I hope editors are allowed to enter . Anyway I had the origional Gameboy and was addicted to super mario world lol.

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The original gameboy in all of it’s former glory was my first hand-held console.  Tetris was the game of choice.   
It’s years later now, but still, sometimes deep into the night I still hear the theme song hypnotically driving me to organize something or elliminate clutter.

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Nintendo rocks. I’d like one of these.

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My first Nintendo handheld was the gameboy color. I spent a lot of time on Game & Watch Gallery 2 as it was my only game.

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My original Gameboy was the Gameboy Pocket.  I went away to sleep away camp, everyone had one, and I had to get one for myself after playing.  I got Kirby’s Dreamland and have loved Kirby ever since.

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oh man lol. I still remember the first day I saw the first Nintendo gameboy. I was soo damn excited and I had like $80 dollars in my bank account from mowing lawns all summer. I think I was saving up for a new bike or something like that but my plans changed the instant I saw that gameboy.

I got one with the money I had saved and my friends parents bought him one (lucky bastard), and we would play tetris all day and then finally got baseball (don’t remember the actual game name) and would link up and play against each other for hours at a time.

Although they have changed a LOT since then, that is one of my favorite gaming moments and I still remember seeing it in the case and just about to pee myself with excitement lol.

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Gameboy color and….sigh…pokemon red

That came was teh hot stuff back in the day….level 99 pokemon all teh way!

For some reason I wanna play it again…but people will make fun of me :(

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My first was the Gba. It was also the first console i ever got. Such touching memories. My mother never let me have one, so i bought it in secre and spent my time hiding in the closet and playing mario.

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I was 5, I was sick with the flu, and my mom brought home the awe-inspiring Gameboy. NOT color, NOT advance, NOT EVEN POCKET, but the heavy, paperback book-sized classic Gameboy (transparent, second-gen version). Man, I must’ve spent hours after dinner and after lights-out playing Super Mario Land. That game was impossible! Good fun though and the music is stuck in my head to this very day.

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My first console was a red Pocket Game Boy.  I loved my boy like it was my own!  I brought it everywhere: to the bathroom, to school, and to public restrooms.  I always kept an extra set of AAA batteries in case the existing ones would fail (which never happened).  I brought my Game Boy Pocket it to second grade everyday that I could and played it on the bus ride home.  I even had my own clan on the bus!  It was made up of a third-grader named Alex, who owned the giant version of the Gameboy, and me. 

We would always take the back seats of the bus, even though we would get really nauseous while playing games on a moving vehicle.  The seats were a like a sacred shrine to the clan.  At the end of every school day, I would always run as fast as I could all the way from my classroom to the bus, just to claim the back row of squishy seats.  Every time I got close to the school bus, the driver named Chuck would open the doors for me.  It was like he knew those seats were reserved just for Alex and me.

Eventually, my mother took my Game Boy Pocket away and hid it somewhere because she thought that I was rotting my youth away!  I totally disagreed and to prove my loyalty to “the clan” I searched up and down the house for my Boy.  As a matter of fact, I did find it.  But it came with a price.  My mother had hid my Game Boy in her set of drawers.  However, at that ignorant age of 8, I didn’t yet realize that the garment I had found my Game Boy in was her bra!

Later, I bought a Special Edition Pokemon Game Boy Color.  My mom hid that too.  Fortunately I still had my Game Boy Pocket but was forced to play color games on a black and white screen.  IT WAS LITERALLY TORTURE!  I quietly thought to myself that I couldn’t wait until the next Game Boy would come out…because then I would get my Game Boy Color back and be fully able to experience 8 bit goodness!

The game that I spent on the most hours on was Pokemon Blue…wait, or was it Red…or maybe Yellow…nah, it had to have been Silver…no way, Gold was definitely it…ok, it was ONE of those games but the colors aren’t coming to my mind right now.  The main character, Ash, was my idol.  I wanted to be just like him, so I did what I had to.  Since I was only 8, I thought Pokemon were REAL, so I bought an Ash Ketchum hat, stuffed animal Pokemon, and Pokeballs to catch them with.  I must have spent hours trying to perfect my “pokemon-catching” technique.

Now let’s back to the Pokemon Blue game or should I say CRPG (Colorful Role Playing Game).  I think my worst choice was to pick Charmander as a starting Pokemon because he just horribly sucked.  After getting my Pokedex, I met up with Gary for my first battle.  Gary used Bulbasaur and hit Charmander with a tackle attack.  He fainted.  If I had only known how to swear, I would have done it 100 times.  I quickly restarted the game and chose Squirtle and that became the start of my Pokemon success.

