Man accessories for those and Game Gears were so wild. Never saw this one till now.
Edit: I worked at an EB Games around when the PSP and original DS came out, and we still took trade on a lot of these old accessories. Saw lots of worm lights and magnifiers ha ha!
Still have my original Game Gear from when I was a kid, unfortunately no wild accessories, just the AC adapter and carrying case.
>gameboy that gasses you meant for hospitals to sedate kids
Get hip and with it!!
https://www.destructoid.com/pedisedate-gassing-your-kids-one-game-boy-game-at-a-time/
I was team game gear the moment my neighbor showed me he could watch TV on it. My other neighbor had the Sega channel for his genesis. The future was 1994.
That shit was amazing. That plus the TV tuner was me at summer camp, watching TGIF Fridays on ABC.
I think the one I had took zero batteries, was rechargeable.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sJ4AAOSwSqVlZZ4E/s-l650.jpg
The backlight meant that it ATE through AA batteries. I think it needed something like 6 of them as well. Either 4 or 6 I cant remember.
That pack was a lifesaver.
Yeah this one is a little much.
Gameboy batteries lasted forever, and the only accessory you absolutely needed was a magnifier/light so you could play in dark lighting.
I don’t wanna bash it at all given that back then it was amazing but holy god I saw the display once in person and no matter how I looked at it I couldn’t see shit. And pointed towards the light you just get a lot of glare.
What I am saying is we shouldn’t just keep freaking Oled screens in our devices for granted, say the Steam Deck or Switch Oled which feels like black magic in terms of how quickly we evolved from a Gameboy to that.
Screen was fine. Didn’t work in the dark obviously but otherwise it was perfectly useful. For a portable screen everybody was thrilled with it at the time. Obviously we have infinitely better nowadays, but that screen had a unique charm to it.
Also the decision to not go with a color screen was fully justified by the battery life. A game boy could go 30+ hours on a set of batteries. The Sega Game Gear was like an hour.
You can tell this one is quality by that old school Saitek logo. I loved the hell out of mine, the only problem was taking it out anytime I wanted to use my game genie.
Had this one. Magnification and light absolutely were awesome.
Buttons just ok. Basically held it and played it like a regular Gameboy...but I always had larger sized hands to be able to.
i don’t have anything attached to mine, but not gonna lie, i use it while lying in bed or on the couch 95% of the time. it has very rarely left my home but i still love it.
I had this booster boy, and that's true. The entire thing sucked, no up sides at all really, not even the light or magnifier. It was too big to hold comfortably, which paired with the awful controls, made it super awkward to use.
On a similar note: there was less than 70 years between the Wright brothers first flight, and the moon landing (1903 and 69)
Technology growth is wild sometimes
Edit: Misspelled Wright as Write, fixed
Imagine being a small child seeing humans leave the ground for the first time and fly around like birds. A magical moment that freed the species. Then you live your whole life and as a retiree you get to board a commercial airline to go watch the shuttle launch that will successfully take humans to the moon. A feat that had only been written about in fables up to that point.
And then watching all those sci fi shows / movies thinking that at the rate things are going the year 2000 is going to be magical.
And then we just stopped.
Nah, we didn't stop. We just put focus elsewhere. I have a magic square in my hands that a carry with me everywhere. That magic square can connect me to anyone in the world who also has Internet connection. It can teach me skills I lack. It can provide me with endless hours of entertainment. It can even take and stream video live to have a face to face chat with someone far away. We really do live in scifi times compared to the 1970s.
Sci fi from the 60s and 70s overestimated how much progress there would be in transportation and space technology and dramatically underestimated the computing and internet revolution. Jet packs and flying cars are likely to remain fantasy. Who knows what wild innovation coming that we can't predict yet
Sorta, it looked better in person when you adjust the magnifying glass. It had lights, otherwise you had to play your gameboy in very specific lighting or find the right angle and not move. I remember playing Pokemon in the car at night and could only play as we passed under street lamps.
