modeler has decided to change that by forcing Nintendo's handheld to grow up – in more ways than one. Using a combination of parts – including a 3D-printed case, NES...
News The Spirit Of The Game Boy Printer Lives On Thanks To Fujifilm And Your Nintendo Switch
Print your memories
The Game Boy turned 32 yesterday, and if you're old enough to have enjoyed that particular handheld back in the day you might recall the Game Boy Printer, one of the wackiest accessories ever produced for a games console. The battery-powered thermal printer connected to your Game Boy and allowed you to print off images taken...
News Limited Run Republishing Another Two Game Boy Titles, Pre-Orders Open This Friday
StarHawk and Metal Masters return
Physical distributor Limited Run Games has announced it will be republishing not one, but two Game Boy classics. The first is StarHawk and the second one is Metal Masters - both titles will be available for pre-order this Friday over a four-week period. Metal Masters is a 2D beat 'em up fighting game, and was...
Random Hacker Creates The Game Boy Tetris Of Your Dreams
Lots of easy pieces
Tetris on the Game Boy is one of the best multiplayer titles of all time, even if it did exist in a period when wireless local play was the stuff of a madman's dreams. Instead, players would have to connect their consoles using the (easily lost) link cable – and it's this primitive method of connectivity that has allowed a...
Memory Pak The First Time I Saw The Rocket In Tetris
Hello, T-spin, my old friend
This is Memory Pak, where we're going to be doing a deep-dive into some of the most memorable moments in gaming – good and bad. Kate takes a trip around the memory block, exploring a formative memory for many of us: our first time playing Tetris, and our first time actually being good at Tetris. I don't remember...
News Please Forgive Us, But We Can't Get Enough Of This Shameless Game Boy Micro Clone
Say hello to the Waveshare GPM280
Chinese-made handheld emulation devices aren't a new thing by any means, and each year countless new variants appear on the scene which do pretty much the same thing: play ROMs via emulation using cheap and readily available off-the-shelf components. However, the Waveshare GPM280 caught our eye recently, not for...
Hands On The EverDrive GBA X5 Mini Solves The Only Real Issue We Had With The Original
Small but still mighty
When we tested the original EverDrive GBA X5 flash cart back in 2016, we had plenty of good things to say about it, but the fact that it was bigger than your typical GBA cartridge was ever-so-slightly irksome. It meant that the cart protruded from the GBA's cartridge slot – a "first world problem" without a doubt, but one...
Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel #82 - Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
Rock 'n' roll
Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our weekly poll to find the best regional box art variant from two or more retro candidates. Last time we looked at The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks in a duel that pitted Japan and Europe against North America. It appears that the regional team-up worked wonders — the greenery of the JP/EU cover...
News The Analogue Pocket Has Been Delayed Again
Now coming in October
Analogue has just revealed that its FPGA-based handheld system, the Analogue Pocket, has been delayed until October this year. It was scheduled to begin shipping next month, a release window that had already been pushed back once due to the effects of COVID-19 (it was originally expected to arrive at the end of 2020). The...
Random Who Needs Fancy-Pants Graphics Cards? Now You Can Mine Bitcoin With A Game Boy
Obviously! It drops blocks with the best of 'em
Are you a retro gamer with an original Game Boy just lying around doing nothing? Well, firstly, shame on you — the Game Boy has a brilliant library of classics that you should be enjoying in any spare moment! Then again, perhaps you play your old-school monochrome games on a GBA, or maybe you've got...
Guide Best Game Boy / Game Boy Color RPGs
Rock and Role
The humble Game Boy was a revolution when it launched at the close of the 1980s. Despite its monochrome visuals, it offered true portable play, and played host to some amazing pint-sized versions of classic hits, as well as all-new experiences which played to the hardware's modest strengths. While the Game Boy (and its successor, the...
