Life With Game Boy Advance In 2001 | My Nintendo GBA Launch Experience! - My Retro Life
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- When the Game Boy Advance launched in the Summer of 2001, Dad recorded my cousins and I experiencing it during its first few weeks of availability.
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Life With Game Boy Advance In 2001 | My Nintendo GBA Launch Experience! - My Retro Life
Tyler, thank you for this video. It has brought back such wonderful memories of all the fun we had playing the games together. I still love to play all the old games and have my own special room set up to play them in. The old games are the best and I still enjoy them. In fact I was just thinking of playing "The 7th Saga" for the 7th time. LOL Love you, Aunt Michele.
Those days were so special and I cherish them deeply! I know Manny, Mikey and I never take for granted the awesome childhoods you, Uncle Mike, Dad and Mom provided for us. Love you much, Aunt Michele!
Love that game
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That is so cool! Do you still play new games too?
Can you be my aunt too??
Man, not only did you have an awesome set of parents, you also had a gamer aunt as well? You won the gamer life lottery.
I was blessed man ❤️
So True. Im starting the same with my children.
Yes he did!
My dad was mildly interested in video games. We had an Atari 2600 when I was born, and got an Amiga computer when I was very very young. I bought the NES.. parents made me save up for it. I got systems as Christmas presents sometimes, but I think basically once the NES came home, gaming moved from my dad to me. He wasn't very into it aside from helping me out here and there on Amiga adventure games (like Sierra adventures... King's Quest and stuff like that).
My sister didn't really care about games, though she did have a Game Gear at one point, and she got a Wii, which I skipped.
No brothers. I'm sure my house would have been way more game crazy if I had a brother.
Cousins were into games, but we lived all over the country, not nearby.
The Game Boy did get everyone's attention though. It stayed on our coffee table, and we eventually got another one for link games and just because we always had four people wanting to play... we'd sit on the couch, watch tv, and usually one or two Game Boys were in action at any given time.
My parents would play my sister's Wii too... but only on holidays normally.
"real" gaming though... that was all me.
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Could’ve bought a worm light that attaches to the GameBoy Advance.
Hey guys! Happy 20th Anniversary Game Boy Advance! Hope you enjoy this look back at my life with the original GBA when it released in 2001. My family were truly Game Boy Advance obsessed that Summer. What are some of your memories with the GBA? Leave them in the comments below. Thanks everyone, and have a great week.
Had bought 2 of them gave them 2 my niece and nephew 1 pink 1 white moved to Cali went on train but i never used them as a controller did u ??
@@pieluvr7362 used them as a controller? Wtf..
Playing Pokemon Sapphire actually Pokemon emerald was the first game I ever pre ordered
It was a cool system I used to have the sp. and backwards compatibility I loved Tetris on an original gameboy and was happy to play it again. My dad used to have one in his bathroom and I would spend a lot of time in there 😂
His aunt seemed really cool, i like her
I think so too 😉
Your aunt playing 7th Saga was the unexpected wholesomeness I didn’t know I needed
She’s a pro at it!
Your Aunt is awesome! Ain't nothing better then a family who plays games together. What a wholesome video!
You betcha' man!
@@MyRetroLife does she still game?
Again and I will say this again. Your father is a Legend!!! That man knew the future and had u document everything during the best era of life.
Thanks Nick 🙂
I love the extended clips of your aunt and everybody just playing their consoles. It gives you a glimpse into how time felt back then. Where could just focus on 1 activity a time and really experience it without dozens of notifications popping up at you and all the other distractions we have today. Another fantastic video!
