The line is a line of battery-powered handheld game console sold by Nintendo. It is one of the world's best-selling game system lines, with nearly 200 million units sold worldwide, as of November 17, 2006. The original Game Boy and Game Boy Color combined have sold 118.7 million units worldwide, as of March 31 2005. All versions of the Game Boy Advance combined have sold 81.06 million units, as of March 31, 2008.
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 Ultra Hand, 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. When Yokoi designed the original Game Boy, he knew that, to be successful, the system needed to be small, light, inexpensive, and durable, as well as...
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