Nintendo GameGirl ~ Does it exist?

[Amy Rose]

There was this as well:

http://assembler.roarvgm.com/Master_...stem_girl.html

Oh, wow, that is so cute.

On another note, why do systems have to be pink to interest girls? My favourite colour for years was blue, and now it's shifted to purple. Pink used to make me cringe, and I would rather have played with action figures than Barbies. Stupid marketing strategies. :P

[Jumpman Jr.]

I could have sworn that I heard this too. I remember when GameBoy was new (I was pretty young), and some of my friends were telling me that they were making a "GameGirl". I (of coarse, because I was so young) hated the idea.
Maybe the whole rumor started from little kids like that trying to get other kids to beleive it.
I think maybe I might of saw the pink Gameboy and though "they'll probably name it 'GameGirl' or something"

[bizbiz]

I remember hearing about this too!!!

[tuxedojoe]

I have never seen pirate GameBoy's before though... Do such things exist? Pictures please.

Gamefighter

Wow, It almost looks official!

I like that design a whole lot better than the original design. I bet it is a lot easier on the hands as well.

[Yamazaki]

I think everyone remembers something from their childhood.

I believed in Street Fighter 5 after people telling me.

[Push Upstairs]

Gamefighter

That i wouldnt mind owning (even if i hardly play my GB as it is).

I wonder why the GBA couldnt have been that size, would have been a ton easier to hold.


And the only time i ever heard the name/use of the title "Gamegirl" was in that Nintendo design your own Gameboy contest.

[chicnstu]

I read about this about a year ago. I remember reading that Nintendo was going to make a GameBoy and a GameGirl but they decided people would buy the GameBoy more or something.

I can't remember too much of it though.

[mills]

At a spanish flea market i found a totally bootleg gameboy setup, It was shaped a like a gamboy pocket, red, it had a screen but it didn't actually display anything. Had composite video out to play on a tv. Loaded normal looking gameboy cartridges although the carts had NES/Fami games on them.

[THATinkjar]

TOTAL! magazine. Issue 2. February, 1992.

Game for a lass
Amongst the TOTAL! spy network, rumour has it (and it is only rumour you understand) that a new version of the massively successful cute-yet-def Game Boy is to be launched.

Called the Game Girl, the machine will have only one major difference from the version that is already conquering the pockets of game freaks across the planet - it will be pink.

Aside from this change - which is meant to be appeal to girlies because everyone knows girls like pink (oh yeah?) - how the games play will be exactly the same. It's hoped that this change of style won't mean that we'll soon be seeing softy titles like Terminator 3: Pillow Fight, My Little Pony Wars, Low Hem-Line Man and Skate Or Stay In.

[Cauterize]

Well hopefully this will clear up a few queries... Something i got today!



Adam

[roushimsx]

I have the pearl pink GBA SP, imported from Japan.

Sup Pink GBASP buddy?

(I only took the picture to brag about my Paper Plane score but then I wound up using it for my wallpaper at work )

It's a damn shame it never came out in the US. I've been half tempted to get a pink GBA and add a lighting mod to it to make it useable..partially because I like its shade of pink a bit better and partially because it's just more comfortable than this box On a positive note, it DOES match my PS2's shade of sakura perfectly, which makes me happy.

...happy like a little school girl.

...a little school girl with a daisy in her hair

...soooo happy :')

[DeputyMoniker]

Related:
Does anybody remember hearing about that pink PS2? It was called a Complainstation 2 though...anybody remember that?

[ClassicGameTrader]

That was one of the featured entries when NP announced the winners of a "design your own Game Boy skin" art contest.

The term "Gamegirl" was almost certainly coined by this artice, I remember like somebody else said it was almost certainly 90-91 when that ran in NP.

[qbertandernie]

i have an advertisement somewhere that shows the differing ORIGINAL colors...pink included. nintendo power maybe? ill look around, but my game room is such a damn mess i dunno..ill try to find it though.

i remember for sure seeing it. i was looking to get all of the original colors, and hadnt heard of the pink one, so the ad was a shocker. whether its called a 'gamegirl' or not i dont know.

[Nirvana]

That Pearl Pink Game Boy Advanced SP looks so badass. I'd really like to snag one myself. I dunno, maybe I'm just getting bored of my Silver one. I mean I play it all the time, but that pink one just looks so awesome.

[Jive3D]

It was also distinct as it wasn't called a GameBoy ~ In fact, where the GameBoy logo *Should* have been, it actually said "GameGirl"

That was one of the featured entries when NP announced the winners of a "design your own Game Boy skin" art contest.

I'll second this notion, I remember this b/c I designed a gameboy for this contest as well - I distinctly recall the "Game Girl" as one of the winning designs, finalists or whatever in the contest - they printed an image of it with the other winners in Nintendo Power. That's all that I ever saw or heard of it though.

[rbudrick]

I too remember mention of a Game Girl back in 90 or 91. I think I remember hearing it was going to be a color Game Boy. "Pffft, yeah, right, like that'll ever happen," I remember thinking occasionally when I thought of the Game Girl until the GBC came out.

I dunno.. Memory works in strange ways.

-Rob

[roushimsx]

I'll second this notion, I remember this b/c I designed a gameboy for this contest as well

As did I, but my design royally sucked. Basic gameboy with a bunch of superhero logos slapped on it. Heh...

My favorite design out of those winners was the green/black one with the wings coming off of it. That just looked badass and it probably would have been comfortable as hell, too.

[mattmcgrath25]

Here's the elusive GameGirl NP Contest Entry:

<img src=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/praxic/GameGirl.jpg>
GameGirl</img>

[FurinkanianFrood]

I am almost certain that I saw a pirate "GameGirl" somewhere online.

Or I might be combining that SMS with some GB clone in my mind, I 've seen a number of girly looking systems of all kinds (I've been tempted to actually buy pink systems before, depending on why they are pink).

The only off colour system I ever actually owned was one of those crystal blue transparent PS2s (yes a PS2, despite what you may think, I used to own a few of the things).

When the sun shone through it, it was so beautiful I almost cried. Then my US PS2 broke, and I actually did. And then my friends broke. And then my cousin's PS2 broke. And my other PS2 stopped playing DVD's and...... Back on subject, sorry....

You would think that with all the clones in asia there would be a GameGirl made at some point.