Support this channel on Patreon: / 8bitguy1 Visit my website: www.the8bitguy.com In this episode, I take a look at the Nintendo Gameboy Camera and printer accessory.
I traded in my GameBoy Camera at a store once. Around a year later, I came back to the store and bought a GameBoy Camera because I wanted one again. It was the *same camera* that I traded in.
@@carloscreativity9557 Well duh, merchandise has to be stored until a buyer is found, employees handling the merchandise have to be paid and the lights have to be kept on. And the seller also has to deal with returns. This is what I say to friei who say I shouldn't be selling my old stuff to CeX and I should sell them on eBay instead: when I sell to CeX I don't have to deal with returns and I get cash on hand the moment I decide to sell.
Oh that's Bigfoot time to pull out my trusty Gameboy, *doesn't turn on, adds new batteries* ok now it should work, *turns on but doesn't read cartridge, takes out camera blows on it and reinserts it* finally, wait he saw us he's running away I need to take this quickly, and it's perfect, there is no better camera than this *pulls out new phone* You would not believe what I just saw and I have proof
Fun fact: If you press to run button many times,some creepy peaple are going to appear. And this text: Why are you running from? Or Why are you running?
HopeTV Amazing, I've never seen someone not look at upload dates before making a claim like that. This video was uploaded in June of 2017, while Cinemassacre did his video in August of 2017.
I used it mostly for two things: - Stopmotion clips. - Creating mini games using that function that allowed you to place links to another photo. You could draw a room and if you clicked the door it would load a picture of the room behind that door. Like this you could create a point and click adventure. It has been 20 years since i last used it so i don't remember exactly how it all works right now but i had tons of fun with that thing.
I got mine in 1999 when I was 10 years old, and I loved the heck out of it. I will never forget how I used up all 30 photo slots to create little coherent stop motion films, like shooting 360 degrees around a friend holding a toy gun, trying to look fierce. Fond memories. Love your stuff, 8BitGuy! Greetings from Germany
Fun fact: There is a peripheral called the BitBoy was released a couple of years ago that emulates the printer and allows you to off load the images onto a SD card for modern usage.
You can actually extract the original bmp data from the cartridges volatile memory if you've got the tools to do it. This gives the highest resolution of the images of course since it is the data actually generated by the camera and not filtered through multiple rendering and capture processes. I'd be willing to send over some of my own GB camera photos, or even help extract the photos on your cart for a future video if you'd like!
I've learned that the hard way, too. In my experience, alkaline cells often do show open-circuit voltages roughly corresponding to actual strength, but zinc carbon/chloride and certain other types can be very prone to reading a “full” 1.5 volts when no useful energy actually remains.
Watched this video on my 11 years old son recommendation and now I am glued to this channel with faithful following... Your videos are unique and just fantastic, best wishes
I was a bit peeved when you stated that printing pictures nowadays was out of fashion, digital files are preferred, but when I thought about it, your absolutely right! I concluded that in making videos of old tech such as this, you are in fact making a tangible historical reference to such, which is really important. Great stuff!
And that's one of the camera's features - You can take photos which it will use as a "Game Face". In the little space sheooter screen where he selected the games, if you don't shoot any of the ships and let them go away, another space shooting game starts. The bosses are other game faces from the developers, and finally, your own game face.
I've always thought that new intros frequently make people want to go back to the old one... but THIS one was awesome and even better than the original!
Thank you for helping me revisit my childhood. I had that exact blue one and a printer as well. My family bought it for me when I was 11 for a Xmas gift. It came together as a blister pack combo deal for $99 I think including 3 spare rolls of paper. I spent HOURS at a time on that thing. I probably snapped 1000s of photos and printed 100s. Yah the picture quality was terrible and there were a lot better digital cameras at the time but the wow factor for a child like myself to actually “take pictures on a Gameboy” and to have a camera of my own (without wasting film) was amazing. Just seeing you run through the UI brought back a ton of memories. (How did you pipe video to a TV capture device, super game boy adapter on SNES?). That thing had a few other gems on it like alternate frames you could set for the pictures, put your face on the mini game characters, there was a music mixer mode in there somewhere. All kinds of fun.