Thanks man! It was another world! Loved those days
It is still like that for me. I have no social networks , except whatsapp and i leave all notifications on silent so I can live my life as i did 30 years ago. You choose how you live your life, remember you only live once. Live it how you want, not how others want you to live it
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19 and im glad to be born now than before. Anyway while saying that (when there wifi at the house) my phone is a secondary device. I use my computer and I tend to play games research etc. When I'm outside. I rarely touch my phone. I dont even like to take picture or videos. Im all about living in the moment. I dont judge those that do but I dont like stopping every 5 feat to take a pic. Or watching videos. Only time I use my phone outside is when I'm in a call. Or im playing music while driving or finally if im taking a long road trip I put on headphone.
@@signorpaldoni its still not the same. We didn't have super computers in our pockets, in the '90s
Dude, you have the most positive community here on TH-cam. I'm so glad I found this channel. Not only do you have all this footage, but you have a talent for making videos that puts that footage to good use. Keep it up man!
Appreciate that man! Thanks for watching and saying that. More on the way!
It's so much fun watching these videos.
Bringing me back to my own retro childhood times 🤗
Only.. the GBA did not have those memories because from the GBA time did not play
that much of handhelds anymore.
Recently came upon this channel. It's like a going in a time machine to when I was a young kid (born in 1993) and it truly gives me happy tears seeing all this footage from a period that - at least to me - felt alot more simple. Thank you.
Love your vids, I wish there was a 90s youtube with just home videos like this. But yeah I was underwhelmed by the GBA because no back light. I rarely touched it. DS/PSP were the height of handheld gaming for me. Loved that shit.
Oh the good old days when you could just walk into a store and buy a console anytime you wanted
There were usually shortages in the first year/holiday season for new consoles but not as bad as it is now with ongoing chip shortages. Back then, there were countless chip suppliers but now there's only a few in the world.
@@Bristecom Yea but seems like some companies have no problem maintaining tons of stock...even if they have a stock pile its still fishy.
@@GitSumGaming 👁
@@BlackTrunksPodcast Third eye?
@@GitSumGaming correct. You see the forest from the trees. The chip shortage is complete but bulls***! You’re awake to the nonsense that the media feeds us on a daily basis. 🙏🏾
“Wow! You went out hating me. You were gonna move and get your own apartment!” 🤣🤣🤣 Love this one! Aunt Michele is the best!
Thanks babe! Yep Aunt Michele is incredible!
i love it 🫶🏼
That was really nice to see you all together and kudos to your cousins for being good sons and getting your Aunt the GBA. I have always felt like the GBA is the Super Nintendo Plus and it really fed my love of 16 bit games. The GBA had so many great unique and creative games.
Thanks Kevin! Yes the GBA was like a continuation of the Super Nintendo! Loved it
DMG Gameboy>GBA
Man, just discovered this channel and it really hits hard with nostalgia. Even brought a tear of joy to my eye to be able to retroactively experience getting my first GBA all over again. Great stuff, keep it up!
A family of gamers?! Such a rarity! Dude, this is too cool! :)
Man, I wasn't even born to see these times, yet I somehow feel nostalgic watching this. I love this channel.
Love this. Glad you are enjoying the videos!
The game boy advance is older than you?
@@southsidesaiyan8641 Only by a year, but I still didn't get to experience playing it until some years later.
@@razxrt2596 oh ok I was born in 1992 and got one for my 9th birthday with Pokémon Chrystal (a game boy color game), and I never really saw the lack of a backlight to be much of a problem.
@@southsidesaiyan8641 yeah it’s older than you bro
Hey bro i’ve watched several of your videos of when you were young with your family, and they’re all very touching. Your father was a really great guy, and I understand that it’s been some time for you, but I just wanted to tell you that, I’m sorry for your loss. Sorry to bring it up, as like I said, I realize it’s been some time for you, but I just felt like I needed to say something. Keep up the great videos, and have a blessed day. 😇😇😇😇
Great comment. Really appreciate it. Thanks for saying that 😊
Bro youre like gaming royalty, thats cool af your whole family was into the hobby.
I had a silver one stolen out of my gym locker in high school. It even had street fight alpha in it so whoever got it def had a come up!
