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The OG Gameboy to Color time gap is insane. On the same system, you could have a elementary schooler and middle schooler who both can say "I grew up with the Gameboy"
People born after the 90s don't know that the original Game Boy screens actually worked pretty well. It's only NOW that the screens are starting to degrade. The ghosting and missing rows of pixels were nowhere near as bad as today. The OG Game Boy I had still had an pretty decent display well into the early 10s.
They're certainly worse today, but they were never very good displays, basically was the minimum Nintendo could get away with. Passive matrix LCDs were never great.
I often remind my nephews, "you boys dont know how good you have it with your switch's... Back in my day i had to play all my games in black and baby poop green". They looked at me like i was crazy then i showed them videos of game boy games and they proceeded to look at me as if i was even crazier after seeing what i meant😅
the original Red Blue Green Pokemon games were released so close to the GameBoy Colour that they just gave them full colour pallets so when ya play the original Gen 1 on GBC you get full colour, even on GBA you get full colour
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Red and Blue don't have GBC special features (outside of preassigned palettes) while Yellow does. Still not entirely sure what's going on there but Yellow was released with original Game Boy packaging.
I had a titanium edition GameBoy Advance SP. I dropped it down a flight of stairs and it landed on a concrete floor. It got a scratch on one of the corners. I had that thing for 4 years, and I gave it to someone right before I moved. I talked to that guy years later and he said he used it for 3 years before giving it to someone else. Every time I see a poster for a titanium edition iPhone, I kinda wish I could afford to get one, coz I imagine it's durability is roughly the same as that SP.
I love this kind of Scott's Stash videos! (Which is most of the content anyway) I'll be super happy to eat my dinner with this in the background. Thanks Scott!
I will always, always love the DMG. I didn't even grow up with it, but every time I get a handheld I look for DMG colors. I grew up on the Advance SP, which has affected my brain chemistry so much I almost exclusively play games on handheld
The original game boy screens haven’t gotten worse with age, I can report from the early 90s they always sucked. But if you were stuck and had the choice of playing on that screen or no video games at all you’d be amazed at what you’ll put up with when bored
Their point is that Scott is failing to understand the context Game Boy games found themselves in by the mid '90s, where SGB was a big selling point and promotional tool that kept the brand relevant. You don't have to do a discussion on SGB in the video to acknowledge that SGB features in games helped the original model and its games last that long without the Pocket.
During the GameBoy Colour launch, Nintendo ran a campaign revolving around the slogan "Play It Loud!" As such, some people refer to the translucent GBC as "the Play It Loud edition". I myself clocked many hours of Link's Awakening on my translucent GBC. They used two songs by the Butthole Surfers in the ads, as the band had recently started getting massive airplay on alternative radio because Kurt Cobain said he was a fan. That's how things worked in the 90s, if Kurt Cobain said he liked a band, that band would be the next big thing for a few weeks, and some of them were able to ride that momentum and have a successful career.
It’s crazy how comfortable the original game boy and original game bit advance are to me personally, yet they are the worst model of each console available
You did the og gameboy dirty. Just imagine being in the 80s, it being the ONLY way to play anything out of your house. It was definitely ahead of it's time.
Ooo yess i had a bat man one and spider man one and those were my video games all the up until i was 6 and i finally got my own gameboy color from santa @dapperfan44
@RihcterWilker: This is the problem with Scott and his generation who were born in the very late-90s or early-2000s. They weren't there when these devices first came out so haven't got a clue how they were seen back then. The DMG was a highly desirable machine back then or at least it was for me. Back then, it was the ONLY way to play both 'Mario Land' games and I loved the 2-D Mario games. (I still do and always will!) I also disagree with Scott in two of his other Videos; The Stash one where he debates SNES vs Mega Drive. Debates in the school playground never went anything like that. The second Video I disagree with is his Woz Video 'Sonic 1: Laughing Stock'. Again, Scott TRASHES it but when this game came out in 1991 (here in the UK), the Title Screen alone was seen as a revolution. It's only more recently I learnt the 3-D effect was due to different layers that moved at different speeds. Regardless, STH1 was seen as a ABSOLUTE rival to 'Mario World' and for the longest time, I couldn't decide which 16-Bit 2-D Platformer I preferred. (It eventually became SMW)
@@leighdappa I mean I think he knows that and appreciates that and if he was talking about each gameboy in a historical context he would have a lot of good things to say about it but in the context of right here right now the OG gameboy is just the worst version of the gameboy. That doesn't make it bad because its still a gameboy and it doesn't detract from the massive impact it had on gaming, and the lives of a whole generation really but its still just what it is.
