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Ever heard the urban legend about how the original Nintendo Game Boy survived a bomb? I have reason to believe that’s not true. But until recently, the flagship Nintendo Store at New York City’s Rockefeller Center housed an original Game Boy that, it claimed, was damaged in a bombing during Operation Desert Storm.
We just confirmed with Nintendo New York that, after many years on display, the Gulf War Game Boy is no longer there. VideoGameArt&Tidbits reported the news; they say a worker told them it was returned to Nintendo’s US headquarters in Washington state.
It may have been sent back months ago: YouTuber Elliot Coll filmed a trip to the store in February where an off-camera voice says “we had to send it back to headquarters for…