Man, I love these videos. They bring back so many memories and provide such an endearing look at a family whose circumstances were certainly very different from mine, but feel so extremely relatable. So happy he puts these together and shares them with all of us.
Thank you A Yuuki for watching!
appreciate the use of fire emblem music at 2:28 and at the end, that game really helped me during a move where all my stuff was in boxes aside my gba, so that was all I played
Glad you noticed! Fire Emblem is amazing
@@MyRetroLife definitely, it's like a top 3 for me on the system
That was great, I loved seeing your auntie's reaction to getting her own GBA. You and your cousins were really good to her! I was able to snag a GBA when I lived in Japan in 2001, and Final Fight One was one of the games I got! Along with Super Mario Advance (with Super Mario USA) and Super Dodgeball haha
When you realize there's an equal length of time between 2001 and now as there was between 2001 and 1979.
These videos are soooo awesome... this is one of the only underrated channels. The perks of this channel Raw Footage, True Emotions and awesome Story Telling.
No worries, by the end of this year he'll be over 100000 subs easy
Appreciate that man! Thanks for watching
@@MyRetroLife did you ever have a ds growing up at all if so could you possibly do a video on when you first got it?
I'll never forget how much I looked forward to the GBA and how disappointed I was with it. From all the marketing I'd seen, I was expecting something that rivalled PS1/N64 graphics in a handheld, but ended up with bare-bones SNES graphics with a screen that you couldn't see unless you shined a torch on it or played in the pitch black. Needless to say, I barely played with it.
what a beautiful family you got. cheers man! enjoy life and bless you and your family. always.
Dude love these videos. Cousin, aunt, bro, dad everybody appreciates the game. Your dad capturing it all for the gamer nation to enjoy whether we were there in those days or missed em.
The summer before so much innocence was lost.
Very true...
This reminds me a lot of playing games with my family, I didn't have any cousins my age growing up and non of my family members had internet in video games until the wii came out it brought everyone together with games like wii sports mario kart and mario party, I got my family hooked on nintendo you could say even my grandmother who is 86 years old loves playing rpgs like xenoblade and octopath traveler she says it keeps her mind sharp 😂
This will forever be my favorite system. It had just enough power to let devs get really ambitious with the games and cover just about every genre. And the sheer variety and quality in the library meant that every game purchase for me was a big occasion. It kept me up till sunrise for many nights during summer break. I still take my GBA SP with me on vacations, when the Switch proves a little too bulky.
Your dad was the coolest. I had NES and SNES growing up and while we have plenty of home videos of me opening gaming stuff my parents were never into gaming sadly. I dearly love my family and they're incredible. I had the most loving parents a kid could ask for but I wish I could have shared that with them.
ha, what perfect timing, I literally got mine out about 15 mins ago!
NICE! Enjoy your play session and the video too
@@MyRetroLife yeah yeah, Im planning to that ips display mod soon!
I was about 11-12 years old when I bought my GBA upon releasing here in the States. I thought I was the man when I walked out of Electronics Boutique/Babbages with my new GBA and a copy of Super Mario Advance 😂.
The game boy advance was my earliest childhood memory I had the Sp model I was popular in my class because all the kids had the original model I remember playing the Donkey Kong country remakes and being blown away by the graphics it was my second Nintendo console I was a pc gamer since 1999 I had a GameCube before it’s hard to say what my favourite game was it was either Donkey Kong Country 3 or Sonic Advance 3 I am so grateful to open my GBA SP on Christmas of 03 thanks for the memories
Wow, this is an amazing video. Even more amazing you have so much recordings of gaming back then, like you knew this would be huge 20 years later! 2001 was an amazing year for video games, tech, music, clothing. I got my GBA on Christmas that year. One of my most treasured gifts still. Miss those days so much! Happy 20th Birthday GBA!
