Talk:Game Boy

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Contents 1 Move to Game Boy 2 70 million source 3 How expensive at launch? 4 Nintendo Corporate Website 5 Input/Output

[edit] Move to Game Boy

This article about the original Game Boy should be at Game Boy, not Game Boy (original). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

No, it shouldn't, because people sometimes refer to other products of the line as Game Boys. Besides, that page exists. You can't move a page to a page that exists. You have to use copy and paste GangstaEB EA 12:37, 18 June 2006 (UTC) (Not bad thinking, it could happen if not for lazy speakers)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the same is true of the PlayStation line of consoles, and the article about the first PlayStation is simply named PlayStation, not "PlayStation (original)" or "PlayStation 1". If you're worried about confusion, just place a disambig link pointing to Game Boy line at the top of the article. --Lumina83 02:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Support move. Also note that copy-and-paste is unnecessary; if consensus is achieved for this move, an administrator can delete the redirect "Game Boy". — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support move also, as per PlayStation precedent outlined above. --Lumina83 09:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support move as well. Game Boy merely redirects to Game Boy line right now as it is. --SevereTireDamage 06:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support my own statement. You are not supposed to copy & paste to move articles. Ever. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Move done, I will make a copy of this discussion at Gam Boy. -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 02:40, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 70 million source

Where is a source that the original Game Boy (and GBP) has only sold 70 million? McDonaldsGuy 02:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How expensive at launch?

Can somebody add the price of the Game Boy at launch? SamuraiFez 20:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

It was $109 USD according to http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/a-brief-history-of-handheld-video-games/ and few other places I checked out-- I added it in. I Jethrobot 05:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know where engadget adn the few other places you checked got their figures, but it wasn't $109.

http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/vid1989.htm

"June 4

* At the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Nintendo introduces the Game Boy portable hand-held video game system, with monochrome display. Price is US$89.95, including the Tetris game cartridge."

The $89.95 price point matches my memories of what the system retailed for, and I did happen to get one at that price when it was introduced.

[edit] Nintendo Corporate Website

Nintendo Corporate (http://www.nintendo.com/corp/history.jsp) has a timeline of events, some of them regarding data from their sales of Game Boy. I put in a reference for Game Boy being "the first portable, hand-held game system with interchangeable game paks," but there's a whole slew of other information on there. Check it out, and see if we can use it. I'd do it myself, but I'm a bit tuckered out tonight. I Jethrobot 06:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

It's not the first portable, hand-held game system with interchangeable game cartridges- that was the Milton Bradley Microvision, no matter what Nintendo's marketing says. Ex-Nintendo Employee 06:24, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I could argue this it was the first successful hand-held game system with interchangeable game cartriges? Microvision went out in 1981, how's that sound? I Jethrobot 06:38, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

That's already stated in the article. Ex-Nintendo Employee 06:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's stated as a "handheld game console." I know I'm probably getting too specific, but does that, in itself, imply that it has interchangable cartridges? I Jethrobot 06:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right- it does seem kind of vague. Good find. Ex-Nintendo Employee 06:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think it's okay as is-- now that I look at it, handheld game console is already defined seperately from handheld electronic game, which were games that played one game only. What did you mean by "vague?" I Jethrobot 07:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Input/Output

It seems likely that the power connector is an input, not an output, is not used to charge the batteries but just to run the system, and that the external device is just an adapter, not a battery pack. But I can't find any references so I'll leave it alone for now.

Thanks for noticing that! I have no idea who the heck wrote that little paragraph, but it's completely wrong. The power connector is an input, allowing the "Potato" (the GB's external battery pack) to power the system. It's not an output. Ex-Nintendo Employee 20:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)