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Nintendo Game Boy Pocket

Nintendo · 1996

The original Game Boy made properly pocketable: smaller, lighter, running from two AAA cells and using a sharper grey LCD instead of the green DMG screen. It plays the same monochrome cartridges and changes very little electrically, but it is far nicer to carry. Early units missed the power LED; Nintendo quietly put it back.

As catalogued

Maker
Nintendo
CPU
Sharp LR35902-4.19
Memory
8K
Styles
MGB-001, early no power LED, coloured shells
Regions
NTSC-J (Japan), NTSC-U (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
smaller handheld with a mono LCD
OS
cartridge, with a boot ROM

Chips

1
CPU
Sharp CPU MGB

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