User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-6050823-20130617133345/@comment-188.22.152.200-20130617210551

Neither the GameBoy nor the GameBoy Color could actually handle those graphics. The original Gameboy only had 4 different shades while the Gameboy Color had a 4 colour per sprite limitation. Those images have at least 5 different shades and sprites with 5 different colours.