Nintendo Game Boy Color Games

The Nintendo Game Boy Color (GBC) is a handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on October 21, 1998, and later released in November of the same year to international markets. It is the successor of the Nintendo Game Boy and continued the Nintendo Game Boy family.

The Nintendo Game Boy Color features a color screen rather than monochrome, but it is not backlit. It is slightly thicker and taller and features a slightly smaller screen than the Nintendo Game Boy Pocket, its immediate predecessor in the Nintendo Game Boy console line. As with the original Nintendo 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. The spelling of the system's name, Nintendo Game Boy Color, remains consistent throughout the world, with its American English spelling of "color".

The Nintendo Game Boy Color was part of the fifth generation of home consoles. The Nintendo Game Boy Color's primary competitors in Japan were the grayscale 16-bit handhelds, Neo Geo Pocket and the WonderSwan, though the Nintendo Game Boy Color outsold these by a wide margin. SNK and Bandai countered with the Neo Geo Pocket Color and the Wonderswan Color, respectively, but this did little to change Nintendo's sales dominance. With Sega discontinuing the Game Gear in 1997, the Nintendo Game Boy Color's only competitor in the United States was its predecessor, the Nintendo Game Boy, until the short-lived Neo Geo Pocket Color was released in August 1999. The Nintendo Game Boy and the Nintendo Game Boy Color combined have sold 118.69 million units worldwide making it the 3rd best-selling system of all time, a metric that includes Nintendo Game Boy units.


It was discontinued on March 23, 2003, shortly after the release of the Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP. Its best-selling game was Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver, which shipped 23 million worldwide.