I've owned 2 game boy cameras, and even today it can hold my attention. There are so many little secrets on the cartridge, and it was fun playing and unlocking the games, as well as adding pictures of my friends into the games (game face). I love the gameboy camera, and it feels like such a unique thing to even use, since it can't be emulated. Anyway, great video on such an interesting piece of technology, but you did leave out a lot of detail on the best features. I never really enjoyed taking 'hi-res pictures' with the camera, since i never enjoyed it for its "great applications" in photography. My friends and i more enjoyed that you could take pictures on at all on such a device, and we would still have fun taking, editing, and sharing photos with it, then playing the built in games with them, features you mostly didn't even mention. You only really talked about taking pictures which is only half the experience.
The reason it can't be emulated is because emulators have major design flaws and when pointed out the creators turn the other way and don't listen. there's nothing difficult at all about emulating the gameboy camera but try to emulate with emulators now and sure it's pretty complicated.
Aww 😢 I had this. I just realized that this would have been my first digital camera. I always wanted the printer. So much nostalgia, thank you for doing this video!
I still have mine! Never owned the printer, though my friend did (who always got EVERYthing it seemed) so I'm thankful to have a clear memory of the experience when it first came out. :D
I remember being a 10 year old kid a year before my grandma passed and her buying the camera and printer for me for christmas 98' , thank you for this video🙌 !
He also didn't mention that you could use the printer with some other games, to print out artworks… AND that you could also print out panorama shots you have done with the Game Boy Camera. I did that a few times, to get some actual bigger images as prints.
DSFII if you select shoot and after selecting shoot you select run appears some weird images and the message "who are you running from?" this is just a easter egg
MrWafflesNBacon I’m running from the ROBLOX fan base. edit: i made this comment when i was 12 or 13 (between anywhere in very late 2017 - february 2018), i’m 15 now lol. how did this get 3 likes?
2:18 That memorial is a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of those who were killed in 9/11. Thank you for sharing this corner of your community with us.
Still got mine! My buddy (who got EVERYthing) had the printer too, and we had a lot of fun printing stickers! For about a day. Then we just tried to figure out how to make the naughtiest/funniest printouts.
I think the reason the original paper had an adhesive backing would have been to do with Japanese photo booths (Pri-Club) which dispensed adhesive backed mini photos which people then stick on all their stuff (phones, diaries, etc...). Very popular among the younger crowd in Japan, even these days. Might have been aimed at that market. Edit: The stamping function is definitely inspired by Pri-Club, leading me to believe this was intended more for the Japanese market.
6:38 You can change the exposure before printing by pressing Select and Up, you can adjust it if you want to print it light or darker And of course, you missed even many more options and functions (if we talk about taking photos), such as add giant frames to the photo, put a description and be able to print it next to the photo, change the palette before taking the photo, turn dithering on or off, change the sound when taking the photo and flip the photo c: Still, good video!
You could actually print digital pictures at that time, there were places to develop them from capturing them on a viewer machine. Game boy camera was monochrome, but we like it for actually taking pictures without film, my cousin hated waiting to develop. He mostly saved some of his photos on floppy disk.
OM G yeah, it was impressive when our photo lab started printing photos from VHS tapes and floppy disks. That was for printing screenshots of home movies and video games scores. Now it's easy to use a digital format to print.
Um, OMG, you're wrong on a few levels: 1. We didn't even have digital photography until the mid-'90s at the earliest. 2. Analog photos were and are still printed, either digitally or analogously. 3. You just contradicted yourself with "dot[-]matrix printers can only print text, though you can print images..." If they can print images, then they can print more than text. 4. Computer printers are all digital (except maybe a daisy-wheel printer that converts a digital text signal into typewriter-quality, text-only prints).
I had a lot of fun with this when I was young. I used to make photos with the effects of some stuff in the living room, and my mom had to guess what it was, and after a few picture we switched roles. Also I played the games a lot, and there is an option to make music with the gameboy sounds. That's something I really enjoyed to do.
I was a kid when I played this. As a kid, I really enjoyed this and the nostalgia is powerful. 3:35 That purple one is my GB. The owner of this video complained a lot about this product, but when I was a kid I loved and played with it everyday.
I had both the camera and printer as a kid. I spent hours playing the games and taking photos. I remember there was a way to screen grab with the printer from Pokémon yellow in the hall of fame box.
Nice video! Whenever one of my favorite TH-camrs cover the Game Boy Camera, I'm always reminded of the fact that Neil Young used one to take the photo for the cover art of his "Silver and Gold" album.