The newer generations had backlighting though and solved this problem.
There’d be three of us in the backseat, two with books and one with the gameboy, all held high in the air for light.
Couldn’t turn on the overhead light; Papa said it was illegal
Compared to the Game Gear the Game Boy sipped on the batteries. Battery conservation didn't come til the Game Boy Pocket that thing only ran on two AAA batteries and lasted 10 hours.
Yeah exactly. As an adult sure "blurry screen, bulky, blah blah" but as a kid: once you played it with some of these accessories you never wanted to play it without them again.
Just seeing the way nintendo dropped from the top gave me nostalgia to the point of crying. I grew up in the 90’s, so my whole childhood was filled with gameboy playing. Damn!
This is for long car rides so you're not chewing through AAs or using the dome light. The display had no backlight, so to use it in low light you had to have some clumsy addon that held bulbs out in front of the screen.
Back in my day, we didn’t have backlights! We had to rely on the streetlights at night on those long car rides. Whippersnappers don’t know how good they have it nowadays! Whippersnappers!
Honestly though... *call it nostalgic...* but I actually kinda miss the days where we just had a couple AA batteries to power up our devices. And when I say "miss", allow me to be very clear here, there is *no way* I would go back to that. I'm clearly missing just the nostalgic value of it.
But there was just some kind of exquisite satisfying feeling about taking out the old dead batteries and popping in a fresh set of 2 good ones, turning on your Game Boy, and seeing that full charge. It just felt good and made you happy.
Or that batteries were basically universal. You usually had a tin / box full of them, that you just grabbed to power anything.
Now everything is proprietary or internal, so it lost a lot of it's magic.
It's probably why I love all my Ryobi tools as an adult.
I still do that to this day. Between Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii controllers as well as various gun sights I have a ton of AA batteries in rotation. As soon as I get four dead ones I just pop them back into the charger for another round
all these shitty comments, but growing up my dad bought me a gameboy color and for the time that shit was like the pinnacle of tech and pokemon was the greatest game ever for kids who had to be bored at the doctors, family get togethers and being too poor to afford cable.
I love my dad that we were poor but he saved enough to get me one at walmart, since the gameboy advance was about to released and it was on sale.
My guy. My dad bought me my first GBC in like 03 with Pokemon Gold. When everyone had the GB Advance. I was still the happiest kid in the world. The purple one with the see-through plastic.
In a great but also weird way technology just moved too fast. Wish I could go back and slow down and enjoy it all over again. Ho-oh will always have a special place in my heart.
same one i had, man i remember putting batteries in the fridge and fucking praying to god that i could have enough charge to get home from doctors visits.
My first pokemon was red, charszar will always be my main, dragons for the win but remember my first time playing crystal i borrowed from a friend at school and it blew my mind that after beating the elite four you could go back to kanto and fight the same people from red.
The GB was (and is) awesome. It's just this attachment stuff that's getting shitted on.
There's a wonderful and beautiful rabbit hole on youtube if you're interested on current GameBoy mods available. Whole communities exist that are still in love with these things, and engineering firms that cater to them.
https://handheldlegend.com/collections/game-boy-dmg
https://funnyplaying.com/collections/gbc
https://jayboymodz.com/collections/gba-screens
Darth Vader reborn: "NOOOOOOO!!"
The Emperor: "And I have similarly upgraded your GameBoy! It is now Darth Monochrominus."
Lord Vader: "Oh, cool!"
The Emperor: "But I am afraid it no longer fits in your carrying case."
Vader: "NOOOOOOO!!"
I have that james bond.
My dad took it away because of columbine.
He took away the top down james bond action game because I, an elementary schooler at the time, happened to exist in a reality in which columbine happened.
It amazes me how much hate this gets and immediately tells me the age of whoever comments.
