In Pictures: Highlights of the Best Tech Products

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.