Benj Edwards from www.vintagecomputing.com published an article in arstechnica taking a look at the top 6 reasons why gameboy was so successful:
Happy 20th b-day, Game Boy: here are 6 reasons why you're #1
The top reasons he pointed out are:
I think he could have merged points 1 and 5 into one called “Great games” but read his explanations. They kind of make sense.
Oh, well, I think I’ll have to spend the next few days looking for a nice and cheap Gameboy Advance on eBay. There goes my “try not to buy fun but useless things” new year’s resolution.
Well, maybe not useless…
Can be fun, you know?…
And useful when in a doctor’s waiting room.
And on the train.
Last birthday I was offered a game for my Playstation 2... Buzz!™ The Mega Quiz. It's a very nice Quiz game where you can play with up to 8 player with these funny controllers that they call the "Buzz! Buzzers".
It's a very fun game to play at home parties. The game/show is hosted by Buzz who is voiced (in the Portuguese version) by a famous Portuguese TV show presenter.
The game is composed by a few different rounds where you try to answer the question correctly and, hopefully, faster than your opponents.
There's a round that's called the Globetrotter. In this round you're supposedly traveling around the world and have to answer questions about the country you're in. The player that answers correctly has to choose the next destination.
The other day I was playing this game and I had to choose the next destination, so I chose Peru. I was surprised by the fact that the plane didn't go to Peru... it went to Turkey...
Why did the plane go to Turkey? Why is this funny? Well, in Portuguese, Peru is also a word... the name of an animal. Which animal? The Turkey!!! For some reason, the translators translated the word Peru when it was supposed to be the name a country.
Anyway, I'm still having fun playing Buzz. And it's extra fun every time I choose to go to Peru.
Didn't you find this funny? Well, I wouldn't too. It's just that I haven't posted anything for a while and was fearing you'd forget about me. Geez, this just got worse, right? Buzz, turkeys and trying to be funny. What's next? One day I will be photographing myself playing violin on a laptop. I will then be doomed.