The Gameboy Celebrates It's 20th Anniversary!

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The Gameboy Celebrates It's 20th Anniversary!

Postby Sparx00 » Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:00 am

On July 31st 1989, The Gameboy Had it's 20th anniversary of it's creation. Heres to the Gameboy! Even though the name is gone, it will still hold a place in our hearts.
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:54 pm

Sparx00 wrote:On July 31st 1989, The Gameboy Had it's 20th anniversary of it's creation.


So it was created July 31, 1969? I had no idea.

My parents kept making up excuses not to buy a NES for my sister & me. Then they made the mistake of buying me a GameBoy for my birthday when I was 10. Been a gamer ever since. Ah, the memories.

Actually, they almost took it back. When I turned it on, they didn't expect to see everything displayed in shades of green. They wanted to bring it back to the store and exchange it for "the one with the colors" (the Sega Game Gear). It took some convincing to assure them that color didn't matter, the Game Boy had the better games.
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Postby Riggidig » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:30 pm

Got mine for my birthday back in Jan 1991, and I STILL have it, in perfect working condition (had to replace the screen once, and that's it). VIVA GAMEBOY!
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Postby rocklobster » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:21 pm

Yes, the Gameboy. The only portable system worth having.
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Postby CrimsonRyu17 » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:58 pm

<3 Gameboy. It's the only handheld system I want and have. I still have an old Gameboy Color and Advance SP = love.
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Postby ADXC » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:32 pm

Good ol' Gameboy, you have kept me alive through many a road trip! You brought me Pokemon games and DBZ games, I thank you so much!
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:45 pm

I pretty much totally missed out on the Gameboy. My dad bought me a Game Gear instead. It's not his fault there weren't any games for it...

(As for other handhelds, the Nintendo DS Lite is pretty freaking fantastic.)
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Postby Nate » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:57 pm

...I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE.

IT'S GAME BOY. GAME BOY. TWO SEPARATE WORDS. IT'S NOT ONE WORD. GAME BOY. IN JAPANESE IT'S ALSO TWO SEPARATE WORDS, "GEMU BOI" SO IT ISN'T EVEN ONE WORD IN JAPANESE. WHY IS EVERYONE PUTTING IT AS ONE WORD? IT'S TWO WORDS. THEY EVEN DISTINGUISH THAT IN LATER ITERATIONS. WHY DO YOU THINK THE GAME BOY ADVANCE IS CALLED THE GBA? IF GAME BOY WAS ONE WORD IT WOULD JUST BE GA. BUT IT'S GBA. BECAUSE GAME BOY IS TWO FREAKING WORDS.

Ahem.

Sorry. I notice that my good friend Htom managed to say it correctly though. So this was not directed at you!

I dunno. It's a pet peeve of mine. :| I get the same way with "alot" and "noone" too.
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Postby CrimsonRyu17 » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:10 pm

WOW, RLY? I TOT GAMEBOY WUZ JUST 1 WORD, I DIDNT NOE "GAME" AND "BOY" WERE SEPRIT WORDS. DURHUR.

Because everyone knows when we say "Gameboy", we're talking about the Game Boy. This is an internet forum not a professional news article. Geez.
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Postby Fantasy Dreamer » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:46 pm

Nate (post: 1336249) wrote:...I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE.

IT'S GAME BOY. GAME BOY. TWO SEPARATE WORDS. IT'S NOT ONE WORD. GAME BOY. IN JAPANESE IT'S ALSO TWO SEPARATE WORDS, "GEMU BOI" SO IT ISN'T EVEN ONE WORD IN JAPANESE. WHY IS EVERYONE PUTTING IT AS ONE WORD? IT'S TWO WORDS. THEY EVEN DISTINGUISH THAT IN LATER ITERATIONS. WHY DO YOU THINK THE GAME BOY ADVANCE IS CALLED THE GBA? IF GAME BOY WAS ONE WORD IT WOULD JUST BE GA. BUT IT'S GBA. BECAUSE GAME BOY IS TWO FREAKING WORDS.

Ahem.

Sorry. I notice that my good friend Htom managed to say it correctly though. So this was not directed at you!

I dunno. It's a pet peeve of mine. :| I get the same way with "alot" and "noone" too.


The Game Boy was awesome! I have a picture of an 11 year old me playing the original, large, awkward, gray boxy model. It only got better over the years...
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Postby Roberts » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:55 pm

Don't worry Nate, I understand your pain and anguish. :)

Game Boy. Good times. God the original one was huge though. Huge, but awesome.

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Postby ShiroiHikari » Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:26 am

Nate (post: 1336249) wrote:I dunno. It's a pet peeve of mine. :| I get the same way with "alot" and "noone" too.


But "alot" and "noone" are incorrect English and look retarded to boot, whereas Game Boy could technically go either way because it's a product name. XD
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:52 am

Htom Sirveaux (post: 1336125) wrote:They wanted to bring it back to the store and exchange it for "the one with the colors" (the Sega Game Gear). It took some convincing to assure them that color didn't matter, the Game Boy had the better games.


Not to mention that the Game Gear ate batteries like mad.

