silly female! Games are for boys!
1989. The end of a decade, and the beginning of a console legacy that will run well into the 2000s. It was the launch of the Gameboy, a console that would have so many spin-off consoles that it just got slightly insane.
The Gameboy is a handheld console, Nintendo's first with cartridges, as opposed to the Game & Watch style of one game per system. It launched in Japan on April 21, 1989, and with it, launched the games Alleyway, Baseball, Super Mario Land, and Yakuman. Whilst Yakuman was missing from the North American release, it instead included both Tennis and Tetris, which would turn out to be the best-selling game for the system and a pack-in game.
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The Gameboy has had more versions than every Microsoft Office program combined. There's the Gameboy Pocket, the Gameboy Light, and the Gameboy "Play it Loud Edition", just to name a few. Technically, the Gameboy Color also fits this category, but as it has games that can only be played on it and not the original Gameboy, I count it as its own system.