The NES was great, but you couldn’t play it on the bus, even if you were armed with a portable telly and an extra long extension cable. The Game Boy, though, was a different matter. On 21 April, 1989, it changed everything, redefining gaming as something you could do – wherever you happened to be.

Yeah, yeah, we know. Everyone’s top retro handheld. As long as they liked green. And motion blur.

It’s easy to scoff at the Game Boy’s dot-matrix display, with its four shades of murk and visible ghosting. And yes, next to the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, the lack of colour – and clarity – was stark. But while falling short in terms of visual clout, the Game Boy excelled where it mattered and quickly became a handheld for the masses. It didn’t munch through batteries; it was affordable and light; and most importantly, it had those stellar titles that you really wanted to play.