Topic: Happy 25th Birthday, Game Boy!

25 years ago today, Nintendo's first handheld, the Game Boy was released (in Japan).

I have fond memories of playing Super Mario Land on road trips. Anyone else have any memories of this system?

It was my first gaming system, actually. I loved playing Tetris and Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land, as they were the games I got from my cousins when they gave me the system.
Of course, I'm still buying games for it today, it was a great system.
Here's to the Game Boy, and another 25 years!

And to anyone that doesn't know, Duck Hunt is 30 today.

25 years... Damn. I used to play Pokemon games long time ago.

I still remember getting the original Game Boy for Christmas that year (I always seemed to get new game consoles at Christmas). It was the start of a life long Tetris addiction for me, and I think I burned through two sets of batteries playing Tetris and Super Mario Land before I even put it down. I remember that Nintendo sold a sort of power pack for the original Game Boy that plugged into the ac jack, but I think my parents would have loved it if Nintendo had started selling their handhelds with a built in rechargeable battery pack when I was a kid.

I have over 400 games for my Gameboy, so yeah, I remember it quite well! I got it when I was 12 for Christmas and 24 years later I'm still hooked on those 4 grey shades. I still have the original with it's box and everything, but I play on a AGS-101 now. My original Gameboy turned brown I'm still amazed at how good the speaker sounds on the original though, compared to the smaller ones they used later.