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Game Boy Pocket (Silver)

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Game Boy Pocket (Silver)

Silver · MGB-001 · Nintendo · 1996

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Specs

Released
1996-09-02
Color
silver
Region
NA

Description

The silver Game Boy Pocket is the colour the console launched with in North America on 2 September 1996 at $69.99. In Japan the silver version followed on 19 October 1996 at 7,800 yen excluding tax with a plastic case.

Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

How to tell them apart

Metallic silver paint. 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

NA launch colour (1996-09-02, $69.99, en Wikipedia). JP release 1996-10-19 at ¥7,800 with a special plastic case (Nintendo JP: silver and gold were originally sold in America). US price later cut to $54.95 (early 1997) and $49.95 (mid-1998) (en Wikipedia).

Data source: en.wikipedia.org

Prices by market~72 €
Catawiki (sales)
in box · 5 list.
20 €
Catawiki (sales)
without box · 3 list.
16 €
Kleinanzeigen
in box · 12 list.
120 €
Kleinanzeigen
without box · 242 list.
75 €
OLX Poland
in box · 3 list.
57 €
OLX Poland
without box · 37 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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