Outline of GBC and it’s available ROMs

GBC ROMs

GBC ROMs: The memory of 90’s kids is fulfilled with handheld gaming consoles. Among those gaming consoles, Nintendo’s Game Boy Color was the iconic one in their memory. Game Boy Color was the first handheld gaming console to be introduced with a color screen. Till date, GBC ROMs were the only handheld gaming console to sell over 118 million units all over the world. Comparing to other consoles, Game Boy console holds the larger storage space, and also about 650 games were available for this console. Battery standby time is around 10 hours. Because of ease in the adaptability of controls, these consoles were considered as the best and loved by all.

Introduction

Generally, the 90’s kids have more craze on the handheld games. From the early 90’s to later 90’s handheld games were more popular. There were many handheld gaming consoles available in the market like Sega Nomad, Sega game gear, Sony PlayStation portable, and more extra. Most of the gaming consoles were built with a Monochrome screen. GBC is the only handheld gaming console built-in with color screen in the ’90s. In this article, let us see about the Game Boy Color console.

Game Boy Color and its Hardware

GBC is abbreviated as Game Boy Color. It is a handheld gaming console made in Japan. In the later 1990’s Game, Boy Color console became more famous among children all over the world. Around 119 million units were shipped all around the world. Game Boy Console has the larger gaming library than all other gaming consoles on their generation. These Gamer Boy Consoles were capable of playing games that are purposely built for them. Nintendo manufactured the Game Boy Color. GBC was also known as GBC/CGB-001. The following are its hardware specifications

                         GBC was made up of LR35902 core @ 4.19/8.38 MHz by Sharp. It is made up of a 2.3-inch Liquid Crystal Display(LCD). GBC is built-in with two batteries. They connected internally(2*AA batteries) and externally(3V DC 0.6W). The memory of GBC is made up of 32KB RAM /256KB ROM and 256kB RAM /8Mb ROM. GBC console sizes around 78mm * 133.5mm * 27.4mm. It’s weights around 140grams. GBC consists of four waves of speakers with the stereo headphone jack. Battery standby time is 10 hours. GBC consists of four action buttons, including the start and select button.

 Available ROMs for Gamer Boy Console

Generally, ROMs are available real games that are needed to be loaded into the console to experience the game play. ROMs are the driven forces of the console like Petrol in a Vehicle. GBC ROMs are classified into Class A and Class B. The Class A game is suitable for Game boy console. The class A  game is also suitable for Game boy Systems. The specialization of this ROM is it supports limited color. The Class B games are suitable only for Game Boy Consoles. Class B games have excellent color support. There are almost 650 games available to play for the Game Boy Color console. The last game was published in the year of 2003. The following are some of the top available licensed GBC ROMs.

3D pocket pool

  This game was developed by Aardvark software and published by Virgin Interactive in March 2001 only in Europe. This is a Class B type of game and can be played only with Game Boy Console; hence it is denoted as backward compatible. The size of the game is around 740KB. Total downloads are nearly 11000. This is one of the most loved game by all.

Ten-pin bowling

This game was developed by Morning star Multimedia and published by Majesco in August 1999 in the regions of North America and Europe. This is a Class B type of game and can be played only with Game Boy Console; hence it is denoted as backward compatible. The size of the game is around 59.3KB. Total downloads are nearly 4000.This based on the genre of Simulation.

Air force Delta Deadly skies

This game was developed by Climax and published by Konami in November 2000 in the regions of North America, Japan, and Europe. This is a Class A type of game, and hence it is denoted as not backward compatible. The size of the game is around 344KB. Total downloads were nearly 30,000. After its huge success, further two versions of the game were released. This is based on the genre of Simulation.

Anpfiff: Der RTL Fussball Manager

This game was developed by G3 interactive and was published by THQ in October 2000 in the European regions. This is a Class B type of game and Backward compatible. The size of the game is around 160KB. This game was mostly played in Germany. Total downloads in Germany is around 2000. Total downloads around the world are nearly 3500.  This Based on the genre of Simulation.

Pokemon Gold Version

The Pokemon Gold Version was developed by Game freak. Nintendo published this game. The game started to roll out in November 1999 and released all around the world in April 2001. This is a Class A type of game, and it is not backward compatible. It is the second most downloaded version of any game in the GBC history. The size of the game is around 740KB. The total downloads of this game crossed 40,000 and are still being played in emulators. The other versions of this game are the Pokemon silver version and the Pokemon yellow version. This is a fighting game.

Dungeon savior

This game was developed and published by J-Wing in August 2000 and was released all over Japan. This game can be played in both Game Boy Console and Game Boy Systems. The size of this game was 947.7kB. The total downloads of this game in Japan are 900. This is a fighting game.

F1 Championship season 2000

This game was developed by Tiertex and published by EA Sports. It was released only in Europe. This game can be played only in the Game Boy Console. This is one of the larger sized games in GBC. The size of the game is around 1Mb. The total downloads are nearly 2000. This is based on the genre of Racing.

Dragon Ball Z series

This game was developed by Banpresto and published by Infogrames in the regions of North America and Europe in August 2002. It is Backward compatible. This game weights around 645KB. It is the most downloaded game. The worldwide downloads cross around 1,53,000.  This is based on the genre of Fighting.

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Pros of GBC

In general, every gaming console has its benefits, and that is similar in the case of Game Boy Color.

1. These consoles are less in weight, and hence they are easy to carry.
2. The gaming controls given easy to adapt.
3. The ROMs are very less in size(i.e., in KB).
4. They are easily portable from one place to another.
5. Playing the games in the controller does not require any internet.

Cons of GBC

1.     These consoles struggle to handle the games having high graphics.

2.     Online games can’t play in this console.

3.     High sized ROMs can’t install in the console.

Future of Handheld Consoles

In modern days the companies developing portable gaming technologies are becoming decidedly less and less competitive. The consistency of developing portable gaming console is maintained only by Nintendo, a Japanese based company that releases a new handheld gaming console by adapting recent technology. Nintendo’s innovation is the Nintendo 3DS XL. It is one of the competitors in the market, along with Sony, Google, and Apple.

In the future, the manufacturing of Handheld gaming consoles will become less due to the development of Gaming centric Smartphones. These gaming-centric smartphones offer a lot more services other than gaming. The fall of the market for the gaming console is due to the increasing usage of Smartphones. The only way to increase the demand of gaming console is that it needs to provide features equal to that of gaming phones like liquid cooling technology, Rapid charger, Cooler fan, air trigger and more extra. By looking at the current scenario, the future of the handheld gaming console is lying only in the hands of Nintendo.

Conclusion

GBC ROMs: I conclude that the emergence of the gaming console resulted in the rapid development of handheld electronic devices. People opted for those handheld consoles because of their low cost, high performance, and reliability. These handheld gaming consoles are made of the combinations of physics and virtual game worlds with imaginary game characters. Handheld gaming consoles are mostly opted by the middle-class people with a whopping 80 percent. These gaming consoles are easy to carry and enjoy the seamless gaming experience with your friends and family.