Dam.. the memories 😢 that use to be my favorite store cause of all the Japanese imported games they had.. 32nd street right next to Manhattan Mall 😢
I love the gameboy advance so much I love it more than the DS which is ironic considering I grew up with a DS and didnt get a GBA SP til I turned 11. I really want an original gameboy advance it looks so comfortable to hold. I wish I could have memories of the gba era. I was born in late 2002 so I barely lived through the gba's popularity. I did grow up with a gamecube tho
I remember getting a Gameboy Advance and Power Rangers Time Force for my birthday as well as a Harry Potter game and then Pokemon Sapphire. I never had a problem with how dark the screen was. I could always see it besides maybe at night and I loved my advanced and played it to death even when the SP came out and my brother got that model I was content with the advance.
Only 80s baby's will ever know the true joy of walking into a Toys R Us, looking at the all the games in the video game aisle, taking a slip of the game you wanted, going to the register, having someone bring out the game, taking it home... and playing it until your parents told you to go to sleep. I'm forever gonna be a Toys R Us kid.
I was working shift work when it came out and pretty much got paid (good coin) to play Advance Wars for hrs on end.
Good times
"We don't come to this planet fully developed, it takes time."
Aunt Michelle was so cool.
Dude! This is such an underrated channel. What a great glimpse back in time. These are such intimate moments within a family, but I can’t help but feel as if I am welcomed, and able to share the emotions in these stories.
I love Gamer Families! :D ❤❤
I hope to make one when I'm married and become a father; either way, as long as I'm married to a Female Gamer! ❤❤
I hated the GBA when it was first released. NO backlight :/ was so hard to play and you have to make sure you had the right angle with light when you played. I ended up trading it to a friend for a game cube lol I had like 9 games and he had three one being Animal crossing :P
This made me realize that family is so important. Especially during covid.
Please tell me aunt Michelle is still around and playing games
Happy to say she is!
That's so awesome the game boy advance was the first portable system back in 2001 I ever had I like it alot Wario land 4 was the 1st game boy advance game I ever played. Best regards Nikita.K
I was almost 30 when they released this, and working full time. It would have been nice to be young enough to have grown up with Nintendo instead of being in junior high when it tested in New York...
This is one of the best videos on TH-cam. I wish I could walk down the game aisle at Walmart-mart and see it filled with GBA boxes one last time.
Mind blowing the amount of gaming related childhood A/B-roll filmed by your Dad.
Hey man, I appreciate your videos, im honestly not sure how you dont have more subs. You and your dad were pioneers.
Thanks for the comment Shane! Channel has been growing fast so we’ll see how it goes!
I visit your channel when I really start to miss the simplicity of the good ole 90’s
One of my best memories of the GBA was my dad bargaining with me that if I was successfully potty trained, he would get Minish Cap for me. And oh boy that game is a legend. Still have yet to beat it though, I should get on that, such a fantastic game
Wtf how do you remember being potty trained? 🤔
@@Gameboy-Unboxings right 😅😅
You have still to beat Potty Training? Are you Gen Z or What?! Hahaha
I still have my original gameboy from 1989. the screen no longer turns on tho.
Such an awesome family you have man!🙂👍🏼
I'm so happy I found this channel. reliving old memories through you! Shoutout to your dad for filming all of this. the real goat!!
I just found this channel and on the second video in and I’ve never felt more happy to see someone being able to share these memories with us. This feels like an ultimate time capsule discovery wish a rush of old memories flooding back. Awesome stuff 👍
3:13 That Street Fighter II Matching Service for Dreamcast 😭
I'm the cool cat! So in October, 2018, my uncle had a friend that had retro consoles, and one of them was the gameboy advance! So my uncle asked to borrow it and he agreed, and along with a Jackie chan beat em' up and Super Mario advance 2, so the surprise was happening, and my mom called me and I sat on the couch, with everyone recording me and he put the stuff in a plastic bag, and he gave the bag to me and realized he got me a gameboy advance! I was so happy and loved playing Super Mario World on it! Loved taking it to school trips!
