Kids in my generation:
“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”
Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.
Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, “Mom, I need more AA batteries.”
I had something similar. Mine claimed 14 hours on Gameboy or 4 hours on Game Gear. Got the Gameboy for my birthday along with Tetris and FF Legend II, but got it a few days early because I went into the hospital the Saturday before.
The present I got on my birthday was finding out I could go home the next day.
I remember opening parts of the blinds so the street lights would brighten my Gameboys display for some quality past bedtime gaming