As far as I remember, the link cable slot of the GBA was also how the small console attached to the Gamecube, which some of the latters games had extras that could be used through it...
To this day, I'm a proud owner of two original Gameboys, one being my dad's, and the other being mine, which was given to me as a Christmas present in the 2000's, my very first console.... It survived me accidentally throwing it down the stairs, getting almost melted by spilled nail polish on my dresser, getting corroded by batery acid, and getting shelved somewhere for almost 10 years straight in a box on a hot and humid place unknowingly God, beautiful memories of a tough as nails console...
my issue with the AGS-101's screen is that it doesn't properly correct the screen colors to replicate the original gameboy advance's limited palette, which a lot of games (like the metroid titles) were designed around. funnily enough, nintendo switch online's emulator actually does that
21:55 They put the DS as a third pillar because it was literally improvised as a response to the PSP. Nintendo was very afraid of Sony taking the portable market from them. They were actually developing a true sucessor to the game boy at the same time, Project Iris if I'm recalling it right and it would have 3d graphics, a touchscreen, a camera, it would be the first Nintendo console with the eShop, and it would have the PSPGO formfactor with a retractable gampead so you could focus entirelly on the touchscreen. Basically the DSi but with only the bottom screen, in fact, the DSi is probably what the Project Iris was turned into after the DS success.
People today forget this too but the original Game Boy was heavily marketed to adults in the early '90s as a time killer for the average businessman. That brick was probably expected to fit into a suitcase.
I've never understood looking back at tech from 35 years ago and punching down on it with the mind of someone who has been spoiled with tech from 35 years later. Like duh.........it's not as good as current stuff, and makes you wonder how we found joy with it with how primitive it was, but that's how tech progression works. You're always going to look back and find a million things "wrong" with old tech if that's how you choose to look at it. It's one thing to point the shortcomings of the past, it's another to make it seem like the developers were doing something wrong by just working in the confines of what they had available. 30-40 years from now kids will be laughing at how you ever played games that looked like the DS, why you needed 2 screens, or they will be laughing you ever had to use a "Stylus". I personally try and enjoy every era of tech for what it is in the time it was from.
The game boy micro is so cool and honestly I think it was ahead of its time. It’s hard for me to believe it came out in 2005 because it looks like something Nintendo released like last year
Sometimes I grab my GBC for nostalgia or when I buy new GBC games...but yeah, after an hour or so it wears off and I grab an SP like any actual sane person should.
I absolutely love my modded DMG. It's awesome. Unfortunately I usually just play my Analogue Pocket now. The Game Boy is my favorite console of all time.
I’m only 2 years younger than him but it’s crazy to hear there were kids on the playground with original game boys back then. I barely remember seeing Colors even, I associate the Gameboy with the advance and SP.
I still have my GBA SP. And it's GREAT for when you want a game to play and not have to worry about modern-day inconvenience like "DO I HAVE TO INSTALL A DAY 1 PATCH?!"
If you can't appreciate the technology that was, you'll never truly appreciate the technology we have today. And, yeah. There's almost no reason to own a DMG model now. But that Game Boy was EPIC to me as a kid. It made me think outside the box about the MANY cool things it could possibly do. And if you're gonna diss the screen, think about this for a moment. LCD tech was still kinda shit back then and the displays aren't getting younger. Polarizers often need to be replaced as well. And if you think constantly fiddling with the contrast wheel was bad, then your TV apparently never had a vertical OR horizontal hold knob before. We put up with a lot of shit to be entertained back then. And PLEASE never call 2 AAA batteries a good thing ever again. Those things cost the same as AA but have far less capacity. It's no wonder Nintendo went back to AA batteries for every handheld until they made the GBA SP.