Your aunt liked and BEAT 7th Saga? What a cool aunt
The Nostalgia and pure wholesome joy in these videos is freaking amazing. Thank you for sharing. Watching these always makes me feel good.
One of the most underrated TH-cam channel on TH-cam. Amazing family man
Hey man, came from your Xbox video and was genuinely moved. Your stories made me remember a lot of my own gaming memories as well. You deserve a lot more subs! Keep up the great videos!
Hey thanks! I really appreciate that. Just curious, where did you discover the Xbox video? It’s gained a lot of views today
@@MyRetroLife I watched it at the time of the Series X|S release, I can't remember exactly from where, sorry. However I rewatched it today after Pure Xbox linked it!
Appreciate you letting me know!
Hot gamer aunt
I carried that thing around like a cell phone
At this time i didnt know the existing of this console i was having the normal game that have only 1 game in it dont have cartridge i think they call it game watch, fortunately for me i didnt know the existing of game boy because my parent wont buy it for me its more expensive then game watch and they must pay for cartridge to be able to play with it
This brought back some wonderful memories. My aunt and uncle were the ones that me into gaming. My aunt mostly played on the Genesis. It’s a reason why I love Castlevania because of Bloodlines.
I loved the GBA. I’m playing as we speak. I dunno if it’s the Reddit posts I’ve seen for GBA mods, but I got a whole new love for it.
0:55 I personally don't consider the GBC a revision, it had more exclusive games than a lot of consoles on their own. At worst it was a Game Boy 1.5
I miss the 90s house thst still had a touch of 80s through the whole place
7th SAGA was AMAZING!!!!!!!!! I played that game to death!!!!!!!!!!
You and your dad are very special youtubers 💖
Now can you not like the videos so wholesome.
Your dad is legend a dad I wished i had
Wormlight made alot of money in this era
And BTW, your Aunt is so cool. She loves her games. What a great family that loved each other and love to play games together. GREAT video, thanks !
Dang that dark screen!! Such a shame you couldn't fully appreciate the experience of GBA's games because of that. I wonder how did you felt at the arrival of the Game Boy Advance SP.. Regardless, seeing this family of gamers is beautiful, having a common melody where each has their own instrument to play. Great video as always. It's amazing to see how far it's all come. Beautiful!
Thanks Pierre!
While the AGB-001 units had a terrible screen if you still have them it's really easy to mod them and install backlit IPS panels now and with the mod it's the best gameboy console ergonomically. The SP was good in my adolescent years but my nearly middle aged adult hands get cramped on the SP sadly. The micro is super portable but the lack of Gameboy and Gameboy color compatibility makes it a super niche product.
will never forget the road trips with my GBA and my magnifier adapter that had a light on it.
though it was kinda usless lmao everytime i turned it on my dad "I CANT SEE THE ROAD SON TURN THE LIGHT OFF!!!"
lmao
Beautiful video! So amazing your dad took all those videos of all those moments. Made it so special and reminded me of picking up my GBA with my dad along with Mario kart super circuit. It was my first console ever and I can still fire it up today and enjoy it (upgraded to SP for the lit up screen though)
Thanks! Yes I love that Dad recorded so much. Blessed
I loved the Gameboy Advance.
I was 8 when it came out and I wasn't allowed to have a home console. It was a huge step up from my Gameboy Color in terms of game length and complexity. I didn't even mind the non-backlit screen, I used to hide under my sheets with a lantern to see the screen
Hey man, came across this video and I want to say that I am very happy for you. You have some great people in your life, a great family, and many great memories with them. A true blessing. It was very nice watching this video and seeing an example of a healthy family compared to a lot of what is happening today. I miss the 90s/2000s
I'm a simple man.. I see My Retro life video, I click My Retro life video.
👍 😎
You guys were all so into it! Haha. Love it man. I appreciate the message at the end around family and growing. Great episode!
