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Nintendo's Game Boy handheld was first released in 1989. The gaming device was the brainchild of long-time Nintendo employee Gunpei Yokoi, who was the person behind the Ultrahand, an expanding arm toy created and produced by Nintendo in 1970, long before Nintendo would enter the video game market. Yokoi was also responsible for the Game & Watch series of handhelds when Nintendo made the move from toys to video games; Some might consider these early LCD-display handhelds to be a prototype of the upcoming Game Boy. When Gumpei designed the original GameBoy, he knew that, to be successful, the system needed to be small, light, inexpensive, durable and have a varied, recognizable library of games upon its release. By following this simple mantra, the Game Boy line managed to gain a vast following despite having numerous competitors that would claim to be "more advanced".
Game Boy continues its success to this day and many at Nintendo have dedicated the handheld in Yokoi's memory. Game Boy celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2004, which coincided closely with the 20 year anniversary to the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), with the release of several classic NES titles remade for the Game Boy Advance as well as an NES-themed color scheme for the Game Boy Advance SP.
The original Game Boy was released on April 21, 1989 in Japan and in August, 1989 in the United States. Based around a Z80 processor, it had a tiny black and green reflective LCD screen, an eight-way directional pad, and two action buttons. It played games from ROM-based media contained in small plastic detachable units called cartridges (sometimes abbreviated as carts). The game that really pushed it into the upper reaches of success was Tetris. Originally only available in neutral grey color, Nintendo released several colored Game Boy models in 1995, advertising them in the Play it Loud! campaign. The original Game Boy was the first cartridge based system that supported more than four players at one time (via the link port). In fact, its been revealed that (even though only one game took advantage of it) the system could actually support 16 simultaneous players at once.
