{"id":1289,"date":"2009-04-23T01:47:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T01:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2012-03-10T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T10:30:28","slug":"was-the-game-boy-color-a-flawed-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/2009\/04\/was-the-game-boy-color-a-flawed-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Game Boy Color a Flawed Product?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Monday, the Good Game<\/a> team did a short retrospective on the Game Boy console, after all this year is the system’s 20th anniversary. In fact, a few publications ran articles covering the console’s history including MTV Multiplayer<\/a> and the Retronauts blog<\/a>, I suggest you check them out.<\/p>\n

The reason why I mention all this is because I’ve been thinking about the Game Boy Color and something that was said in the recent Good Game segment (you can watch here<\/a>, episode 11). When running through the various Game Boy iterations, presenter Junglist mentions that the console was rather short-lived. Short-lived? Hmmm…really?<\/p>\n

And since then I’ve been thinking about the GBC and wondering if it really was that(italics) successful. The system lasted almost 3 years before being superseded by the Game Boy Advance . Not a very long time when you frame it in that light. I never owned a GBC myself, instead relying on my Gameboy Pocket and the B&W titles for both platforms, later then playing catch ups with the Gameboy Advance. I remember the software line up being fantastic, Wario Land 3, Zelda Oracles, Pokemon Gold\/Silver, Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid are all great examples. In a few short years the GBC had a line up of games<\/a> that were perhaps better than the first decade of Game Boy software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m going to throw this question out to the audience for a consensus. Was the Game Boy Color are real success? And how does it compare to the original Game Boy?<\/p>\n

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Last Monday, the Good Game team did a short retrospective on the Game Boy console, after all this year is the system’s 20th anniversary. In fact, a few publications ran articles covering the console’s history including MTV Multiplayer and the Retronauts blog, I suggest you check them out. The reason why I mention all this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[567],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-game-boy-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}