@@swainmusiclessons EXACTLY! sad part is it wasn't even worth it, probably worth like $150 bucks now, $20 lol I mean that's just a guess but I know people pay crazy prices for unopened stuff
honestly, kids these days dont appreciate how easy it is to take photos at the drop of a hat and at basically no cost instant snap. i take heaps of photos, not to be annoying, but because i grew up thinking 'i wish i was able to get that on camera' now , everything is on camera :D
I wonder how hackable it is? Or if there's some way to use some enhanced compression for better resolution image, Or better interpretation to add color or derive color from the 4 shade gray.
I was the target audience for that camera. Born late 1989. I can tell you, as a 7 or 8 year old, in the mid 90s that it provided endless entertainment. And it was amazing to have a photo on a game boy in school or at a friend's house of something. Brother and I even used it with the long timer to take pictures of the tooth fairy. 11/10 for the time and price point. You also missed some games in there.
I was born 1990. When I saw the thumbnail my brain exploded from memories of that awful printer lol. I loved it. Do you remember when Walkman came out with the waterproof walkman??? Shortly before CD became the thing to have?
@@jamesparker223 lol I don't. I had that yellow discman that was rubberized and tough. That and a Sony portable tv that was in a black square housing, with a thicc nylon rope to hold it around your neck. Antenna in there. Saved up a lot of grass cutting money to "have my own tv" lol
I traded in my GameBoy Camera at a store once. Around a year later, I came back to the store and bought a GameBoy Camera because I wanted one again. It was the *same camera* that I traded in.
TechWalker wow just wow
bet you payed more the second time
That’s cool
@@carloscreativity9557 Well duh, merchandise has to be stored until a buyer is found, employees handling the merchandise have to be paid and the lights have to be kept on. And the seller also has to deal with returns.
This is what I say to friei who say I shouldn't be selling my old stuff to CeX and I should sell them on eBay instead: when I sell to CeX I don't have to deal with returns and I get cash on hand the moment I decide to sell.
I bet you paid double to get it back too.
That camera would be great for taking Bigfoot pictures.
And ufo pics too
Retro Sega Wondershow, it would also be the perfect camera for taking pictures of the Loch Ness monster
Oh that's Bigfoot time to pull out my trusty Gameboy, *doesn't turn on, adds new batteries* ok now it should work, *turns on but doesn't read cartridge, takes out camera blows on it and reinserts it* finally, wait he saw us he's running away I need to take this quickly, and it's perfect, there is no better camera than this *pulls out new phone* You would not believe what I just saw and I have proof
Hahahahahah
HA!
"at least a few hours of entertaining"??? Bro, I spent like 3 years playing with this game when I was young. It was amaaaazing!
Then he was _technically_ correct.
@@nateman10 You'd hate to be my friend anyways
@@Flopster101 ⅕
he did say at least
Fun fact: If you press to run button many times,some creepy peaple are going to appear. And this text: Why are you running from? Or Why are you running?
I love the unique and original feel to your channel. You never try to be like anyone else, and your videos are always well made.
Never change that.
It's not original. He still the idea of using the printer and camera from Cinemaassacer. Aka Angry video game nerd
HopeTV Amazing, I've never seen someone not look at upload dates before making a claim like that. This video was uploaded in June of 2017, while Cinemassacre did his video in August of 2017.
@@wulfang_4219 AVGN is from a comedic perspective, 8bit guy is from a technical one
Feels retro, I like it.
@@wulfang_4219 this video was first though
Fun Fact: The cover art for Neil Young's album "Silver & Gold" was taken by his daughter with the Gameboy Camera!
True
That's nutty!
Neil young is awesome
cool
Tony Ortale and it was printed with the Gameboy Printer!
I used it mostly for two things:
- Stopmotion clips.
- Creating mini games using that function that allowed you to place links to another photo. You could draw a room and if you clicked the door it would load a picture of the room behind that door. Like this you could create a point and click adventure.
It has been 20 years since i last used it so i don't remember exactly how it all works right now but i had tons of fun with that thing.
I got mine in 1999 when I was 10 years old, and I loved the heck out of it. I will never forget how I used up all 30 photo slots to create little coherent stop motion films, like shooting 360 degrees around a friend holding a toy gun, trying to look fierce.
Fond memories.
Love your stuff, 8BitGuy!
Greetings from Germany
Still better than modern CCTV cameras overseeing the most secure financial institutions in the world.
