Nintendo formally announced the release of the Game Boy Color on 10 March 1998. The resultant product was backward compatible with all existing Game Boy software, a first for a handheld system, allowing each new Game Boy product launch to begin with a significantly larger game library than any of its competitors. Nintendo developed the console concurrently with Project Atlantis. History ĭevelopment for the Game Boy Color began in 1996, when Nintendo received requests from game developers for a more sophisticated handheld platform, who said that even the latest iteration of the original system, the Game Boy Pocket, had insufficient hardware. Its best-selling games are Pokémon Gold and Silver, which shipped 23 million units worldwide. The Game Boy and the Game Boy Color combined have sold 118.69 million units worldwide making them the fourth best-selling system of all time. The GBC is part of the fifth generation of video game consoles. The American English spelling of the system's name, Game Boy Color, remains consistent throughout the world. As with the original Game Boy, it has a custom 8-bit processor made by Sharp that is considered a hybrid between the Intel 8080 and the Zilog Z80. It is slightly thicker and taller and features a slightly smaller screen than Game Boy Pocket, its immediate predecessor. The handheld features a color screen rather than monochrome, but it is not backlit. Critics like IGN consider it more akin to a hardware revision than a next generation product. It is the successor to the Game Boy and is part of its product line. The Game Boy Color (commonly abbreviated as GBC) is an 8-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on Octo and to international markets that November.
Pokémon Gold and Silver, approximately 23 million units
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