Game Boy becomes a man

February 10, 2009 on 4:26 pm | In travel | No Comments

This Game Boy has got some stories, let me tell ya. He has seen some things, man. Things you wouldn’t even freakin’ believe, man.

So anyway… after Comic Con I came across this display at the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. This smashed-up original model Game Boy belonged to an American soldier who fought in the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91. When his position was bombed by enemy Iraqi forces, his barracks—and everything inside—went up in flames. When the fire was put out, he found that his Game Boy was still there and, despite the exterior casing being burnt to oblivion, still functioned, and it even works now, nearly two decades later. (This mad lo-fi cell-phone-camera pic can’t really do it justice, but the little screen still had a game of Tetris going on.) Still, all these years later, I doubt my Nintendo DS would be able to handle getting dropped from a table, much less bombed…

-Matt