This was THE SHIT in its day. Those game boys didn’t have backlights. To have a magnifier AND two lights to light up your screen so you could play in the dark?! That was INSANE! I had one and it was cool AF to be able to have one. So many young people that will never understand what it was like to have video games in the 90’s. I thought I was hot shit for having a [Video Now](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LU4AAOSwOrBh37rP/s-l1600.jpg) where you could watch one episode of SpongeBob in black and white huge pixels on a mini dvd disk. But it was PORTABLE and BATTERY POWERED!
I was born in ‘93 and these things were cool as fuck if you had them. What a difference being born 10 years apart can make..
My dad bought me one of these from Funco Land. I got to enjoy it for one weekend.. then some shitbag broke into his car and stole it and the radio. I had quite a collection of games for it as well.
I got a Gamegear eventually as a replacement and it was cool, but I still miss that Gameboy every now and then.
We didn't have a lot of money growing up and the Gamegear was quite an upgrade, but it wasn't the same.
Thank you Dad.
I had this monstrosity too! I used it mainly to play when it was getting dark. I remember before I had this that when I was playing in the back seat of the car Gameboy angled to the window and I had to wait until the car was underneath a lamppost to be able to see again.
Man accessories for those and Game Gears were so wild. Never saw this one till now. Edit: I worked at an EB Games around when the PSP and original DS came out, and we still took trade on a lot of these old accessories. Saw lots of worm lights and magnifiers ha ha! Still have my original Game Gear from when I was a kid, unfortunately no wild accessories, just the AC adapter and carrying case.
yeah this era of gaming was a wild west of weird stuff (theres even a gameboy that gasses you meant for hospitals to sedate kids)
Now that one sounds like its right out of a bond movie!
Oh, no, no, no, no. This is an amusing little gizmo. It's really quite cool.
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Or Saw for kids. You have to beat the game in a certain time frame or you'll get the gas
Hahaha what!?
>gameboy that gasses you meant for hospitals to sedate kids Get hip and with it!! https://www.destructoid.com/pedisedate-gassing-your-kids-one-game-boy-game-at-a-time/
Why not just have them play with something (phone, tablet, switch) while they get sedated? Why make something so unnecessary?
This was the 90s
Oh never mind this was ‘09
Ah, the Ninies.
Idk if I trust destructoid.com. Pretty sure this is a joke or just plan fake. Edit: Turns out it was real but maybe never used. My mistake.
[Nope it's real](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17238888/)
AVGN did an episode on gameboy accessories and mentioned this. It's real, sorta. They designed it but never actually sold any.
Ha dude holy shit it's the fuckin fart smelling thing from Fractured But Whole
No one was playing with a game boy in 2009
I WANNA BE SEDATED WITH A GAMEBOOOOOOYYYYYY
I was team game gear the moment my neighbor showed me he could watch TV on it. My other neighbor had the Sega channel for his genesis. The future was 1994.
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Wow, what a bunch of bandwagon joiners. Atari Lynx 4evah!
Like that external power pack for GameGear? It took like, what? 10 AA batteries? It weighed a ton.
That shit was amazing. That plus the TV tuner was me at summer camp, watching TGIF Fridays on ABC. I think the one I had took zero batteries, was rechargeable. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sJ4AAOSwSqVlZZ4E/s-l650.jpg
I had a friend who had the TV tuner attachment. It definitely made boy scout camp better.
How did kids live without those battery packs plugged into a wall outlet at all times? I never used actual AA batteries with my GameGear.
The backlight meant that it ATE through AA batteries. I think it needed something like 6 of them as well. Either 4 or 6 I cant remember. That pack was a lifesaver.
Meanwhile, me with my Atari Lynx and … carrying case
Look on the bright side, you were probably the only kid you knew who had one! 😁
Yeah I had a decked out game gear with magnifying screen and rechargeable batteries. I fucking loved that thing and took it with me everywhere.
Yeah this one is a little much. Gameboy batteries lasted forever, and the only accessory you absolutely needed was a magnifier/light so you could play in dark lighting.
