Nintendo Game Boy

Chromatic background image of Game Boy carts, with a series of hardware machines overlaid.

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Bare Metal | The latest contender in the retro hardware wars is a high-quality delight: the Chromatic

There’s another premium retro console in town, and it’s got one of the sleekest and fanciest cases I’ve ever seen.

Nov. 18, 2024 Alex Donaldson

The title for the Green Day album Dookie above a Big Mouth Billie Bass, with a bunch of amps behind it.

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What A Load Of... | We can't believe we missed Green Day's Dookie being remastered for Nintendo Game Boy

That's one way to do a re-release.

Oct. 14, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Tom's face next to a number of games consoles

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PODCAST | What's the best game on the worst console?

Console wars with a twist.

Aug. 14, 2024 Tom Orry

Key artwork from multiple Pokemon games is shown. From left to right: Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon White, Pokemon Sun, and Pokemon Sword

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CATCH ‘EM ALL | The best Pokemon games, ranked

We’ve ranked the mainline Pokemon games, and their remakes, from best to worst.

May 22, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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LOVIN' IT | McDonald's releases video game for 25-year-old Game Boy

To mark the 52nd birthday of mascot, Grimace, McDoanld’s have released a new, free game for the Game Boy Color.

June 15, 2023 Kelsey Raynor

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MAMMA MIA | A short history of how Mario, gaming’s most famous Italian, almost wasn’t Italian

What if Mario had been designed as a generic European guy? What then?

April 6, 2023 Damiano Gerli

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MORE KIRBY! | Nintendo Switch Online adds Kirby's Dream Land 2, XEVIOUS, and more

Are you feeling devious enough to beat XEVIOUS?

March 16, 2023 Kelsey Raynor

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GREEN WITH NOSTALGIA | Game Boy games are mostly awful, but GBA on Switch Online Expansion Pack is huge

Game Boy Advance was a golden age of handheld gaming, if you could see the screen.

Feb. 9, 2023 Tom Orry

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RETRO MADNESS | Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games coming to Nintendo Switch Online

A selection is out today.

Feb. 9, 2023 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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POKEMON GALORE | There are now 1008 Pokemon in the wild

Have you caught them all?

Jan. 12, 2023 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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PRATT FALL | We replaced Chris Pratt with Charles Martinet in The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer

Mario's original voice actor has quite the range.

Oct. 10, 2022 Jim Trinca

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Console Walls | Have a million bucks to spare? You could buy around 2400 different consoles on eBay right now

The listing in question likely won't be snapped up any time soon.

Sept. 4, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke

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OPEN SESAME | With its latest update, the luxury Game Boy replica Analogue Pocket just got a lot more interesting

Analogue Pocket’s new update fixes an annoying issue with this luxury gaming hardware, and launches the opinion-splitting openFPGA scheme to the public.

July 29, 2022 Alex Donaldson

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be the best | Pokémon only received multiplayer battles as a last-minute addition

A core piece of gameplay only made it into the original games late into development.

June 12, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke

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advance and subtract | The Sonic Advance trilogy deserves a rerelease as much as the classics do

Complicated legal issues aside, Sonic Advance deserves a modern rerelease in some form

June 7, 2022 Vince Pavey

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Pokemon for Pokemon | Game Freak's co-founder and managing director has left the studio for senior role at The Pokemon Company

They're leaving one Pokemon company for another.

June 1, 2022 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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forcin' around | Best Star Wars games, ranked

May the force be with these 10 outstanding Star Wars games, picked from a crop of many tie-in projects that have launched over the past five decades.

May 4, 2022 Alex Donaldson

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Elden Boy | Elden Ring Game Boy demake puts the Lands Between right in your pocket

The hit game makes its way to a classic platform.

April 25, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke

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RETRO WORDLE | If you still have a Game Boy system lying around you can play Wordle on it

Another reason to never throw your old consoles and handhelds away.

Feb. 19, 2022 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

A portrait of Harrier du Bois, the main character and tragic hero of Disco Elysium. His smile seems like an expression of pain.

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You can play this amazing Disco Elysium Game Boy port on PC or mobile

Oct. 18, 2020 Dom Peppiatt

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Retro handheld Analogue Pocket delayed to 2021 - but pre-orders open next week

July 27, 2020 Alex Donaldson

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The Top 25 RPGs of All Time #14: Pokemon Gold and Silver

Pokemon Gold and Silver aren't just the best games in the series, they have an argument for being the best Game Boy games ever.

June 13, 2020 Kat Bailey

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PokeNecromancer: How An Artist Is Resurrecting "Lost" Pokemon With Amazing Illustrations

A little paint and imagination can lift a cold Pokemon from the cutting room floor and into fans' hearts.

