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Larry Bird
1. He was one of the best 3-point shooters ever.
2. His biggest problem was Magic Johnson who was the second-best NBA star back then.
3. He was a three-time NBA champion in the 80’s.

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Once every generation or so, a player comes along who can truly be called a superstar. Larry Bird was such a player.

For 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, from 1979-80 through 1991-92, Bird personified hustle, consistency and excellence in all areas of play - as a scorer, a passer, a rebounder, a defender, a team player, and, perhaps above all, as a clutch performer. Bird was so self-confident that he was known to waltz up to the opponents' bench before tipoff and predict a 40-point performance for himself.

He was such a deadly shooter that he sometimes practiced 3-pointers with his eyes closed. Among Bird's contemporaries, perhaps only Earvin "Magic" Johnson was considered a better passer and was a player who he would inextricably be linked with forever. Few played tougher than Bird, who would leap into crowds and over press tables for loose balls.

Bird was the embodiment of "Celtics Pride." He was a classy, confident, hardworking player who thrived on pressure and inspired teammates to excel. Like Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, John Havlicek and Dave Cowens, the low-key Bird never forced the spotlight upon himself, but rather was a player who brought out the best in the players around him. But even those legendary players didn't fill Boston Garden, wowing fans and dominating games as Bird did.

Bird helped rebuild a Celtics franchise that had been suffering from sub-standard play and poor attendance in the late 1970s. With Bird as the focal point of a well-rounded squad, the Celtics won three NBA titles and 10 Atlantic Division crowns. In addition to his three championship rings, Bird piled up an awesome collection of personal achievements. He became only the third player (and the first non-center) to win three consecutive NBA Most Valuable Player Awards. He was a 12-time All-Star, a two-time NBA Finals MVP and a nine-time member of the All-NBA First Team. He led the league in free-throw percentage four times.

An obsessive perfectionist, Bird was idolized by Celtic fans and basketball purists of all allegiances. His last-second heroics, ranging from seemingly impossible reverse layups to miraculous 35-foot bombs over multiple defenders, never ceased to amaze those who followed his career.

"Larry Bird has helped define the way a generation of basketball fans has come to view and appreciate the NBA," said Commissioner David J. Stern when Bird retired due to a painful back condition in 1992, after capturing a gold medal with the original Dream Team at the Olympics in Barcelona.

Bird's legend was born in the tiny town of French Lick, snuggled in Indiana's corn country, where his family led a spartan life. French Lick had a population of 2,059, most of whom came out to watch Springs Valley High School's home games in a state that takes its schoolboy basketball very seriously. Attendance often reached 1,600 - and they were all there to watch the blond-haired shooting whiz with a funny smile named Larry Joe Bird.

Following a sophomore season that was shortened by a broken ankle, Bird emerged as a star during his junior year. Springs Valley went 19-2 and young Larry became a local celebrity. Fans always seemed to be willing to give a ride to Bird's parents, who couldn't afford a car of their own. As a senior, Bird became the school's all-time scoring champion and about 4,000 people attended his final home game.

Bird found the transition to college life difficult. He started out as an Indiana Hoosier but later left the school and team coached by the legendary Bobby Knight. Then he left the local junior college, Northwood Institute. Finally, Bird enrolled at Indiana State, which had posted 12-14 records in each of the two previous years and where the pressure was not quite the same as at Indiana - a perennial Big Ten power and national title contender.

Home-game attendance hovered around 3,100 when Bird arrived at Indiana State, but as he had done in Springs Valley, Bird single-handedly packed the house and elevated his team to respectability and more. He averaged better than 30 points and 10 rebounds for the Sycamores during his first campaign. Season-ticket sales tripled. TV stations showed film clips of Bird instead of commercials. Students skipped class to line up for tickets eight hours before tipoff.

"Larry Bird Ball" was the most popular sport in Terre Haute.

The Sycamores went undefeated and reached No. 1 in Bird's senior year - that is, until a Michigan State team featuring a 6-foot-9 guard named Earvin "Magic" Johnson knocked them off in the 1979 NCAA Championship Game, one of the most widely watched showdowns in basketball history. Bird was named the 1978-79 College Player of the Year and left Indiana State as the fifth-highest scorer in NCAA history. The Sycamores went 81-13 during Bird's three-year career.