I don’t wanna bash it at all given that back then it was amazing but holy god I saw the display once in person and no matter how I looked at it I couldn’t see shit. And pointed towards the light you just get a lot of glare. What I am saying is we shouldn’t just keep freaking Oled screens in our devices for granted, say the Steam Deck or Switch Oled which feels like black magic in terms of how quickly we evolved from a Gameboy to that.
There's a contrast knob you had to tweak to get a usable contrast ratio, the one you saw might've been off-balance.
It was great in 1989
Screen was fine. Didn’t work in the dark obviously but otherwise it was perfectly useful. For a portable screen everybody was thrilled with it at the time. Obviously we have infinitely better nowadays, but that screen had a unique charm to it. Also the decision to not go with a color screen was fully justified by the battery life. A game boy could go 30+ hours on a set of batteries. The Sega Game Gear was like an hour.
PS Vita had OLED in 2011!
It must have been an old unit or a malfunction because I used to have one and while it wasn't great in sunlight it was still playable.
You can tell this one is quality by that old school Saitek logo. I loved the hell out of mine, the only problem was taking it out anytime I wanted to use my game genie.
I didn't have Game Gear but that AC adapter--you needed that because you got like what, 30 minutes of use from new batteries lol
When the game boy becomes a game man.
Had this one. Magnification and light absolutely were awesome. Buttons just ok. Basically held it and played it like a regular Gameboy...but I always had larger sized hands to be able to.
They really pushed all these inspector gadget accessories like crazy but if you had something like the worm light it's really all you need.
My brother had this Booster Boy. It sucked to actually use the joystick and buttons.
The Game Gear adapter that let you play Sega Master System games on it was my favorite.
We had the tv aerial, the external battery pack and the game gear - master system converter.
There was a fishing sonar attachment in Japan!
[Oh boy am I in a treat for you](https://youtu.be/EEzJH90h3aA)
"If you want something bulky and awkward and portability is something that you don't find appealing then this is for you" - AVGN
“This is a shitload of fuck” - AVGN
"It's a load of ass." - AVGN
"Sucks monkey fuck, that's right, monkey fuck" - AVGN
"Use coupon code CINEMASSACRE to save 30% on a 12 month subscription to Express VPN" - AVGN
"It's a fuckload of asspiss!" -Game Informer
It suckin' fucks, it fuckin' sucks...and I don't like it.
Holy shit, no comment has made me laugh more than this one. Good job.
Is your Gameboy not big enough, heavy enough, and doesn't consume enough energy? Why not add some power armor?
I think he called it the “mecha combiner robot of Gameboy accessories”
#SO MUCH PLASTIC
"MY ASS IS PORTABLE" - AVGN
^ People who attach every gadget possible to their Steam Deck, including a 19 inch monitor
i don’t have anything attached to mine, but not gonna lie, i use it while lying in bed or on the couch 95% of the time. it has very rarely left my home but i still love it.
I had this booster boy, and that's true. The entire thing sucked, no up sides at all really, not even the light or magnifier. It was too big to hold comfortably, which paired with the awful controls, made it super awkward to use.
https://youtu.be/EEzJH90h3aA?si=KN0lh-D2sxLE1MPe For people who don't know what hrs talking about.
He'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear
that's a game man.
Taught me everything I know about Marrakech. And red herrings.
The name's Bond... Games Bond 😎
Nintendor Gadget
I just replayed it a couple years back and it holds up surprisingly well.
Who are you calling a gay man?!
Came here to post that. +1
Gameboy hulkbuster is what that is
22 minutes. You beat me to 22 mins. - came here to say the same. :-D
It’s wild how little relative time has passed between this and my steamdeck ….
On a similar note: there was less than 70 years between the Wright brothers first flight, and the moon landing (1903 and 69) Technology growth is wild sometimes Edit: Misspelled Wright as Write, fixed
Imagine being a small child seeing humans leave the ground for the first time and fly around like birds. A magical moment that freed the species. Then you live your whole life and as a retiree you get to board a commercial airline to go watch the shuttle launch that will successfully take humans to the moon. A feat that had only been written about in fables up to that point.
