Game Boy Facts

The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.

The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, started at Nintendo as an assembly line maintenance worker fixing machines before being discovered by the company president and becoming one of gaming's most influential designers.

A Nintendo Game Boy survived a barracks bombing in the 1991 Gulf War. The front was charred and the A and B buttons melted - but Army medic Stephan Scoggins shipped the wreck to Nintendo, and technicians heard the startup chime plugging in Tetris. It still worked. Nintendo replaced his unit and displayed the original at their New York store. They quietly retired it in 2023 - over 30 years later.