I’ve always felt the Game Boy is the biggest icon of old Nintendo, before their more modern and less consumer friendly form. Its portability and low price also made it a more accessible system worldwide for many years, making it a good symbol of worldwide gaming for that era in general.
The Game Boy: A Technical Marvel of Handheld Gaming
Submitted 3 weeks ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
https://slicker.me/retrocomputing/gameboy.htm
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TheBluePillock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
atma46@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Man… this came late to our country. Mostly smugglers, but what a blast it was to have something so small to play games on. 🎮
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did anyone else notice how fast that website loaded? Nice, clean design!
abfarid@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Not if you’re on mobile :(
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nintendo has been prioritizing battery life over flashy graphics since a looong time.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
The Game Boy in particular was from Gunpei Yokoi’s design philosophy, “lateral thinking with withered technology”.
Honestly not a bad choice, especially for the time. Even if it was late in GB’s life, pokémon would have never worked on a system that eats 6 batteries in 3 hours.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Did the Game Gear even last 3 hours? Felt like 1 or less, but I might be remembering it after being forced to use nicads after the rents got sick of buying new alkalines.