The Game Boy is 25 Years Old in North America

Best gift a five year old could ever ask for.

"Super MArio Land"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9_-HvB3zbC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3TcdrhDeZA

Christmas 1989, oh how I will never forget you and getting my Game Boy, Tetris, and Super Mario Land!

my first real game system.

i <3 gameboy

My first Nintendo console! Working on a music tribute to it, should be out sometime after my Summer vacation.

@Ryno Heck yeah! SML and Tetris, 1989, Christmas....I had same scenario! Good times, indeed.

I played NES at friends' houses a lot, but GameBoy was MY first system. It's what made me a life-long gamer and Nintendo fan in particular. So much nostalgia.

Pokemon is another reason the GameBoy is the best. Even Kirby's Dream Land! Happy 25th anniversary of the best handheld hence DS or 3DS. Can we hope for a classic GameBoy stage for Super Smash Bros.?

And let's have these kids think of the GameBoy....
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/facepalm on the kids video

As old as my oldest brother. Happy B-Day!

Got a gamboy when I was 5. Of all the consumerism I've contributed to in this darn world, that was easily the best thing ever and the most influential.

@3DSfan134 I don't think their reactions are that bad, honestly. I mean, as great as the Gameboy is, it does seem kinda silly when you can have something smaller with a color screen and countless games to play without cartridges. I mean, I prefer the Gameboy, but I get why a kid wouldn't. I was actually surprised they liked it as much as they did (some more than others, of course). Plus, were they even aware that it plays more than just Tetris?

I loved playing Tetris on my stepdad's. I had the game boy colour. Man how I miss it. It was that clear purple one and my dad bought me Pokemon red for it. Definitely my favorite system. Man I wish I still had my GameBoy Colour.

Question is, how old is the Light Boy? Now THAT changed my world. lol

happy birthday game boy!!! i still have my blue game boy pocket that my dad APPARENTLY found lying on a parking lot,it has some dents and cosmetic damage but still works like a champ!!

@Krambo42 Only 1 boy figured that the GameBoy can play Pokemon Red and Blue.

My 9th birthday, I got my first gameboy (it was green). My special game memories: Harvest Moon & Kirby's Dreamland!

25 years and with a little TLC most Game Boy systems will last another 25.

I never got a Game Boy, but I remember always finding the display at Wal-mart or Toys R Us and playing Tetris until my parents told me it was time to go. I've owned at least three different versions of Tetris since then, but Game Boy Advance was my first (and only) portable.

I got mine in 1989 as well. My mom and dad had put them on layaway at a Fred Meyers in Anchorage Alaska. We were rolling cross country to move down here to Florida. I'll never forget going with them to pick it up. Tetris and Super Mario Land were my starters as well. Those were the days.....

I for one came onto the Game Boy scene far, far later than most. I am only 16 so naturally I was born right around the end of the Original's lifespan and just before the Pokémon cult of the late 1990's began My first handheld seven years later in 2004 was the Gameboy Advance SP. I got into collecting handhelds little over four years ago with...the Gameboy Micro. I got the Color and Original within a month of each other in fall of 2011(october and November respectfully, yes the Color came first) and the rest they say is, well, history. Today I own north of 18+ handhelds and my Gameboy Original/Color game collection is by far the largest retro handheld game collection I have (in close-ish 2nd in the Advance and a distant 3rd is my Neo Geo Pocket Color or Atari Lynx...) So many brilliant and fun games, I will admit I seldom play on the Original, but since getting a Pocket...black and white has been in baby! The Color is still my favorite of all the 'Boys, but the Original definitely has its place Happy birthday Game Boy! Here is to another 25 years of pea green handheld gaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Admittedly I prefer the Gameboy Advance, but let's face it, the original was, and still is awesome. it had a lot of fun games for it, and it started Nintendo's series of handheld systems, which is also good. Happy birthday, Gameboy!

Another true punch to the gonads as I realize how old I am...

25 yrs old and I'll still play one over and PSP or Vita

I always remember my first Game Boy when I got it for X-Mas back in 1990s when I was a kid. Good old times. sighs happily

And tomorrow Digimon will be 15 years old.

I don't feel old.

I recently bought 2 titles for Game Boy (Game & Watch Gallery 1 & 2) in the Virtual Console 3DS and I got as Gift Mario Land 2 for Gold member in Club Nintendo; and all those games, I have them in their original Game Boy Game Pack, only I played them in Game Boy Advance, but I never got bored for playing those games; it's a shame that some I don't play completely (batteries are dry...), but I can play them anyway.
Waiting for the other 2 G & W Gallery and saving money for other titles (Mario Land, well, I think that will be soon, XD)

"There's an armed robbery in the building and you are the only two who aren't on lockdown!"

got it christmas of that year, amazing i still play some of those games now

I think I got the original GB within a year of its launch. A friend of mine got one early and I got to experience how cool it was and I wanted one for a while. My particular unit's screen started giving up a bit early after only several years of service, but it remained playable for a while before it got worse.

Happy birthday old boy and thanks for revolutionizing portable gaming! Happy gaming everyone!

Every kid to teenager back in the early 90's were using the gameboy headphones with their walkman's.

@3DSfan134 you Just Got your Wish! https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/08/this_game_boy_stage_in_super_smash_bros_for_nintendo_3ds_is_all_retro_charm