Game Boy celebrates thirtieth anniversary: did you also have Tetris, Mario and Pokémon?

iHLN It is exactly 30 years ago that the Game Boy came on the market. The heavy thing with black-witscherm meant a revolution for video games. Tetris broke thanks to the Game Boy by and also the Mario and Pokémon series were big successes. The portable console went almost 120 million times over the counter.

Today, there is a huge range of games on the smartphone to play and the start before that, on april 21, 1989. Then brought the Japanese Nintendo Game Boy. Until then, played the youth especially games on the tv, but with the Game Boy promised Nintendo suddenly 35 hours of gameplay on the go. The battery went on for a long time because the Game Boy simply remained the same: no backlight and a low screen resolution.

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The father of the Game Boy was Gunpei Yokoi. He was already in the 60's for Nintendo and was initially concerned with the maintenance of printing machines for cards, when the main occupation of Nintendo. Promotion was the man when he was the Ultra Hand developed, a retractable gripper arm for children. That toy was a huge commercial success. the


Later thought of Yokoi the portable game console Game & Watch. That was more than 40 million over-the-counter, but there was a major drawback to that product. There was only one game. The Game Boy, with its interchangeable cartridges was the solution for this. Billions of those cards went out the door. (read on below)