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.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Nintendo has been prioritizing battery life over flashy graphics since a looong time.
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.
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.
Really needed a car lighter adapter, but never had one.
Man.. this became popular late to our country - but what a blast it was to have something so small to play games on. 🎮
Did anyone else notice how fast that website loaded? Nice, clean design!
Not if you're on mobile :(
(I mean the design, not loading speeds)