​During the Gulf War, a soldier’s original Game Boy got caught in an explosion—left melted, scorched… and still worked.

The plastic was fried, the shell was wrecked, but Tetris kept running like nothing happened.
Today, that battle-scarred beast sits in a museum, burned but undefeated.
Because yeah—retro gamers knew how to survive the apocalypse.

This wasn’t just a handheld… it was a brick with batteries​