Game Boy
date: label: Date made
content: 1989
name: label: user
content: Huynh, Richard
label: patent holder
content: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
label: maker
content: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: The Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989. It was a handheld video game console that combined aspects of Nintendo's successful Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) television video game console with their earlier handheld electronic games marketed under the name "Game & Watch." It contained an 8-bit Z80 processor with a monochrome LCD display and 4-channel stereo sound. Shortly after the introduction of the Game Boy, Sega and Atari released handheld games, the Sega Game Gear and the Atari Lynx. Both had superior color LCD displays but both also suffered from short battery life and limited game availability. Nintendo shipped over 100 million units of the Game Boy and its successor, the Game Boy Color around the world.
label: Description
content: All original Game Boys were bundled with Tetris, an addictive game developed in 1985 by Russian mathematician Alexey Pazhitnov, assisted by Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov. As with the NES, game software was stored on removable cartridges, allowing users to switch games at whim. Nintendo also marketed a number of accessories with this version of the Game Boy, including a camera and printer attachment.
place: label: Place Made
content: Japan
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard Huynh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0344.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0344
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0344.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: video game console
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.7 cm x 8.9 cm x 3.8 cm; 5 13/16 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in