Underrated
Mr. Derpy Face Maddd
Fun fact: There is a peripheral called the BitBoy was released a couple of years ago that emulates the printer and allows you to off load the images onto a SD card for modern usage.
cool
I visited their site, but everything was sold out unfortunately.
Mats dang. I know they did a second run. if you express interest on their social media, they may do a third
that's not a fun fact… but mildly interesting.
KRAFTWERK2K6 Yeah, you are right. That has a better ring to it.
That dancing Mario is probably one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen in my life.
it''s like the photo when camera first born in the earth
This must be the camera that everyone uses to record UFO's and Bigfoot.
Underrated comment
You can actually extract the original bmp data from the cartridges volatile memory if you've got the tools to do it. This gives the highest resolution of the images of course since it is the data actually generated by the camera and not filtered through multiple rendering and capture processes. I'd be willing to send over some of my own GB camera photos, or even help extract the photos on your cart for a future video if you'd like!
Neat
Fun fact about the Game-boy camera, The software was one of the first pieces of software made by the warioware team. It REALLY shows with its quirks
awesome!
I thought it was made by Game Freak? Explain?
Man that software looked like homebrew garbage...and that dancing Mario, what was Nintendo thinking?
Yes! That's why the software, as well as the mini-games, are so weird. It's very much an early Wareware title!
@@YariCodes bruh, everyone know Game Freak only made pokemon stuff
Fun fact: for a time, the Gameboy Camera held the Guinness World Record for smallest digital camera
Lennon, Do you not realize how big cameras (including digital) were back then? Bigger than a Gameboy.
Wow
No kidding...
“One of these geese bite me in the rear end one day”
Goose: mess with the honk you get the bonk.
I‘ve had the combo of camera and printer. So lovely 😍 I‘ve took a picture of my first girl friend with that.
I can finally afford a printer
AlexanderGoa that's hilarious
Device Factor 😁
Great for you!
Andrew Patrascu 😁
why fo you add "😁" ?, its just make no sense
That new intro is SNAPPY! NICE!!
Are we just gonna ignore the “who are you running from” easter egg?
Ooh Ok?
Yes! I wanna know why that creepy message is there!
@JERRY tm I can't remember if it's in the video, but in the camera if you get into a 'fight' and click the 'run' option, it'll ask that.
Yes, yes we are.
NO!
Nostalgia is strong here, loved that stuff as a kid
You can't really check for dead batteries with a voltmeter. They'll keep their voltage forever and only drop under actual load.
Explains the fading red led effect. Turn on printer and then the load immediately brings them down.
Yup, got to test them under load.
I've learned that the hard way, too. In my experience, alkaline cells often do show open-circuit voltages roughly corresponding to actual strength, but zinc carbon/chloride and certain other types can be very prone to reading a “full” 1.5 volts when no useful energy actually remains.
Lucky, I remember playing this at a local Walmart and thinking it was so amazing, works with Pokemon too!
ProtoMario Oh hey, its that one guy who does that thing!
Ugh, this guy
Damian9303 why?
*JOHN CENA*
ProtoMario HI
Watched this video on my 11 years old son recommendation and now I am glued to this channel with faithful following... Your videos are unique and just fantastic, best wishes
I was a bit peeved when you stated that printing pictures nowadays was out of fashion, digital files are preferred, but when I thought about it, your absolutely right! I concluded that in making videos of old tech such as this, you are in fact making a tangible historical reference to such, which is really important. Great stuff!
The camera makes your selfie look downright diabolical. :D
It would make a great video game boss sprite.
And that's one of the camera's features - You can take photos which it will use as a "Game Face". In the little space sheooter screen where he selected the games, if you don't shoot any of the ships and let them go away, another space shooting game starts. The bosses are other game faces from the developers, and finally, your own game face.
I've always thought that new intros frequently make people want to go back to the old one... but THIS one was awesome and even better than the original!
Although a low res review loved the 1080p videos + new intro
Thank you for helping me revisit my childhood. I had that exact blue one and a printer as well. My family bought it for me when I was 11 for a Xmas gift. It came together as a blister pack combo deal for $99 I think including 3 spare rolls of paper. I spent HOURS at a time on that thing. I probably snapped 1000s of photos and printed 100s. Yah the picture quality was terrible and there were a lot better digital cameras at the time but the wow factor for a child like myself to actually “take pictures on a Gameboy” and to have a camera of my own (without wasting film) was amazing.
