Nintendo · Handheld · Released 1989

Game Boy & Game Boy Color: 118.69 million units sold

The Game Boy & Game Boy Color is the #4 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. Handheld and dedicated devices are not assigned a home-console generation here.

• 118.7MUnits sold
• #4All-time rank
• —Generation
• 1989Released

Games released on the Game Boy & Game Boy Color hold 3 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Street Fighter II with 1. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Street Fighter II (1, 1992); Samurai Shodown (1, 1993); Donkey Kong Country (1, 1994).

The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 15 Nintendo machines tracked here, it is number 3 by units sold, behind Nintendo Switch at 156.6 million.