28th February 2005, 5:11 PM
You don't remember the Play It Loud Game Boys? The GB was going on six years old and had been fading for a few years. It needed something to reinvigorate it. So they tried new hardware: A brand-new line of ... colored Game Boys! Yes, now instead of Game Boy white/grey, you could get your GB in one of five great colors!
It was a big hit, of course. Looking back on it it's kind of dumb, but I thought they looked really cool in '95... there were also great ads in Nintendo Power, etc... my sister colored her GB red with a marker (it's still red, actually... permanant marker sticks well on plastic it seems.) because she wanted one of them but we already had GBs. :)
At least the GB Pocket changed SOMETHING...
It was a big hit, of course. Looking back on it it's kind of dumb, but I thought they looked really cool in '95... there were also great ads in Nintendo Power, etc... my sister colored her GB red with a marker (it's still red, actually... permanant marker sticks well on plastic it seems.) because she wanted one of them but we already had GBs. :)
At least the GB Pocket changed SOMETHING...