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Nintendo Game Boy 1st-gen
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Criteria Comments Rating
  • Game library My family was too poor to buy any games for 5 years when I had it but after we some money, I loved every game I got! good
  • Graphics I was ignorant of any other consoles or handheld so I thought these were the greatest graphics ever for a handheld! good
  • Battery life Although it took 4 AAs, this lasted forever. I remember not having to buy batteries for a long time. good
  • Portability (size / weight) I can't fit in my little kiddy pockets back then. :( awful!
  • Durability This thing is build like a tank! Mine was beat up but it still worked after 7 years. great!
Detailed review
I remember the day when my mom bought me the Game Boy in a little electronic shop in Hong Kong. I was so happy and ever since then I've been hooked on handheld gaming. The original Game Boy was a very fun device and it gave many many hours of fun game play. When I got it, the shop gave us a 99 games in 1 cartridge with it. Tetris and that cartridge full of pirated games pretty much served as my game collection for 7 years.

Even today, when I'm feeling nostalgic, I'll pull out the Game Boy and play a short game of Tetris on it. It was thanks to the Game Boy that I got a head start in being hooked on little gadgets!

UPDATE: www.youtube.com­/watch­?v­=PuZfSO2boSY That's a link to my unboxing of it from a while back.
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2011-08-28
Updated detailed review