And Stayed On Top With Handhelds
The original Game Boy was a critically important piece of hardware for gaming by itself, but Nintendo would go on to dominate the handheld market for literally decades to come after its release. The next iteration, the Game Boy Color, would help introduce the mega-series Pokemon among other things, and then later we’d see the Game Boy Advance continue Nintendo’s domination along with the DS and subsequently the 3DS.
Other companies tried to break into the handheld market with systems like the Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, and Sony’s PSP. Out of all of them, the PSP may be the most comparable in terms of success, but it still doesn’t even come close to what Nintendo achieved with their handhelds. Even today, the 3DS is going fairly strong, despite the mobile market cutting in. You can’t deny that gaming in the ’90s and 2000s was, in part, defined by the Game Boy series of systems.
