Game Boy Pocket
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| Game Boy Pocket | |
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| Manufacturer | Nintendo |
| Released |  1996 September 3, 1996
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| Generation | Fourth generation |
| Media | Game Boy cartridges |
| Best-selling game | Tetris |
| Preceded by | Game Boy |
| Followed by | Game Boy Light |
A redesigned version of the original Game Boy having the same features, but smaller and lighter. Other improvements included a sharp monochrome screen with none of the blurring that plagued the original model and a reduced hunger for batteries. The Pocket took 2 AAA batteries instead of 4 AA batteries.The Game Boy Light, sold in Japan only, was essentially a variant that also had an independently lit screen. The Pocket was superseded by the Game Boy Color.
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| Nintendo systems | |
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| Home consoles | Color TV Game (1977-1980) | Nintendo Entertainment System (1983) | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990) | Nintendo 64 (1996) | GameCube (2001) | Wii (2006) |
| Game Boy franchise | Game Boy (1989) | Game Boy Pocket (1996) | Game Boy Color (1998) | Game Boy Advance (2001) | Game Boy Advance SP (2003) | Game Boy Micro (2005) |
| DS franchise | Nintendo DS (2004) | DS Lite (2006) | Nintendo DSi (2008) | Nintendo DSi XL (2009) |
| Other handhelds | Game & Watch (1980-1991) | Virtual Boy (1995) | Pokémon Mini (2001) |
| Other products | Arcade games (1974-present) |