Just seeing you run through the UI brought back a ton of memories. (How did you pipe video to a TV capture device, super game boy adapter on SNES?). That thing had a few other gems on it like alternate frames you could set for the pictures, put your face on the mini game characters, there was a music mixer mode in there somewhere. All kinds of fun.
you have only gb camera but not digital camera cause that you are poor
Just became a patreon supporter. Love this channel!
I've owned 2 game boy cameras, and even today it can hold my attention. There are so many little secrets on the cartridge, and it was fun playing and unlocking the games, as well as adding pictures of my friends into the games (game face). I love the gameboy camera, and it feels like such a unique thing to even use, since it can't be emulated. Anyway, great video on such an interesting piece of technology, but you did leave out a lot of detail on the best features. I never really enjoyed taking 'hi-res pictures' with the camera, since i never enjoyed it for its "great applications" in photography. My friends and i more enjoyed that you could take pictures on at all on such a device, and we would still have fun taking, editing, and sharing photos with it, then playing the built in games with them, features you mostly didn't even mention. You only really talked about taking pictures which is only half the experience.
It can be emulated! Use this :
drive.google.com/file/d/1xD0OZg1ny77KYQByoxh8urXwIvIHix-0/view?usp=drivesdk
My OldBoy! For Android can emulate it easily
The reason it can't be emulated is because emulators have major design flaws and when pointed out the creators turn the other way and don't listen. there's nothing difficult at all about emulating the gameboy camera but try to emulate with emulators now and sure it's pretty complicated.
Do a video!
Aww 😢 I had this. I just realized that this would have been my first digital camera. I always wanted the printer. So much nostalgia, thank you for doing this video!
When I was a child the printer was one my dreams 😅, but in my city it was really hard to find.
Thanks for your videos!
At 5:21, the Japanese text on AA batteries 使用推奨期限(月-年)底面に表示 literally means "recommend using (the battery) before [month-year] printed on the bottom."
I think the new intro looked great! 3D ASCII art is always impressive.
Cool outro too!
I’m totally gonna buy one. Your “review” makes me want the Gameboy camera so badly lol
I still have mine! Never owned the printer, though my friend did (who always got EVERYthing it seemed) so I'm thankful to have a clear memory of the experience when it first came out. :D
Sick! I've been waiting you to do an episode on this!
The new intro is cool, but I miss that ear wrenching 8-bit sound.
Darth Gumby Me to! it was so piercing yet satisfying! it will be missed
Darth Gumby yeah
I miss the sounds from the equipment: the "clack" of the drive lever closing, the "clicketiclick" of the keyboard...
I think the old version was way better. This one sounds kind of childish.
Nice, I like it as well.
2:46 "one of these geese bit me in the rear end one day when I was at this park" that's... good to know
Hey I got bit by a goose last week figured you would want to know.
Dude this is so cool. I still have thr Gameboy Camera. NEVER was able to find the printer sadly! Very cool to see it now. Thanks and subbed!
3:04 and you thought 50 shades of grey was bad
Lmao
lol
Bruh the monolith is a cool object smh
4 shades of piss green
Ah yes my favorite novel
"4 shades of gray" - the prequel to 50 shades of gray
I almost snorted my tea out my nose reading this. xD
Vanderley5974X 46 shades less, but 10 times more fun :D
My inner goddess is doing the dance of the two veils.
4 shades of olive green*
Go back to 2012, where those jokes were wanted. Got some Twilight jokes whilst you're ahead?
Oh a stealth unboxing video! It just adds to the experience of learning about these things when you get to see how they looked out of the box.
I remember being a 10 year old kid a year before my grandma passed and her buying the camera and printer for me for christmas 98' , thank you for this video🙌 !
That new intro is amazing!
Cosík Cosiáš Codster Productions profile copy,
And the video is in 1080p :D.
Really like the new intro... Starting to look like a real show now, KEEP IT UP! :D
Love the new intro.
same
same x3
Thumbs up to that.
wow
And 1080p! :D
That printer is old school, perfect retro design!
i love how your game boy pocket's color fits so well with the game boy camera's color
Wow. I'm here before that one guy who always tries to dislike the 8bit guy first.
Next time you'll be faster than him, dislike it yourself! ...And then change it to like in a hour or so.
Already 8 losers disliked the video
Now it has already 9 dislikes? why..?