My favorite story about the original gameboy is a soldier took it to war with him and after dealing with the abuse of war and even a bombing it survived and still turned on despite it looking like a charred brick after the explosion lol
As someone who got the original 89 brick game boy for my 6th birthday in 1995, I can say back then (at least in Australia) no one knew about anything but gameboy, kids in my school would sneak theirs in to show them off and we'd all have crowds during recess and lunch breaks. Later, gbc and gba would have the same effect. There might’ve been one weird kid talking about Sonic, but aussie schools in the 90s were all about Game Boy, Mario, Pokemon, and dbz 😂
The original Game Boy aged the worst, even in the mid 90s, it was considered outdated that the GB pocket replaced it! The GBA SP is my favorite of the game boy line! Also the GB Micro would’ve been good had it been backwards compatible with original GB and GBC games, but it was redundant by the time it came out!
If I recall correctly the DS actually wasn't supposed to be the successor to the GBA. They were working on another single-screen gameboy derivative type system and couldn't get it quite right so they released the DS in the meantime. When the DS was successful they canceled the next gen gameboy afterwards.
13:03 Fun fact: because of how the original Game Boy was designed, you can't physically turn the system on with a GBC game inserted, as there's no notch in the Game Pak for the power switch to slide into
The reason why you'd play the original GameBoy was because it had WAY better battery life than any of the revisions which came later. The OG used four AA batteries instead of two AAA batteries that the Pocket used. Not only is that just fewer batteries, but they're smaller too, so way less longevity.
When I was a kid I actually preferred the DMG to the Pocket because it had far better battery life (about 3-4x the Pocket’s) and alkaline batteries in the 90s were expensive af. And the ghosting was fine for playing Pokemon and other RPGs with lots of static screens.
Original GBA is best for playing, it just perfect for your hands. And Backlit screen and rechargeable batteries mods make it superior than the SP and the DS.
Waiting for Scott to finally review all of the Popeye video games. You know... Popeye... sailor man... eats spinach...inspiration for Donkey Kong and one of the three famicom launch titles... Popeye! Popeye 2 is actually a solid Game boy game.
The Game Boy Light looks that way (washed out, not lit well) because it is using a front light, not a backlight. The light is in front of the screen, similar to a light on an old wrist watch where you would hit the button to see the time in the dark.
I went from Pocket to Color to Advance to SP, and up until the SP it didn't even occur to me that a backlight was even a thing that could be put in a handheld because I was just so used to it and ignorant of Sega and Atari. Blew my kid mind to actually see what I was playing without any accessories.
I never had an Atari Lynx but I can name my favorite game and it's Chip Challenge! Most people probably know the game from it's PC port the the Lynx version is actually the original. After that I have a lot less Lynx knowledge.
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This is not all of the game boys. I still have mine.
Haa
good one
belly laughed at this one
Finally! I can stop rewatching videos I’ve seen 10 times already!
For another 20 minutes or so, at least
About 15 left, hope youre enjoying it pal
About 7 minutes left
4 …….
Hes cooked bois, back to the cycle of doom for the foreseeable future 🤷♂️
Scott is my game boy
If you’re taller than him he can be your game boy micro
@@MHSchonberg If you're 15 feet tall he can even be your game boy pocket
If scott was black he could be your gameboy color
If Scott was 1lbs he could be your Game Boy Light.
The OG Gameboy to Color time gap is insane. On the same system, you could have a elementary schooler and middle schooler who both can say "I grew up with the Gameboy"
Game Boys this, Game Boys that. I want some Game Men!
So, was that intentionally homoerotic or where you going for a word joke?
