Of the original 8 and 16 bit ports, the NES and Game Boy ones were made by Taito themselves.

The original Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions have a Moon Water storyline, and are known as Bubble Bobble, and Classic Bubble Bobble respectively.

Mean Machines gave the Game Boy port of the game a score of 91 %, noting that while some changes had been made the game played identical to the original arcade port and " provides much addiction and challenge ".

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The original Game Boy and Game Boy Color combined sold 118. 69 million units worldwide.

The technical specifications of the original Game Boy Advance are, as provided by Nintendo:

As with the original Game Boy, it has an 8-bit processor.

Wesley and Barczak feel the Game Boy Color was " little more than an incremental improvement " over the original Game Boy, and that real change would not arrive until release of the Game Boy Advance.

* Resolution: 160 x 144 pixels ( same as the original Game Boy and the Sega Game Gear )

The processor, which is a Z80 workalike made by Sharp with a few extra ( bit manipulation ) instructions, has a clock speed of approximately 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy.

The Game Boy Color also has three times as much memory as the original ( 32 kilobytes system RAM, 16 kilobytes video RAM ).

The screen resolution was the same as the original Game Boy, which is 160x144 pixels.

The console was capable of showing up to 56 different colors simultaneously on screen from its palette of 32, 768 ( 8x4 color background palettes, 8x3 + transparent sprite palettes ), and could add basic four -, seven-or ten-color shading to games that had been developed for the original 4-shades-of-grey Game Boy.

Games that are designed for the Game Boy Color, but which also include backwards-compatibility with the previous Game Boy systems, have a similar design to the original grey Game Boy cartridges, but are colored black for identification.

which began in 1964 and the original version of The Match Game first aired in 1962.

The Journal of the Travellers Aid Society takes its name from the fictional Travellers ' Aid Society ( TAS ) that was first mentioned in the original incarnation of the Traveller game published by Game Designers Workshop.

In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs (" Urge for Going ," " Chelsea Morning ," " Both Sides, Now ," " The Circle Game ") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968.

While passive-matrix displays are usually not backlit ( e. g. calculators, wristwatches ); active-matrix displays almost always are ( with a few exceptions, such as the display in the original Game Boy Advance ).

Because of the similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear, it was fairly easy for SMS games to be ported to Game Gear cartridges ; the Master Gear Converter, released during the system's lifetime, even allowed original SMS cartridges to be played on the Game Gear directly.

The Majesco Core Game Gear differed slightly from the original Game Gear in that it was black and had a purple start button rather than dark grey and a blue start button, the logo on the front of the unit was no longer in color, the power switch was colored black rather than the usual orange and it did not support the television tuner accessory.

It was part of Majesco's strategy of making profits from products with margins too slim for the original manufacturer to pursue, and was accompanied by Majesco's licensed reissue of several classic Game Gear cartridges.

* Final Fantasy VII is considered a " killer app " that the original PlayStation had along with Metal Gear Solid.

Later, Game Gear games were ported to the Master System and several original Brazilian titles were made for the system.

* Sound ( PSG ): Texas Instruments SN76489 ( note that the Master System, Game Gear, and Mega Drive used a slightly altered clone of the newer SN76489A, while the older SG-series used the original SN76489 )

In more recent years, its main industrial base was the Rocky Shoes & Boots factory, which has since moved out of the country, but continues to maintain the new Rocky Gear Store, set in the recently renovated, original factory next to Rocky Brands corporate offices.

A Japanese radio drama version of Metal Gear Solid was produced shortly after the release of the original PlayStation game.

A novelization based on the original Metal Gear Solid was written by Raymond Benson and published by Del Rey.

In the case of Konami, this subsidiary was known as Ultra Games, and many of Konami titles were published in North America under their banner, including Metal Gear, Gyruss, Skate or Die !, the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games and Snake's Revenge ( a sequel to the original Metal Gear made specifically for the western market ).

An actual DNA clone from Char Aznable appeared in the story Gaia Gear ( an original novel by Yoshiyuki Tomino ).

Some of Konami's most notable games released under the Ultra label include Operation C ( an original Game Boy installment of the Contra series ), Snake's Revenge ( a sequel to the original Metal Gear ) and the first few Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games for the NES and Game Boy.

Due to the success of the original Metal Gear on the NES, Konami decided to create a sequel to the game, Snake's Revenge, without the involvement of Hideo Kojima.

The sequels expand the original game's plot adding new characters opposing and supporting Snake, while there have also been a few prequels exploring the origins of the Metal Gear and recurring characters.

Hideo Kojima designed the original Metal Gear, which debuted in Japan and Europe in 1987 for the MSX2 computer platform.

Of these nine titles, three are prequels set decades before the events of the original Metal Gear.

The original Metal Gear, which was released in 1987 during the Cold War, dealt with the manipulation of soldiers by politicians of the East and West, countered by the concept of " Outer Heaven ", a country without politics.

However, this was not the original intent for the character, as the original pack-in mini-comic and biographies released with the earliest Beast Wars toys indicate that the character was supposed to be the original Megatron, in a new body.

An arranged soundtrack CD featuring original music from Killer Instinct was released as a pack-in for the Super Nintendo release of the game.

The pack-in comic book, however, indicated that this Primal and Megatron were in fact new incarnations of the original Optimus Prime and Megatron-before the Beast Wars animated series began and established its fiction.

The pack-in comic book, however, indicated that this Megatron and Primal were in fact new incarnations of the original Megatron and Optimus Prime -- when the Beast Wars animated series began and established its fiction, this idea was dropped, and all subsequent toys had profiles written in-line with the show.

* August 23 — Nintendo releases Super Mario World and F-Zero along with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America ; Super Mario World was the original pack-in game for the SNES, and one of the most sold games for that system.

The system was also packaged with one TurboChip game which varied from system to system ; Dungeon Explorer was the original TurboChip pack-in for TurboDuo, although many titles were eventually used, such as IREM's Ninja Spirit and NAMCO's Final Lap Twin and then, eventually, a random pick.

Sometimes a pack-in game will be changed to a more popular game, or another game will be added, along with the original pack-in, if it is perceived that a newer game will sell more systems.