# I just found my Nintendo "Game Boy". The original one. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013 "2003-06-19T21:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/1 "2003-06-19T21:59:02Z")
Whoa! This is cool. I’m going through “the boxes under the stairs” [sub]aren’t Langoliers under there or something?[/sub] looking for empties to start packing up. So, I open 'em up to see what’s inside, and yea verily something immediately grabs my attention. . . I came across one of the relics of my youth. The _original_ Nintendo Game Boy, with it’s “dot matrix with stero sound”, black and white, 4 AA batteries, in it’s original mid 90s coolness. And I’ve got games too! _Chessmaster 2000, Star Trek, Baseball, Tennis, Golf, Chase H.Q., and Dr. Mario_. Oh this is too cool. And the damn thing still works too! Tripler I guess y’all know what _I’ll_ be doing tonight. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/2 "2003-06-19T22:25:50Z")
You have an original GameBoy, but no Tetris? The humanity? What’re Star Trek and Chase H.Q. like? ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/3 "2003-06-19T22:25:54Z")
You let yours go into hiding? Shame on you. 😉 Mine sits on the end table between mine and my husbands chair. I got it brand-spankin’ new for Christmas in 1990 when I was about 13 years old. I am now 27 and still addicted to Tetris. Still have all my old games too… Kirby’s Dreamland, Off Road, Mindbender… I love my Gameboy. ---
**Author:** ![Hauky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@Hauky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hauky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/4 "2003-06-19T22:34:53Z")
I had a Game Gear. I’m a heathen. I made up for it, though, by buying a GB off eBay a while ago. It included Tetris, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Hauky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@Hauky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hauky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/5 "2003-06-19T22:39:56Z")
I had a Game Gear. I’m a heathen. I made up for it, though, by buying a GB off eBay a while ago. It included Tetris, of course. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/6 "2003-06-19T23:11:33Z")
I don’t have the original GameBoy anymore, but I have Dr. Mario and Tetris (the original). Both are compatible with Game Boy Advance. Ooooh, I love it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/7 "2003-06-19T23:47:27Z")
I have my Gameboy still. The only game I still have for it is Tetris, I think, although I used to have the Mario game. I would love to have the Kirby game. I heart Kirby. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/8 "2003-06-20T01:49:40Z")
I hated Star Trek, I never could get anywhere with it. I believe I sold it along with my orignal GB at a yard sale years ago. Of course, I still have my pocket GB, GB Advance, and Advance SP. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/9 "2003-06-20T01:58:42Z")
I miss mine. I bought in right about when it first came out. Tetris, Mario and the Final Fantasies were the ones I always played. Why oh why did I give it to my sister? ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/10 "2003-06-20T02:32:56Z")
Got great millage out of Final Fantasy Adventures I&II, Wario, Castlevania and Zelda. Ha, my father pinched mine. He’s been hooked on Tetris for a while, and was introduced to Pokemon as a birthday present from Mum. Treated himself to a GBA last year. Oh, and he’s almost 60 now… And he used to scold me as a kid for playing games too! ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/11 "2003-06-20T04:54:30Z")
I forgot about my original gameboy for quite a while. Then I found it, along with the original “Mario World”, and promptly beat the game in about 15 minutes :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/12 "2003-06-20T05:02:09Z")
Ugh! Why would you put it in quotes and still not even be anywhere correct about the title? ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/13 "2003-06-20T05:05:05Z")
I still have my Game Gear. I think the only game I have though is the original Mortal Kombat. We also threw away our Sega Genesis about three months back. It’s hard to think that my life was once dominated by these things. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-my-nintendo-game-boy-the-original-one/183013/14 "2003-06-20T05:28:45Z")
I got my Game Boy when I was nine years old. I still have it, and it’s still in perfect working condition, as are the twenty or so games in my collection. My favorites are the Final Fantasy series and the Legend of Zelda game. The last game I bought for the Game Boy was Donkey Kong Country. I always had trouble seeing the graphics on that one; the only way I’ve ever been able to play it was with the Super Game Boy (the thing that allowed you to use Game Boy cartridges in the Super Nintendo).