People born after the 90s don't know that the original Game Boy screens actually worked pretty well. It's only NOW that the screens are starting to degrade. The ghosting and missing rows of pixels were nowhere near as bad as today. The OG Game Boy I had still had an pretty decent display well into the early 10s.
I was thinking that same thing, and unfortunately my GBA screen has degraded. It is a LOT darker than I remember it being.
Happens with eyes too
They're certainly worse today, but they were never very good displays, basically was the minimum Nintendo could get away with. Passive matrix LCDs were never great.
This video really makes you feel like a Game Boy™️
Yesir.
I think Wii™ can all agree!
*blinkkkkkkkkk*
I often remind my nephews, "you boys dont know how good you have it with your switch's...
Back in my day i had to play all my games in black and baby poop green". They looked at me like i was crazy then i showed them videos of game boy games and they proceeded to look at me as if i was even crazier after seeing what i meant😅
Give them a GBA SP if weather knocks the internet out, lemme know what happens PLEASE
@@aiodensghost8645 I gave em an original ds a long time ago actually lol
@@aiodensghost8645the switch doesn't need Internet to play games.
Nintendo, release the Game Man already. I want to prove that I ain’t no boy anymore
HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE GAMECUBE GAMEBOY PLAYER
Or Super Game Boy 😡
26:43 Okay but if your dad had said "all these kids with their Wii U's and whatnot" you would have cried and given a standing ovation
I remember pulling Donkey Kong out from the bowels of a couch when I was little. Ever since the Gameboy was the go-to device for me growing up.
Best donkey Kong game ever
“This thing is nothin but cuuuurve city” -Scott Wozniak
the best game boy is obviously the virtual boy
the original Red Blue Green Pokemon games were released so close to the GameBoy Colour that they just gave them full colour pallets so when ya play the original Gen 1 on GBC you get full colour, even on GBA you get full colour
All colored cartrides, not transparent/nor gray, are gbc-enhanced games, they have extra features and colors but they work on the original gb.
@@GeomancerHT well I just think that Pokemon gen 1 was better on GBC because of how late it was in the GB line
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Red and Blue don't have GBC special features (outside of preassigned palettes) while Yellow does. Still not entirely sure what's going on there but Yellow was released with original Game Boy packaging.
I had a titanium edition GameBoy Advance SP. I dropped it down a flight of stairs and it landed on a concrete floor. It got a scratch on one of the corners. I had that thing for 4 years, and I gave it to someone right before I moved. I talked to that guy years later and he said he used it for 3 years before giving it to someone else. Every time I see a poster for a titanium edition iPhone, I kinda wish I could afford to get one, coz I imagine it's durability is roughly the same as that SP.
3:00 Scott the Woz jumpscare
I love this kind of Scott's Stash videos! (Which is most of the content anyway) I'll be super happy to eat my dinner with this in the background. Thanks Scott!
I LOVE THE GAMEBOY!
I will always, always love the DMG. I didn't even grow up with it, but every time I get a handheld I look for DMG colors. I grew up on the Advance SP, which has affected my brain chemistry so much I almost exclusively play games on handheld
The original game boy screens haven’t gotten worse with age, I can report from the early 90s they always sucked. But if you were stuck and had the choice of playing on that screen or no video games at all you’d be amazed at what you’ll put up with when bored
The Game Boys are back in town
what about game girl, scott?
I’m ready for the Scott’s Stash on the Pocket Pikachu Mini
clicked faster than you can say, "Yibbity, yibbity, yibbita!"
Ah yes, Scott’s Stash, my favorite top-down rambler.
5:42 When it comes to talking about the Game Boy, you always forget that the Super Game Boy exists.
That’s more so an add on to the SNES than a Game Boy model. It wouldn’t fit in these types of videos.
Their point is that Scott is failing to understand the context Game Boy games found themselves in by the mid '90s, where SGB was a big selling point and promotional tool that kept the brand relevant.
You don't have to do a discussion on SGB in the video to acknowledge that SGB features in games helped the original model and its games last that long without the Pocket.
3:09 When Scott's reflection is more clear on the gameboy screen then the actual game.
