The handheld spent a whopping 196 days in space on the station, managing to orbit our blue ball of dirt over 3000 times. Joining it for the ride was, fittingly for a bunch of people who were still getting over the recent demise of the Soviet Union, a copy of Tetris.
Accompanying the Game Boy and game in an auction being held by Bonhams is a note from Serebov, which reads “Like all cosmonauts, I love sport. My particular favourites are football and swimming. During flight, in rare minutes of leisure, I enjoyed playing Game Boy.”
The Game Boy will be part of a “Space History Sale” being held by the auction house next month, and is expected to fetch between $US1500-$US2000.
NINTENDO GAME BOY FLOWN IN SPACE [Bonhams]
tom
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 9:03 PMI bet the a Sony PSP hasn’t travelled at speeds of 8 kms a second for more than 196 days.
Nestama
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 1:20 AMI wonder how many batteries Aleksandr took with him… those beasts required four batteries to be sacrificed (and they were quite the gluttons).
Lord Bob
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 2:10 AMWANT!
partly because the plastic screen protector fell off my original gameboy a month ago and partly because it’s been to fickin’ space man!!!
WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!