The GameBoy is 25 years old today!

[D4rkDragon]

Yes, the Gameboy (not Colour) is 25 years old today !

It was a phenomenal success for Nintendo, who threw NEC (PC-Engine Express), Sega (Game Gear) and Atari (Lynx) literally off the handheld market.

It had a great success thanks to its poor power consumption, and could last up to 10 hours with only 4 batteries!
The two GameBoy games that sold the most were Tetris, which was sold with the GameBoy, and Pokémon: Red&Blue (&Green for Japanese Players).

Also, its success was due to its low price. It was sold for ~90€ in Europe (I have no price for North America), compared to Atari's Lynx who was sold for the double.

Finally, the Gameboy had also some accessories designed for its games: the Gameboy Camera (for... the Gameboy Camera), the Gameboy Printer (Gameboy Camera, Pokémon series), and the Link Cable (Games supporting Multiplayer, too much to list them)

To conclude this, allow me to list all the GameBoy designs made by Nintendo (excludes the GBA) with images:

 

[Reece]

Woah, and to think after twenty five years the Gameboy's succesor; the Nintendo DS family is still at the top of the market, if it wasn't for this innovative, amazing piece of technology, handheld would not have been where it is today. Happy Birthday Gameboy, you made us handheld gamers proud, up to this day your games like Pokemon Red/Blue still remains in every gamer's memory.