nintendoHow to buy an original Game Boy without getting a re-shellSlide the battery cover off before you talk price. On an original Game Boy – the grey DMG-01 brick Nintendo shipped in 1989 – those four AA terminals will tell you more about the machine's last few decades than any glamour shot in the listing.
By spec-sheet logic, the brick should have lost. Its Sharp LR35902 ran at roughly 4.19 MHz and drove a 160×144 screen in four shades of pea-soup green, while Sega's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx offered full-colour, backlit displays. But those rivals devou
