Game Boy / Color
Game Boy Color — Grape (Purple)
4.8· 1400+ reviews on Marktplaats+ $59.35 shipping · total $227.41
Margin scheme (Dutch law) — VAT not itemised.
Condition
Used — playable condition
Signs of use and scratches on the screen, definitely not scratch-free — pre-owned, 100% tested and working
About this item
Playable condition: clear scratches and signs of use (see photos), but fully tested and 100% working.
One of a kind — only reserved at checkout
30-day working guarantee · personally tested
Make an offer Price not right? You’ll hear straight away what’s possibleShipping $59.35 — your parcel leaves the Netherlands.
Order more than one and you share the shipping: a second game rides along free.
US import duties are calculated at checkout and prepaid — nothing is due on delivery. The amount you see at checkout is the final amount.
Crossing the border costs you more and takes longer. That you accept that anyway means a great deal to me.
Credit card & PayPal · secure checkout · 30-day returns
The price you see is the price you are charged, in US dollars — our dollar prices follow the ECB exchange rate. Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express), PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay all work, and your bank converts nothing.
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- 100% original Nintendo — authenticity check on every item
- Personally tested — screen, buttons and ports checked before shipping
- Shipped from the Netherlands with PostNL tracking, duties paid at checkout
- 30-day returns — send it back tracked, we sort it out together
- 1Screen checked for picture and spots
- 2Buttons and controls tested
- 3Shell inspected
- 4Battery compartment and contacts inspected
- 5Ports and connectors tested
Every device goes through this function test before it leaves.
Specifications
- Platform
- Game Boy / Color
- Condition
- Used — playable condition
- Contents
- Console without box, ready to play
- Region
- PAL
- Genre
- Hardware
- Color
- Purple
Shipping to the United States
- Small parcel (1-3 games), tracked
- $38.05
- Parcel (console / 4+ items), tracked
- $59.35
- Delivery time
- 6-10 working days
We ship from the Netherlands: your parcel crosses the ocean, so it takes longer and costs more than a domestic delivery. US import duties are calculated at checkout and prepaid — nothing is due on delivery.
On a US console: Works in the United States: this Game Boy runs on batteries and has no region lock, so American and European games both play on it.
US import duties (12.5%) are added at checkout and prepaid — nothing is due on delivery. Prices and checkout are in US dollars at our fixed shop rate — your bank converts nothing.
Why does shipping abroad cost this much?
Inside the Netherlands a single game fits through the letterbox — $4.93, tracking included. That service stops at the border. Anything leaving the country goes with PostNL as an international parcel, which is a different and considerably more expensive service. That is where the $38.05 comes from: the border itself is not what costs money, the cheap service simply ends there.
That amount covers the PostNL rate to your country plus the packaging: bubble mailer or box, an antistatic sleeve for the cartridge, and tape. We never drop the tracking — on a parcel that crosses a border, shipping without proof of delivery is a risk for both of us.
Without you there would be nothing to grow. Every order that comes in here is the reason this shop can get bigger — and the reason I can keep doing this.
LLenn · Gameshop Enter
About this product
Game Boy Color — Grape (Purple) — original Nintendo retro, personally checked.
Powered on and tested before shipping: screen, buttons and charging checked. Clear signs of use, described honestly — technically flawless.
The Game Boy / Color came out in 1998: colour screen on Game Boy hardware, backwards compatible with classic Game Boy cartridges. On original hardware the whole library runs the way it was meant to — no emulator stutter, no input lag.
Who is this for? Players who want to relive the retro era, parents passing their childhood on to their kids, and collectors completing their Game Boy / Color collection.
Works in the United States: this Game Boy runs on batteries and has no region lock, so American and European games both play on it. Every item passes our authenticity check (shell, board, Nintendo markings) and a function test — you're buying 100% original Nintendo.
Shipped from the Netherlands with PostNL tracking to the US: from $59.35, import duties paid at checkout. 30-day returns.
All Nintendo consoles →Game Boy Color · model page →All Nintendo games with US delivery →
Seen it cheaper elsewhere?
For most titles there’s also a private listing online, sometimes a few euros cheaper. The difference isn’t in the title, but in the copy itself and in everything around it.
- Does it work?
- Here: Screen, buttons, battery compartment and ports checked — exactly what’s included is listed with the item.
- Private seller: ‘Works fine’ — you find out at home.
- Is it original?
- Here: Shell and circuit board inspected; a replaced shell or screen is stated honestly.
- Private seller: A replaced screen or shell is rarely mentioned.
- If it disappoints?
- Here: 30-day cooling-off period, and a 30-day warranty that it works.
- Private seller: No right of withdrawal: consumer law doesn’t apply between private individuals. Buyer protection only covers the first 48 hours after delivery; after that you’re on your own.
- Who’s behind it?
- Here: One person, who has held this device personally and answers your question personally.
- Private seller: Varies per listing.
Why you still remember this
The moment the screen got colour
Two AA batteries in, switch on, and then that logo rolling across the screen in colour. There was no light in the screen yet, so you looked for the lamp just like before — but now you could finally see what colour everything was.
One copy, this copy. Nintendo stopped making them more than twenty years ago. Every working console you still see is one somebody kept.
Collector's Vitrine · Curated archive
N° GBC-178354443103
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Used — playable condition
Personally tested
Which games work on this Game Boy / Color?
This handheld plays the classic Game Boy catalogue.
| Plays | Works? |
|---|---|
| Game Boy and Game Boy Color games | Yes |
- Game Boy and Game Boy Color games: Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges
Please note
- •A Game Boy Color plays both kinds; a classic Game Boy (grey or Pocket) does not play GBC-exclusive cartridges — those have a clear shell.
- •Game Boy cartridges are region-free.
What we see with Game Boy / Color consoles
Our experience
With a second-hand console, the difference rarely lies in the electronics and almost always in what you see and feel: the screen, the buttons and the battery compartment. Those are exactly the points we check on every device before it is shipped.
Our tip
With a second-hand handheld, look above all at the screen and the battery contacts — buttons can still be replaced later, a screen is a lot harder.
About this specific copy
This copy is in "Playable condition" — second-hand and fully working, but with visible wear: signs of use on the casing and scratches on the screen, which is therefore not scratch-free. Our grading is conservative.
Gameshop Enter — Nintendo authentication
Specialist in original Nintendo hardware · 7 years of experience testing and selling · in Enter (NL) since 2019
About Game Boy / Color
Game Boy / Color cartridges are compatible with both the original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color. They use colour on GBC hardware but also work (in black and white) on the original Game Boy. That gives maximum flexibility to players with both consoles.
- Dual-compatible — works on the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.
- Popular titles: Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal, Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
- Recognisable by the black cartridge shell — grey is Game Boy-only, clear is Colour-only.
- The cartridge itself does not wear out; only the coin cell for the save can be flat after 25+ years, and it can be replaced.
Our tip: These cartridges also fit in the Game Boy Advance and GBA SP (backwards compatible), which makes them one of the most flexible cartridge types.
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That it’s soon in your hands again and feels exactly the way you remember it — that’s what this shop was started for.
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