Long before the fever of mobile gamesa lot of people already had the habit of playing in transit. For this, however, these people needed a specific console – and that fit in the palm.
We can say that Nintendo It was the mother of her Free Fireof yours Candy Crush or yours Clash of Clans. THE Game Boy And their successors helped popularize this way of playing video game.
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Together, the original game boy and Color sold over 118 million units worldwide. This puts them within the top-5 top-5 in history.
Here in Brazil, it was no different. You portable They were a real success. And compared to the larger hardware, they were much cheaper.
But do you remember the launch price of these two classics? Were they expensive? And how much they would cost today, with the value corrected by inflation. THE Digital Look now answers these questions with the aid of Citizen calculatorfrom the Central Bank.
A little history
- The launch of the original laptop occurred in Japan on April 21, 1989.
- Its screen was black and white, it ran 8-bit graphics and had few buttons.
- The success was almost immediate, which led other companies to try to copy the Nintendo formula.
- None of them, however, did it.
- Game Boy has had a number of factors to its advantage, including a more affordable price (less than $ 80 in the foreign market) and a respectful library.
- Tetrisfor example, it became even more popular thanks to the laptop.
- And the series Pokémon Already born almost legendary inside Nintendo’s screen: adding the versions Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, only the first generation sold over 45 million copies!
- Almost 10 years after the release, Nintendo presented to the world its official successor, the Game Boy Color.
- It is true that before him some alternative versions appeared, such as pocket and light (in the Japanese market).
- But the official successor is the GBC.
- In addition to a slightly more powerful system, its main differential was already in the name: it was colorful.
- The Game Boy Color kept the good numbers of the original, but it was much less long -lived.
- Its production stopped in 2003, two years after the release of the Game Boy Advance – more modern and with a very different design.
- The first two versions, however, will always have a place in the hearts of gamers.
And how much did they cost?
The first game boy took a long time to officially arrive in Brazil. As we said, his release in Japan It occurred in 1989, but it only debuted here in April 1994, at the hands of Playtronic, then responsible for the distribution of Nintendo products.
As shown in the site History of Video Gamesin 1995, the game boy cost $ 119 in our market. Correcting this value by the IPCA (the inflation rate measured by IBGE), you would buy a game boy today for $ 831 – much cheaper than a good intermediate mobile phone.
Taking into consideration the minimum wage of the time, which was $ 100, you needed just over a minimum to buy the game boy. He could then be considered cheap even, especially compared to other larger consoles.
The Game Boy Color, in turn, arrived in Brazil on November 12, 1998, less than a month after its official launch in Japan. But at that time, Playtronic no longer took care of Nintendo products here. She was replaced by Gradient.
And the first price of the GBC was $ 299. More powerful, it was also more expensive than the predecessor. Correcting this value for inflation, the laptop would cost almost $ 1,500 today – the price of a good intermediate mobile phone.
Compared to the minimum, the salary of the time was $ 130, ie you needed to shell out more than two to buy the console.
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