I played Pokemon Blue almost everyday.  It became part of my life and that was what made me buy Red Version, Yellow Version, Silver Version, and Gold Version.  Thank god I stopped then otherwise I would have burned a hole right through my wallet on Crystal Version, Sapphire Version, Ruby Version, Leaf Green Version, and Fire Red Version.  Now you know what I mean by CRPG (Colorful Role Playing Game.)

Thank you Gear Live Readers for enduring my story.  I hope you enjoyed my first experience with Nintendo and the story about my first really, really hard game.

P.S. I sometimes get pissed at my friends when they go, “DS?  Isn’t it just an SP with two screens?”  I reply, “NO IT’S NOT!!!”

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well my first nintendo experience was with my gameboy color. just thinking back makes me feel like crap, thinking that that gb color was AWESOME! so yea i played those pokemon games, and i even tried zelda. My parents liked the game boy too. It was just a way to shut me up during long car rides! so because of this, i got all of those gameboys till the DS!  The gameboy wasn’t as draining as ‘edder’, but i got hooked. i started to play it when i was SUPPOSED to go to sleep. THANK GOSH FOR THOSE WORM LIGHTS!

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original old school heavy grey no-color gameboy

game was probably…..tetris or that first mario

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My first gameboy was a green gameboy pocket. The first, and only, game I played on it was Super Mario Land. What Fun!

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I first received an original gameboy. At the time I had to fight my mother for time on it. We both loved the final fantasy games so we had Final Fantasy Legends I & II. I don’t think I ever finished number I but I did complete number II.

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Like many others here, I also had the original Gameboy.  I had Mario, Kirby, and Tetris, but by far the game I spent the most man-hours on was Tetris.  Not sure there’s ever been a game quite as addicting as that one.  Probably could fill a landfill the batteries I tore through trying to get further and further.

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whoaaa major flashback!

I remember walking into the gamestore and getting my first gameboy, GAMEBOY COLOUR OH YEAH!

mann that was awesome, my first game i got was: POKEMON FIRE!! hahaha oh man that game was great!

i picked charmander because fire rocks!  hehe and ahh yes, hooking up to other with the link cable to battle them!

anyone else yell out loud “I CHOOSE YOU, PICKACHU!!” while playing? LOL

good times… =)

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My first gameboy was the original one.  Gray, boxy, bulky… It is the best gear to have!  I played Battletoads for the longest time, frustrated each time I died due to not being able to save and having to start all over.  Tetris was a classic.. I played that all the time.  I took this thing every where we me as most people did.  On the airplane when I would travel, all the kids with gameboys seemed find each other and play near the back of the airplane where we wouldn’t be disturbed.  I still have this gameboy today, and YES!  IT STILL WORKS! (unlike my original nintendo whose video is broken.)

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Fourth grade; it was like the height of the Pokemon epidemic; it seemed like everyone but me had a Pokemon game. Agony, it was, listening to people at lunch talking about their latest capture. T.T

Anyways, around my birthday I of course asked for a Gameboy and Pokemon Blue; I got one up on that! My parents bought me that yellow-and-blue Pokemon Colour gameboy, with Pokemon yellow! Poke’d to the max, lol. (little did I know by the time school started I wouldn’t want to be seen with it; my birthday’s in June) I think that Yellow version still has gotta be the most-played-game in my library.. Played it all summer and even got my parents to drive me two hours to the mall to get Mew.

What doubled my play time was when I accidentally put it through the wash ‘cuz I had switched out the cartridge to play Pokemon Trading Card Game. Geez I was a Pokemon freak. Even after all the Pokemons were long dead, I played it at home and with my cousin… And now, of course, I have Sapphire and am waiting to get Fire Red.

Seriously, Nintendo’s got this untapped market here of closet Pokemon-lovers. I wonder when Pokemon DS’ll be out? Gotta get my pre-order down. =)

PS… On a side note, I also had the original Pokemon Pikachu toy that looked like a Gameboy… Lots of hours playing slots. xD

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my first nintendo experience was with my gameboy color, the clear purple one. it was cool, i played pokemon. and i TOO drove to the mall, and waited in line to get my Mew, making my collection 151! and yes, after i got the prized pokemon, i used the ‘Rare candy cheat’ and start feeding rare candies to my mew, in about 20 mins, it was level 100. and also at the mall, i stayed around and entered a battling tournament. and Again, every person i played had pokemons lev 100 just like me. i did win though, and got to face ‘a pokemon master’, who was just some loser who worked for nintendo. AND HIS pokemon were lv 100 too. well i won, even though he wasnt that hard. and guess what i won? I got a cruddy hat and cheap keychain. Before i left, i traded this kid my extra pikachu for his ditto. of course both were lv 100.
WHAT A WORLD OF CHEATERS WE LIVE IN!

