David Rosenthal: belief

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…Did you have one of the original fat ones? Totally. I was five years old when it came out, so I was exactly in the target kid demographic. I think my dad, I was talking with him about this this weekend. He still plays the original Tetris cartridge on an old Gameboy Advance at this point to this day. This is how universal the appeal of this game and this system is. It's unbelievable. Nintendo ends up selling 32 million Gameboys in the first three years, which is way more than the NES. That's roughly $3 billion in hardware sales alone. The Gameboy and then its quasi successor but really the same platform, the Gameboy Color, would go on to sell 118 million units worldwide, which is over double the NES and the fourth highest-selling console of all time, period. It's just amazing. This was Nintendo's first taste and really the whole industry's first taste of massively expanding what already was a huge gaming market. It also was at a completely different price point. I wasn't allowed to get a console, but my first video game system was a Gameboy Color because I think it was a little over $100 or something for the colored one versus around the $200 or more price point for the at-home consoles.…

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