Nintendo Game Boy History - The Definitive Gameboy Documentary
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A man in a top hat, with a dashing moustache or a highly distinguished beard, reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life! Top Hat Gaming Man travels around the globe, playing the best games for the Handhelds Around The World. The best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today, Top Hat Gaming Man brings to you the definitive Nintendo Gameboy Documentary, whereby he talks about the entire Gameboy history, from its humble beginnings to its eventual demise.
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Hey top hat gaming man, there is a French guy who spent a few years of his life checking Nintendo's archives, meeting former employees etc. gathering precious information on our favourite consoles that he later published in a few books. He recently published one on the history of the game boy and you should definitely check it out as he made some groundbreaking discoveries. His name is Florent Gorges and there are a few interviews of him on YT if you are curious to see what I mean.
that book is being sold for like $1000 American on Amazon. Yikes
An amazing, relatively quick and snappy documentary with some casual witticisms thrown in. Loved watching; made me smile and almost tear up with nostalgia. Thank you for creating this documentary!
Top drawer as always there my friend! Keep up the most excellent work! 🤘🏻
Well that's my Sunday entertainment sorted, thank you! I grew up in the Game Boy era so this was cool to see.
Another quality video that really appeals to me, thank you. I love the Game Boy or more accurately totally obsessed! I only planned on getting all the games I had as a child to relive the fun times. Then everything went rather hazy and I looked at my games and found I now had 621 games..........although i'm not complaining. I love the simplicity of most of the games that can be played in 1/2 hour spurts to the RPG's that need a lot longer! There is a great Game Boy community out there, where we can be geeks and chat everything Game Boy :-)
Always enjoy the extensive videos on the handheld systems and games!
@4:58 The switch still uses the d-pad in its pro controller. While not in the box of the system its still officially used the d-pad still
Man I love your history videos, even more so than the gaming historian himself. How bout a game gear if u haven't already
This will happen.
I am loving this channel.
Awesome video!
Another great video from our favourite content creator, British Wario.
Awesome documentary. It's a testament to the GameBoy that I'm still playing mine 33 years later.
Excellent video. Well done!
Excellent video mate 😊
Really great video and look at the game boy systems, I never had my own gameboy until the Gba but used to play on my friends origional gameboy at the time playing most of the classic games.
The systems I had at the time was the snes and megadrive, but unfortunately never had the super gameboy either at the time as I saw it as a device for someone to play their existing gb games on.
I have a big collection of gameboy games now and still have the memories of playing the games my friend had on his!
Great doc Top Hat. I received my DMG 01 GameBoy in Christmas of '89 it was the launch model w the headphones, batteries and a copy of Tetris and of course I got Super Mario Land best gifts ever!
@referral madness shut your mouth hipster
Loved seeing my hometown, Iraklio in your video. Sure was unexpected!
Thoroughly enjoyed that. My first handheld system was the Gameboy Pocket, which I got on a family holiday to Florida in 1997. It didn't come out in the UK until later that year from memory.
Ah, Simon! The "Dance Dance Revolution" for ur hands of yesteryear!
A splendid video!
Last time I left a comment saying thankyou for not only focusing on nes/snes nostalgia, I got death threats!
heart_of_a_daedra lmao
Its retro gaming, who the f**k do you think you are, it should ALL be about the NES, even though we pronounced it as the word 'nes' instead of saying the letters out loud, and like 8 people bought one.
No I'm messing with you it died on its arse and meant NOTHING to the UK gaming market, 99% of the country only knew Mario before Mario World on the SNES (which also said like a word, and not the letters) from the cartoons and playing Donkey Kong conversions on other consoles and micro computers. But those Americans ALWAYS get their piss-flaps in a knot if you don't pretend its the most important thing ever and saved the industry from the great videogame crash (which basically didn't happen, just Toys R Us and macys stopped stocking Atari clones one Christmas in north America because you had to sell the games so low priced it was more profitable to put more Star Wars dolls out on the shelf.)
Jammill Khursheed yeah I agree Nintendo never saved the video game market and Nintendo needs to step up their game I like Nintendo but their fanboys make my head hurt like they can't accept criticism
Great video!!
🙏😊🎮💯🔥🏝
I recommend the GBA SP (Especially the AGS-101 backlit model).
Top Hat Gaming Man is TH-cam’s Wario.
So much content...So little high perbly.