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I remember when I was about 5 or 6 going downstairs and stealing the big grey blob called a gameboy ... I used it as a toy and didn’t play it until I turned it on by acident once

I finally started playing it and bam Im hooked ... The game’s I played the most were GRADIUS III
Runner up: Mystical Ninja .... which have to be the gamebody MOST UNDERATED GAMES EVER ...... in my thought.

Also, here’s me dressed up as mario to show you how much I want this Nintendo DS

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haha, I remember when i was 2 or 3 years old (1992 or 1993), my mom got me the orginialy GameBoy (yes, the big, scary, bulky, ugly, 4 battery, purple buttoned, no color beast). my hands could barely even fit around the thing which made it very difficult to play the only game i had, Jepordy. I had no idea what I was doing, but i’d just play it for hours on end and somehow have fun with it. I guess I was just amazed by the animations (ok so it was more like the screen would change scenes every so often), lol

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My First Nintendo Handheld was, of course the original Gameboy, I got it when I was six and still have it in my uh…eh hem.. “6 year old stuff” box, It’s all dusty now, and my first game I played on it was the orginal Super Mario game, man that game’s still old but that theme song is stuck in my head..anyways, I got it for my birthday which it was a popular item in that year, you see my friends all had it and talking about it the whole week, so I guessed I got jealous, So I asked my mom and dad for it, and they said “no, they are bad for your brain”, so I got mad and went into my room, locked my door, and cried really loud, and My parents finally gave up and on my brithday they bought it for me!, man I still love that Mario game a lot, it’s the oldies but it is still one of my “favorite game” haha, man those were the times

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Like most everybody that already posted,
my first Nintendo handheld console was the original grey Gameboy. I can remember spending countless hours playing Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. Up until now, I have probably played that game over 50 times. No handheld can compare to the addictiveness of the old Mario games.

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My first Nintendo Handheld is, the original Game boy, that “thing” was so addictive I almost slept with it holding it with my hand, my first game was of course the Original Super Mario!! , I just love the theme, I think everybody has to agree with me here that are Nintendo fans!!;)

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My first game would have to have been a green gameboy pocket it was my first handheld game ever i got it when i was about to go on a road trip. Even though i have every other kind of game boy i still play with it. The game that i spent the most time on was the first game that i got with it and that was kirby pinball. It was a very interesting game the more you play it more you want to stop but you can’t it pulls you into it i know i spent over 9 hours a day playing non stop. I still play with my kirby game on my Gameboy pocket because it don’t look right on the newer versions of the gameboys. I spent over 50 dollars buying different add ons for it on thing i bought was the magifing light you can put on it to see at night. I use to stay up untill 3:00am playing or i would play until my eye would get blurry.Somtime I would play it so long that when i turn it off i could still hear the music or sound effects from the game. That was when i realised that i needed to cut back on it, But kirby was s addictive. If you play it you will see that everytime you lose or die it make you want to start again. I like the gameboy though because it was easier to carry to places and not get caught, But maybe that was only my opinion. What more can I say my green gameboy pocket was what started my fasination with the video game world.So if you get a chance play kirby it is fun trying to see how high you can get your high score mine is 9000000 haven’t found anyone yet to beat it.

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uhh. ncuffee, didn’t you already post TWICE?

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My first ever nintendo handheld system was one of those old style fat gameboys which my dad bought for me when I was 11 at a swapmeet for $40 I didn’t have that many games but usually played my friend’s whenever he let me borrow some. 

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LoL… what a great contest.

I think I was the first ones to buy an original Gameboy.  Even being so young at that age, I had to get it.  I picked up that 4 AA battery powered beast and played Super Mario Land all night and day.  Best time of my life.  Gotta love Nintendo, they always know what they’re doing when making games.

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My First HandHeld (Nintendo): GameBoy [Green Background; Not even black and white]
My First Game: Tetris

This was the best game ever, I still thin it is. I played this game for hours, the Gameboy got hot, I took off the everything that could save pwr. [and i mean everything].

The battery eventually died before I did. [duracell: they last forever].

I don’t think anyone can say that Tetris was not the best game then. [It may have lost some interest, but i think it was the best seling game ever].

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My first ever nintendo console was a classic nes and my favourite game which i played the most was starfox or sumthing and it was a really good game even my dad played it.

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My first nintendo handheld console was the origina fat gameboy and my first game was tetris.

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My first handheld console was the “brick” that was the original Nintendo Gameboy.  It came with Tetris, which provided hours of fun. 

