The original Nintendo Game Boy may not have had the power of Atari’s Lynx or the SEGA Game Gear, but its ingenious engineering ensured that the handheld could run for longer on battery power. Featuring a monochromatic dot-matrix screen with adjustable contrast dial, eight game control buttons, and a single speaker with adjustable volume dial.
Hardware wise, it boasts a Sharp LR35902 processor running @ 4.19 MHz, 8KB of built-in Work RAM (WRAM), and up to 16 switchable RAM pages in the game cartridge, for a maximum of 128 KB of external RAM. There is also an external 3.5 mm × 1.35 mm DC power supply jack that allows users to use an external rechargeable battery pack or AC adapter instead of four AA batteries on the left side of the system.
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It’s amazing how the game developers back then was able to literally create a video game out of just 64KB worth of RAM, it pretty much just shows that even back then we are already so memory / RAM limited back then, brute forcing and shoving up so much memory isn’t always the answer, but incredible coding and optimization skills is,” said one fan.
