Soon, arcades started to lose popularity. People complained they were unsafe, and hazardous to children. Around 1990, the release of Street Fighter II marked the last major success in arcades. Most people just waited for arcade games to be ported into a console version so they didn't have to wait in long lines in order to play games. One of the causes of this was in 1989, when Nintendo released the Game Boy, the second handheld system (only before the Microvision, which was a commercial flop). The
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