If you though Gameboy is the longest supported console...

[tom]

PC?

Intel = 1973 to 2003, that's 30 years of gaming on one machine.
Or 1964 til 2003, that's almost 40 years (Space War on DEC)

[Gunstarhero]

PC?

Intel = 1973 to 2003, that's 30 years of gaming on one machine.
Or 1964 til 2003, that's almost 40 years (Space War on DEC)

Nope, notice the title of this thread states "longest supported CONSOLE"

PC's are not consoles.

[ubersaurus]

FYI on the gameboy, the last gameboy game that supported the B&W GB was released late last year. I don't know the name, but if enough people are interested, I can look up the title and release month.

If you want to get technical, the last atari game for the 2600 came out last year ;p

No I think it's supported consoles, in which case the game boy originally died with the pocket being overshadowed by the color.

[Anonymous]

well, one of the proposed guidelines when considering console life was seeing products consistently released on at least a yearly basis. Game Boy Games (not GBC or GBA games) were last released in September of 2001, with Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's/Colbi's adventure. So the lifespan of the GB would be 2 years and one month.

[diskoboy]

Does anybody know WHY the SMS is still popular in Brazil (or South America)?

It's South america.

The Odyssey had a lifespan longer than the US version there, as well.

Hell... They got to see the Odyssey 3, that we never got to see.

Lucky bastards.. I guess.

[tom]

wasn't a PC in the 60's/70's called a 'console'?

[Quazick]

wasn't a PC in the 60's/70's called a 'console'?

Not really the "console" was basically the button layout on which they controlled the old computers because they didn't have keyboard back then.