Until a few days ago, the Game Boy was the third best-selling console in history, which gives an idea of how legendary this Nintendo creation has been for more than 30 years and has dazzled several generations.
From 1989 until its production was discontinued in 2003, the Nintendo handheld was on sale for 14 years , achieving global figures of 118.69 million units sold between the original black and white Game Boy, the color version Game Boy Color and the pocket Game Boy Pocket, a milestone that Nintendo Switch has managed to exceed a few days ago with 118.99 million units for sale.
Of course, if you add the units sold by its successor Game Boy Advance, backward compatible with Game Boy video games and which sold 81.5 million devices (including the Advance SP version), the Nintendo laptop would occupy the first global position in console sales, with more than 200 million .
Since you can no longer buy a new Game Boy or Game Boy Advance, the best option to replay their great titles is to use one of the many Game Boy emulators out there for mobile phones , these being the best.
ClassicBoy
This is one of the best emulators you can find if you want to momentarily transform your smartphone into an old Game Boy , although it also includes emulation kernels for other platforms. It has a free version and a paid upgrade option of about 3 euros with functions such as loading and uploading saved games.
With the same core you will have access to Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, since they are grouped in a single module. It also supports connecting a Bluetooth controller to play these games.
John GB emulators
The John GB emulators offer us everything we need to be able to run the ROMs of any Game Boy or Game Boy Advance video game on a smartphone or tablet and at the best quality.
Despite its very basic and sober interface by default, it includes a lot of customization functions to adjust the game experience to our preferences. You can adapt the layer of superimposed controls to our way of playing, being able to place them just by dragging them in the place that we consider appropriate on the screen. In addition, you will also be able to customize other more crucial elements to enjoy a great gaming experience, such as sound or video.
The process to load the games is quite simple. All you need to do is access its file explorer and load the titles you want to play from the folder where you downloaded them, although obviously the app doesn’t include ROMs.
Pizza boy
Pizza Boy has a surprisingly simple interface and resource optimization that adapts to all kinds of smartphones and that we don’t have compatibility problems to get the best emulation performance.
One of the advantages of using Pizza Boy emulators is that they are compatible with third-party controls and also allow us to easily reassign some buttons depending on the games we are playing so that we can do it in the most comfortable and similar way to the control. original.
RetroArch
Another alternative, in which you can also accumulate titles from other old consoles in addition to Game Boy, is RetroArch, a multi-versatile app, which means that in order to do something, you need modular programs called cores. These kernels are not included out of the box, instead you have to go to Online Updater -> In-App Kernels Updater to download them.
Within these kernels, there are open source emulators that are receiving constant updates and have a very easy and simple to use interface. Choose one compatible with Game Boy and you will have the possibility of emulating Game Boy in the palm of your hand.
