Super Game Boy
Accesory by Nintendo
Reviewed by Adrock
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Released: 1994
Height: About 5 Inches
Width: 5 and 1/4 inches
Depth: About 1 Inch
Weight: About the same as a SNES cartridge. (Less than half a pound.)
Colors on-screen: 32 in screen, 256 in Border.
Total Palette: Same as SNES (Unknown at time of writing.)

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Opening Snide Remarks: I bought this to play my Game Boy games on a big
screen. I could hardly wait for this product to come out... I read all about
it in Nintendo Power. The frames, palletes and borders sounded cool. So how'd
it workout? Impressions: Using it is easy, just pop in your game, and play.

There are two button layouts one for B=Y and A=B, for playing like a Super
NES game, and one for B=B and A=A, for playing like you would on a Game Boy.
32 palettes and 8 borders (The game doesn't run in full screen on TV because
of resolution) are included by default. Plus there are custom borders and
palettes that the user can set. If a Game Pak has a specific label on it, it
has it's own special border and full color palette. The first game of this
type was Donkey Kong "94".

Liked: Some games, not saying most, look very nice with Super Game Boy, with
inspired default palettes (Metroid) and SGB Enhanced (DK94) games. There are
games out there that let you play with 2 to 4 controllers (Wario Blast).
There are also games that have digitized sound (DK94's Princess says "Help!
Help!" on SGB,but only says "Squeak! Squeak!" on GB), and some can even have
thier own Super Nintendo Games built in! (Space Invaders.) Sad to say, most
GB games haven't taken advantage of all that SGB has to offer, but when they
do, it looks real nice!

Hated: No battery to save your borders (!). Most palletes are four shades of
blue, four shades of pink, etc. Some games will take some tampering to make a
perfect fit, so write down that password. Too bad they can't take advantage
of changing the background and sprites seperately instead of making you use
only 4 colors. As I found out thehard way, it won't work with that old game
enhancer known as Game Genie. It ignores anything the programmers code says
about Game Boy Color's palettes. And you can't use you Game Link, either.

Final Words: If you're worried about your battery supply and you're squinting
at that rather small screen, Super Game Boy will make your Game Boy games
look great. The need for a new SGB is a hand, though. Possibly for N64, or
even Nintendo's next console?I'd like to see this new SGB have Game Boy Color
compatability.

Codes: At the menu, Press:(L, L, L, L, R) to see the screensavers for each
frame. (R, R, R, L, L, L, R, R, R, R, R, R) to see the SUPER GAMEBOY CREDITS.

Score: 75%