News Limited Run Games Is Republishing Two Natsume Game Boy Games This Year
Sea of Solitude: The Director's Cut also gets a physical edition on Switch
Of all the strange things to happen this last year, we didn't count on a Game Boy resurgence. Between Twitter's Pokémon Red playthrough, horror game Deadeus and Kickstarter project
Feature Hyperkin Explains How The RetroN Sq Is Bringing The Game Boy To Your Living Room
Update: Pre-orders go live on Amazon
Update: Pre-orders are now available! Original Story [Wed 22nd Jan, 2020 14:00 GMT]: Hyperkin has been one of the biggest names in 'new' retro products for quite some time now, thanks to products like the RetroN 5 and Supa Boy. The company is back with a new device – the
News Analogue Explains How It's Going To Deal With Scalping Amid Concerns Over Pocket Pre-Orders
"We have taken careful action to address bots"
Thanks to the current pandemic, more of us are relying on online retailers than ever, and whilst we can't always use traditional retailers, scalping has gotten worse. Between recent drama surrounding the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S launches,
Random Twitter Has Completed Its Playthrough Of Pokémon Red Inside Someone's Avatar
It even caught Mewtwo
Despite suffering a major setback last week - with "Team Rocket" releasing the majority of the party, it seems the social media experiment Twitter plays Pokémon Red Version inside someone's avatar has bounced back. According to the creator Constantin Liétard, it took 40 days and more than 90K comments to defeat the Elite...
Guide How To Spot Fake Nintendo Video Games
Keepin' it real fake
Bootleg video games have been plaguing the industry for a while, but as time goes on it's become increasingly difficult to tell the difference between an official cartridge released by Nintendo and a fake. Take these copies of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen on Game Boy Advance. To the naked eye, they look strikingly authentic,...
Random Fan Reimagines Pokémon Sword And Shield As Game Boy Games
With Red and Blue-style music and graphics
Released on Nintendo Switch back in 2019, Pokémon Sword and Shield are currently the latest entries in Pokémon's mainline series of games. Of course, plenty of Sword and Shield players will have been with the franchise from the very beginning, and while the new games are great fun in their own way,...
"Team Rocket" is playing up!
The social media experiment allowing you to play the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red Version inside someone's Twitter avatar appears to have suffered a major blow. Prior to this, it had been relatively smooth sailing. Earlier this month the Soul Badge was acquired and more recently the Volcano Badge was earned. In a new...
Random No, Nintendo Did Not Sue A 9-Year-Old Child For Creating A Cardboard Game Boy
Nintendo officially debunks dank meme
Nintendo is a notoriously litigious company, and has gone to extreme lengths to protect its copyright over the decades – from trying (and failing) to block sales of the Game Genie on the NES all the way up to its closure of ROM-sharing sites in more recent years. That's why when a post appeared on social...
Random Which One Of These Cursed Game Boy Colors Is Your Favourite?
Old Nintendo adverts: a treasure trove of weirdness
The '90s were a wild time for video game adverts. Most of them were about genitalia in some way or another. A lot of them were about the anatomy of women. It really wasn't a great time, to be honest - but some adverts were a little less creepy than others. Less creepy, maybe, but infinitely more...
Random Pokémon Red Is Still Being Played Inside Someone's Twitter Avatar
The journey continues
Twitter plays the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red inside a programmer's avatar is arguably one of the wildest social media experiments so far this year. Since the adventure began just weeks ago, Twitter has successful acquired four badges - with the latest one being the Rainbow Badge from Celadon City's Grass-type Gym leader,...
Random Someone's Made A Fully-Functioning Game Playable On The Game Boy Camera
'Attack of the Fluff Monster'
The Game Boy Camera is a surprisingly cool piece of kit – did you know that you can use it as a webcam or that it can be used to photograph the moon? – but we didn't ever think we'd see a fully-functioning, fan-made game playable on the Camera's software itself. Amazingly, though, that
Random Twitter Has Now Defeated The Grass-Type Gym Leader Erika In Pokémon Red
Four badges and counting
Update: And to follow on from all this, Celadon City's Grass-type Gym leader has just been defeated. Rainbow Badge received! Another week has passed, so what's been happening in the social media experiment Twitter plays Pokémon Red...inside a talented programmer's avatar? Well, read on! After defeating the Cerulean...
