Coming in as only the second video game inductee (Atari being the first), the Nintendo Game Boy joins into the U.S. National Toy Hall of Fame with 44 other toys. I think the Game Boy (including the GB color and all its other incarnations) are well deserving of this award as it pretty much launched the second most successful game franchise of all time, Pokemon. I still have my grape Game Boy Color along with the link cable that was necessary to trade Pokemon between consoles. Yeah that’s right youngins, we didn’t have wi-fi. I should still have my original Game Boy at home somewhere, but I haven’t seen it in a couple of years.
And I thought it’d be neat to list some of the anime series that have had games in the Game Boy franchise (and no, the DS isn’t part of the Game Boy family):
Game Boy
Akazukin ChaCha
Captain Tsubasa
Marmalade Boy
Sailor Moon
Saint Seiya
Wedding Peach
Game Boy Color
Bikkuriman World
Card Captor Sakura
Cyborg Kuro-chan
Dragonball Z (Legendary Super Warriors)
Fighting Foodons/Martial Arts Cooking Legend Bistro Recipe
Hamtaro (Ham-Hams Unite)
Love Hina (Pocket, Party)
Game Boy Advance
Angelic Layer
Card Captor Sakura
Captain Tsubasa
Chobits
Crayon Shin-chan
Digimon (Battle Spirit I & II)
Dragonball (Advanced Adventure)
Dragonball GT (Transformation)
Dragonball Z (Buu’s Fury, Collectible Card Game, Supersonic Warriors, Taiketsu, The Legacy of Goku I & II)
Full Metal Alchemist (Stray Rondo, Sonata of Memory)
Futari wa Pretty Cure (Max Heart)
Hamtaro (Ham-Ham Heartbreak, Rainbow Rescue, Ham-Ham Games)
Love Hina (Advance)
Mahou Sensei Negima
Maya the Bee
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
Naruto (Konoha Senki, RPG: Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi, Ninja Council I & II)
One Piece
Shaman King
Stellvia of the Universe
Tokyo Mew Mew
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Reshef of Destruction, The Sacred Cards)
Zatch Bell (Electric Arena)
Zoids
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