What served as such an enormous popularity for Game Boy? Everything is very simple. Game consoles Game Boy and Game Boy Color were sold about 118 million pieces! And the well-known Tetris game was sold for this console with a circulation of 30 million cartridges! In comparison, copies of the Battlefield 3 game sold about 15 million units. Unlike Russia and the CIS countries, where it was unpopular due to its high cost (and, apparently, the problems of its cloning by pirates), but in the USA, Japan, England and other countries, it was overpopular.
While we were content to play the game where the wolf catches eggs on the neatly bowed Nintendo Game & Watch console, the Japanese were already striding with leaps and bounds, and back in 1989, the new-generation portable game console Game Boy was born.
