You can take it with you: Nintendo handheld retrospective

Hey, someone actually spelled 'bated breath' correctly! That's too rare these days..

I had a Game and Watch, the Zelda one. It came with the NES my mother brought for me when I was a young boy...

And I loved it, I really did. I can't really remember much about it but Link was in it - that's quite obvious, actually. I used to use it as an alarm clock for school. Good times. Too bad it got boosted out my backpack by someone, though.

Do the Fanboy sites ever do any fact-checking? I pointed out an error on Wii Fanboy last week.

In the Game Boy Pocket slide, you say that it required two AAA batteries instead of the Game Boy's six.

It took 4 AA.

I am just glad someone else pointed out the real reason the Micro failed was due to timing and not size.

I wouldn't mind a Micro sized DS next.

A solid trip down memory lane

Though some mention of software might've been nice

Ah, so many colors, even within one iteration. I never actually stuck with one color consistently. My progression was Game Boy Pocket (cobalt) -> Game Boy Color (teal) -> Game Boy Advance -> (translucent purple; I think the official name was "glacier") -> GBA SP (limited edition NES scheme) -> DS Phat (silver, but the only color at launch. I would have taken the cobalt one if I had a choice) -> Game Boy Micro (Famicom edition).

Later on I went back to get the earliest model, and got the original off-white Game Boy as well as a translucent Play it Loud version. I'm on a mission to get every color of GB Pocket/GB Color I can, but most people still want insane prices for theirs at yard sales and flea markets--$20+ usually. I also have a Virtual Boy, a pink GBA, and a purple (Smoochum?) Pokemon Mini. You can get Minis for next to nothing on ebay, but the few games they made for it are extremely rare. I only have the one that came bundled with it. I'm too young to have had a Game and Watch, and have actually never seen one in person before. They're rarer than a lot of you older gamers might realize.