I really enjoy your videos 👍
Can your family adopt me please? Omg, greatest family of all time I was born in 82 and I would love to grow up with people like you I only know one family that was similar but definitely not as cool I mean final fight one Japanese version? Floating runner, lynx? My friend Eric always had the new stuff when we were kids like 3do, jaguar and he had a neo Geo small handheld system, all the new stuff that came out because his dad worked for a company that would get new products. And sometimes we found out they would be testing new products a year later so he would get the video game systems a year before they came out sometimes. I also remember them getting board game fireball Island which was my favorite game growing up, and the X-Men card game was fun
damn I wish I would have known u lol
I grew up with the OG gameboy. To be perfectly honest, even at the time I was kinda underwhelmed. Sure I played it a bunch but it always felt like just a way to pass time. Because of that feeling, I didn’t buy another handheld system until the Nintendo Switch. Ironically, during the pandemic, I kinda lost my mind a little and decided to stock up on DS and 3DS consoles/games. It was kinda cool because I got to discover all this content that I missed over 20 years. But yeah, when I got into college, I literally donated all my gameboy games to Goodwill. That’s how little I cared about that stuff (looking back, I should have held onto it like I did with all my other gaming stuff as those games took up almost no space but meh).
Que vídeo espetacular...nostálgico, que época maravilhosa, obrigado por compartilhar essas preciosidades conosco!!!
I remember when these guys were talking about circle of the moon in middle school behind the school skipping class. One had the guide and was telling the other who was playing it what to do. I was like what is that , they like whispered “circle of the moon”…I was like dude whatever that circle of the moon is, I gotta have it. And guides back then dude remember guides? I would take out the resident evil 2 guide or pokemon guide and just stare at it for hours on end. You should do a whole episode on game magazines dude, remember tips and tricks??? Kids would stare at tips and tricks for HOURS, just staring at it. If you had a guide, of any game, that you brought to school, all the bros wanted to sit by you.
Always love seeing these. I had the DMG, then kiwi color, purple advance, and micro 20th ann. Got out of the handhelds. Decades later I now have at least one of all models except the "New" 3DS.
I remember playing circle of the moon as my first Advance game. It was imperceptible. It was the darkest game id ever played, worse that playing Silent Hill 2 or Fatal Fame on a plasma screen
"So many game in these machines and not enough days in our lives to play all of them."
Such a hard truth in these words. Its been some time now that I've given less importance in the concept of a "backlog" because of this fact. Hearing this now made me reflect even more.
Your Dad and Aunt were very wise. Both part of a very cool family. You're so lucky.
You had a great childhood, despite some very difficult events. Your mom/dad, aunt/uncle and cousins were awesome. What part of NYC did your Aunt’s family live in at the time? Long Island?
I didn’t get a GBA until I was a teen, but man does this thing give me nostalgia. Reminds me of when I’d play it at a Target demo kiosk every time we were there!
...Or the one time when I annoyed my older cousin to let me play Kingdom Hearts on his. 😂
I'm pretty nostalgic over the console too, especially the atomic purple version even though I owned the Arctic one!
@@MyRetroLife I have the Arctic one, myself! Such a great system.
Also, you and your cousins were really sweet to give your aunt a GBA. ☺️
so many great memories laying in my room gaming in the moonlight peeking into my window with my game volume on low as to not get caught....gaming into the early morning hours getting like 3 hours of sleep before the school bus arrived 😆
I was actually pissed that Nintendo didn't put the backlight after the experience of the Gameboy. I waited and sense that they will include the backlight in the future. Then I finally got the Gameboy advance SP. Clamshell design to fit in the pocket, included the backlight, and finally it's rechargable (no more AA batteries).
I remember playing my GBA in school on "that" morning in 2001. Let's just say we all got sent home and I didn't know why but I was happy because I could play more GBA all day.
Then I found out what happened. Jesus Christ.