Classification Essay (Alvine Labana R.)

Nintendo Gameboy

            Gameboy is a handheld video game console created by Nintendo, it was first released in 1989. It’s really popular among the kids back then, because of fun & addictive games. We can play this handheld console anywhere and anytime. Gameboy was giving a colour to the childhood of many people, it really sold well around the world. Lifetime of Gameboy family is really long, it live about 17 years before discontinued in 2006. During its lifetime, Nintendo has released three types of Gameboy : Gameboy, Gameboy colour, and Gameboy advance.

            Gameboy or Gameboy Classic is the first Gameboy that released by Nintendo in 1989. It has a black and green reflective LCD screen with a directional pad, two action buttons, and start and select button. Cartridges are needed to play games on this console. We need four AA batteries to operate this system, the power lasts for 35 hours. Gameboy Classic came with only white colour in 1989, and some variants like red, green, blue, yellow, black, transparent released later in 1995. Even though Gameboy Classic doesn’t have a coloured screen, it sold really well worldwide and beat their competitor at the time like Sega Game Gear or Atari Lynx. Everyone loves the power life of this system that lasted really long.

            Gameboy Color is an upgraded version of the Gameboy Classic, released in 1998. Actually, it’s just a slight upgrade version of the Gameboy Classic. While Gameboy Classic has a colourless screen, Gameboy Color came with colourful screen. Nintendo added a coloured screen to this system and upgrade its processor speed. This system will last for about 30 hours with two AA batteries. It less longer than the Gameboy Classic, but with the coloured screen we can play a better display game. Gameboy Color has a backward compatibility, so we can play Gameboy Classic games on our Gameboy Color as well. We can even play some Gameboy Color games on Gameboy Classic too. There are seven colour variants of Gameboy colour, clear purple, purple, red, blue, green, yellow and silver.

            Gameboy Advance is a significant upgrade version of the Gameboy, released in 2001. There are some major change added to the system. Gameboy advance has a bigger screen and higher resolution, better processor, and like the Gameboy Color, it has a backward compatibility. It also has an addition buttons called shoulder buttons. In exchange for this upgrade, this system will only last for about 15 hours with two AA batteries. Gameboy Advance has six variants of colour, purple, white, clear blue, orange, black and fuchsia. Gameboy Advance has upgraded version called Gameboy Advance SP and Gameboy Advance Micro. They came with rechargeable batteries and better screen resolution with different design.

           These types of Gameboy made the Gameboy family as an amazing and one of the most popular gaming system that ever existed. Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance is a great successor of the classic Gameboy. Nintendo made a great decision to the Gameboy, they always tried their best to make the system keep alive by giving it the upgraded version. Gameboy evolution is really interesting because it has a long lifetime and an interesting upgrade.

Alvine Labana R.

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Nintendo Gameboy

            Gameboy is a handheld video game console created by Nintendo, it was first released in 1989. It’s really popular among the kids back then, because of fun & addictive games. We can play this handheld console anywhere and anytime. Gameboy has colorized the childhood of many people, it really sold well around the world. Lifetime of Gameboy family is really long, it live about 17 years before discontinued in 2006. During its lifetime, Nintendo has released three types of Gameboy : Gameboy, Gameboy color, and Gameboy advance.

            Gameboy or Gameboy Classic is the first Gameboy that released by Nintendo. It has a black and green reflective LCD screen with directional pad, two action buttons, and start and select button. Cartridges are needed to play games on this console. Gameboy Classic came with only white color in 1989, and some variants like red, green, blue, yellow, black, transparent released later in 1995.

Gameboy Color is an upgraded version of the Gameboy, released in 1998. Actually it just a slightly change from the Gameboy Classic. Nintendo added a color screen to this system and upgrade its processor speed. It has a backward compatibility, so we can also play Gameboy games on our Gameboy Color. There are seven color variants of Gameboy color, clear purple, purple, red, blue, green, yellow and silver.

            Gameboy Advance is a significant upgrade of the Gameboy, released in 2001. There are some major change added to the system. Gameboy advance has a bigger screen and higher resolution, better processor, and like the Gameboy Color, it has a backward compatibility. It also has an addition buttons called shoulder buttons. It has six variants of color, purple, white, clear blue, orange, black and fuchsia.
           These types of Gameboy made the Gameboy family as an amazing and one of the most popular gaming system that ever existed. Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance is a great successor of the classic Gameboy. Nintendo made a great decision to the Gameboy, they always tried their best to make the system keep alive by giving it the upgraded version. Gameboy evolution is really interesting because it has a long lifetime.

Alvine Labana R.

1830911039