There’s no doubt that the grey brick created by Gunpei Yokoi in 1989 revolutionized video games as a whole. A system that, on paper, couldn’t hold a candle to handhelds like SEGA’s Game Gear or Atari’s Lynx. No color screen or backlight made the original Game Boy a hard seller until the price point was announced, and Tetris became the pack in title. The rest, as they say, is history. Sadly, Yokoi never saw the further success of his invention or what it would become (he tragically died in 1997).
Still, his grey brick would eventually evolve and advance into one of the best handheld gaming systems ever made. When the Game Boy Advance (GBA) was first released in 2001, fans were excited and marveled at the new system. Keeping with Nintendo standards, 2 AA batteries would get the system playing for a good 15 or so hours, and right out the gate, the entire Game Boy….
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