One of the greatest console legends of all time is finally headed into retirement, as after more than three decades of service, the infamous Gulf War Game Boy is being removed from its display at the Nintendo Store in New York. Spotted by VideoGameArt&Tidbits on Twitter, the battle-damaged handheld is off to its new home in the Nintendo of America headquarters.
According to the legend behind this iconic Game Boy, it was originally caught in a barracks bombing during the Gulf War in 1991. While the console was left with a face for radio, the internal hardware survived the explosion and it was still capable of running the copy of Tetris that was in it.
The Gulf War Game Boy has officially been retired from @NintendoNYC
After not seeing it on display for a while, I asked one of the workers about it. He told me it was returned to Nintendo’s headquarters in Redmond Washington. pic.twitter.com/wCPJDa3vlp
— VideoGameArt&Tidbits (@VGArtAndTidbits) June 29, 2023