A monochrome screen, four-way control pad, and two action buttons used to be all it took to entertain kids for hours on end. The original Game Boy may look primitive by today's standards, but consider the state of handheld gaming before the Game Boy. Two words: Mattel Football. Through a whopping nine versions, the Game Boy has gotten progressively smaller while Nintendo's hold on the portable gaming market keeps growing larger. Now mutated into the Game Boy Advance more than 188 million Game Boys have sold throughout the years, making it easily the most influential portable gaming device ever constructed.
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In Pictures: Highlights of the Best Tech Products
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22. Nintendo Game Boy (1989)
2. Apple II (1977)
3. TiVo HDR110 (1999)
4. Napster (1999)
5. Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983)
6. Apple iPod (2001)
7. Hayes Smartmodem (1981)
8. Motorola StarTAC (1996)
9. WordPerfect 5.1 (1989)
10. Tetris (1985)
11. Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (1994)
12. IBM ThinkPad 700C (1992)
13. Atari VCS/2600 (1977)
14. Apple Macintosh Plus (1986)
15. RIM BlackBerry 857 (2000)
16. 3dfx Voodoo3 (1999)
17. Canon Digital ELPH S100 (2000)
18. Palm Pilot 1000 (1996)
19. id Software Doom (1993)
20. Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)
21. Apple iTunes 4 (2003)
22. Nintendo Game Boy (1989)
23. Iomega Zip Drive (1994)
24. Spybot - Search & Destroy (2000)
25. Compaq Deskpro 386 (1986)
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