+Architector #4 ARE YOU THE GUY?
I disliked too
Although it seemed impossible, music is getting better and better! Cheers!
your channel makes me feel nostalgic over stuff that i had never experienced or even seen before...
Wow this brings me back! I had that same blue one. I spent so many hours playing with that on my Gameboy color.
How dare you do a 10-minute video on the Game Boy Camera and not even mentioning the scary error face?
Fairy C Rat error? What error
Google "What are you running from?"
He also didn't mention that you could use the printer with some other games, to print out artworks… AND that you could also print out panorama shots you have done with the Game Boy Camera. I did that a few times, to get some actual bigger images as prints.
He mentioned all of those things.
KRAFTWERK2K6 actually, right at the beginning he did mention it could be used with some other games 😂
Wow, new theme song! Very cool!
I had this in the late 90s and it was great! Classic fridge photos, memories of old
I remember having wanted one of those. Neat to finally get to see how they worked. Thank you!
LOVE the new intro!
Who are you running from?
MrWafflesNBacon I was disapointed he didnt cover that creepypasta
Boualem Sam If you don’t mind me asking, what is the creepy pasta?
DSFII if you select shoot and after selecting shoot you select run appears some weird images and the message "who are you running from?" this is just a easter egg
You are now crossing the equator. Jambo Nintendo!
MrWafflesNBacon I’m running from the ROBLOX fan base.
edit: i made this comment when i was 12 or 13 (between anywhere in very late 2017 - february 2018), i’m 15 now lol. how did this get 3 likes?
2:18 That memorial is a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of those who were killed in 9/11. Thank you for sharing this corner of your community with us.
Thanks for bringing nice memory back again
I didn't know there were camera and printer accessories for the Game Boy.
34 years old and this is my first time seeing this camera
@@jkillings772 Interesting.
Same I wonder if there is a game boy fridge or something
I had both when I was little
@@popefrancis8153 no but there's a sewing machine (don't even ask)
"Whelp, time to cut the seal."
I aged 9 years witnessing that.
Yeah I was like “But my dude, you could just find an already opened one....
@@hackersarchangel OR... he could just open that box and don't treat the product as if it were a museum piece, only meant to be seen.
I had this in 99 when 13 years old. This was such a treat for me, loved it.
I still have and still love my Gameboy Camera. So many great childhood memories on that thing!
Love the new intro! A big improvement!
I love the new intro!!!!
C128 intro
Discovered you channel in 2018 , I wish I found your videos before . Amazing . Many thanks
Still got mine! My buddy (who got EVERYthing) had the printer too, and we had a lot of fun printing stickers! For about a day. Then we just tried to figure out how to make the naughtiest/funniest printouts.
I think the reason the original paper had an adhesive backing would have been to do with Japanese photo booths (Pri-Club) which dispensed adhesive backed mini photos which people then stick on all their stuff (phones, diaries, etc...). Very popular among the younger crowd in Japan, even these days.
Might have been aimed at that market.
Edit: The stamping function is definitely inspired by Pri-Club, leading me to believe this was intended more for the Japanese market.
6:38
You can change the exposure before printing by pressing Select and Up, you can adjust it if you want to print it light or darker
And of course, you missed even many more options and functions (if we talk about taking photos), such as add giant frames to the photo, put a description and be able to print it next to the photo, change the palette before taking the photo, turn dithering on or off, change the sound when taking the photo and flip the photo c:
Still, good video!
This intro is everything!
My cousin had one of these as a kid, I was fascinated by this wonder technology.. now look it’s completely retro vintage
I had so much fun making music with my Game Boy Camera. PLEASE do an 8-bit keys video about this as well.
You could actually print digital pictures at that time, there were places to develop them from capturing them on a viewer machine. Game boy camera was monochrome, but we like it for actually taking pictures without film, my cousin hated waiting to develop. He mostly saved some of his photos on floppy disk.
OM G yeah, it was impressive when our photo lab started printing photos from VHS tapes and floppy disks. That was for printing screenshots of home movies and video games scores. Now it's easy to use a digital format to print.
We've always been able to print digital photos.
Um, OMG, you're wrong on a few levels:
1. We didn't even have digital photography until the mid-'90s at the earliest.
2. Analog photos were and are still printed, either digitally or analogously.
3. You just contradicted yourself with "dot[-]matrix printers can only print text, though you can print images..." If they can print images, then they can print more than text.