The Boston Celtics had selected him in the 1978 NBA Draft, hoping that Bird, who had become eligible for the NBA after his junior year, might forgo his senior season-but knowing he was worth the wait even if he didn't. In 1977-78 the Celtics had compiled a 32-50 record, their worst since 1949-50. When Bird elected to return to Indiana State for one more year, the Celtics dipped to 29-53. But Bird finally came to Boston for the 1979-80 campaign and sparked one of the greatest single-season turnarounds in NBA history.

The 1979-80 Celtics improved by 32 games to 61-21 and returned to the top of their division. Playing in all 82 contests, Bird led the team in scoring (21.3 ppg), rebounding (10.4 rpg), steals (143), and minutes played (2,955) and was second in assists (4.5 apg) and 3-pointers (58). Although Johnson also turned in an impressive first season for the NBA-champion Los Angeles Lakers, Bird was named Rookie of the Year and made the first of his 12 trips to the All-Star Game.

An offseason trade with Golden State - which that many consider the most lopsided in NBA history - brought center Robert Parish and a future first-round pick (which became Kevin McHale) to Boston. They teamed with Bird and veteran Cedric Maxwell in a frontcourt that carried the Celtics to the championship in 1981.

Boston survived a memorable Eastern Conference finals against Philadelphia in which the Celtics bounced back from a 3-1 deficit and posted come-from-behind victories in each of the last three games, then took the title over Moses Malone and the Houston Rockets in a six-game NBA Finals. Bird once again led the team in points (21.2 ppg), rebounds (10.9 rpg), steals (161), and minutes (3,239).

Fans were filling not only Boston Garden, which sold out the final 541 games of Bird's career, but arenas all over the country to witness Bird's exploits. Along with Magic, Bird was revitalizing the NBA, helping the league live up to its new slogan, "NBA Action: It's FAN-tastic." After only two seasons, fans, coaches and players knew exactly what Bird was all about: big numbers and clutch performances. Bird's concentration and composure were unmatched. He was unflappable and virtually unstoppable. The hours he had spent working on his shot as a youngster paid big dividends in the NBA. No other player in his era was as good or as consistent a shooter as Bird.

In 1981-82, Bird made the first of his three consecutive appearances on the NBA All-Defensive Second Team - even though he was relatively slow and not the greatest one-on-one defender, his anticipation and court sense made him peerless as a team defender. As many observed, he would see plays not as they were developing, but before they developed.

Bird finished runner-up to Moses Malone for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, as he would the following year. Bird's 19 points in the 1982 NBA All-Star Game, including 12 of the East's last 15, earned him the game's MVP trophy. It wasn't until 1983-84, however, that the Celtics returned to the NBA Finals. By that time Bird's scoring average had reached the mid-20s, and he was averaging upwards of seven assists. He also hit nearly 90 percent of his free-throw attempts.

A crafty defensive player, Bird's most famous steal came in Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals against Detroit. With five seconds remaining and the Celtics trailing 107-106, Bird stole an Isiah Thomas inbounds pass and fed Dennis Johnson, whose layup gave Boston the win. The Celtics won the physical, bitter series in seven games and advanced to the NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive year, meeting the Lakers for the third time. But Los Angeles won the series in six games.

Bird, now 30 years old and with worsening back condition and foot problems as well, would not win a fourth championship ring. But there were plenty more heroics yet to come.

In 1987-88, Bird was the first Celtic ever to record a 40-20 game, with a 42-point, 20-rebound effort against Indiana. He averaged a career-high 29.9 points that year, falling just five points short of averaging 30 per contest. Bird also won his third consecutive 3-point shootout title, a feat later matched by Chicago Bulls' Craig Hodges from 1990-92.

In Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference semifinals against Atlanta, Bird engaged in a memorable fourth-quarter shootout with the Hawks' Dominique Wilkins. Bird poured in 20 points in the final period to outdo his counterpart and lead the Celtics to victory - even though he had bronchial pneumonia. The Celtics, however, fell to the Pistons in the conference finals.

Surgery to remove bone spurs from both heels limited Bird to only six games in 1988-89. The following year Bird posted the third-longest free-throw streak in NBA history, hitting 71 consecutive attempts. Bird missed 22 games in 1990-91 because of a compressed nerve root in his back, a condition that eventually forced his retirement. In a first-round series that year, Bird badly bruised his face in a second-quarter fall in Game 5 against Indiana. His back was also hurting, but Bird came back in the third period to help lift the Celtics to an emotional 124-121 victory. A disk was removed from his back after the season, but it didn't help all that much.

