GBC

Game Boy Color · 1998–2003

The handheld that finally brought colour to Nintendo's pocket empire — released in 1998, backward-compatible with the entire Game Boy library, and carrying the line from the monochrome era into the Game Boy Advance. The library is large and led by the Pokémon phenomenon at its commercial peak, alongside strong late-90s RPGs and platformers, and its collecting market has two engines: scarce late and licensed releases, and the broader sealed-game boom that has lifted clean, complete and graded copies of this era sharply. A transitional platform whose best titles sit at the intersection of nostalgia, the Pokémon market and the modern grading economy.