But awesome! It's weird that it's so old. I mean heck, I was born in December of the same year... Makes me feel old. Not to mention, those old Game Boys still work.
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Postby BubblegumNinja » Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:47 am

Yes sir... even though I was a bit *coughreallyreallycough* late getting into it, I can still remember the anticipation in getting my first Gameboy Colour. It was one of those limited Pikachu editions, because back then everything I did HAD to revolve around Pokemon XD

Riggidig (post: 1336132) wrote:Got mine for my birthday back in Jan 1991, and I STILL have it, in perfect working condition (had to replace the screen once, and that's it). VIVA GAMEBOY!


Dude, that was four months before I was even born!
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Postby Felix » Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:18 am

I never had an original Gameboy (feel the spite, Nate :D) but I did have a Gameboy pocket, and I loved that thing to death! Unfortunately, it's dead now. I think my favorite Gameboy game ever was Link's Awakening, and that still remains one of my favorite games period for any system.
Now I have an original GBA that has been my best friend for a long time :D I still prefer playing games on it over my DS, usually.
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Postby ADXC » Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:38 am

It's not as if it's spelled wrong, just spaced wrong.
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Postby Fantasy Dreamer » Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:23 am

Shao Feng-Li (post: 1336297) wrote:Not to mention that the Game Gear ate batteries like mad.

But awesome! It's weird that it's so old. I mean heck, I was born in December of the same year... Makes me feel old. Not to mention, those old Game Boys still work.


It was actually six days AFTER I was born. And yeah, you're right, it is weird. The fact that they still work proves how resilient those systems are.
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Postby Sparx00 » Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:30 am

You think that's resilient? This is an article from a website about one particular Game Boy (Picture included! =D)


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"What you see is a Gameboy that survived a barracks bombing during the Gulf War and currently resides at the Nintendo World Store in NYC. As is evident by the Tetris screen, it still works! Now that, my friends, is quality. This clearly proves beyond a shadow of a doubt one of my most recent theories -- that Gameboys really do save lives. Okay, so maybe it doesn't prove that at all. But it does prove that Tetris is a freaking awesome game doesn't it? Yes, that it most certainly does."

Cool huh? (Nate, I did not write this thing so don't blame me on spelling errors.)
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Postby BubblegumNinja » Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:57 am

Sparx00 (post: 1336347) wrote:You think that's resilient? This is an article from a website about one particular Game Boy (Picture included! =D)


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"What you see is a Gameboy that survived a barracks bombing during the Gulf War and currently resides at the Nintendo World Store in NYC. As is evident by the Tetris screen, it still works! Now that, my friends, is quality. This clearly proves beyond a shadow of a doubt one of my most recent theories -- that Gameboys really do save lives. Okay, so maybe it doesn't prove that at all. But it does prove that Tetris is a freaking awesome game doesn't it? Yes, that it most certainly does."

Cool huh? (Nate, I did not write this thing so don't blame me on spelling errors.)


Wow... just wow. That's amazing o__O
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Postby Robin Firedrake » Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:39 am

Nate (post: 1336249) wrote:...I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE.

IT'S GAME BOY. GAME BOY. TWO SEPARATE WORDS. IT'S NOT ONE WORD. GAME BOY. IN JAPANESE IT'S ALSO TWO SEPARATE WORDS, "GEMU BOI" SO IT ISN'T EVEN ONE WORD IN JAPANESE. WHY IS EVERYONE PUTTING IT AS ONE WORD? IT'S TWO WORDS. THEY EVEN DISTINGUISH THAT IN LATER ITERATIONS. WHY DO YOU THINK THE GAME BOY ADVANCE IS CALLED THE GBA? IF GAME BOY WAS ONE WORD IT WOULD JUST BE GA. BUT IT'S GBA. BECAUSE GAME BOY IS TWO FREAKING WORDS.

Ahem.

Sorry. I notice that my good friend Htom managed to say it correctly though. So this was not directed at you!

I dunno. It's a pet peeve of mine. :| I get the same way with "alot" and "noone" too.


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Ah the game boy. I remember it so well... I could never get enough of Super Mario Bros. :D And I remember my older brother playing, (This is my mom talking) "That weird Zelda thing. I wouldn't have let him play it except he bought it himself..."
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Postby Fish and Chips » Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:05 am

Sparx00 (post: 1336080) wrote:On July 31st 1989, The Gameboy Had it's 20th anniversary of it's creation. Heres to the Gameboy!
The Game Boy is 40 years old?
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Postby ADXC » Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:41 am

Of course Fish! Didn't you know that that video game console was first invented on the moon during the lunar moon landing of 1969! It got uber lunar light to power up the Game Boy.
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Postby Sparx00 » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:11 pm

No fish, it'll be 40 in the year 2029. That's just after the real Spiderman will be discovered (In the year 2020.)
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Postby Ante Bellum » Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:52 pm

Ante doesn't know whether or not to feel young. Hmmm. But yes, older systems tend to be a bit more durable.
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Postby Sparx00 » Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:17 pm

Besides that one Atari controller that kept breaking.
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Postby blkmage » Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:30 pm

Nintendo's consoles have always been pretty legendary for being indestructible.
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Postby S.M.O.G. » Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:19 pm

As I always say "Old skool poke'mon fo'da WIN!"
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Postby KagayakiWashi » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:46 pm

blkmage (post: 1336498) wrote:Nintendo's consoles have always been pretty legendary for being indestructible.


Somebody doesn't own a Virtual Boy.
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Postby CrimsonRyu17 » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:43 am

S.M.O.G. (post: 1337138) wrote:As I always say "Old skool poke'mon fo'da WIN!"


This.
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Postby Sparx00 » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:42 pm

Pokémon is indeed for the win.
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