Ah, Game Boy. We go way back. You've been in my back pocket for decades now. We've been through so much together, too. Remember when I lost your battery cover? You had to roll bare-assed for a long time. Embarrassing!
Remember when you got that silly printer? Remember when we got that hip-worn add-on battery pack to extend your battery life? Remember when I thought I broke you but it was just your contrast dial being all the way down? That was funny, wasn't it?
Ah, we had fun.
You're now a ripe 20 years old, first hitting retail in Japan this week back in 1989. But you're still cool. You made on-the-road gaming cool. Hell, you made Barf Green cool. And you and all of your younger siblings still impress. And you did it all with only one screen, no color, uphill both ways.
You've touched the lives of hundreds of millions, Game Boy. You should be proud.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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5:40 PM on 04.23.2009
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Also this is 3 days too late.
yeah baby!
Yeah let's act like douchebags so people pay attention to me.
Had Pokemon red on the gameboy colour though.
plz see
Monodi
...attention whore
Or...
Game Man?
HEY GUYS, HOW COME NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS A PARTY
LOLWUT. Someone celebrated early, and told them dirty things.
I have only played one game on the Gameboy, the Tecmo Bowl port. Fun times.
I don't think all of the successors were worthy.......
ANOTHER 20 YEARS.
Never before in my life have I felt so shamed. You are so quick, sir.
What a blast those days were.
It's kind of sad that consoles these days aren't expected to live past 2, new versions of the DS come along every six months, and yet this GameBoy has been on the planet for neigh-on 20 years and is still going as strong as it was when it first left the factory.
Remember when we thought it was small? Good times.
Game Boy, thanks to you, portable gaming is alive and well. If it weren't for that, I'd probably have murdered all the fat people and elderly that have ever sat next to me on an airplane.
Hells yeah Game Boy Pocket! That was my first, too.
All I had to play for months was the original Game & Watch Gallery, but that was all I needed. I needed no other woman.
<3
and The Genesis had High definition written all over it, at least Nintendo were not false advertising.
Celebrating 20 years of Nintendo vs Sega war revival.
@ John B - yes WE are old, good sir!
I don't have that GB anymore, but recently I bought another one, it's a charmy console.