However, the game that I played most often was The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.  It was a real boredom-reducer on the long car trips my family and I would take, as well as something I could brag to my male gamer friends about (being a female who was good at games, let alone ones that didn’t have “Barbie” or “The Little Mermaid” in them made my game advice quite popular).

It was little wonder then that the first game I tried out on my new Gameboy Color was that very Zelda game

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I first had the old school fat gameboy. It kept me company through so much. Its since passed on. I used to play Wario World all the time and the first Mario game which came out on it.

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I had the origional gameboy in all it’s bulky glory. I’ve played Pokemon Red, Tetris, and Allyway on it for too many hours to count. I brought that ole girl everywhere.

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My first Nintendo® Handheld was an original Game Boy®.  I played Pokémon religiously for months and months.

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My first Game Boy would have to be Game Boy Color. I had a lime green one :D. The game that I spent many hours on was Super Mario Bros. Good times!

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man i remember those good ol days. i had the old fat one. the old school one. these games are dear to me. tetris, wario land, and final fantsay adventure. i really need this. i got bad grades so my parents sold all my systems and handhelds >_<. it sux so much.

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that was me up above. rylin 210

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My first handheld was the original Game Boy.  I logged too many hours to count on was Tetris.  That game was nothing but a time waster, but it was great.

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My first nintendo handheld was the original gameboy and i used to play Dr. Mario all the time and let me tell ya that sh*t was tight

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The original Game Boy….. that was my first handheld.  I used to haul that thing everywhere.  I’d play several games, but I always enjoyed playing Allyway the most.

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My first was the original Game Boy.  I spent way too much time playing Qix.

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The original, two-shades-of-green Gameboy was my first handheld system.  I got it and and Metroid 2: Return of Samus for my 8th birthday.  Awesome stuff.

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my very first Nintendo console is the good ol’ GAMEBOY and oh boy i must say it really ROCK my world! i was in gradeschool then and that unit was the center of my universe.

it was the envy of all students back then and we would cut class to play TETRIS!

regards from MANILA, PHILIPPINES!

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The First Gameboy, which i still have. I couldn’t stop playing TETRIS. Holy Crap! TETRIS was like crack. Just couldn’t stop playing it. eventually i would start to look at Multi-colored Tiles on my kitchen floor seeing where the could go to match. Man I was Sad, But those were some awsome times!

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I don’t want a DS but my first handheld was a GameBoy Pocket when I was 7!

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Ah yes…the days of greenscale graphics and ginormous handhelds.  My first Nintendo handheld was obviously the original Gameboy.  I got that when I was just a kid from my grandparents and was instantly hooked.  It was the first game console I had ever really owned.  That thing was MINE, and I would spend hours playing Tetris (remember when consoles actually shipped with a game?).  Boxxle was another puzzle game that I would play over and over again.  After a few years, the Gameboy Pocket came out, but I stayed with the old style handheld.  When the Gameboy Color was released, I definitely grabbed one of those (the teal one).  That opened up a whole new era of Gameboy.  I spent the most time with the Zelda Oracle twin games during that time, as well as playing all my old games in four colors.  Donkey Kong ruled on the Gameboy Color.  Then of course, the Gameboy Advance came out and I grabbed one the day it dropped.  With that console I racked up hours and hours with Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Golden Sun, and both Advance Wars games.  In fact, I think I’ll bust out Golden Sun right now.  Later!

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I first owned the Gameboy, I remember the good old days of playing Super Mario Brothers on that bulky handheld console. I had the whole case and cartidges set up. Everywhere i went I would carry this all-too-bulky case to bring around my Gameboy.

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My first experience with the Nintendo handheld gaming legacy was the good old original GameBoy. You couldn’t, however, own the system itself and appear “cool” to all the other 9-year-olds at the time, no sir. I had a plethora of accessories that took about 10 minutes to get completely assembled before the gaming even begun.

I had the rechargable battery pack that doubled the weight of the thing. Then I added the curly screen light that not only caused horrible glare, but always situated itself directly above the screen so that when using it, I had to tilt the thing to the side at the perfect angle for it to work. I had the giant screen magnifier that worked more like a “fisheye’ lens than an overall magnification, but it made everything look larger and that was all that mattered. Top it off with a nice set of huge over-the-ear earphones and it was truly a sight to see. In fact, the sheer magnitude of the system was breathtaking. It was a beast.

After completing assembly with a break for lunch, I could finally get into a great game of Super Mario, where the sprites were so small you really couldn’t tell what was going on in the game unless you periodically stood still to check your progress.

Yes, those were the days, my friend. ...and nothing will ever be catchier than the Tetris Game A Soundtrack!

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the nes, super mario 3

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