April 8, 2020 Nadia Oxford

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Meet Jason Paige: Singer, Cryptocurrency Enthusiast, and the Voice of the Pokemon Theme Song

After 20 years, the voice behind the classic theme is learning to embrace his unique fame.

March 24, 2020 Luke Winkie

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Tetris 99's Biggest Fan Is The Father of Tetris Himself, Alexey Pajitnov

Tetris' creator is excited to see his game flourish as a competitive experience.

Jan. 10, 2020 Nadia Oxford

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The Analogue Pocket looks like a handheld retro gaming dream

Oct. 16, 2019 Alex Donaldson

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Reminiscing about Pokemon for the Game Boy's 30th Anniversary

Oct. 13, 2019 Alex Donaldson

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What's The Scariest Video Game Setting?

COMMUNITY QUESTION | To continue with Halloween tradition, let's talk about the creepiest environments in games.

Oct. 12, 2019 USgamer Team

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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - take a look at new changes in this gameplay video

Sept. 19, 2019 Seb Steward

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Downhill Jam: The Game Industry Reflects on 20 Years of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater turns 20 in September, so we spoke to people across the industry who remember the series fondly.

Aug. 29, 2019 Blake Hester

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What's the First Game You Ever Finished?

COMMUNITY QUESTION | What is the first video game Mt. Everest you have successfully climbed?

May 24, 2019 USgamer Team

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"The Nightmare Is Far From Over:" How the Artist Behind Garfield Gameboy'd Dreamed up His Four-Color Horror Show

LumpyTouch's mock-playthrough of an unreleased Garfield horror game is a terrifying, pus-filled labor of love.

May 23, 2019 Nadia Oxford

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The Top 25 Pokemon in Series History: The Best Monsters From Pokemon Red and Blue to Sun and Moon

On the 20th anniversary of Pokemon's release in North America, we rank the 25 best Pokemon to date.

April 30, 2019 USgamer Team

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Pokemon Red and Green Beta Images Show Us a Nightmare Alternative Gyarados

Beta Gyarados, I most certainly do not choose you. What do you mean I "don't have a choice?"

Dec. 19, 2018 Nadia Oxford

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Nintendo patents a Game Boy case for touchscreen devices

Oct. 5, 2018 Sherif Saed

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USG Celebrates Pokemon's 20th Anniversary

It's Pokemon Red and Blue's 20th anniversary and we've been celebrating all week at USG. Check out all of our articles here.

Sept. 28, 2018 USgamer Team

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When Tauros Was the King of Pokemon

A look back at the earliest days of competitive play in Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow.

Sept. 28, 2018 Kat Bailey

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A Bathtub Full of Acid: The Story of How Dylan Cuthbert Went From Making 3D Engines for Game Boy to Star Fox

The Super NES's most impressive tech trick would never have happened without a bit of unauthorized Game Boy hacking.

Sept. 18, 2018 Jeremy Parish

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10 Pokemon That Never Were - A Tribute to the Pokemon That Died Inside the Pokemon Gold Beta

These off-the-wall Pokemon beta children never got their chance to shine, but they deserve to be remembered.

June 1, 2018 Nadia Oxford

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Pokemon's global lifetime sales reach 300 million, not counting Pokemon GO

Nov. 25, 2017 Marshall Lemon

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Metroid Game By Game Reviews: Metroid II: Return of Samus

The constraints of portable design helped Nintendo develop smarter expressions of the Metroid concept.

Aug. 9, 2017 Jeremy Parish

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Hyperkin's Smart Boy lets you play Game Boy cartridges on your smartphone

June 29, 2017 Marshall Lemon

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Pokemon Gold and Silver to release on 3DS Virtual Console in September

June 6, 2017 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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All of the Kirby Games, Ranked From Worst to Best

In honor of Kirby's 25th anniversary, we ranked them all. Yes, even Kirby Air Ride.

May 1, 2017 USgamer Team

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It turns out that we were catching Pokémon all wrong

March 28, 2017 Shabana Arif

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Horizon: Zero Dawn looks rather cool on the original GameBoy

March 21, 2017 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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This Metroid 2 fan remake celebrates Metroid's 30th anniversary

Aug. 8, 2016 James O'Connor

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A Game Design Near-Miss: Double Dragon for Game Boy

Why the classic brawler's handheld version was almost (but not quite) its best home port.

June 29, 2016 Jeremy Parish

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Retronauts Catches Up with 20 Years of Pokemon

This week, USgamer's classic gaming podcast examines the portable RPG that became an outright phenomenon.

April 4, 2016 Bob Mackey

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Inside the Greatest Game Gadget That Never Was

Alex Bahr's homemade SD Card Drive perfected the iconic Game Boy Camera — but it never evolved beyond the prototype stage.

Dec. 21, 2015 Jeremy Parish