The little grey box – 35 years old this month – has kept you going, helped you through grief and long journeys, and been your companion through childhood
That small grey box was millions of people’s first introduction to video games. It was shared among families, played with equal enthusiasm by girls, boys, men and women. When I asked people for their most cherished Game Boy memories last week, almost a hundred people got in touch to share their reminiscences of playing it on the commute to work, on long car journeys, on family holidays and under the covers after bedtime .
I was pretty miserable for the following year, and my dad didn’t really know how to help. He would often just buy me things to try and cheer me up – often a new game when we went travelling. I remember finishing Kirby’s Dream Land in about an hour during a trip to Holland, and reading about Super Mario Land 2 in a gaming magazine, only to find it in the airport that same day and getting him to buy it for me. The one game I loved the most on that old console was Link’s Awakening.
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