Happy Birthday Gameboy

zt1903

25 years old today!

Actually makes me feel old that it was that long ago I was playing Tetris, Links Awakening and Mario.

Happy days though.

Miss Mandy

Fantastic! The Gameboy was the first console that really got me into gaming. It was a very well built console as well, my launch model from September 1990 is still working 24 years later!

Daft Ada

I got my Game Boy for my 10th Birthday (only a mere 22 years ago!). Saved my birthday money and bought it off a mate, along with Gremlins 2, Robocop, Duck Tales, Mario Land 2 and Tetris. I got Jurassic Park, Lemmings and Link's Awakening for Christmas that year too. Good times!

The Game Boy started off my love affair with Nintendo, at the time I had a C64 while most of my mates had a NES, Mega Drive or SNES. I got so many hours out of it, whether aimlessly collecting rupees in Link's Awakening or (many years later) catching them all in Pokemon Blue. A friend and I picked up import copies of Red and Blue from one of our local Indie shops a full two years before it came out in the UK. So many great memories of the old Boy!

everett_psycho

I think like awakening is possibly the most times I've ever played one game through entirely, I must have completed it at least 10 to 15 times as a kid, most times I was known as thief though.

Also teamed up with a mate and got all 150 Pokémon, took ages but we did it in the end.  Was tempted to dig the old thing out a few weeks back and be that annoying bloke on the train who isn't using headphones just to see how many people react to the Mario or Tetris music

Ben Ingber

My gameboy was one of the most influential gadgets I ever owned. Totally changed the way I saw games. It's funny because I was just thinking about Balloon Kid the other day - I was trying to work out if it was unique in being a right-to-left scroller.

I might pick up a Gameboy for old time's sake. What can they be bought for these days?

Foster

You could probably pick one up cheap from ebay