27:15 They should call it the "Game Boy Omega" so that that one future consoles video from ages ago finally becomes real
During the GameBoy Colour launch, Nintendo ran a campaign revolving around the slogan "Play It Loud!" As such, some people refer to the translucent GBC as "the Play It Loud edition". I myself clocked many hours of Link's Awakening on my translucent GBC.
They used two songs by the Butthole Surfers in the ads, as the band had recently started getting massive airplay on alternative radio because Kurt Cobain said he was a fan. That's how things worked in the 90s, if Kurt Cobain said he liked a band, that band would be the next big thing for a few weeks, and some of them were able to ride that momentum and have a successful career.
Scott has officially redefined the phrase, _"Me and the Boys"._
19:44 scotts an original ipad kid
That’s a lot of Game Boys!
All the boys…except the Virtual one because it is the literal red-headed stepchild.
RedHeads keep being disrepected.
Super Gamboy being left at the orphanage
What’s sad is that the Virtual Boy though not the best Nintendo handheld was also invented by the same guy who invented the original Gameboy
It’s crazy how comfortable the original game boy and original game bit advance are to me personally, yet they are the worst model of each console available
I had a translucent purple Game Boy Color circa 1999 when i was 6. It was rad
You did the og gameboy dirty. Just imagine being in the 80s, it being the ONLY way to play anything out of your house. It was definitely ahead of it's time.
Or a kid in the 90s with just them little Basketball Tiger Electronics.
Ooo yess i had a bat man one and spider man one and those were my video games all the up until i was 6 and i finally got my own gameboy color from santa @dapperfan44
@RihcterWilker: This is the problem with Scott and his generation who were born in the very late-90s or early-2000s.
They weren't there when these devices first came out so haven't got a clue how they were seen back then.
The DMG was a highly desirable machine back then or at least it was for me.
Back then, it was the ONLY way to play both 'Mario Land' games and I loved the 2-D Mario games. (I still do and always will!)
I also disagree with Scott in two of his other Videos; The Stash one where he debates SNES vs Mega Drive.
Debates in the school playground never went anything like that.
The second Video I disagree with is his Woz Video 'Sonic 1: Laughing Stock'.
Again, Scott TRASHES it but when this game came out in 1991 (here in the UK), the Title Screen alone was seen as a revolution.
It's only more recently I learnt the 3-D effect was due to different layers that moved at different speeds.
Regardless, STH1 was seen as a ABSOLUTE rival to 'Mario World' and for the longest time, I couldn't decide which 16-Bit 2-D Platformer I preferred. (It eventually became SMW)
Okay boomtown
@@leighdappa I mean I think he knows that and appreciates that and if he was talking about each gameboy in a historical context he would have a lot of good things to say about it but in the context of right here right now the OG gameboy is just the worst version of the gameboy. That doesn't make it bad because its still a gameboy and it doesn't detract from the massive impact it had on gaming, and the lives of a whole generation really but its still just what it is.
1:13 CHIPS CHALLENGE
thank u for ur hard work scott 🙏 ohio boyz up
As far as I remember, the link cable slot of the GBA was also how the small console attached to the Gamecube, which some of the latters games had extras that could be used through it...
To this day, I'm a proud owner of two original Gameboys, one being my dad's, and the other being mine, which was given to me as a Christmas present in the 2000's, my very first console....
It survived me accidentally throwing it down the stairs, getting almost melted by spilled nail polish on my dresser, getting corroded by batery acid, and getting shelved somewhere for almost 10 years straight in a box on a hot and humid place unknowingly
God, beautiful memories of a tough as nails console...
I miss my original Gameboy! I loved that thing. To this day, one of my favorite games is Super Mario Land 2
I just have an analogue pocket now, and my gameboys are in storage for the time being
One minute in and this seems very cathartic for him
Real quick. Half an hour video. Awesome
I gotta be honest, a part of me felt these were all dubbed over. Glad to see he's talking in real time
Boys' night!
Holy shit, scott's stash looks just like scott the woz!