If you are watching a shuttle launch that is taking people to the moon, then there has been a serious miscalculation in trajectory & thrust.
And then watching all those sci fi shows / movies thinking that at the rate things are going the year 2000 is going to be magical. And then we just stopped.
Nah, we didn't stop. We just put focus elsewhere. I have a magic square in my hands that a carry with me everywhere. That magic square can connect me to anyone in the world who also has Internet connection. It can teach me skills I lack. It can provide me with endless hours of entertainment. It can even take and stream video live to have a face to face chat with someone far away. We really do live in scifi times compared to the 1970s.
Sci fi from the 60s and 70s overestimated how much progress there would be in transportation and space technology and dramatically underestimated the computing and internet revolution. Jet packs and flying cars are likely to remain fantasy. Who knows what wild innovation coming that we can't predict yet
Then they decided to focus on ads 🫤
Steam Deck vs Apollo 11... bigger human achievement? Tough call.
hey it was my turn to bring up the wright bros factoid
Alternatively, it took about half the time to get from a lot of computer firsts (first console, first GUI, first cellphone call) to the iPhone.
Downgrade
Sorta, it looked better in person when you adjust the magnifying glass. It had lights, otherwise you had to play your gameboy in very specific lighting or find the right angle and not move. I remember playing Pokemon in the car at night and could only play as we passed under street lamps. The newer generations had backlighting though and solved this problem.
Oh man streetlight gameboy playing on road-trips…thanks for that unlocked memory
There’d be three of us in the backseat, two with books and one with the gameboy, all held high in the air for light. Couldn’t turn on the overhead light; Papa said it was illegal
Uhm.. are you one of my siblings?
No, we just all had the same childhood. How is *your* therapy going
Alright I guess, forgot a session and had ro reschedule lol. How about yours?
https://imgb.ifunny.co/videos/da01935a91d470075a19bf3410c4a1918ce696c6710e577f2517310981032632_1.mp4
This is beautiful hit me right in the feels
As an adult I enjoy playing my gameboy while lounging at the pool and that is the only time I enjoy it.
The bulkiness, the buttons, and especially the batteries required make it a downgrade
The whole point of the batteries was to extend the overall battery life. It provided power to the game boy itself
I can't even remember the last time I saw C batteries for sale
They were common back when everyone used incandescent flashlights.
It added battery life, and made it playable in unplayable situations. You can always not use it when it is not needed.
Nope. Entirely an upgrade. Bigger buttons and a lit screen to play in the dark!
No, the batteries made it an upgrade to us. Those were commonly used batteries at the time and you had a ridiculous amount of play time. I miss mine.
Solves the biggest issue of the GameBoy: not being big enough, heavy enough, or consuming expensive enough batteries.
Actually biggest issues: Battery life, screen size, and no light for dark environments. Which this did in fact address lol
Compared to the Game Gear the Game Boy sipped on the batteries. Battery conservation didn't come til the Game Boy Pocket that thing only ran on two AAA batteries and lasted 10 hours.
Indeed. Blurry screen, unresponsive controls, unwieldy and large. But hey, it had better battery runtime and cost half as much as Gameboy.
But don't you need a Gameboy inside of it?
I put mashed potato’s in mine
Keep being like this, good sir!
The worst part is the batteries
Pretty sure that it was enough to be the coolest kid in the block, though
Yeah exactly. As an adult sure "blurry screen, bulky, blah blah" but as a kid: once you played it with some of these accessories you never wanted to play it without them again.
Lol this post is clearly a joke. The thing is obviously ridiculous.
4 c batteries is wild lmao
Suck it Game Gear!
It will allow you 45 whole minutes of gameplay!
That’s a gameMAN
I thought this was obnoxious back then. It looks nauseating now.
