Original flavor Game Boy spotted in the wild [I Heart Games]

Recently a contributor on Aeropause saw the damndest thing on a train to a comic conference in Philadelphia– a girl playing an original big brick, puke green screen Game Boy.

These days, one may think there’s little difference between the original Game Boy and the old Tiger handheld LCD games, but when it came out, the Game Boy was the hottest fucking thing on the planet. Sure, side-scrolling platformers were difficult as hell to see– actually in many light conditions, the screen was impossible to see in general, but it was a real leap in gaming. No longer were your mobile gaming options limited to packing in a bunch of bulky handheld LCD games that had one lousy, crappy traffic-dodging game a piece on them, no sir.

From Aeropause:

I feel like I should have held up today’s newspaper in this picture.

That shot was taken today, May 31 2008, and it features a woman on a train playing the original brick-style puke-green LCD Game Boy. I could not get close enough to spy without feeling creepy about it, but I would wager she was plugging away at Tetris. Those GBs are tough little guys, eh?

I’m sorry, maybe you’re not as excited as I am to see that people still own these and play them every now and again. Now if I were ever on a train and saw someone playing a Virtual Boy, that would be cause for geeky jubilation to the XTREME.