Does The Nintendo Gameboy Still Cut It?

Anyone above the age of twenty will have fond memories of the Nintendo Game Boy. It is, of course, the very first portable Nintendo game console that permitted users to change games on a makeshift basis. Before the Nintendo Game Boy arrived, game-players were stuck with 'fixed' portable gaming systems, i.e. handhelds which only played one game.

The Nintendo Game Boy was a technological marvel during its time. Cartridges were sold singly, with most games during the initial few months of the system being re-evaluated down ports of NES titles. To claim that the Nintendo Game Boy was a success would be an understatement. The first iteration of the handheld, with its second, improved version the Game Boy Color, sold just about 120 million units all over the world.

If we are to get a comparison, 120 million Game Boy owners are as many as 2/5 of the people of the united states.

To most, the hand held system even defined a complete generation. But that was 20 years back. Fast forward to today, the age of Nintendo Wiis, Sony Playstation 3s, and Microsoft Xbox 360s. Since the Game Boy's release in 1989, the handheld has seen many upgrades, from the already mentioned Game Boy Color, to the bigger jump that is the Game Boy Advance, to this king of the hill, the Nintendo DS.

All these advancements beg the question : is there still a place for the Nintendo Game Boy in today's electronic entertainment world? The answer, naturally, is no.
Being rendered out of fashion with the approach of newer technology is the fate of all game systems, no matter how influential they might have been. Today, folk don't talk of the Sony Playstation as they're all rapt with its latest and strongest iteration, the Sony PS3.

As a gaming system, the Nintendo Game Boy's time has passed. As a inheritance however, the memories made possible by the Nintendo Game Boy will live on forever. And it's still fun to play Tetris on the old portable!