By: Funny Or Die
25 Ways To Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Game Boy
The Nintendo Game Boy turned 25 this week. Here are 25 ways to celebrate its birthday:
- Make cupcakes in four vibrant shades of grey
- Break a pi ‘ata full of AA batteries
- Bring your Game Boy to a rental car place and let it pick out whichever car it wants (it’s old enough to rent one now)
- Get your shit together and finally beat Castlevania
- Do a live-action role-play of “Dr. Mario” by eating a bunch of random pills
- Use your Game Boy to pass the time in the hospital after eating a bunch of random pills
- Invite your little brother over and refuse to share with him, for old time’s sake
- Skate and/or Die
- Do “Tetris shots”: 1 shot of alcohol for each line completed in Tetris
- Do “Tetanus shots”: 1 vaccination for every time you handle a 25-year-old piece of machinery that’s been in your damp garage for two decades
- Run around your neighborhood throwing newspapers at people (Paperboying)
- Run around your neighborhood stealing newspapers from people’s doorsteps (petty theft)
- Smash the shit out of an Atari Lynx
- Congratulate your Game Boy on becoming a handsome, well-rounded Game Man
- Lose yourself in the moment and go in for a kiss
- Remember what Doctor Reynolds said about kissing inanimate objects
- Find that copy of ‘Kid Icarus’ you borrowed from your friend Robby Wikarski in 2nd grade
- Wonder how ol’ Robby’s doing
- Find Robby on Facebook
- Drive to his house and start pounding on the windows, screaming “ICARUS, ROBBY! I FOUND ICARUS!!!”
- Get arrested
- Use your Game Boy to pass the time in jail
- Finally get released after weeks of trading cigarettes for fresh AA batteries
- Go in for another- no, remember what Dr. Reynolds said ‘Game Boys aren't for kissing
- Return to your windowless apartment and wait quietly for the 25th anniversary of the Game Gear in 2015