I played Pokemon to where I heard phantom music sometimes. I guess its a actual thing now some researchers are looking into
12:33 Man I loved that Dr Mario music
This was primarily a list of key games with a timeline accompanying it. In the director’s cut I’d like to hear much more of the behind the scenes development details rather than the rundown of games. I think you did a fair job selecting the important games. Don’t get me wrong! It would just be interesting to hear a bit more about the gameboy itself.
Some of my fondest GB memories:
---> playing at school... Dadaelian Opus, Baseball, Tennis, Tetris & Super Mario Land.
---> Final Fantasy Legend !! amazing.
---> Winning a Game Boy in a Super Mario Bros 3 competition.
It truly is amazing what great games came along for that handheld & I'm really not so surprised it demolished all competition.
I still play the Original DMG most of all. Modded with backlight and Bivert of course. Great video!
Such a cool vid
I loved Metroid 2 so much ! Metroid 2 has my favorite chip tune music ever.
That brick is tough as hell. Didn't play it so extensively, but I know it is a magnificent piece of design.
Great history run down.
So the man survived a truck crash to be killed by another car when he stepped aside to assess the damage? Insanity
2:18 I gotta find that t-shirt
I learned so much more then I thought I already knew about the game boy
That was good. can you pls add more talk of multiplayer games + puzzles / shmups that this GB has many great one (ie. Zas). thanks
I probably played hundreds of hours of Kirby Pinball
I played the heck out of my gameboy in the 90s. Probably played the Super Mario Worlds and oddly enough NBA Jam more then anything else.
I still play all my original carts. I've not fired up Batman for years though. Seeing it appear was a gigantic nostalgia hit. Sad to hear of the inventor who almost survived.
0:06 wow, you're buffed!
The first video game system I ever owned was a Red Game Boy Pocket with Pokemon Blue. I still have that original Game Boy as well.
I like the Xenoblade X music at the beginning of the video. Great music choice.
For a director's cut, I would suggest adding the Super Game Boy 2, the backlit Game Boy Light as well as the Game Boy Micro. :)
My biggest Game Boy memories were Tetris, Super Mario Land, Golf, Tennis, and the Generation I Pokemon Games.
Oops. Forgot about the micro.
Cheers from Amsterdam! Let me know when you're here. I will give you a retro games tour through Amsterdam
Listen, I've heard some of this somewhere before. "Nintendo making the selfie before it was even a thing". I'm going to find that video
Perfection
Great vid so far, sorry but the ad crashed the rest of it 😟
good video
Ninja Gaiden was my favorite black and white gameboy game Classic
Also, there was a super game boy 2 if I recall correctly.
Great video... I hooe a ganeboy is re-released... Or at least uploaded to the switch library 😜👍
I'd say the Virtual Boy was uncomfortable, it looks like it cut off the toes to your right foot @26:32.
The WonderSwan was a nice little experiment, but it had a major flaw. Ghosting happened on the original GameBoy, but they found ways to make it less annoying. The WonderSwan though, well... with its higher resolution and all its shades of grey it was blurry as fuck, sometimes to the point of the screen being an incomprehensible mess. The color model fixed these problems, but the original was pretty bad looking.
No mention of the Game Boy micro? :
I laughed at "dame game" when you pronounced it like the English word meaning "woman." The Japanese word is pronounced "dah-meh" where "da" is like "Jeffrey DAhmer" and "me" sounds like "MEmories." The word means "bad" or "no good" in English.
Also, the Wario word "Warui" is pronounced "wah-roo-E" where "wa" is like "where's WAldo" and "rui" is like "roo" from "KangaROO" and the letter "E" but the 2 are meant to be said fast, so "roo-E" or "rui" almost like a single syllable. So it's a 2 syllable word that's actually made up of 3 syllables.
Great video btw, and thanks for the bit of a laugh as well. Made me smile. =)
Adventure island 1 and 2 (or 2 and 3 in jp) were 1-to-1 ports of AI 2 and 3 for NES/FC so they are better to be played there I think.
2:16 nice t shirt lol 😎
Damn.. I never had that handheld and this video just makes me more sad about it!
the gameboy was the first machine I ever bought for myself saving up my paper round money to get one , first console I ever bought myself was the n64 when I got my first good paying part-time job
Is Samus doing an offensive "up yours" gesture on the cover?
A bit disappointed you didn't mention pokemon a bit more I thought one of the reasons it was popular because of the line cable specifically
What is all the hype for Pokemon is it for kids or what. Being serious here what kind of game is it?? I also thought it was cards?? What came out first the cards or the game??
