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Later that same year in , Game Boy released the newest innovation in hand held gaming—a colored monitor. It was released the next year in America, putting old and new Game Boy enthusiasts back into the buying mood. Since no other hand held gaming system had offered colored graphics, this was considered the newest technology available.

This, in conjunction with the rejuvenated battery life of the console, made the Game Boy Color one of the biggest successes of handheld gaming ever. The original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color combined managed to sell over million units worldwide. In , Game Boy released a new design for their classic handheld game console. This new style was the Game Boy Advance. Rather than playing on a vertical system, the Game Boy Advance spread out horizontally, which actually turned off some of the diehard original Game Boy enthusiasts.

However, the new innovations of technology allowed for many more hours of battery life, as well as the backlighting feature otherwise not found in the US at the time. In addition to the classic buttons on the face of the system, the Game Boy Advance also featured two buttons on the top of the system, allowing for even more functions to be executed at once. The Game Boy Advance would reign for four strong years, dominating the handheld gaming industry.

Also it's only one game that doesn't work out of about 10 that I have. It may just be that that game has broken But do the same thing, look at the pis on the game and see if anything is amiss you don't have to open it and if everything looks fine the the only way to find out is to open the game up.

Show 6 more comments. Andrew Fillhart zerrian. The suggestions by everyone is about as good as you'll get. You'll want to check the pins and give the contacts on the game a good cleaning with rubbing alcohol.

If that doesn't fix the situation then one of the chips on the game PCB has probably died. The only way to check a chip that I'm aware of is removing it from the PCB and putting it into a tester.

Other than that, you would want to inspect the traces on the PCB of the game. It's a bit of work if you really want find the problem that bad. To check traces, you can set your multimeter to continuity mode and touch contacts to either end.

A beep or '0' on the screen will tell you there is no disruption on that trace. Checking chips is a rigorous process and extremely difficult without the correct tools. One of the only other options you could try is reflowing the solder on the PCB using either a hairdryer for a long time on high or a heat gun for short bursts to heat up the solder and see about reconnecting any problematic spots. Probably, in this case, a chip has failed, which would require programming to completely repair and at this point its best just to find a new game.

If you're still interested, look around YouTube or Google searches to see if you can reprogram a cart and go from there. Best of luck to you on that. Show 1 more comment. Me too. Paul went on to say that he received a number of positive comments from people about the Game Boy Color table. However, he also received a number of comments that made the project about Paul's financial status, garnering thousands of like on Twitter, as a result.

At the end of the day, some of the backlash against Paul's project seems to be a perfect distillation of everything wrong with social media. This is a project that really was harmless, using a system that's pretty easy to come by even for the most cash-strapped gamers.

If Paul used a console that was harder to come by, detractors might have had a better point.