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Nintendo GameBoy

The Game Boy (Japanese: ゲームボーイ, Hepburn: Gēmu Bōi) is an 8-bit handheld video game device which was developed and manufactured by Nintendo and first released in Japan on April 21, 1989 (1989-04-21), in North America on July 31, 1989 (1989-07-31) and in Europe on September 28, 1990 (1990-09-28). It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line and was created and published by Satoru Okada and Nintendo Research & Development 1. This same team, led by Gunpei Yokoi at the time, is credited with designing the Game & Watch series as well as several popular games for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy

Emulators

VGBA

Virtual GameBoy Advance (VGBA) is a program that emulates Nintendo's GameBoy Advance on your computer. It runs GameBoy Advance games on PCs, TVs, phones, tabets, or just about any other sufficiently fast gadget.
http://fms.komkon.org/VGBA
 
Windows VGBA55-Windows-bin.zip fms.komkon.org 269 KB 2017-06-26
Linux VGBA48-Linux-Ubuntu-bin.tgz fms.komkon.org 214 KB 2015-01-14
Android Direct link. market.android.com  
 
 

Gambatte

Gambatte is a portable, open-source Game Boy Color emulator..
http://gambatte.sourceforge.net/
 
Windows Direct link. sourceforge.net  
 
 

VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vba/
 
Windows Direct link. sourceforge.net  
 
 

BGB

BGB provides an accurate emulation of the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and Super Gameboy, based on research with lots of test roms, useful for debugging/rom development.
http://bgb.bircd.org
 
Windows bgb.zip bgb.bircd.org 409 KB 2017-07-17
 
 

KIGB

One of the most accurate emulators for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy for Windows, Linux and OS X.
http://kigb.emuunlim.com/
 
Windows kigb_win.zip kigb.emuunlim.com 440 KB 2008-06-11
Linux kigb_lin.tar.gz kigb.emuunlim.com 466 KB 2005-12-12
OS X kigb-205.dmg www.bannister.org 1.69 MB 2008-Sep-27
 
 

GBA.js

Game Boy Advance in the Browser.
For legal reasons, GBA.js is presented without any included games. The emulation if fairly decent, though. Most games run and are playable.
http://jpfau.github.io/gbajs/
 
Javascript Direct link. jpfau.github.io  
 
 

 
Photo of a Nintendo GameBoy courtesy of Wikipedia.org
(Photo Wikipedia.org)
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