Reception of the Game Boy Color was positive, with critics praising the addition of color and improved clarity of the display. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.

Travis Fahs for IGN noted whilst "the Game Boy Color's life was relatively brief", it "built up a small library of excellent games", including Wario Land 3 and Pokémon Gold and Silver, and a "unique" and "previously unheard of" line of successful third-party games, including Dragon Warrior Monsters, Metal Gear Solid and Yu-Gi-Oh! The grayscale (Left + B) palette produces an appearance similar to that experienced on the original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, or Game Boy Light. Manipulation of palette registers during display allows for a rarely used high color mode, capable of displaying more than 2,000 colors on the screen simultaneously. I used to have one when I was younger but either my mother hid it away somewhere or it was stolen and I think it was dark green.The processor, which is a hybrid Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 workalike made by Sharp with a few extra (bit manipulation) instructions, has a clock speed of approximately 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy. Quoted in Retro Gamer, Blitz Games Studios developer Bob Pape acknowledged that although " backwards compatibility more or less defined (the) Game Boy Color", the handheld "ticked all the right boxes with regards to size, battery life, reliability and most importantly backwards compatibility".

Launched in 1998 it was the 1st portable console compatible with its predecessor, being able to use the games of the classic Game Boy and include color as in the Super Game Boy.

Tetris for the original Game Boy is the best-selling game compatible with Game Boy Color, and Pokémon Gold and Silver are the best-selling games developed primarily for it.

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