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Nintendo GameBoy Color

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Nintendo\'s original GameBoy console was very successful due to its long battery life, light weight and cheap price. The only problem was that it only had a black and white screen. Its main competitors, the Sega Game Gear and the Atari Lynx both had colour screens, but having these meant that the batteries wouldn\'t last long, it would be heavier and the price would be very high. It is for this reason that it took Nintendo years of research into this technology before they came up with a colour portable of their own that would still have the long battery life, light weight and cheap price that made their original system sell so well. The goal of Nintendo\'s Project Atlantis was to build a 32-bit colour handheld that was backwards compatible. Work began on this project in the mid-1990s and by 1998, Nintendo ha

Specifications

Ram
32 Kb
Sound
4 Channels FM stereo, single mono speakers, Stereo headphones jack

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