Nintendo's Secret Betrayal

It is hard to think that one of the most iconic Nintendo handhelds is not exactly the favorite of its dev team. Why? What forced them to do a product? Let´s explore.

#gameboy #gameboycolor #nintendo

Source:
The History of Nintendo Vol 4 - Florent Gorges

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[softcatmonster]

Ghost Gunpei Yokoi dabbing was an image I never expected to see, but my life is so much better after seeing it.

[cloudkitt]

Can't help but wonder how much better the WonderSwan might have done if they hadn't warned Nintendo about it in advance.

[DeepPastry]

Imagine if Bandai hadn't ignored every single other market on the planet? They sold 3.5 million units (Original/Color/SwanCrystal), but that was only ever in the Japan Market. That 118 million of the Game Boy (Original/Pocket/Color) was for the worldwide market. I'm constantly amazed how many times Japanese companies fail to grasp that large amounts of money could be made overseas, many times the amounts than they'd ever in Japan alone.

[SatoshiMatrix]

Growing up, the Super GameBoy accessory for the Super Nintendo was the coolest thing. I could play Super Mario Land, Tetris, Link's Awakening or whatever else not just in greenscale but COLOR? Madness!

So then, just a few years later with the GameBoy Color's pseudo Super Gameboy like limited color pallets for backward compatible games, full color remakes of games like Zelda DX and then plus brand new games, it was safe to say that the GameBoy Color became my favorite handheld of all time.

Today you can get IPS fully backlit screen mods for the GameBoy Color and make truly the ultimate GameBoy.

[Trick-Framed]

I remember everyone thinking the Atlantis was going to be the 32 Bit SNES successor. How wrong they were.

[furykillerBZ]

It has been a super rough work week; your LOTR reference made me laugh so much.

Thank you for both the education and the entertainment

[reverseretro]

The Gameboy Color was developed in only 10 months??? I guess that's why they had to make so many hardware revisions- they rushed it and didn't have enough time to work out all of the bugs!

[KayX]

One fun fact about Wonderswan and Digimon. As the franchise is an multimedia IP where each category such as games, anime etc. had their own team, Wonderswan had one game series that is divided into 4 parts to connect with 3 seasons of the anime which has its own story that could fit well with the tv series and the main character of this game named Ryo Akiyama was apparently very popular in Japan but there was one major problem which ruined the whole thing....There was no communication with these teams at all and that lead to really inconsistent storyline when it was mentioned in the show.

One of which was Ryo's cameo in the Our War Game movie which contradicted with how the 2nd game started as it was still in development and to make things even worse, Toei Animation who handled the anime still didn't correct this in the 2nd season and only one scene was accurate to the game. The final game has ties with the 3rd season along with the previous ones and while Ryo did appear in the show, the director of it stated that it is not the same one from the game despite what the other staff member said. It also didn't help that the last two games were Japan exclusive and now we are getting the english translation patches for it.

So far only the 1st game called Digimon Anode/Cathode Tamer can be placed properly into the timeline.

tl;dr. 1st 3 Digimon shows and the games on Wonderswan was supposed to tie together but the lack of any communication with the teams did nothing but damage that and cause confusion along with misinformation in the fanbase.

[jonathonschott]

I like this series. You really do your homework. I would be very interested if you covered the turbografix-16 in the same manner, not that I would have any selfish nostalgic reasons of my own, cough cough, but adding an ecosystem that included a cd-rom add on and even a portable that used the same cartridges as the console would really round things out in this series, hint hint nudge nudge wink wink.

[LowSpecGamer]

This was a journey. Remember that you can find the companion video for this on Nebula (link on the Description), plus the companion for the last one and all future LowSpecLore videos. Thank you for supporting quality content.

[adhikachalixtio]

As a retrogamer and lowspec gamer, this is awesome seeing two content keep going on in this lovely channel!!! 🥳🥳🥳

[VitorMach]

YouTube randomly showed me the "End of Low Spec" video, and that brought me here. And well, this was a very well made and interesting video! Keep up the good work!
I would personally enjoy a lot a video about the Sharp X68000, it's one of my favorite retro computers, especially paired with Roland MT-32 audio.

[JonoSSD]

My first handheld was a teal GameBoy Color that I bought from a classmate for cheap in 2000. And damn, that thing opened up a whole new world for me. I couldn't really play on the computer or TV so discovering a device that could be used anywhere while not having to deal with my family's dislike for videogames was great. Ever since then I've owned at least one handheld at all times. Was even dumb enough to buy a PSVita. lol

[EhEhEhEINSTEIN]

2:03 And how times have changed once again. Sony selling like 1k ps5s a month in Japan vs Nintendos hundreds of thousands switches per month lol

[MrMarinus]

4:50
It did have double the memory though. Quite literally actually. It had the same memory bank as the original Gameboy, just 2 of them and the double clock speed was because of that same reason.

[ryans]

I just wanna say I love your animations and mini comic like things that show basically "dramatized reactions" of the VIP's.

I was a 90's kid, but my first console was a SNES, after constantly constantly playing NES at a neighbor's house, and asking all the time to go play over there. I've been a gamer all my life.
Same with the GameBoy, I never had one. I had the Game Gear because my dad said the color screen makes it the better choice. Go figure that, I also wanted a GameBoy Pocket (and Pokemon of course), but instead got the GameBoy COLOR and it changed my world forever. The Advance was just the next logical step, I bought one and loved it to pieces. To this day, my fondest to look back on.

[stopthrm]

. . . despite all of this, the Gameboy Color remains in my top 3 game consoles of all time. You have to understand, as a kid who grew up with the gameboy I had dreamt of a color gameboy for years before one appeared. When it finally arrived, the games themselves were fun to play and I logged many hours on that turquoise device.

[markhaus]

Love your more documentary-esque content, hope you keep making them

[anasazmi]

Perhaps this development history of Game Boy and Game Boy Color are why Nintendo is still obsessed with revisions of the same hardware nowadays. You can see it in the different forms of Game Boy Advance (SP, Micro), DS (Lite, DSi, DSi XL), 3DS (XL, 2DS, New 3DS, New 3DS XL, New 2DS XL) and Switch (Lite, V2, OLED).

[mumblesspeedtalker]

Really enjoy these documentary style videos its crazy went from the Gameboy to the something like the switch and raspberry pi mobile computing has come a long way .