The games were first. The cards were based on the games. And it’s mostly an rpg type. And it’s targeted at mods but there are plenty of adult fans too like me
@@ChicagoMel23 mods?
I remember the o g nintendo game boy
FYI, Gunpei is pronounced like "goon pay". Whenever you see his name, just think about hiring goons.
Some others have already commented on the "dame" thing. I'll just add that Japanese doesn't have silent "e"s
Also, put Japanese words into Google Translate and there is a play button that will pronounce them for you. That pronunciation should be correct as long as you've selected Japanese as the input language. (The translations it gives you, however, are not reliably accurate.)
Thing is, I do not really understand all these 'mispronouncing' comments. I am English so why would I need to pronounce words the same way as someone from Japan? Americans speak English as their first language, but do not pronounce most words the English way.
Because it sounds better to at least pronounce them right. We have two different dialects but the Japanese words are mostly the same. Nothing wrong with making them sure you’re pronouncing it right
I'm getting a tattoo of yokoi's face.
Great video, as always!
... but I gotta nitpick. 7:54 "dame" is a Japanese word, so it's not read like an english one! It's pronounced more like "dah-meh"
The WonderSwan was a 16bit console (not 32bit). Cheerio!
but pokemon green was first and was released in 1995 i do have the game and it says it there
No it was first released in 1996 I think pokemon red & green was meant to come in 1995 in Japan but didn't for some reason that's why you see the copyright saying 1995
Did the original ds play old game boy games can no remember I thought it did.
Matthew Wraith Gameboy Advance games can be played on DS and DS Lite, but not original Gameboy games or Gameboy Color games.
GBA SP could play Gameboy/Color games.
I'd like to address the Metroid II: Return of Samus section, because I'm actually playing Metroid: Samus Returns right now. Really, as I'm watch this video. While the fanmade Another Metroid 2 Remake, aka AM2R, is fantastic... Metroid: Samus Returns is at least just as good, if not somewhat better. Samus Returns seems easier than the original and AM2R, but comes with way too many fun extras. In my humble opinion, Samus Returns is just slightly better than AM2R. While the latter is far superior to the original game, if only because of improved tech and a lot of creativity in adapting more modern Metroid side scroller style to Metroid II. Still they're all great and worth playing, especially for insatiable Metroid fans. Also fantastic content Top Hat Gaming Man!
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Um it’s 151 Pokémon. Don’t forget Mew
NINTENDO rules they make great games and systems
2:28
G'day mate. As a man who watches your videos I wanna ask ya something, are you really wealthy or is this just a gimmick ya know like how Alice cooper on stage is a psycho but its a front for his real offstage persona.
I love the song. You need to show Tugger ha ha. I have to ask, was that Hillary Clinton playing the gameboy at 20.36?
Small nitpick, the word "dame" in Japanese is pronounced as dàmé, or like this: "dah-mey".
Edit: Clarification and clean up, because dyslexia struck mid comment.
Damn why all the adds
So I earned some money out of my 50 hours work I put into this video....still four completely skippable ads over 36 minutes of contenf isn't really anything to moan about. I am almost offended!
You tell him, I saw 7 on an 11 minute video the other day. I don't even skip em and check out the comments while they are on, someone told me you's youtube people get paid more if we do that, I only skip if the channel is a prick with them, or a shit one I'm only watching to rage at :-)
Shut up
I had a 2 player green and silver donkey kong handheld with removable round controllers. regrettably sold it for around $50 in 2001 never seen one since
Ah yes when Nintendo was the good guys
Hi
Were you actually born in 96 or was it 86?
Im wrong, you have passion.
Maybe im trying to compare you & your wife's content too much
26:28 nice belly show.
I had been in the USA for nearly three months so I was Top Fat Gaming Man.
For me this the 2nd best Nintendo System, EVER.
First was the SNES, 2nd is this. NES the third.
N64 (as a owner when it was new) was just crap... and the Gamecube was meh for me...
Wii was a joke, such as the WiiU... Switch is a novelty but not quite a Good system in my view.
Shame how for me, Nintendo only made 3 good systems that were either competitive or ahead of the curve.
Also before someone tell me that i forgot the GBC, GBA and the DSes.. The GBC was too outdated for me to be GOOD, it only sold due to the pokemania. The GBA to be honest, didn't impress me, specially with the PSP... and the DSes, those came when Nintendo only invested on small childs or nostalgia cashin. Not my cup of tea..
I used to laugh at the previous intro you had but this new song is a bit pony and makes me skip it.
thirst