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Nintendo has reached a massive Game Boy milestone. The clever little handheld will pass the 100,000,000 million mark for units shipped on June 16. Since the launch of the...

Quang Hong, Blogger

June 15, 2000

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Nintendo has reached a massive Game Boy milestone. The clever little handheld will pass the 100,000,000 million mark for units shipped on June 16. Since the launch of the original Game Boy way back in 1989, the unit has sold at a rate of 1,000 an hour.

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