List of best-selling Game Boy video games

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This is a list of video games for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color handheld video game consoles that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. It includes games with publicly available sales figures as well as those that received the Player's Choice label for surpassing one million units sold.

The best-selling title is the first generation of Pokémon (Red/Blue and Yellow), released in 1996, with combined sales of approximately 46 million units worldwide.{{cite news |last=DePietro |first=Andrew |date=March 19, 2017 |title='Pokken Tournament' and Pokemon's $1.5 Billion Brand |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gobankingratebuls/pokken-tournament-and-pok_b_9501260.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218180223/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pokken-tournament-and-pok_b_9501260 |archive-date=February 18, 2020 |access-date=April 25, 2017 |work=The Huffington Post |publisher=AOL}}{{cite book |last=Terry |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vu-pCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT115 |title=Top 10 of Everything 2017 |date=October 6, 2016 |publisher=Hachette UK |isbn=978-0600633747 |location=London, England |page=115 |access-date=April 25, 2017 |via=Google Books}} The second best-selling game is Tetris, originally released in Japan on June 14, 1989. Frequently bundled with the Game Boy, over 35 million copies of Tetris were shipped worldwide.{{cite news |last=Wynne-Jones |first=Jonathan |date=June 5, 2009 |title=Computer Game Tetris Celebrates 25 Years |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5460283/Computer-game-Tetris-celebrates-25-years.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531005027/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5460283/Computer-game-Tetris-celebrates-25-years.html |archive-date=May 31, 2019 |access-date=April 25, 2017 |work=The Daily Telegraph}} It is followed by the best-selling Game Boy Color game, the second generation of Pokémon (Gold/Silver and Crystal), which collectively sold 29 million units. Rounding out the top five are Super Mario Land, the first Super Mario title on the platform, with over 18 million units sold,{{cite web |last=O'Malley |first=James |date=September 11, 2015 |title=30 Best-Selling Super Mario Games of All Time on the Plumber's 30th Birthday |url=http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/09/30-best-selling-super-mario-games-of-all-time-on-the-plumbers-30th-birthday/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200908004707/http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/09/30-best-selling-super-mario-games-of-all-time-on-the-plumbers-30th-birthday/ |archive-date=September 8, 2020 |access-date=April 25, 2017 |work=Gizmodo |publisher=Univision Communications}} and Dr. Mario, which surpassed 5.34 million copies. The most successful franchises on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color include Pokémon (84.54{{nbsp}}million combined units), Tetris (38.12{{nbsp}}million), Super Mario (34.39{{nbsp}}million), Donkey Kong (12.55{{nbsp}}million), and Kirby (10.91{{nbsp}}million).

In total, 67 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games have been confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, 20 were developed by Nintendo's internal studios. Capcom follows with seven million-selling titles, while Game Freak, Rare, and Tose each have five. Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include Konami (three titles) and both Bandai and Enix (two titles each).

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