The following year was Bird's last. He missed 37 games because of the continuing back problems. In a nationally televised game against Portland in March, Bird pulled off one final miracle performance - he scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, including the Celtics' last nine points and a game-tying 3-pointer with two seconds left. Boston won, 152-148, in double overtime. Bird finished with 49 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists and four steals.

"Anytime you have Bird on the floor, anything can happen," Portland's Clyde Drexler told the Boston Herald after the game.

In one of the only noteworthy gaffes of his career, Bird missed a routine layup in overtime that would have tied Game 4 of a playoff series with Cleveland that spring. The Cavaliers won in seven games; Boston lost three of the four games couldn't play because of his back.

The end of Bird's career was at hand, but not before one last achievement: a gold medal with the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team, which dominated the competition at Barcelona and won millions of fans for the sport with its brilliance.

As the 1992-93 NBA season approached, Bird decided he could not continue. On Aug. 18, 1992 he announced his retirement as a player. After 897 games Bird retired with 21,791 points (24.3 ppg), 8,974 rebounds (10.0 rpg) and 5,695 assists (6.3 apg). During his career he shot .496 from the floor and .886 from the free-throw line, retiring as the fifth all-time free-throw shooter behind Mark Price, Rick Barry, Calvin Murphy and Scott Skiles.

Bird was named a special assistant in the Celtics' front office, with limited duties that included some scouting and player evaluation. In reality, he spent most of the next five years in Florida, playing golf and taking it easy. He did some commercials and appeared in a few films, including Michael Jordan's Space Jam.

But mostly he was bored. He missed the competition, and with each passing year the urge grew to get back into the NBA in a more active capacity. Finally, with the Celtics in a decline that hit bottom in 1996-97, Bird decided to take the plunge. When the Celtics named Rick Pitino as the franchise's new president and coach, Bird knew any role for him in Boston would be a limited one. So he cut the ties and went home.

On May 12, 1997, Bird was named head coach of the Indiana Pacers. Even though he had never coached a game in his life, the Pacers had no qualms about turning over the reins to Bird.

"This guy is the epitome of everything I've tried to do here," then-Pacers president Donnie Walsh said of Bird. "When I started here, I wanted to see the high school, college and professional basketball worlds come together, and Bird symbolizes that. I also really believe he can be a heck of a coach.

"He pulls people together. When he talks, you come into his world. That's what a coach has to do."

Despite joking that he hoped he could get the Xs and Os right in the huddle, and that he didn't draw up any plays with himself in them, Bird approached his new role with typical aww-shucks aplomb.

"I'm new at this (coaching) game but I feel I can get the job done," he said. "I have all the confidence in the world that I'll be able to handle these guys and do the things that are necessary to win games."

Bird did a fine job in his three seasons on the bench. In his first season, the Pacers - with Reggie Miller as their main weapon - were defeated by the defending-champion Chicago Bulls and Jordan in a tough seven-game conference finals series.

And in the 2000 NBA Finals, the Pacers succumbed in a six-game series to the Lakers, led by Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, for the Lakers' first of three consecutive titles.

Bird, the Coach of the Year in 1997-98, resigned as Pacers' coach after Indiana's Finals appearance. The avid outdoorsman - who also has a passion for country music, auto racing, golf and the St. Louis Cardinals - has many interests. He also owns "Larry Bird's Boston Connection," a hotel/restaurant in Terre Haute that also serves as a museum for many of his trophies and awards.

In 2003, he joined the Pacers' front office as the team's president of basketball operations and worked side-by-side with Walsh to rebuild Indiana into a contender. When Walsh moved on to a similar role with the Knicks before the 2008-09 season, Bird gained complete control of the team's basketball operations and helped the Pacers end a four-year playoff drought in 2010-11. He won the NBA Executive of the Year award in 2012 to become the only person in NBA history to win Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year.

After the 2011-12 season, Bird stepped down as the Pacers' president of basketball operations, citing health issues. He said he was prepared to leave the team after the 2010-11 season with the Pacers headed in the right direction. He and owner Herb Simon had discussed his eventual departure for a few years.

Bird returned to his role with the Pacers in 2013 before stepping down in 2017 to assume an advisory role for the franchise.

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The Celtics' legendary playmaker is the only person in NBA history to win MVP, Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year in a career.

