Category: game boy

Researchers created a Game Boy that doesn’t need batteries

[ad_1] Instead, all you need to play this Game Boy, officially called the Engage, for hours on end is some sunlight and frantic button mashing. The solar panels attached to the front of the device provide its primary source of power, with your button presses helping to generate additional power. It’s not a perfect system […]

‘Tetris’ turns 35 this week. It’s still the best puzzle game of all time.

[ad_1] For humans of a certain age, there are video games that everyone knows. Think: Pac-Man or the first Super Mario Bros. But it’s possible to argue that Tetris, which turns 35 on June 4th, is the most well-known game of all. If sales is your metric of choice, Tetris has sold more than 170 […]

As fun as it ever was

[ad_1] James TrewManaging Editor I remember like it was yesterday. It was 1991, and I had my nose pressed up against the glass outside a branch of Dixons, on Park Street in Bristol (England). I was staring at a revolutionary new handheld console that would change gaming as we know it: the Atari Lynx II. […]