Original flavor Game Boy still in the wild.

By Joe Fourhman | May 31, 2008

I feel like I should have held up today’s newspaper in this picture.

That shot was taken today, May 31 2008, and it features a woman on a train playing the original brick-style puke-green LCD Game Boy. I could not get close enough to spy without feeling creepy about it, but I would wager she was plugging away at Tetris. Those GBs are tough little guys, eh?

This ancient warhorse was spotted on a train to Philadelphia, on my way to the comic convention Wizard World. Aside from demos of the Iron Man and Hulk games at the Marvel Comics booth, and an ongoing stage exhibition of Rock Band, Guitar Hero 3, and DDR (everyone chose Rock Band, by the way), there was nothing else video gamey to report. Last year Sony had some significant floor space with several PS3 and PSP demo units. But then again, last year at this time Sony was probably a wee bit more desperate than they are today.