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G33Z3R Toy Files · 19891998

When did the Game Boy come out?

Game Boy

Introduced
1989
Made by
Nintendo; designed by Gunpei Yokoi's team
Price then
$89.99, with Tetris in the box
The numbers
Nearly 119 million sold with the Color version

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A gray brick with a green screen you couldn't see in the dark or in bright sun, and it beat every color handheld on the market because it ran for 30 hours on four AAs and came with Tetris.

The back seat of every road trip from 1989 on: the click of the contrast wheel, the worm light, the link cable. Tetris in the box was the smartest decision in the history of the toy business.

Sources: Wikipedia — Game Boy

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