By NIALL LILLIOTT
NINTENDO Game Boy
Console Generation
The Nintendo American Game Boy Printer paper came in red, blue,
yellow and white, with an adhesive backing. It had a width of 38mm
and a diameter of 30mm, with a 12mm cardboard spindle in the
Centre. A typical roll had 390–400 cm of length. When a picture
printed from the Game Boy Camera, it would print with a .5 cm
margin above and below the picture and print the picture at a 2.3 cm
height. This would give the total of 3.3 cm height per picture. The
Game Boy Printer paper refills boasted up to 180 pictures per roll.
With the math the typical roll could only take 118 pictures. The paper
is now hard to find; it could be substituted with a 1.5-inch-wide
(38 mm) thermal paper without
repercussions on the printer.
GAME BOY
Survives Bombing and still works !
What you see is a Gameboy that survived a barracks bombing during
the Gulf War and currently resides at the Nintendo World Store in
NYC. As is evident by the Tetris screen, it still works! Now that, my
friends, is quality. This clearly proves beyond a shadow of a doubt
one of my most recent theories -- that Gameboys really do save lives.
Okay, so maybe it doesn't prove that at all. But it does prove that
Tetris was an awesome freaking game doesn't it? Yes, it most certainly
does that.
By NIALL LILLIOTT
The Game Boy
was the first game
console in space
In 1994, Russian
Cosmo naught,
Aleksandra A.
Serebrov took a Game
Boy with him on his
journey into space.
Serebrov took the
system with him on his
194 day stint to the
MIR space station. The
Game Boy circled the
earth a total of 3000 times
before making its return. Due to
obvious weight restrictions Serebrov was limited
to just the one game, and, in classic Russian tradition, took
Tetris.
Game Boy was invented by a maintenance
worker
By NIALL LILLIOTT
The Game Boy was actually made by a man who originally started his
Nintendo career as a maintenance worker in a production factory. On
a tour of the facility, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi found a few
prototype toys on Gunpei Yokoi’s desk. He was so impressed that he
immediately fired him as a maintenance worker and hired him as a
games designer. Yokoi later invented the Game Boy - not a bad pay
off for president Yamauchi.