GBC

Game Boy(GB)也叫Game Boy Color，是Nintendo于1989年4月21日正式发售的掌机。设计者是横井军平。GB的设计理念可以追溯到70年代晚期Nintendo制作的"Game&Watch"。

GB使用一颗定制Z-80为主CPU，速度为4。19 Mhz。一块能同显4级灰度的2。45吋LCD(液晶显示屏)，其分辨率为160x144。拥有4个立体声声道。由于Nintendo要求这部掌机要尽可能的轻巧，低耗和便宜，因此它的硬件机能可以说是劣于和它同时代的其他掌机(Sega Game Gear，Atari Lynx)然而借助无数优秀的软件，它仍旧远远比其他掌机成功许多。

然而GB最致命的缺点就是显示表现力的缺乏。Nintendo于1994年3月以6800日元推出的Super Game Boy(SGB)这可能是目前为止最怪异的主机周边。因为它并不是对应GB的，而是SFC的扩展。SGB允许GB卡带在SFC上以有色的形式(注意，并不是真的)运行。并且有一个类似PC桌面的theme系统，使每个对应SGB的游戏都有不同的背景。然而这并不能满足大多数人。在GB漫长的进化过程中还出现过改用7号电池(AAA)被称为Game Boy Pocket的袖珍版。不过人们期待的GB最终态终于登场了。

1998年10月和11月Game Boy Color(GBC)分别在日本及美国以。95发售。显著的不同就是GBC拥有了一个最大发色数为32000，可以同显56色的TFT彩色液晶显示屏，他的分辨率是160x144 pixels.。除此之外机载记忆体加到了256Kb，而那颗定制Z-80 CPU的速度也提升到了8 Mhz。GBC是完全向后兼容的。

GBC的发售远比Nintendo想象的成功许多。到1998年，GB/GBC一共发售了5000万台以上，达到了掌机前所未有的高峰。

现在来看GBC上面所登场的游戏，其画面、音效质量和制作水准已经全面赶超了当年的FC时代。如果说GB继承了FC未尽的"遗志"，想来Nintendo也是不会有异议的。

英语解释如下

Game Boy Color

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Specifications

The processor, which is a Z80 workalike made by Sharp with a few extra (bit manipulation) instructions, has a clock speed of approx. 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy. The Game Boy Color also has four times as much memory as the original (32 kilobytes system RAM, 16 kilobytes video RAM). Additionally, the Game Boy Color could address more ROM, allowing games as much as eight times the maximum size of those for the original Game Boy. The screen resolution was the same as the original Game Boy, which is 160x144 pixels.

The Game Boy Color also featured an infrared communications port for wireless linking. However, the feature was only supported in a few games, and the infrared port was dropped for the Game Boy Advance and later releases. The console was capable of showing up to 56 different colors simultaneously on screen from its palette of 32,768, and could add basic four-color shading to games that had been developed for the original Game Boy. It could also give the sprites and backgrounds separate colors, for a total of more than four colors. This, however, resulted in graphic artifacts in certain games. For example, sometimes a sprite that was supposed to meld into the background would be colored separately, making it easily noticeable.

Manufacturer Nintendo

Product family Game Boy line

Type Handheld game console

Generation Fifth generation era

Retail availability JP October 21, 1998

NA November 18, 1998

EU November 23, 1998

AUS 1999

Units sold Worldwide: 118.69 million,[1] including Game Boy units

Media Cartridge

CPU Custom, Zilog Z80-alike