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We’re running stories all week long to celebrate the influential portable device, looking at the many ways it shaped the games industry and its importance as a cultural object.

Sunday, April 21st, 2019, marks the Game Boy’s 30th anniversary. “I just loved everything about the aesthetic.” “I thought it was super cool and really punk, and really futuristic and weird and nerdy,” she says of discovering the chiptune scene. Today she travels the world performing with a pair of Game Boys onstage, and has also become heavily involved with composing soundtracks for indie games. Today, Houston is better known by her stage name Chipzel she’s one of the most iconic performers in the chiptune scene, where musicians make new songs using old video game hardware. That little speaker would have a big impact on her. “It was really raw and beautiful, and unlike anything else that you’d hear.” “I remember the music the most,” she says. For Houston, her earliest memories aren’t of collecting coins in the game or exploring the Mushroom Kingdom. Along with the game and handheld, they also had a tiny speaker that plugged into the Game Boy’s headphone jack, amplifying the sound.

When Niamh Houston was around four years old, she and her sister received a Game Boy and a copy of Super Mario Land for Christmas.