

The Pocket lives up to its name by being the most portable version of the system. The question here, of course, is which line would Nintendo hypothetically go with? The Original is obviously the most iconic, and its existing shell would easily be able to hold the innards that make up the existing NES and SNES Classics. Some of these games could still be played on earlier gameboy models (as noted by retaining the classic gameboy cartridge shape) but others (which had their own cartridge shape) played exclusively on the Color. Not only would it add limited colors to existing Gameboy games (and even included hidden color schemes for specific original Gameboy games) but it also saw the launch of an entirely separate line of Gameboy Color games. It, of course, added the long awaited feature of Color. Hitting roughly in time for the western explosion of Pokemon, this updated Gameboy, featuring beefier internals, hit stores in 1998.
