Gameboy History

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The Game Boy was developed by a man named Gunpei Yokoi an engineer had helped to guide Nintendo into both the toy and arcade markets, and in 1980, he found a way to bring the two together. It wasn't the Micro vision that inspired him, but an everyday observation. As the story supposedly goes, Yokoi was riding the train to work, when he saw a businessman trying to amuse himself with a small LCD pocket calculator. It was here that it dawned on him that there might be a way to do something considerably more fun and technically most advanced with the same basic technology. He realised that he could even throw in some practical functionality. Yokoi idea worked and it was eventually called the Game & Watch, created in 1980 it became the first step forward towards the Game Boy line.