Video We "Opened" An Original Nintendo Game Boy From 1989
Off the shelf, 30 years later
Unboxing something old brand new in box is something many of us dream of. Well, that's why our very own Zion leapt at the opportunity to buy a "sealed" original DMG Game Boy for, in his words, too much money. The problem arises when you learn that there was no one reliable method of 'sealing' an original Game Boy; some...
News The Game Boy Lives On Once More As The Shapeshifter Closes In On Kickstarter Target
NES port listed as stretch goal
Kickstarter has brought us some of the current generation's more interesting experiences. From spiritual successors like Yooka-Laylee to original hits like CrossCode, many projects have tapped into our nostalgia for retro gaming – though not always for the better. Bringing us an 8-bit fantasy adventure, The...
Random Twitter Just Defeated The Water-Type Gym Leader Misty In Pokémon Red
Never underestimate the power of the internet!
It's already been more than a week since Twitter began its journey in the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red. In case you missed it, users on this social media platform have been playing the original Game Boy title inside the avatar of Gameloft Montreal programmer Constantin Liétard's Twitter profile (
Gallery Check Out Bitmap Books' Game Boy: The Box Art Collection
We're game if you are
UK publisher Bitmap Books is famous for its high-quality tomes, and we've got an office packed with them here at Nintendo Life. The company has previously covered the likes of the SNES and NES, and even did a book dedicated to the amazing artwork seen on Super Famico
News Top-Down Horror Adventure Deadeus Is Coming To Game Boy This Year
The handheld that keeps on giving
The Game Boy is truly the handheld which refuses to die. We've seen several new releases for the legendary portable crop up recently, and there's another on the way in the shape of Deadeus. Developed by independent studio -IZMA- and published by Spacebot Interactive (the latter also being involved with
Feature All Hail The Game Boy Micro, The Sexiest And Most Impractical Game Boy Ever
15 years of hand cramps
Before we dive in, let's begin with a few words on the topic at hand when it was raised in the Nintendo Life office: "Such a neat little machine." "I've always wanted one." "Somehow I ended up with two." "The most enjoyable way to get carpal tunnel." We were, of course, discussing the lovely Game Boy Micro. The diminutive...
Video Uncovering The WorkBoy - The Long Lost Nintendo Game Boy Add-On
"Found after 28 years"
Video game historian and Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson has uncovered the long-lost peripheral and unreleased device known as the WorkBoy. The WorkBoy - for those that don't know - was an add-on for the Game Boy that turned Nintendo's famous handheld device into a PDA - essentially a small personal computer...
News This New Game Boy Game Is 21 Years In The Making
All it took was a global pandemic to finish it
2020 has changed things for a lot of people. While the video game industry has generally done well out of the fact that everyone has had to remain indoors for most of the year, the coronavirus outbreak has had a massively negative effect on other business sectors, with many companies having to lay off...
Random Until Among Us Comes To Switch, We'll Have To Make Do With This Game Boy Mock-Up
Not sus at all
Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you'll have heard of the smartphone and PC game Among Us. Arguably one of the most talked-about titles of 2020, the game involves working together to find "imposter" players on a spaceship before they slay everyone else in the game, and it has proven to be the perfect "lockdown" video...
News The Game Boy Is Getting A New Wonder Boy And Ys-Inspired Adventure
Say hello to Coria and the Sunken City
Remember when we recently reported on the fact that the Game Boy was getting a brand-new RPG title in 2020? Well, if that brought a smile to your face, then you're going to be very pleased to hear that the plucky little console (and its more powerful sibling, the Game Boy Color) is getting another new release...
News 2020 Isn't All Bad, Because The Game Boy Is Getting A Brand-New RPG Called Dragonborne
And you can pre-order it right now
2020's been a pretty torrid year by all accounts, but there's some light at the end of the tunnel – for those who love Nintendo's legendary Game Boy, at least. Indie studio Spacebot Interactive has announced that it will ship a brand-new RPG for the monochrome marvel early next year, and that pre-orders are open...
