Nintendo Game Boy - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Remix

[Music] did you know much like how some gameboy games have bonus content when played on a gameboy color several color games unlock special features when played on a gameboy advance four examples of this are Shantae Wendy every which way and both The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages and seasons when played on a GBA Shantae has new items and abilities Wendy every which way has three new levels and the Oracles games unlock a special advanced shop where players can buy exclusive items these last two games even comment on the obscurity of the bonus content with the store's owner Stockwell telling the player I'm amazed you found us the success of the Gameboy line meant it penetrated pop culture and reach new audiences in 1991 the system found its way to NBA star Lionel Simmons who developed tendinitis in his right arm due to excessive amounts of Gameboy play Simmons had to miss two basketball games while he was in recovery from hardcore gaming the Gameboy was popular with more than just athletes it was also popular with astronauts the Gameboy was even the first gaming console played in outer space the system loaded with a copy of Tetris was played by Russian cosmonaut Alexander Sara Bravo he sent the device back to earth with a note saying during flight in rare minutes of leisure I enjoyed playing Gameboy the console game and note were sold in a charity auction for 1220 dollars in May 2011 overall Sara bravas Gameboy spends 196 days in space orbiting the Earth over 3,000 times Nintendo's Game Boy released in 1989 and was designed by industry veteran gunpei Yokoi Yokoi began developing the system in 1986 but the consoles origins date all the way back to 1979 that year on a train ride home yokoi saw a businessman playing with a pocket calculator randomly pressing buttons to pass the time it was in that moment yokoi saw the utility of the handheld video game at the time nintendo almost exclusively made toys and had only experimented in the video game market with their color TV game system but Yokoi had designed several successful toys for nintendo and his ideas held a lot of weight at the company in 1980 Nintendo released ball the first title in yokoi's Game & Watch series and Nintendo's very first handheld video game it used a custom printed LCD screen designed to predefined characters and objects predefined art circumvented the need for dynamic displays using pixels this saved on the amount of processing power the game needed and allowed for the handheld to be made using inexpensive components other handheld electronic games from that era were mostly card games or sports games so the Game & Watch series was viewed as a creative new approach with broader appeal over the course of 11 years 59 different game and watch titles were produced selling over 43 million units worldwide the multi screen series of the Game & Watch games even inspired the creation of the Nintendo DS the 1982 port of Donkey Kong for Game & Watch was the first video game to feature the cross-shaped directional pad or d-pad control scheme the d-pad earned the technology and engineering Emmy award and was later patented by Nintendo and used in the NES and Game Boy the Game Boy was internally called the dmg or dot matrix game even though more advanced technology was available the game boyse Hardware was chosen to be cost-efficient and uses little power as possible just like the game and watch the LCD screen of the Game Boy was given a blank green background because in testing green contrasted better with the LCD overlay in different levels of light Yokoi is called his design philosophy lateral thinking of weathered technology withered technology refers to technology that is older cheaper and well understood and lateral thinking refers to using that old technology in new and innovative ways the price point and battery life of the Game Boy gave Nintendo an edge over more powerful handheld systems like the atari lynx and the sega game gear both of which came out around the same time as the gameboy Sega in particular seemed to resent the success of the Gameboy and opened one of their Game Gear commercials by showing a Game Boy in stating if you were colorblind and had an IQ of less than 12 then you wouldn't mind which portable you had during the Gulf War 1 American soldiers Gameboy withstood an explosion during a bombing raid the system suffered cosmetic damage but was still operational it was even displayed at the Nintendo store in New York City for several years the Gameboy also crossed cultural boundaries despite government bans after world war ii south korea placed an embargo on japanese products so in 1990 instead of nintendo selling the device korean company hyundai did renaming it mini-com boy hyundai sold several Japanese consoles under alternative names during this time including the Genesis NES Master System Game Gear and Super Nintendo the first backlit Gameboy wasn't the Gameboy Advance SP but the Gameboy light the Gameboy light was released in Japan in 1998 and was never sold in any other region Nintendo had been working on a new Gameboy before the light was even announced as early as 1995 it was codenamed project Atlantis and was based on a 32-bit processor magazines at the time suggested it was capable of running Super Nintendo standard games and rumored that it be released in 1997 by the time 1997 came around though the console was nowhere to be seen instead Nintendo released the Game Boy Color in 1998 as a stopgap so developers could spend more time working on project Atlantis which became the Game Boy Advance even though the Game Boy