It had the weight and appearance of a brick and the cartridges were huge, but the sight of the Nintendo logo slowly ... original Game Boy remains an endearing gadget. Released in Japan in 1989 ...

He is widely credited as the creator of the Game Boy, which celebrates its 35th anniversary ... to develop portable consoles after watching a Japanese businessman playing with a pocket calculator ...

The Game Boy launched in Japan on April 31, 1989. Within two weeks, it has sold through its entire stock of 300,000 units. An American launch followed in July, and managed to sell 40,000 units on ...

But the link cable was just the beginning of the Game Boy’s wild, bizarre experimentation with the future. In the late ‘90s, Japanese game company Hudson Soft eventually came up with a more ...

An unidentified Tokyo salesperson plays with a Nintendo Game Boy video game, shown in 1989, Tokyo, Japan. Nintendo, which spent most of its one hundred year history producing playing cards ...

A very old Japanese Game Boy, once destroyed and left for scrap, is about to be fully restored and rebuilt. The process begins with disassembling the console, carefully cleaning each component, and ...

The Game Boy Micro is so small... You already know that the Game Boy Micro is small when you hear people tell you that it's just barely bigger than the cartridge that fits into it, but you don't ...

“When I came into this store, I was like a kid walking into a candy shop,” said Mr Madrigal, 23, at Super Potato in the Akihabara district famous for its Japanese pop culture shops.