couple of quick Original Game Boy questions

[Perkar]

so i seem to be unable to find a couple of pieces of information on the original gameboy, and i was hoping someone here could help me out....

first off, the original launch date (i know it was in july 1989, at least i'm pretty sure... but i can't find the exact date).

secondly, does anyone happen to know what the largest cartridge memory size for the original gameboy?

thanks for any help!

[atarifan]

nubunga's ambition (sorry the spellings so crappy) was the largest to my knowlage they crambed the cart with historical stats for the game to remain historical correct (or something like that) i think (could be wrong) was 64k.

[8-Bit Master]

The game Tetris was released on June 13, 1989 (according to Gamefaqs). Tetris was available as a launch title, so I would say that is the day that the Game Boy was introduced.

[MegaDrive20XX]

The game Tetris was released on June 13, 1989 (according to Gamefaqs). Tetris was available as a launch title, so I would say that is the day that the Game Boy was introduced.

Wasn't Alleyway, Super Mario Land, Tennis, and CastleVania Adventure launch titles too?

[portnoyd]

CV Adventure didn't come out til a few months later, I believe.

dave

[mikeetler]

The launch titles were Alleyway, Baseball, Tennis and Super Mario Land and Tetris was the pack-in. I don't have the exact date, but it was the first half of August '89.

The dates listed on Gmaefaqs are completely inaccutare, as they show Alleyway as 4/20/89 for example.

-Mike

[Ze_ro]

secondly, does anyone happen to know what the largest cartridge memory size for the original gameboy?

Well, I have a bunch of 512k Gameboy roms... including all three Donkey Kong Land games, Super Mario Land 2 & 3, Samurai Shodown, FIFA '96 and a bunch of others... there may be larger ones, but I haven't found them. There are Gameboy Color games that get much larger than that though (I have some that are 4MB).

--Zero

[Gapporin]

The launch titles were Alleyway, Baseball, Tennis and Super Mario Land and Tetris was the pack-in. I don't have the exact date, but it was the first half of August '89.

Wasn't Solar Striker a launch title as well?