Game Boy Color Promotional Demo

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Game Boy Color Promotional Demo
Developer	Nintendo
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform	Game Boy Color
Release date	1998[?]
Serial code	CGB-ADME-USA

The Game Boy Color Promotional Demo is a looping tech demo that was created to promote the Game Boy Color and showcase its hardware capabilities inside of in-store kiosks. It incorporates many elements of the Super Mario franchise, including various demos of Wario Land II, as well as using colorized sprites from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.

Sequence

The demo opens with a fading Nintendo logo, with assorted multicolored triangles flying around it, before cutting to a chalkboard. The text "Nintendo GAMEBOY Now in COLOR" is written in the chalkboard, in yellow, magenta, and cyan. After this, gameplay of Tetris DX is showcased, with title cards reading "Escape to Color", "Plays Over 400 Game Boy Games", and "More Processing Power". After clearing a few lines, the scene fades to an image of Wario giving a thumbs up, with the title card "Color LCD Screen" displayed before fading to a gameplay demo of Wario Land II, with Wario in a wooded area, as the title card "Portable Fun In Full Color" appears.

After this, the screen transitions to another scene with many multicolored tubes around the Game Boy Color logo, as a pre-rendered cube moves into frame from the right. The title card "Infrared Communication Port" appears, before the cube starts to change color and spin at differnet speeds, before moving left off-screen. After this is another gameplay demo of Wario Land II, featuring Wario in his castle and stomping a Chūta. After a fade to white, the original Game Boy logo is displayed in monochrome, before Mario walks up to it and the word "Color" peeks out from behind the Game Boy Logo, and the text begins to rotate while Mario walks around it. After this is another gameplay demo of Wario Land II, featuring Wario being carried by the Owl while dodging Birds in an industrial setting, with the title card "More Processing Power" appearing. The scene fades into a scene of fish in a fishtank, with the title cards "Color LCD Screen" and "Portable Fun In Full Color".

After this is a scene of gameplay of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, with Link fighting two Moblins as the title card "Escape To Color" appears. After a room transition, the monochrome Game Boy logo re-appears with a string below it. Mario walks up to it, and pulls the string, as the colors begin to cycle on-screen. After this, a monochrome Wario walks up to the string and attempts to pull it, before the screen turns monochrome and Wario is flattened by it. The screen fades to the Nintendo logo, fading through a rainbow of colors while many multi-colored triangles bounce around the screen, with the title cards "Plays Over 400 Game Boy Games" and "More Processing Power", before fading to white and looping the demo.

Gallery

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  Mario pulling a light switch

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  Wario being flattened

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  Mario

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  Wario

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  Wario

Notes

• The internal data for the Game Boy Color Promotional Demo is based heavily on Wario Land II, featuring many assets left over from that game in the data. In addition, a debug menu mentions several games that do not appear in the final demo, such as Dr. Mario and Alleyway.