The National Toy Hall of Fame has privileged Nintendo's Game Boy as one of this year's inductees. Together with the Ball and the Stick, the Game Boy is renowned for its iconic position and for popularizing handheld gaming. Other celebrity’s this year contain the Big Wheel, Cabbage Patch Kids and the Paper Airplane.

Principle for the selection of honored toys contains keeping long life beyond passing fads, heartening learning and discovery and modernism in the way we play with or devise toys.