
Or bundled with one of several games, namely Super Mario Land or Tetris. At launch, it was sold either as a standalone unit, The console features a dull green dot-matrix screen (160x144 px) with adjustable contrast dial, five control buttons (a directional pad, two game buttons, and "START" and "SELECT"),Ī single speaker with adjustable volume dial, and, like its rivals, uses cartridges as physical media for games. Gunpei Yokoi, and Nintendo Research & Development No.1. It was designed by the same team that developed the Game & Watch series of handheld electronic games and several Nintendo Entertainment System games: Satoru Okada, The first handheld in the Game Boy family, it was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, then North America, three months later, and lastly in Europe, more than one year later. Tetris DX is a game boy color game which is backwardly compatible with the original tetris game boy and features battery saved high scores and two player profiles.


Online emulated version of Tetris was originally developed for Game Boy, an 8-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. But instead of modifying the game cart itself, the hack cleverly leverages Game Boy Tetris’ multiplayer mode which relied on the Game Link Cable accessory to physically link two consoles. Tetris DX is a variant that allows an additional digit for the point meter and players still maxed it to 9.999.999 points after hours of play.
