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Let me take you back to the early 90s, where video games were big and Nintendo was THE console to buy. The good folks of Nintendo said, hey, how can we make this system portable? Born from plastic, screws, and imagination, came the Gameboy.

I was in sixth grade when this came out, and this device was the talk of the class. Everyone who had it, played it. Everyone who wanted, begged those who had one to play it. It was great.

The system came with Tetris and boy, who knew stacking blocks could be so fun. I had to have played that for hours on end when I first got it. Next came Excitebike. Driving that little guy on his bike and hitting the nitro over the jumps was where it's at.

Looking back on it now, to see how far portable devices have come, the gameboy isn't that spectacular, but it was ahead of it's time. I still have mine, and it's still as white and playable as the day I got it. I've moved on to my PSP now, but I still dust off the old Gameboy for a little Tetris action every now and then. For nostalgia sake.