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TalkBack / Re: The Worst of the GBA - Revisited

« on: June 19, 2011, 02:58:28 PM »

Excuse me, I'm too busy being correct. A NEW system means its games cannot be played on its predecessor. That's forward compatibility. This is not true of the VAST majority of games branded as "Game Boy Color" games. Those black carts worked just fine on the Game Boy.

Game Boy carts that were the same as the old ones except black would work in either system, and were merely enhanced on the Game Boy Color.  However, Game Boy COLOR carts were different than that.  It doesn't really matter what the proportion of games that were released is (and I don't really know it).  Game Boy Color has a very good number of it's OWN games that cannot be played on its predecessor, and those games are even in physically different carts.


I don't know hard numbers, but I don't think the disparity between enhanced Game Boy games and Game Boy Color games was that dramatic.  Thinking back I remember many, many boxes with the "Only for Game Boy Color" label on the corner.