Yeah! They both have hands!
my issue with the AGS-101's screen is that it doesn't properly correct the screen colors to replicate the original gameboy advance's limited palette, which a lot of games (like the metroid titles) were designed around.
funnily enough, nintendo switch online's emulator actually does that
First time I have been happy to come in under a minute
Wait...
Ew
21:55 They put the DS as a third pillar because it was literally improvised as a response to the PSP.
Nintendo was very afraid of Sony taking the portable market from them.
They were actually developing a true sucessor to the game boy at the same time, Project Iris if I'm recalling it right and it would have 3d graphics, a touchscreen, a camera, it would be the first Nintendo console with the eShop, and it would have the PSPGO formfactor with a retractable gampead so you could focus entirelly on the touchscreen.
Basically the DSi but with only the bottom screen, in fact, the DSi is probably what the Project Iris was turned into after the DS success.
People today forget this too but the original Game Boy was heavily marketed to adults in the early '90s as a time killer for the average businessman. That brick was probably expected to fit into a suitcase.
Gb micro is so good
I've never understood looking back at tech from 35 years ago and punching down on it with the mind of someone who has been spoiled with tech from 35 years later. Like duh.........it's not as good as current stuff, and makes you wonder how we found joy with it with how primitive it was, but that's how tech progression works. You're always going to look back and find a million things "wrong" with old tech if that's how you choose to look at it.
It's one thing to point the shortcomings of the past, it's another to make it seem like the developers were doing something wrong by just working in the confines of what they had available. 30-40 years from now kids will be laughing at how you ever played games that looked like the DS, why you needed 2 screens, or they will be laughing you ever had to use a "Stylus". I personally try and enjoy every era of tech for what it is in the time it was from.
Well said.
The game boy micro is so cool and honestly I think it was ahead of its time. It’s hard for me to believe it came out in 2005 because it looks like something Nintendo released like last year
Honestly, any Game Boy that isn't a GBA is just a shelf piece. My original Game Boy literally just holds up my Switch games now.
Sometimes I grab my GBC for nostalgia or when I buy new GBC games...but yeah, after an hour or so it wears off and I grab an SP like any actual sane person should.
I absolutely love my modded DMG. It's awesome. Unfortunately I usually just play my Analogue Pocket now. The Game Boy is my favorite console of all time.
Awesome
"why would you want this [original gameboy]"
because i'm dumb, scott
I remember that infrared thingy with the Game Boy Color did a "card pop" thing in Pokémon TCG
I’m only 2 years younger than him but it’s crazy to hear there were kids on the playground with original game boys back then. I barely remember seeing Colors even, I associate the Gameboy with the advance and SP.
I still have my GBA SP. And it's GREAT for when you want a game to play and not have to worry about modern-day inconvenience like "DO I HAVE TO INSTALL A DAY 1 PATCH?!"
Game Boy was the best TI-83 I’ve ever played
The perfect video for the Video Game Boys, the ones who win.
shuckle mentioned
If you can't appreciate the technology that was, you'll never truly appreciate the technology we have today. And, yeah. There's almost no reason to own a DMG model now. But that Game Boy was EPIC to me as a kid. It made me think outside the box about the MANY cool things it could possibly do.
And if you're gonna diss the screen, think about this for a moment. LCD tech was still kinda shit back then and the displays aren't getting younger. Polarizers often need to be replaced as well. And if you think constantly fiddling with the contrast wheel was bad, then your TV apparently never had a vertical OR horizontal hold knob before. We put up with a lot of shit to be entertained back then.
And PLEASE never call 2 AAA batteries a good thing ever again. Those things cost the same as AA but have far less capacity. It's no wonder Nintendo went back to AA batteries for every handheld until they made the GBA SP.
It would be cool to get a gameboy classic
I need that N2DSXL Slime edition. I love liquid metal slimes!!!!
The gameboy color was like gameboy 1.5, more than an actual true successor.
