subdirectory_arrow_right Game Boy Advance (Platform), Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform), Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (Platform), Game Boy Color (Platform), Sega Master System/Mark III (Platform), Neo Geo AES (Platform), Sega Game Gear (Platform), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform), Arcade (Platform), PlayStation (Platform)
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Attachment In 2018, rapper Soulja Boy attempted to sell his own line of video game consoles, collectively called the SouljaGame line, sold for $149.99 for a console and $99.99 for a handheld. Advertising claimed that the consoles would be compatible with a variety of consoles' games, including modern platforms like the PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch. These, quite obviously, did not have such compatibility, but rather were a generic retro emulator console one could find on small business-oriented retail websites such as Wish and AliExpress loaded with pirated and modified games from the Neo Geo; NES; Game Boy Advance; Game Boy Color; Game Boy; Sega Genesis; SNES; Master System; Game Gear; and PlayStation libraries sold at a markup. The only difference from these pre-existing consoles being a photograph of Soulja printed onto the box. Soulja Boy would eventually stop selling SouljaGame consoles, with the website for the console redirecting to Nintendo's 3DS website.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 18, 2023
Soulja Boy selling SouljaGame line article:
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/soulja-boy-selling-cheap-consoles-1203084022/

Soulja Boy ends sales of SouljaGame line article:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01/02/soulja-boy-stops-selling-souljagame-game-consoles

SouljaGame unboxing and teardown showing the packaging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo-qNU7Qu3k

Rerez video reviewing the console SouljaGame was based on, showing the console list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXuAuTFXpA#t=595
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The Game Boy "Controller Kensa" cartridge is a test cart that allowed Nintendo Service Representatives to check the buttons on a Game Boy (or a SNES controller if it is in a Super Game Boy). This cart has unused test music and unused graphics from the games Alleyway and Super Mario Land.
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Lionel Simmons missed two games for the Sacramento Kings in his 1991 NBA rookie season due to tendinitis in his wrist and forearm from playing the Game Boy too much.
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Attachment Turning on the Game Boy Printer while holding the Feed Button will print a test image of Mario saying "Hello!"
subdirectory_arrow_right Tetris (Game)
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Attachment After the second phase of the Gulf War ended in early 1991, Dr. Stephan Scoggins, a medic during the war, mailed his Game Boy to Nintendo of America hoping to get a replacement after it was damaged when his tent burned down in a fire. While the back of the console was in fair condition, the front was melted, severely charred and blistered, and the technicians that received it initially determined it could not be fixed. As an experiment, they inserted a copy of Tetris and powered it on, and to their surprise, the console still worked. The D-Pad, A and B buttons were nonfunctional, but the Start and Select buttons worked as normal. The magazine Nintendo Power sent Scoggins a replacement Game Boy "as a special 'Desert Storm' courtesy", and his letter asking for a replacement along with pictures of the console were featured in the magazine's July 1991 issue. The damaged Game Boy was not discarded; it was later displayed at the Nintendo New York store in New York City since its opening in 2001. As a testament to the console's durability and longevity, it remained powered on, looping the title screen and attract mode demo of Tetris, and receiving timely maintenance for over 20 years, until it was returned to Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond, Washington in 2023.
person oskachu calendar_month April 1, 2013
Footage of the Game Boy at Nintendo New York in 2006:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo

[Below links and info provided by MehDeletingLater.]

Esquire article:
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a27183316/nintendo-game-boy-survived-gulf-war/

G.I. Jobs article (Stephan Scoggins letter taken from Nintendo Power: Volume 26 [July 1991] - Page 7):
https://www.gijobs.com/gulf-war-game-boy/

Game Boy's removal from Nintendo New York (Note: Scoggins clarifies in the second link that a widely reported origin of the Game Boy being damaged in a bombing at his barracks is not true. He confirmed there was a bombing in the area he was stationed in, but that the Game Boy was damaged in a separate incident when his tent caught fire):
https://www.siliconera.com/the-gulf-war-game-boy-says-goodbye-to-nintendo-new-york-store-removed/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780549/gulf-war-game-boy-nintendo-nyc

Stephan Scoggins archived personal website biography:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230701201035/https://www.stephanscoggins.com/biography/
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Attachment Due to South Korea banning Japanese cultural imports at the end of World War II, the Nintendo Game Boy was distributed by South Korean company Hyundai, and was named the Mini Comboy.