Game Boy Pocket (Red)

Red · MGB-001 · Nintendo · 1996

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Model price in listings≈ 62-90 €median 72 € · 549 list. this weekcolour and edition not countedDetails ↓Rate

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Rarity

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Why

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Specs

Released: 1996-07-21
Model: Game Boy Pocket
Color: red
Region: JP

Description

A red Game Boy Pocket, one of the five launch colours. The console went on sale in Japan on 21 July 1996 at 6,800 yen excluding tax.

Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

How to tell them apart

Solid red shell. Early units have NO red power LED left of the screen; all bodies got the LED from the pink release (1997-07) on.

Details from sources

JP launch 1996-07-21 (Nintendo JP, ja Wikipedia; en Wikipedia says 07-20) at ¥6,800 (tax excl.); price cuts ¥5,800 (1998-02-14) and ¥3,800 (1998-11-14). Nintendo JP lists 8 domestic colours: grey, red, yellow, green, black, pink, gold, silver (clear purple added later). JP name: 赤. In NA this colour came in the early-1997 wave (en Wikipedia: red, green, yellow, black, gold, clear and blue added to the launch silver); exact NA/EU dates unknown.

Data source: nintendo.co.jp

Prices by market~72 €

Catawiki (sales)
in box · 4 list.25 €

Catawiki (sales)
without box · 3 list.16 €

Kleinanzeigen
in box · 11 list.119 €

Kleinanzeigen
without box · 214 list.75 €

OLX Poland
in box · 3 list.57 €

OLX Poland
without box · 30 list.68 €

OLX Ukraine
without box · 8 list.77 €

Vinted Germany
in box · 4 list.147 €

Vinted Germany
without box · 240 list.70 €

willhaben
in box · 3 list.115 €

willhaben
without box · 54 list.80 €

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