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Originally Posted by Firedb
I thought there was a light behind the screen, you can see it on the edges?
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Nope. Original Gameboy was released in '89 In '98 they released a Gameboy Light, but it was pretty much Japan only, and very rare. The original GBA was front lit, and the GBASP was backlit.
'89 Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color were not lit at all, being reflective only LCDs.
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Originally Posted by toddos
To the source!
And STN LCD, it's basically what you'd expect -- a low-resolution, low-power, high-latency (aka, blurry) LCD panel. But for 1989 it was pretty good.
And no, the original Gameboy never had a light screen. Nor did the Gameboy Color, or even the first revision of the Gameboy Advance. It wasn't until the Gameboy Advance SP that Nintendo finally put a backlit screen in a Gameboy device. Of course there were plenty of clip-on lights for all of the different models that worked to various degrees. |