My favorite story about the original gameboy is a soldier took it to war with him and after dealing with the abuse of war and even a bombing it survived and still turned on despite it looking like a charred brick after the explosion lol
Stop playing with Boys Scott!
i remember my mom coming home in 2003 with a copy of ruby and sapphire with a clear blue gba.
fun times. i still have the gba too
Wow, that's a lot of boys!
yay
As someone who got the original 89 brick game boy for my 6th birthday in 1995, I can say back then (at least in Australia) no one knew about anything but gameboy, kids in my school would sneak theirs in to show them off and we'd all have crowds during recess and lunch breaks.
Later, gbc and gba would have the same effect. There might’ve been one weird kid talking about Sonic, but aussie schools in the 90s were all about Game Boy, Mario, Pokemon, and dbz 😂
So tell me, is your Gameboy Advance SP playing an original Gameboy game, or is it happy to see me
I wish I had a gameboy light!
as a game boy myself, I'm glad to have taken part in this video
The original Game Boy aged the worst, even in the mid 90s, it was considered outdated that the GB pocket replaced it! The GBA SP is my favorite of the game boy line! Also the GB Micro would’ve been good had it been backwards compatible with original GB and GBC games, but it was redundant by the time it came out!
All The L Buttons next??? He has already made a series about these little guys, just want some representation of the L button.
My first system I ever owned was a teal gameboy color and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe ah memories 😊
I love that slime ds
Yo, that slim edition is kinda dope though
If I recall correctly the DS actually wasn't supposed to be the successor to the GBA. They were working on another single-screen gameboy derivative type system and couldn't get it quite right so they released the DS in the meantime. When the DS was successful they canceled the next gen gameboy afterwards.
13:03
Fun fact: because of how the original Game Boy was designed, you can't physically turn the system on with a GBC game inserted, as there's no notch in the Game Pak for the power switch to slide into
The Game Boy is such an interesting piece of Nintendo history, and it’s wild just how much of a mark it left on the company’s future.
Imagine if the Gameboy Color was rekeased WITH the backlight as a selling point.
The reason why you'd play the original GameBoy was because it had WAY better battery life than any of the revisions which came later. The OG used four AA batteries instead of two AAA batteries that the Pocket used. Not only is that just fewer batteries, but they're smaller too, so way less longevity.
When I was a kid I actually preferred the DMG to the Pocket because it had far better battery life (about 3-4x the Pocket’s) and alkaline batteries in the 90s were expensive af. And the ghosting was fine for playing Pokemon and other RPGs with lots of static screens.
3k views in under 30 minutes is crazy. Nice work Scott 😁
Original GBA is best for playing, it just perfect for your hands. And Backlit screen and rechargeable batteries mods make it superior than the SP and the DS.
that liquid metal slime 2ds is actually sick and im jealous
So glad I didn't sell my OG gameboy color when I sold all my games to a game store many years ago.
Waiting for Scott to finally review all of the Popeye video games. You know... Popeye... sailor man... eats spinach...inspiration for Donkey Kong and one of the three famicom launch titles... Popeye!
Popeye 2 is actually a solid Game boy game.
you gotta hand it to the OG Gameboy. for all its faults, it managed to be human AND dog waste at the same time. thats gotta be worth somethin.
The Game Boy Light looks that way (washed out, not lit well) because it is using a front light, not a backlight. The light is in front of the screen, similar to a light on an old wrist watch where you would hit the button to see the time in the dark.
I went from Pocket to Color to Advance to SP, and up until the SP it didn't even occur to me that a backlight was even a thing that could be put in a handheld because I was just so used to it and ignorant of Sega and Atari. Blew my kid mind to actually see what I was playing without any accessories.
I never had an Atari Lynx but I can name my favorite game and it's Chip Challenge! Most people probably know the game from it's PC port the the Lynx version is actually the original. After that I have a lot less Lynx knowledge.
I can name a single Atari Lynx game I give a damn about (Chip's Challenge) but I can't name two of them.
The transparent purple gbc is the best one, everyone knows that.
I missed most of the game boys. Went from brick to psp to 3ds
You're awesome dude! :D