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Game Boy Color (Clear / Neotones Ice)
Clear / Neotones Ice · CGB-001 · Nintendo · 1998
Why
There’s no units produced with a source and not enough listings. We don’t make things up.How to tell them apart
Multicolour 'GAME BOY COLOR' logo under the screen; black screen lens; IR port on top.
Details from sources
JP name: クリア. JP standard 'クリア' (Nintendo JP lists 6 colours incl. clear). gbhwdb has 'NeotonesIce' units with release code CGB-EUR; archived Wikipedia list: 'Neotones Ice - clear'. Assumed same colourless shell - photo comparison needed. JP launch 1998-10-21 at ¥8,900 (tax excl.), cut to ¥6,800 on 1999-05-14; NA 1998-11-18 at US$79.95; EU 1998-11-23; AU 1998-11-27. Per a Feb-1999 Nintendo interview (quoted on ja Wikipedia) only Grape and Atomic Purple were initially sold outside Japan; the other colours came later - exact western dates unknown.
Data source: nintendo.co.jp
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