First game boy

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Personal information will not be shared or result in unsolicited email. We may use the provided email to contact you if we have additional questions. See our privacy statement. Skip to main content. Game Boy. Usage conditions apply. International Media Interoperability Framework. In , Game Boy released a new design for their classic handheld game console. This new style was the Game Boy Advance.

Rather than playing on a vertical system, the Game Boy Advance spread out horizontally, which actually turned off some of the diehard original Game Boy enthusiasts.

However, the new innovations of technology allowed for many more hours of battery life, as well as the backlighting feature otherwise not found in the US at the time. In addition to the classic buttons on the face of the system, the Game Boy Advance also featured two buttons on the top of the system, allowing for even more functions to be executed at once.

The Game Boy Advance would reign for four strong years, dominating the handheld gaming industry. The Game Boy name would finally come to an end in when Nintendo released the newest and currently most innovative technology in the handheld gaming market — the Nintendo DS.

This is a new system that contains two different screens and 10 buttons, twice that of the original Game Boy specifications. With thousands of games and many features, the DS takes the place of the Game Boy, and has been dominating a new generation of gamers with many new functions, such as online capability and picture taking abilities. The most recent version even boasts 3D gaming. All images courtesy of the Nintendo website. The fact that it was also Nintendo who brought portable gaming to life in this new way made it even better.

While the first games were simple ones, it wasn't long before the system received great titles. Plus, even after it was succeeded by the Game Boy Color in , some GBC games could be played on the older hardware. From ushering in new, now iconic, franchises to unique titles all its own, the Game Boy's RPG lineup deserves to be appreciated.

Here are the five best ones. Even though it has Final Fantasy in its title, this game is actually the first entry in the Mana series , and was known as Seiken Densetsu in Japan.

Final Fantasy Adventure 's gameplay is similar to classic Legend of Zelda titles where the main character explores the world, fights enemies in an action style and solves puzzles in various dungeons. Unlike Zelda , though, this game has a leveling system and mechanics that returned in later Mana games and Secret of Evermore , such as charging up weapons, spells and secondary characters who join the protagonist at certain points in the game.

The game's story is pretty standard for a classic JRPG, and it does have some Final Fantasy characters and themes in it, but it still serves as a great template for what would become the Mana series. Instead of battling evil to save the world, the main character is on a fishing quest to heal his sister with the help of a legendary Guardian Fish said the have the power to do so.