The GameBoy Remixs
By Mercury The One Locked In The Pokeball
sachav@umich.edu


This article is about the GameBoy and the steps that it has so far made
and what I needs to do from now. The GameBoy started out in America in 1989
and grew immensly in popularity.  Before that time a portable game machine
that had nice long, extremely playable games was unheard of except for a
computer laptop (Though at that time good laptops that could play games
would cost a fortune).

Then later after the release of the original GameBoy was released the guys
at Nintendo and other game companys started to roll of many many new games
for the increasingly popular system.  And even later after that in 1990 many
GameBoy hybrids were released.  The best known one was probably the sega
GameGear.  Even though there were so many others they could not compare to
the GameBoy except for the GameGear.  There are so many that were so
horrible I probably couldn't name a quarter of the total of systems!
GameGear really did give GameBoy a run for it's money with the not that
blurry color screen. But just because of shear number of games and popularity
the GameGear went under in 2 years.

By 1995 the GameBoy was starting to be considered old technology with more
color screened portables being pumped out.  And the arival of powerfull and
high resolution TV hooked systems coming out like the 32X and sega CD. So
the amount of systems sold started to slowly decrease as gamers went to buy
the TV hooked systems that were really making waves in the sea.  So the
great Nintendo minds decided to remake the original GameBoy with some
original complaints and suggestions from the original respondants to the
release of the original GameBoy. And with all the new Technology coming out
they were able to make this new proto-type GameBoy smaller, lighter, clearer
screen, better battery life, faster processor, and better LCD.  They decided
to call this the GameBoy 'Pocket' because of it's incredibly small size.

This new GameBoy's popularity was so great the charts broke a whole in the
atmosphere.  But yet again later, in 1997, even more powerfull systems like
the Playstation, Nintendo 64, Playstation 2 and Nintendo 64DD started to
appear.  Gamers decided to get more demanding and greedy for 3D graphics and
huge games pushing the fabulous new GameBoy 'Pocket' about 2 years after
release into the shadows.  But now it is 1998 and Pokemon has hit America.

The Pokemon fad sweeps the world and the popularity of the GameBoy soars up
once again! Though in the time being while the GameBoy popularity was going
down Nintendo decided to try their luck at a new market!  A new technology!
Color liquid crystal screens!  The new GameBoyColor as it was called was to
be incredible having double the speed , an even sharper display, yet a
little smaller display, and in color with the ability to play the old games
in color!  This was a wonderfull prospect and it was soon an increble craze
along with Pokemon and other wonderful games in Japan. Recently that same
little beauty was released here in America and GameBoy fans have been
sucking the beautifully sharp color displays with joy.

Yet it is only a little while after the release of the GameBoyColor in
America and there are some people who already think that Nintendo must start
to plan for the next GameBoy they are to produce.  This next GameBoy must be
a revolution to keep up with the market.  Recently we have gotten the
technology to build incredibly small yet incredibly advanced electronics.
With microproccessors pushing the limits with size being less then a cm with
almost 100mhz. In the past this would have been unheard of and you would
have been branded as an crazy dreamer.  With these types of incredible
technologies at the disposal of video game manufacturers the next GameBoy
could possibly be powerful enough to do dazzling graphics  and sound, and of
course the thing that has made GameBoy so incredibly successfull: The best
games ever created, like Wario, legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Pokemon.

That is only to mention a few great games.  I would like to organize as much
help as possible to research what could be done with the same size as the
GameBoy Pocket and even a bit larger for the next game boy and what it
would use as a proccessor and other equipment.  So please send me your
new ideas for the next GameBoy not thinking with limits and what you
would like it to be.  This way GameBoy fans may be able to  have their
very own ideas coming out on a future GameBoy system.  Please send in
things like screen size, layout of the items.  Layout out of items would be:
If the screen were to expand the whole game boy 3" X 5" to have it fold
up like a pocket organizer allowing for a much larger screen with a much
more compact case.

Should more buttons and/or should something be added to the directional
controls? These are all idea's for design that should be considered for the
next GameBoy.  But every one thinking together is sure to make the next
GameBoy an incredible winner.

Please if you have any suggestions or would like to help out please
E-mail me your idea at:sachav@umich.edu

THANK YOU NINTENDO GAMEBOY!