• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    Im pretty sure the oldest handhelds that people actually played in public (yes there were earlier but I’m talking something you would actually see) would be the GB/GBA which was mostly played by millennials. Meanwhile the DS was played by a mix of millennials and older Gen z.

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      19 hours ago

      There were single game handheld devices since the early 80’s, so boomers/X were definitely the first generations with them.

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        13 hours ago

        Sure but they didn’t gain mass popularity, if you combined all the game and watch games their sales would be less than half of the GB

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      18 hours ago

      The Gameboy with Tetris was a huge phenomenon, and it released in 1989, it was very popular with young adults back then which were Gen X and boomers