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Ninja Turtles
1. I watched this a lot on TV even though how old it is.
2. This is my favorite TV show ever.
3. They now have an animated movie about this with ice cube in it.

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Cowabunga! The original 1987 animated series " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " is coming to Nickelodeon.

Ahead of the theatrical release of " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem," Nickelodeon has acquired global rights to the storied Fred Wolf series, which follows the adventures of the heroes in a half-shell - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo.

Under the deal, all 193 episodes of the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" - which ran from 1987 to 1996 - are set to debut digitally on Nickelodeon-owned and operated channels (such as YouTube, Pluto TV and O&O linear channels) later this month in the U.S., followed by Nickelodeon-branded channels and digital platforms internationally.

The acquisition was announced Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con during Paramount Pictures' Hall H presentation for "Mutant Mayhem." The popular kids franchise's latest installment hits theaters on Aug. 2. "Mutant Mayhem" director Jeff Rowe (outfitted in a "TMNT" T-shirt) and franchise co-creator Kevin Eastman were on hand to preview the new movie, repping for the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" crew at the slimmed-down Comic-Con in the wake of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which prevented writers and actors from attending the convention.

"There are so many people here," Rowe said, marveling at the size of the audience as he took the stood. (Hall H, which holds about 6500 people, filled - albeit slowly - with fans in red, purple, blue and orange eye masks ahead of the "TMNT" panel's 11:30 a.m. start.)

"It's what taught me to be a fan," Rowe said, underlining his lifelong love of the franchise. "I remember knowing how to think. And then I remember loving the ninja turtles. They're just married together."

Eastman - who made a surprise appearance on the panel - announced the news to the Hall H crowd.

"We just found out today - this is breaking news - Nickelodeon and Paramount have secured the rights to broadcast the original cartoon series," Eastman said as the crowd roared with applause. "[It was] the beginning. The first time those characters came to life with voices and movement, and Chuck Lorre wrote an amazing theme song for us back in the day before he was Chuck Lorre. It's so fantastic. We're so excited to announce this, so congratulations to all of us. We get to see it again!"

The comic book legend, who celebrated his 38th convention appearance, also shared his praise for Rowe's take on the turtles in the new movie.

"I'm so proud of what you guys have done. This movie is brilliant," he said, recounting the first time he saw footage of the movie. "Fifteen minutes in, I go, 'When are you starting the sequel?' Now I look at it and the way it's come to life, it reminds me of the underground comics style that Peter [Laird, 'TMNT's' co-creator] and I started. There's just so much life and energy and weight."

Produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Point Grey Productions' Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, "Mutant Mayhem" marks Nickelodeon's first-ever CG-animated theatrical production. The film follows the Turtle brothers - Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu), Donatello (Micah Abbey), Raphael (Brady Noon) and Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr.) - who, after years of being sheltered from the human world, set out to "win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts." With the help of their new friend April O'Neil (Ayo Edebiri), the Turtles take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

"Mutant Mayhem" also features a star-studded supporting cast, including Rogen, Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Paul Rudd and Maya Rudolph.

Comic-Con attendees were treated to 20 minutes of footage from the movie, which showed the Ninja Turtles' origin story, from the moment their rat dad Splinter (voiced by Chan) discovered them as ooze-covered baby turtles to their training to become the ninja warriors we know and love. The footage was preceded by a recorded message from Rogen and Ice Cube.

"It is hard to believe this is all happening. I've been a huge fan my whole life and now just to be weeks away from it hitting theaters. It's incredible," Rogen said, as Ice Cube chimed in: "I can assure you that this fan is making sure that all you fans get the biggest, funniest, crazy turtle movie ever."

The clip featured the foursome on a stealthy and hilarious grocery run before defying their dad's warnings about the human world and making a pit stop at an outdoor screening of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," which left them feeling a little blue about growing up in isolation. The clip also introduced the movie's stakes - previewing how the teens meet April and the first time they have to use their ninja training in a fight, as well as introducing the villainous Super Fly.

Created in 1984 by Laird and Eastman, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" debuted as a comic book series and then became a global mega-hit with the animated 1987 Fred Wolf series. A live-action TV series, "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation," followed, as well as numerous film adaptations including 1990's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," its two sequels and the 2007 CGI movie "TMNT." Nickelodeon brought new life to the franchise in 2012 with the CG-animated series, followed by the 2D-animated show "Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in 2019, while Paramount rebooted the project on the big screen in 2014 with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and its 2016 sequel "Out of the Shadows."