Color was only a modest upgrade over the previous Gameboy it did add more than just color the CPU was twice as fast and it had four times the memory of the Game Boy another interesting fact is that in the Game Boy Color logo each letter of the word color represents one of the five colors the system originally launched in throughout the life of the Game Boy Color Nintendo experimented with ideas that would become basic features and later hardware releases the color was the first gaming handheld to offer wireless communication the system had an infrared communications port at the top which used the same technology found in a TV remote though it was more primitive than modern wireless connectivity it was still capable of trading information in games like Pokemon and Harry Potter the Game Boy Color was also the first Nintendo handheld to have a motion controlled game Kirby's tilt and tumble was controlled almost entirely by a series of accelerometers that were built into the cartridge which was a first for video games the original Game Boy line including the Game Boy Color sold 100 18.6 9 million units worldwide and with this success came many innovative and unique peripherals for the Game Boy line of handhelds there is also a sewing machine that had compatibility with the Game Boy the singer ISEC sewing machine connected to the game via link cable and allowed users to design patterns with a special game cartridge another obscure accessory for the Game Boy was the iCard cartridge it was a radio transmitter that would use the Gameboy to display real-time information about times scores schedules and results for the American LeMans Series races in 1998 Nintendo released the Game Boy camera and Game Boy printer the Game Boy camera held the world record of being the smallest digital camera of its time singer/songwriter Neil Young released the album's silver and gold in the year 2000 the album's cover photo was taken with a Game Boy camera the Game Boy camera also had a few Easter eggs if the player presses B during the credits sequence a short video of Shigeru Miyamoto dancing will play the Game Boy printer also has an Easter Egg if the device is turned on while the user holds the feed button an image of Mario with the word hello will be printed on the paper Nintendo also sold a special Zelda edition of the Game Boy camera through the Nintendo Power magazine the cartridge was gold rather than black and many of the graphics and clipart from the original were replaced with Zelda graphics another special edition of the Game Boy camera was never released it was based around the characters and images from the Japanese magazine coro coro comics even though it was never released much of the unique content from this version still exists in the rom of the original Japanese Game Boy camera also on the Japanese version there's a print icon that shows a syringe this is because many older printers used syringes to refill their ink Jets however syringes are often associated with drug use in the West so the icon was replaced with a Game Boy printer icon and the International versions another Gameboy accessory was the super Gameboy super Gameboy was an adapter for the Super Nintendo to play Game Boy games on the TV what's interesting about the device is that the Super Nintendo didn't have the ability to emulate Game Boy games instead the super Game Boy itself contained most of the same hardware that was in an actual Game Boy - the screen and buttons another Game Boy peripheral of sorts was the game link cable the link cable impacted the world even beyond video games as it was the basis for Apple's fire wire connectors - more bizarre Game Boy peripherals are the pocket sonar and the petty sedate the Game Boy pocket sonar was made by Bandai for the original Game Boy and used sonar to locate underwater fish it was the first sonar based gaming accessory and retailed in Japan for fourteen thousand eight hundred yen about 115 US dollars at the time it even had a built-in fishing minigame the petty sedate on the other hand would connect to a Gameboy device and dole out nitrous oxide to the children playing its general purpose was to reduce stress when children needed to be sedated one unreleased Gameboy accessory was shown by DSi designer Masato Kuwahara at the 2009 Game Developers Conference it was a touch panel that went over the screen of the Game Boy Color it was abandoned because it apparently didn't work well without a backlight the touch panel was attempted again with the Game Boy Advance SP and operated more favorably because of its backlit screen Kuwahara stated the touch panel was not well received by nintendo management but that she would owe Miyamoto liked the general concept Masato Kuwahara said he likes to think his design helped influence the creation of the Nintendo DS did you also know that the Pokemon animes creators always wanted Pokemon to talk but the idea wasn't realized until the creation of Detective Pikachu or that the Pokemon anime was censored many times and saw several changes in the Western release for more facts watch the digital movies videos on detective Pikachu and the Pokemon anime [Music] you

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Interesting how the GameBoy Color was intended as a product to fill time between the original and the Advance. Always felt like its own thing to me, not just another model of the GameBoy.

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I know everyone is asking for SNES games to be added to Switch Online, but I hope they give us some original Game Boy games like Super Mario Land 2 and Final Fantasy Legend.

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