Game Boy Color: Difference between revisions

The '''Game Boy Color''' (Japanese: '''ゲームボーイカラー''' ''Game Boy Color'') is [[Nintendo]]'s 8-bit gaming handheld which succeeded the [[Game Boy]]; it was later succeeded by the [[Game Boy Advance]]. It is slightly taller and thicker than the [[Game Boy Pocket]]. The main feature of this model, as the name suggests, is the color screen. It is also the first Game Boy not to include a contrast knob. Its most popular games are {{game|Gold and Silver|s}}, selling approximately 14.51 million copies in Japan and the US combined.

Like the [[Game Boy]], [[Game Boy Advance]], and [[Nintendo DS]], the Game Boy Color is not region-encoded. This means that a player can play a Game Boy Color game from any region in their own locally purchased console.

[[wp:List of Game Boy colors and styles#Game Boy Colour|Other colors]] were sold as limited editions or in specific countries.  

| style="background: #844204" | Up

| style="background: #F4FE04; {{roundybl|5px}}" | Right + B

| style="background: #04A2A4; {{roundybr|5px}}" | Reverse

The processor, which is a Z80 work-alike with a few extra (bit manipulation) instructions, has a clock speed of approx. 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy. The Game Boy Color also has four times as much memory as the original. The console boasted an impressive palette of 32,768 colors and was capable of simultaneously displaying 56 colors at once. It could also add basic four-color shading to games that had been released for the ordinary Game Boy. Additionally, a new palette-change feature was added for original Game Boy games; by holding the B button and any one of the directional arrows, the user could change the basic color palette for the game. The original Game Boy is also able to play some Game Boy Color games in monochrome (most notably {{game|Gold and Silver|s}}).

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| style="background:#FFF; {{roundybl|5px}}" | [[Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!]]

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| style="background:#FFF" | Main series RPG

| style="background:#FFF; {{roundybl|5px}}" | [[Pokémon Picross (Game Boy Color)|Pokémon Picross]]

| style="background:#FFF; {{roundybr|5px}}" | Picross

* Although the walls of [[Fuchsia Gym]] are normally invisible in the [[Generation I]] [[core series]] [[Pokémon games]] , the Game Boy Color exposes them when using a multi-colored palette.