Saturday, July 31, 2010

Gameboy history part one

The large success of the very first Game Boy sent shockwaves all through the home online game business that secured the Game Boy handheld was a benchmark for all games machines to be measured by. Back then there had been no game system that had mixed top quality cartridge centred video games together with, for its era, high resolution Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) graphics screen (looking great in wonderful black & green). The Gameboy was additionally the very first handheld system to feature link gaming by means of a port that connects a number of Game Boys for multi-player battles. The beginning of multiplayer games and I guess the first thought that Online Gameboy games could be in the future.

Since the start of home online game systems people have longed for gaming that they can take away with them. Our earliest choices were the lame single recreation toys with mounted backgrounds and 4 flashing graphics representing movement, fun but not good. Even the future king of handhelds made an attempt to build these and called it Nintendo Recreation & Watch, however these were very good and no match for a real games system. That was until when in August 1989 the Nintendo company delivered the mighty Game Boy and change the portable game world forever.

Nintendo already established themselves as a high quality name in the video game world with the unique Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) so after they announced their first cartridge based handheld system it took the kids and adults by storm. For the first time video game fans had been actually free leave the lounge and be able to play games away from home. Though its graphics quality was still a bit limited when you compared it with the consoles of the day, it made it up with video games that were real fun to play. And best of all you could take them on the move.

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