Random The Award-Winning RPG Disco Elysium Has Been Ported To Game Boy
"Well, the first part of it at least"
While you wait for the multi-award-winning RPG Disco Elysium to come to Nintendo Switch, why not play the Game Boy version instead? Disco Elysium fan Colin Brannan has "ported" the first part of this game to Nintendo's legendary portable unit. If you don't have all the necessary equipment to play it on this...
Random OK, We Really Need This Pokédex Game Boy Advance Console
The bespoke mod to rule them all?
Nintendo's handhelds have been the focus of fan-made mods for years, with industrious individuals doing everything from fitting better screens to creating entirely new case designs to make their Game Boy, GBA or DS stand out from the crowd. However, Rose Colored Gaming has been doing this for longer than most, and...
Video Donkey Kong '94 - The 101 Level Sequel to Arcade DK
It's on like (101 stages of) Donkey Kong
Nintendo's legacy owes so much to the original Donkey Kong; after all, this was the game that introduced the world to Mario. They could have played it safe with a Game Boy conversion – it still would have been impressive to have an arcade game in the palm of your hands – but Nintendo decided that wasn't...
Anniversary Super Mario Land Launched 30 Years Ago Today In Europe
Mario's first portable platformer
Here's our fancy Japanese version, because we're show-offs... Believe it or not, today marks the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Land's launch on the trusty Game Boy in Europe. Developed as a Game Boy launch title, Super Mario Land offered Mario his very first outing in a portable platformer. It was a truly...
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Hosting Game Boy Spirit Event - Featuring Shantae, Pokémon, Zelda And More
Stick it in your pocket
The Game Boy - where would handheld gaming be without it? With this in mind, this week Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is paying its respect to this past Nintendo generation with a special Spirit Board event. This event will start on 25th September (this Friday) and will run for a total of three days. During this time you'll...
News Relive Nintendo's Glorious Past With This Game Boy: The Box Art Collection Book
Update: Pre-orders open September 28th
Update: Bitmap Books has confirmed that pre-orders will go live on the 28th September at 17:00 BST. Original Story [Wed 15th Jul, 2020 15:30 BST]: If you've been keeping up with our Box Art Brawl series, where we pit various game covers from different regions against each other to see which is the prettiest,...
Random eBay User Makes Small Fortune Selling Old Pokémon Game Boxes And Manuals In 'Good' Condition
"Games not included"
Want to make some easy money, but don't want to part with your precious video games? Well, at least not entirely. Then just sell the boxes and manuals separately. They don't even need to be in top condition. An eBay user, located in the US, has just banked $1375.00 selling an assorted bunch of Pokémon boxes and manuals dating...
News This Battery-Free Game Boy Could Be The Future Of Portable Tech
The catch? A tiny display and no sound
The Game Boy was a true revelation when it launched back in 1989, and kickstarted a portable gaming industry which endures to this very day. However, it also meant that players had to have a steady supply of AA batteries to hand if they wanted to make the most of the console, and while we've since moved to...
Random Can You Use The Game Boy Camera As A Webcam In 2020? Absolutely
But it's not exactly easy
Perhaps one of the most impressive accessories Nintendo has ever released is the Game Boy Camera. Back when it arrived on the scene in 1998, camera phones weren't even a thing yet - so to have something like this (especially if you were a bit younger at the time), was pretty neat. Its legacy lives on via the company's...
News New Game Boy Game Scores $28,000 On Kickstarter To Fund Development
And it's planned to launch this year
Independent developer Greenboy Games will release a brand new game for the Game Boy this year after a Kickstarter campaign generated more than $28,000 to help make the project a reality. The game in question is Where Is My Body?, an 8-bit point-and-click adventure inspired by the likes of Maniac Mansion. Players...
Random Game Boy Camera Mod Allows For Awesome Retro Canvas Imagery
Decorate your home in style!
If we're being completely honest, we never imagined that we'd still be writing about clever, creative uses of the Game Boy Camera in 2020, yet here we are with another fan-made project that has us mightily impressed. Sam McKenzie, owner of a YouTube channel centred around 3D printing, decided to get in touch with us...