Game Boy released
1989
Nintendo released a small gray handheld console with a greenish screen and a cartridge slot, bundling it with a Russian puzzle game called Tetris. Office workers and schoolchildren around the world became helpless addicts of falling blocks. Nintendo sold over a hundred million Game Boys. Video games had reached the pocket.
In context
Also in 1989 (8 other events on record)
- Berners-Lee proposes the Web · Europe · Technology
- Berlin Wall falls · Europe · Politics
- Tiananmen Square massacre · East Asia · Politics
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan · Central Asia · War
- Beginning of Tiananmen protests · East Asia · Politics
- Velvet Revolution begins in Prague · Europe · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Culture
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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