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a brick that outlasted every phone you've ever owned, on batteries you forgot to buy.
means nintendo's 1989 handheld console with a dot-matrix green screen that made portable gaming a household normal.
from designed by gunpei yokoi, the same nintendo engineer behind the ultra hand toy and the game & watch line, who prized cheap durable tech over cutting-edge specs.
battery liferoughly 15 hours on two double-a batteries
survival testone unit survived the gulf war bombed hotel, still worked
tetris bundlepairing with tetris in 1989 sold the whole system
lifespanstayed in production, largely unchanged, for over a decade