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Game Boy’s 20th Birthday
Ars Technica takes a look back at the creation of one of the most revolutionary digital devices in the past half century, and offers up six reasons why the Game Boy is still #1:
Twenty years ago this week, Nintendo released the Game Boy, its first handheld video game console. Excited Japanese customers snatched up the innovative monochrome handheld by the thousands, which retailed for 12,500 yen (about $94 at 1989 rates) at launch – a small price to pay for what seemed to be an NES in your pocket.
Happy birthday, Game Boy. I can’t believe I had to go a whole three years of my life without you.