4. Computer printers are all digital (except maybe a daisy-wheel printer that converts a digital text signal into typewriter-quality, text-only prints).
I love the shadows, that should be a kind a photography because I love it
I had a lot of fun with this when I was young. I used to make photos with the effects of some stuff in the living room, and my mom had to guess what it was, and after a few picture we switched roles. Also I played the games a lot, and there is an option to make music with the gameboy sounds. That's something I really enjoyed to do.
Love the New intro. Have you ever considered doing an episode about the Commodore PET
Yousae Nodar Is that what absolutely looks like in Greek? ahbsoolootloo
George Narwhel yeah It is greek
Yousae Nodar yeah why
I just didn't realize the word came from greek.
smile544 i didnt say to buy one
both neil young and paul mccartney used photos from the gameboy camera for album covers, jtlyk. cheers , love your videos
Paul's album was actually a Casio watch camera.
I was a kid when I played this. As a kid, I really enjoyed this and the nostalgia is powerful. 3:35 That purple one is my GB. The owner of this video complained a lot about this product, but when I was a kid I loved and played with it everyday.
I had both the camera and printer as a kid. I spent hours playing the games and taking photos. I remember there was a way to screen grab with the printer from Pokémon yellow in the hall of fame box.
"one of these geese bit me in the rear end.." line of the entire video lmao
WHO ARE YOU RUNNING FROM?
I was expecting him to show some of those creepy stuff, really glad he didn't
Incubators fuck off
He should had showed that.
That stuff was pretty eerie as a kid. Not quite terrifying, but somewhat unsettling.
Is that Kyubey?
I had both as a kid on release and back then, i thought it was the best thing ever :D
Nice video! Whenever one of my favorite TH-camrs cover the Game Boy Camera, I'm always reminded of the fact that Neil Young used one to take the photo for the cover art of his "Silver and Gold" album.
Anyone else died a lil bit inside when he cut the seal?
yes!!!
A little?? I cried
I didn't but I knew there would be a comment like this!
Nope. I was happy to see some hot garbage be used for what it was meant: being hot garbage.
I screamed
Who else is watching this on their game boy
😂😂😂
Does a android phone count
You caught me!
Meh!
I am :-()
Ahh I had these as a kid! Brings back memories.
This was great. I always wondered about this peripheral. You are the best.
be careful, the Rubik's cube on your shirt starts melting
I almost cried 😢 when you cut open that seal! 😂
was It Gross?
Let's just devalue this 1 second... boom!
@@swainmusiclessons EXACTLY! sad part is it wasn't even worth it, probably worth like $150 bucks now, $20 lol I mean that's just a guess but I know people pay crazy prices for unopened stuff
I love videos like this, well done!
I gave it an immediate like for the new intro!
Printer is like a receipt maker
honestly, kids these days dont appreciate how easy it is to take photos at the drop of a hat and at basically no cost instant snap.
i take heaps of photos, not to be annoying, but because i grew up thinking 'i wish i was able to get that on camera' now , everything is on camera :D
Ok boomer
Really like the new intro, very catchy!
Ooo I love the new intro! Much better and so retro! I LOVE IT!
I wonder how hackable it is? Or if there's some way to use some enhanced compression for better resolution image, Or better interpretation to add color or derive color from the 4 shade gray.
Um... I think you can play Doom on it, so... yeah, there's that.
I think it's limited by hardwear and not graphical software
Someone did stuff with color. Video is on TH-cam
HOLY CRAP THIS GUY IS IN KENNEDALE?!!??! OMG!
Brings back so many memories.
I was the target audience for that camera. Born late 1989. I can tell you, as a 7 or 8 year old, in the mid 90s that it provided endless entertainment. And it was amazing to have a photo on a game boy in school or at a friend's house of something.
Brother and I even used it with the long timer to take pictures of the tooth fairy. 11/10 for the time and price point. You also missed some games in there.
I was born 1990. When I saw the thumbnail my brain exploded from memories of that awful printer lol.
I loved it.
Do you remember when Walkman came out with the waterproof walkman??? Shortly before CD became the thing to have?
@@jamesparker223 lol I don't. I had that yellow discman that was rubberized and tough. That and a Sony portable tv that was in a black square housing, with a thicc nylon rope to hold it around your neck. Antenna in there. Saved up a lot of grass cutting money to "have my own tv" lol