The legendary Game Boy "retired" who survived the Gulf War: removed from the Nintendo showroom in New York

CTOnews.com, July 2 (Xinhua)-- Nintendo was early known for its rugged hardware, and one of the most legendary products is the Game Boy handset, which was bombed during the Gulf War in 1990-91 but still works. Recently, however, the "battlefield artifact" Game Boy has been retired.

Twitter user "VGArtandTidbits" revealed that he hadn't seen a display of the Game Boy at the Nintendo flagship store in Rockefeller Center in New York for a long time, so he asked a clerk and learned that the handset had been sent back to Nintendo's Redmond, Washington, office.

The Siliconera website provides more background information about the Game Boy, which CTOnews.com translates as follows:

The handset originally belonged to Dr. Stephen Scokins, a medical worker who participated in Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91. Although the front of the Game Boy was completely charred during the Gulf War, it still turned on. After returning from the war, the Game Boy was put on display at Nintendo's New York flagship store as proof of the durability of the product. Nintendo also presented Dr. Scokins with a new Game Boy as a special desert storm treat.