Gameboy Color
System by Nintendo
Reviewed by The Avardancer
Released: 1998
Height: 5.25 in
Width: 3 in
Depth: 1 in
Weight: 6.7 OZ.
Battery Life: About 10 hours
Colors on-screen: 56
Total Palette: 32,768 colors
CPU speed: 2.1Mhz
Work RAM: 32k bytes
Video RAM: 16k bytes
Serial Communications Rate: Up to 512k bit/sec
ROM Sizes: Up to 64 Megabits (8 Megabytes.)

Opening Snide Remarks: Hmm. Gameboy in COLOR. I must say. After 10 years...
it's about DAMN time! (Sorry for the use of profanity.) Well, I hope this is
a good thing...

Impressions: The system itsself looks like it always did; it's a little bit
longer than Gameboy Pocket and it seems to have developed a "butt". (Because
of the two AA batteries it uses.) The system has an Infrared Data port on the
top of it and it has a Game Link port, AC adaptor port, Volume control, a
notch for a wrist strap, an on-off switch on the side (!!), and a headphone
jack. The system has a Color LCD reflective screen and is not back-lit. It
features color pallettes for old games that can be selected by pushing the
control pad and/or the A and B buttons. New Gameboy Color games have thier
own colors. The system assaigns a color to the background and character
sprites in a game for the old games.


Liked: I like the feel of the Gameboy Color; I like the color; I like pushing
Down and B when the Gameboy start-up screen appears to make Mega Man always
be Blue. :) I like the speed that it transfers things. I can print out a
Gameboy Camera picture with the printer in half the normal time. :) The
system is also compatible with the Gameboy Camera, Game Shark, Game Genie,
and the Gameboy Pocket AC Adaptor. You can also use unauthorized games and
other neat-o stuff that you shouldn't. :) I like the fact that the screen is
sharper and that by pushing Left and B on any of the old games; you can play
in black and white. (Nostalgia.)


Hated: The screen is not back lit; it doesn't use SGB palettes and it has
problems with the old game "Pac-Man" by Namco. You see, the sound in that
game buzzes and than mutes itsself. Hmm. No other game does this; just the
original version of Pac-Man. Tsk. Tsk. The Wrist strap notch doesn't look
very stable. Some of the pre-determined palettes are just bad ; so you can
and should change them.

Final Words: You know A.J.? There are just five words I want to hear from
you. Those words are "I will buy one, sir." By the way, stay away from my
daughter. Why are you still reading this? Don't you get it? You NEED a
Gameboy Color. It owns you!

Score: 97%