Kids in my generation:
“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”
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
Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.