The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America on July 31, 1989 and in Europe on September 28, 1990.

I still own my original Game Boy, complete in the box with headphones, video link cable and the bundled Tetris game pak.

First up, a picture showing the top of my Nintendo GameBoy box:

Now a picture showing the back of the Game Boy box:

In this next picture, you will notice I taped the foam lid because some years ago it broke, but I was able to save it:

Here is the first look taking the foam top off:

After removing some of the Nintendo paperwork, we finally get to see my original Nintendo Game Boy:

Even back in 1989 Nintendo liked giving you all sorts of paperwork, booklets and posters:

Now the moment you’ve been waiting for, my original 1989 minty fresh Nintendo Game Boy:

I have so many great memories playing my Game Boy back in the day. Hot summer days relaxing with some cold beer and my Game Boy.

I’m sad to say that I don’t play it much now because I play my Game Boy games on my NES GameBoy Advance SP most of the time, but every now and then I bust out the original and play some Tetris.