Game Boy is now in the Toy Hall of Fame!

[Dio Brando]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10392262-17.html

Personally, I think it's awesome. I'm also quite impressed that it beat out Hot Wheels and Cabbage Patch Kids for the honor.

 

[Metal Slugnuts]

OG Game Boy was the toy of my youth. I dragged that thing around till I was fucking 12-13...still works to this day.

I got mine by getting first prize in a Nintendo drawing...remember those Game Boy back packs from the early 90s? They had a mailin card for a contest which I thought was an order form for a free GB. I waited and waited and waited, bugging my parents to no end about when I'd get my GB. They just could not convince me that I wasn't going to win. Sure enough, after a few months they called me down before bedtime and showed me the Congratulations! letter.

Link's Awakening was, is and will always be one of my top 5 games. My GB had a weird tendency to corrupt LA carts though...I went through an original one AND a DX one.

My first job ever was slumming at a junkyard of all places. I helped my friend's dad crush cans/lawnmowers/other scrap for a week or two so I could afford my yellow Game Boy Camera. I made so many movies on that thing...

Fuck it, I might go play it right now.

 

[Cavalry]

Toy... Hall. of.. Fame... wow.

I guess if any 'toy' is deserving... the good ol' gameboy should on the top of that list.

 

[GregN]

There's only been hundreds iterations of the thing released (if you could the DS).

I'd say it deserves it.

My Dad used to call it a "playboy."

 

[BlitzChris]

I took it everywhere with me, and at the time it was a major status symbol! Even if you were only 12 years old..