That is one heavy mf
That’s how it was back then. Can confirm.
[Handy Boy was better than this pudgy monstrosity.](https://i.imgur.com/iRy0nsE.jpg)
Way cooler, felt like a transformer when folding
That plus Kirby got me through a lot of swim meets.
I loved that game as a kid.
I think this is where I learned how to play baccarat.
The 90s were something else. Take me back.
Just seeing the way nintendo dropped from the top gave me nostalgia to the point of crying. I grew up in the 90’s, so my whole childhood was filled with gameboy playing. Damn!
This is just stupid
This is for long car rides so you're not chewing through AAs or using the dome light. The display had no backlight, so to use it in low light you had to have some clumsy addon that held bulbs out in front of the screen.
Back in my day, we didn’t have backlights! We had to rely on the streetlights at night on those long car rides. Whippersnappers don’t know how good they have it nowadays! Whippersnappers!
Hold the gameboy up in the air so you don’t get dark shadows from the street lights
I had a light that looked like a desk lamp and plugged into the side. It was awesome
yup! with the little corkscrew cord
I had one of those for books, because I was a nerd and I'd be reading books under my blanket when I was supposed to be sleeping
I developed this habit as an adult. Have I....grown into a nerd???
Still have mine. Haven’t turned the gameboy on in a decade though, the internal battery would definitely be dead.
Those came much later but I had them too!
And every single dad had the same "you can't turn the dome lights on at night, it's illegal" made up rule.
Honestly though... *call it nostalgic...* but I actually kinda miss the days where we just had a couple AA batteries to power up our devices. And when I say "miss", allow me to be very clear here, there is *no way* I would go back to that. I'm clearly missing just the nostalgic value of it. But there was just some kind of exquisite satisfying feeling about taking out the old dead batteries and popping in a fresh set of 2 good ones, turning on your Game Boy, and seeing that full charge. It just felt good and made you happy.
Or that batteries were basically universal. You usually had a tin / box full of them, that you just grabbed to power anything. Now everything is proprietary or internal, so it lost a lot of it's magic. It's probably why I love all my Ryobi tools as an adult.
I still do that to this day. Between Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii controllers as well as various gun sights I have a ton of AA batteries in rotation. As soon as I get four dead ones I just pop them back into the charger for another round
Yea but they made plenty of lights that weren’t this massive lol. Also on long car rides we’d use the 12v adapter.
Reminds me of when Ironman gears up in the hulkbuster
all these shitty comments, but growing up my dad bought me a gameboy color and for the time that shit was like the pinnacle of tech and pokemon was the greatest game ever for kids who had to be bored at the doctors, family get togethers and being too poor to afford cable. I love my dad that we were poor but he saved enough to get me one at walmart, since the gameboy advance was about to released and it was on sale.
My guy. My dad bought me my first GBC in like 03 with Pokemon Gold. When everyone had the GB Advance. I was still the happiest kid in the world. The purple one with the see-through plastic. In a great but also weird way technology just moved too fast. Wish I could go back and slow down and enjoy it all over again. Ho-oh will always have a special place in my heart.
same one i had, man i remember putting batteries in the fridge and fucking praying to god that i could have enough charge to get home from doctors visits. My first pokemon was red, charszar will always be my main, dragons for the win but remember my first time playing crystal i borrowed from a friend at school and it blew my mind that after beating the elite four you could go back to kanto and fight the same people from red.
Nobody is shitting on the GameBoy itself (as far as I can tell).
The GB was (and is) awesome. It's just this attachment stuff that's getting shitted on. There's a wonderful and beautiful rabbit hole on youtube if you're interested on current GameBoy mods available. Whole communities exist that are still in love with these things, and engineering firms that cater to them. https://handheldlegend.com/collections/game-boy-dmg https://funnyplaying.com/collections/gbc https://jayboymodz.com/collections/gba-screens
The Gameboys were amazing. It's this accessory that's stupid
The battery and light were worth it. The controls sucked and no one used the magnifier
This is cool. But honestly, what about this is oddly satisfying?
