Your birth year
2006
Game Boy Color
19981990s
Game Boy Color is 8 years older than you
It's from 1998, before you were born.
- Maker
- Nintendo
- Type
- Handheld
- Debuted
- 1998
- Note
- Finally in color — same lovable brick energy
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About
As of 2026, it's 28 years old.
After nearly a decade of green-on-greener Game Boy screens, Nintendo finally added color in 1998 — and kept the beloved, indestructible form factor. It played the entire back catalog, so nobody had to abandon their cartridges.
Pokémon Gold and Silver gave it a system-seller for the ages, and the thing sold by the bucketload. Evolution over revolution, executed perfectly.
The Game Boy you already loved, now in glorious technicolor.
Game Boy Color through the years
1998
1998
Launch
Color arrives while keeping full backward compatibility.
1999
1999
Gold & Silver
Pokémon's second generation sends sales into orbit.
You were born — 2006
