Game Boy Advanced
While looking for new material for our blog in hopes of fooling Google into thinking that we’re actually a quality site with regular updates I stumbled over something awesome.
Yes, follow that link. The grand hand-held hero of portable gaming, Nintendo’s Game Boy, has made it into the Strong National Museum of Play and has taken its rightful place in the Toy Hall of Fame. Apparently, that’s quite an accomplishment. I wonder why Masters of the Universe aren’t there, yet.
Quoted from the Hall of Fame entry:
No video-game platform did more to put gamers “on the go” than Nintendo Game Boy. And go they did—bringing their gaming experience to school, to summer camp, and to the back seat of the family automobile. Over the past two decades, Game Boy has become synonymous with portable gaming fun.
We’d like to congratulate Nintendo on this 1000 point achievement and hope that other ingenious contraptions of endless gaming fun will join its ranks in good time. I still don’t see the Commodore 64 there. Does that even qualify as a toy? The Bicycle has made it into the Hall of Fame and that isn’t purely a toy, either.
What does the Future hold for the Toy Hall of Fame? Looking at the sales numbers of the Nintendo DS, it looks like Nintendo may have another one of their products join that list in about 12 to 15 years. Let’s just hope the PSP Go won’t make it there. What an awful piece of junk.
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