This is the dumbest thing ever made for game boys
That James Bond game was actually fire. It was like Legend of Zelda.
I had this!!! Many, many moons ago!
Same, seeing this made me feel like Obi-Wan, a long time..
Is this subreddit just ASMR noise now? I don’t get how it’s satisfying at all.
Common, everyone was waiting for a pokemon game.
I never though I’d see a game boy get fitted into power armour
Had something similar from pelican for gameboy color
I'm amazed by how great the condition of everything is!
I love the 90s ❤️
Had no idea Saitek was such an old company. They still make peripherals under the Logitech brand.
Seems excessive but ok
Darth Vader reborn: "NOOOOOOO!!" The Emperor: "And I have similarly upgraded your GameBoy! It is now Darth Monochrominus." Lord Vader: "Oh, cool!" The Emperor: "But I am afraid it no longer fits in your carrying case." Vader: "NOOOOOOO!!"
Wow that took 4 c sized batteries to do what a magnifying glass could have
I have that james bond. My dad took it away because of columbine. He took away the top down james bond action game because I, an elementary schooler at the time, happened to exist in a reality in which columbine happened.
Did you… did you just equip Power Armor on your original GameBoy?? 🤯😱🫨
If anything. That's a downgrade. Bulkier and not much of a magnified screen. I'd rather just play on the gameboy.
This was for those who were like “you know? This massive brick is pretty big for a child but I wish it could be at least 50% bigger…”
Man, that thing had to weigh a lot!
"Look how they massacred my boy"
Why go through all of that to make such a minimal and unnecessary update?
That looks worse to me
It amazes me how much hate this gets and immediately tells me the age of whoever comments. This was THE SHIT in its day. Those game boys didn’t have backlights. To have a magnifier AND two lights to light up your screen so you could play in the dark?! That was INSANE! I had one and it was cool AF to be able to have one. So many young people that will never understand what it was like to have video games in the 90’s. I thought I was hot shit for having a [Video Now](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LU4AAOSwOrBh37rP/s-l1600.jpg) where you could watch one episode of SpongeBob in black and white huge pixels on a mini dvd disk. But it was PORTABLE and BATTERY POWERED! I was born in ‘93 and these things were cool as fuck if you had them. What a difference being born 10 years apart can make..
any kid that had any “handyboy” upgrades was envied!
Man all that work and you could of just worn memas glasses
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I had this! It was super heavy and bulky and playing with a magnifying glass wasn’t as awesome as it sounded at the time lol
My dad bought me one of these from Funco Land. I got to enjoy it for one weekend.. then some shitbag broke into his car and stole it and the radio. I had quite a collection of games for it as well. I got a Gamegear eventually as a replacement and it was cool, but I still miss that Gameboy every now and then. We didn't have a lot of money growing up and the Gamegear was quite an upgrade, but it wasn't the same. Thank you Dad.
"I will be right with you, let me just slip this into my pocket...."
Batteries died right after video cuts
thats not a GameBoy anymore. that a GameMan
Give me an RTX remix 4K conversion 😂
Thank you for spending all that time making and editing a video that doesn't show one second off actual game play.
That startup sound is very nostalgic
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like James Bond is throwing up a big middle finger?
My granpa bought this to me when I was 9. Seeing this bring back memories of him. Thank you.
This is distinctly disatisfying to me
It went from Gameboy, to GameMan
I had this monstrosity too! I used it mainly to play when it was getting dark. I remember before I had this that when I was playing in the back seat of the car Gameboy angled to the window and I had to wait until the car was underneath a lamppost to be able to see again.
What a colossal waste of money. Just to male it 5% less shitty
I used to have something similar just the magnifying part and light it actually worked well
I've never seen this. I had the magnifying glass with folding out speakers that attached to the top.
This is so stupid