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" is produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Point Grey, in partnership with Ramsey Naito and Jason McConnell, who are overseeing production for Nickelodeon. For Point Grey, Lukas Williams is co-producing and Josh Fagen is overseeing as an executive producer.

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'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' 1987 Animated Series Coming to Nickelodeon (EXCLUSIVE)

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Jimmy carter
1. Created the Department Of Education in the 1980
2. He is the oldest living president at 99 years old.
3. In ww2 flue the seaplanes in the Navy.

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Jimmy Carter | Biography, Accomplishments, Foreign Policy, Inflation, & Facts

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Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served during a time of serious troubles, notable among which was the Iran hostage crisis. For his work in diplomacy and advocacy, both during and after his presidency, he received the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Learn more about Carter’s…

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Micheal Jackson:
1. He made his recording debut at 9 years old.
Madonna:
2. In 1977 she dropped out of college and moved to New York City with 35$ in her pocket.
Phil Collins:
3. Phil never learned to read and write conventional musical notation, instead, he used a system he came up with himself.
https://top40weekly.com/top-100-artists-of-the-80s/

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Nintendo Gameboy
1. It only had one speaker on it.
2. They could get connected to headphones.
3. Four game boys could be connected with a cord which was very advanced technology back then.

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The Game Boy , is an 8-bit handheld video game console. It is Nintendo's first handheld. The Game Boy is also the first portable console to use game cartridges, meaning the games are interchangeable. The Game Boy family eventually did not only include the original, but the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Micro.

The Game Boy has a green screen that displays four shades of dark green (gray for the Game Boy Pocket). Like the NES, the Game Boy has four buttons and a cross-shaped direction pad. The console has a single speaker, and it can be used with stereo headphones. As many as four Game Boys can be connected together with the Game Boy Link Cable.

The Game Boy was invented by Gunpei Yokoi, who also was responsible for creating the failed Virtual Boy and the Game & Watch games.

Recently, the Game Boy went vs all Nintendo handhelds (1989-2016), and the Game Boy was triumphant in beating all the other systems. The Game Boy provided the most game play at its time, and currently still does.

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Development

The Game Boy was designed by Nintendo's chief engineer Gunpei Yokoi and its Nintendo R&D1 team. Following the popularity of the Nintendo Entertainment System, he pitched the Game Boy concept to Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi and began working on it. The original internal code name for the Game Boy is Dot Matrix Game, referring to its dot-matrix display in contrast to the preceding Game & Watch series (which Yokoi had created in 1980) that has segmented LCD displays pre-printed with an overlay, limiting each model to only play one game. The initials DMG came to be featured on the final product's model number: "DMG-01". Internal reception of the console at Nintendo was initially very poor, with the derogatory nickname " DameGame" from Nintendo employees, in which dame (だめ) means "hopeless" or "lame".

The Game Boy has four operation buttons labeled "A", "B", "SELECT", and "START", and a directional pad (d-pad). There is a volume control dial on the right side of the device and a similar dial on the left side to adjust the contrast. At the top of the Game Boy, a sliding on-off switch and the slot for the Game Boy cartridges are located. The on-off switch includes a physical lockout to prevent users from either inserting or removing a cartridge while the unit is switched on. Nintendo recommends users leave a cartridge in the slot to prevent dust and dirt from entering the system.

The Game Boy contains optional input or output connectors. On the left side of the system is 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 (sold separately) instead of four AA batteries. The Game Boy requires 6 V DC of at least 150 mA. A 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack is located on the bottom side of the unit which allows users to listen to the audio with the bundled headphones or external speakers.

The right-side of the device offers a port which allows a user to connect to another Game Boy system via a link cable, provided both users are playing games that support connecting to each other (most often, only copies of the same game, although for example the Pokémon games can connect between different generations). The port can also be used to connect a Game Boy Printer. The link cable was originally designed for players to play head-to-head two-player games such as in Tetris. However, game developer Satoshi Tajiri later used the link cable technology as a method of communication and networking in the popular Pokémon video game series.

Technical specifications

Size

Approximately 90 mm (3.5 in) x 148 mm (5.8 in) x 32 mm (1.3 in) (WxHxD)

Weight

Approximately 220 g (7.8 oz)

Screen

2.6 inch reflective super-twisted nematic (STN) liquid-crystal display (LCD)
Vertical blank duration: Approximately 1.1 ms

Display size

Original: 47 mm (1.9 in) by 43 mm (1.7 in)
Pocket: 48 mm (1.9 in) by 44 mm (1.7 in)

Power

6 V, 0.7 W (4× AA batteries)

Battery life

Approximately 15 hours of gameplay

Memory

8 KiB internal S- RAM (can be extended up to 32 KiB)
8 KiB internal Video RAM
On-CPU-Die 256-byte bootstrap ROM; 32 KiB, 64 KiB, 128 KiB, 256 KiB, 512 KiB, 1 MiB, 2 MiB, 4 MiB and 8 MiB cartridges

Color support

2-bit (4 shades of "gray": light to very dark olive green)

Sound

2 pulse wave generators, 1 PCM 4-bit wave sample (64 4-bit samples played in 1×64 bank or 2×32 bank) channel, 1 noise generator, and one audio input from the cartridge. The unit has only one speaker, however the headphone port outputs stereo sound.

Play It Loud!

On March 20, 1995, Nintendo released several Game Boy models with colored cases, advertising them in the "Play It Loud!" campaign, known in Japan as Game Boy Bros. Specifications for this unit remain exactly the same as the original Game Boy, including the monochromatic screen. This new line of colored Game Boys set a precedent for later Nintendo handhelds; every one of them since has been available in more than one color. Play It Loud! units were manufactured in red, green, black, yellow, white, blue, and clear (transparent) or sometimes called X-Ray in the UK. Most common are the yellow, red, clear and black. Green is fairly scarce but blue and white are the rarest. Blue was a Europe and Japan only release, white was a Japanese majority release with UK Toys R Us stores also getting it as an exclusive edition to them. The white remains the rarest of all the Play it Loud colors. A rare, limited edition Manchester United Game Boy is red, with the logos of the team emblazoned on it. It was released simultaneously with the Play it Loud! handhelds in the United Kingdom. The Play It Loud's screens also have a darker border than the normal Game Boy.

Game Boy Pocket

On July 21, 1996, Nintendo released the Game Boy Pocket for US$69.99: a smaller, lighter unit that required fewer batteries. It has space for two AAA batteries, which provide approximately 10 hours of gameplay. The unit is also fitted with a 3 volt, 2.35 mm x 0.75 mm DC jack which can be used to power the system. The Pocket has a smaller link port, which requires an adapter to link with the older Game Boy. The port design is used on all subsequent Game Boy models, excluding the Game Boy Micro. The screen was changed to a true black-and-white display, rather than the "pea soup" monochromatic display of the original Game Boy. Also, the Game Boy Pocket (GBP) has a larger screen than the Game Boy Color (GBC) that later superseded it. The GBP's screen has a 65 mm (2.56 in) diagonal, 48.5 mm (1.91 in) width, and 43.5 mm (1.71 in) height, compared to a 59 mm (2.32 in) diagonal for the GBC. Although like its predecessor, the Game Boy Pocket has no backlight to allow play in a darkened area, it did notably improve visibility and pixel response-time (mostly eliminating ghosting). The first version did not have a power LED. This was soon added due to public demand, along with new Game Boy Pocket units of different colors (released on April 28, 1997), some of them new to the Game Boy line. There were several limited-edition Game Boy Pockets, including a gold-metal model exclusive to Japan. The Game Boy Pocket was not a new software platform and played the same software as the original Game Boy model.

A clear 'skeleton' Famitsu edition appeared in 1997, which had only 5,000 units released, and a clear yellow edition.

Game Boy Light

The Game Boy Light was released on April 14, 1998, and only available in Japan. Like the Game Boy Pocket, the system was also priced at ¥6,800. The Game Boy Light is only slightly bigger than the Game Boy Pocket and features an electroluminescent backlight for low-light conditions. It uses two AA batteries, which gave it approximately 20 hours with the light off and 12 with it on. It was available in two standard colors: gold and silver. It also received numerous special editions, including an Astro Boy edition with a clear case and a picture of Astro Boy on it, an Osamu Tezuka World edition with a clear red case and a picture of his characters, and a solid yellow Pokémon Center Tokyo version.

Launch titles

The Game Boy was released alongside six launch titles, which are listed in the table below:

In Spanish: Game Boy para niños