Gameboy Color - Is It Worth Playing Today? - History, Review and Retrospective - Top Hat Gaming Man 

Heroin. Heroin is a drug. A heroine is a female hero.

I now edit videos in my dreams :(

Me too, Link rocks.

Me too

I dont have gbc but me too

@@G_Fantastic I bought mine from ebay

still worth til today! playing my gbc regularly rn. couldnt be happier!

Why didn't Nintendo call it's first color based sprite handheld the GameJoy instead of Gameboy/girl... why exclude the female half of the population (I wasn't being sarcastic... at this point in my life I truly believe that the original name is sexist and or derogatory) ?! That business aside; the Nintendo Gameboy (or whatever you want to call it) had a huge library of titles that I am still checking out even now in 2022.

People are idiots, right?

Some people definitely are also i seem to be sitting on a small goldmine

Top Hat Gaming Man you ever gonna take a look at gameboy advance sp

Should take advance of that idiocracy and earn some cash. It's not hard oto actually play the game anyway if you really wanted to. :v

For £300 I expect them to include a willing woman with the deal For £650 I would insist it was an actual biological woman!!!

I bought mine on ebay

@@mcsqurmy2287 me too, want to update to a backlit screen but they are all sold out.

Also >Hating Ruby and Sapphire. That's some declaration of war, dear gentelman.

Kyle Dietrich amazon has many of them for cheap like a Dragon Warrior 3 for 20 bucks 🤷🏼‍♂️

I spent much of my time in the 90s playing handhelds in Crete too. Which town are you from? My family have property in Malia, I am off there for six weeks this summer.

Irakleio and N.Alikarnassos. Next door ^-^ I *thought* you looked like a cretan!!!!

Cool I am in town July 20th - August 24th. I am not Cretan, but I very much consider it my second home as I have been visiting the island for the duration of my life time. Such a scenically beautiful place.

betarage yh

pro tip : you can watch series on flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies these days.

@Manuel Justice definitely, I have been watching on Flixzone for since december myself :)

@Manuel Justice Yea, have been watching on Flixzone for since december myself =)

Flixzone is for fargitz

Me that a classic tune from super Mario 64

I think I did already have a tache when the GBC was released, I would have been 13.

^^ please say you wore a hat, no matter whether it's true ;-)

I just remember Tetris and Mario.

Yeah my original one is Turquoise too, the one featured in the video was Laurens haha

Me 2 got a turquoise one back in '98, still have it in 2017 and hope to use it for years to come.

Chris B Yes same here It just sold me when I realised you could knock on walls to distract enemies. The only thing that annoyed me was forgetting the numbers to contact the other people and taking forever to find the person who saves your game.

Ben Eklom you couldn't play any gbc games in gb or gbp...what are you talking about?

Fred Lewis actually you can,but only some of them

Fred Lewis unless you are talking about gbc exclusives

The Gameboy Color was also more powerful than the original gameboy and games like Shantae or Oracle of Ages wouldn't have been possible on the Gameboy Pocket. The Gameboy Pocket REALLY doesn't hold up today anyway as the screen that Nintendo used was prone to breaking down rather easily. Over time, the screens fade and you can even end up with a situation where you have permanent vertical lines on the screen. The color is really durable and its screen is very reflective to light making it playable even at sunset. Its a shame that the color is such an underrated system because there were some truly great titles for it. Pokemon G/S/C, Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Metal Gear Solid, Monkey Puncher, Wario Land 2/3, Super Mario Deluxe, Shadowgate, Dragon Quest III, Shantae, Mario Tennis, etc.

I only very recently found this out, but you can't transfer between the Pokemon Y/B/R games without two GBCs or two original GBs, sad times.

Actually on the original Gameboy Advance, the gameboy color games seemed too dark, even darker than they were on the Gameboy Color. The Gameboy Advance SP is what you need for a good experience of playing Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance games. It has a really good backlight. However the Gameboy Advance doesn't have an infrared sensor though, its useful in some Gameboy Color games.

Or original GBA with backlight mod.

No

Did you get it?

Combining sales records is not an indication of whether or not one system is a different platform to another. If one system has hundreds of games which are incompatible with the previous platform, then it is a completely different system. In regards to combining sales figures, it is usually done to make sales look more impressive. The PSP and PS Vita published combined sales too and they are two completely different beasts.

Hey, thanks for taking the time to answer! With regards to making the sales figures look better- Nintendo doesn't seem to do that, at least not since the WiiU released. They easily could have tried to include it in the Wii sales figures to try and disguise it's abysmal sales (not unlike Microsoft with their xbox one figures, wich aren't even that bad). But no. They faithfully reported their figures every quarter. Between that and their PR stating that the GB and the GBC are the same generation I think at least Nintendo really does consider them to be the same. I thought it was wierd at first too but got used to the idea after I found out more about the history of the system and the seemingly troubled development of the GBA. Basically they had scrap the entire work that had been done on a much more ambitious gameboy successor, because it just wouldn't work and released the color as a stopgap solution until they could come up with a better design. Doesn't mean that I wasn't furious as a puny ten year old when my new shiny GBC wouldn't play the new Pokemon game (although according to you I seem to have dodged a bullet there) because an even newer and shinier Gameboy had already been released. ;) Lovely video in any case!

I think its cos they'd have to produce another decal

lol

That's so true. In my school you weren't allowed to bring these in apart from on one day a year. I had a hand-me-down colour while everybody else had a GBA. I loved it though

Oddly I still have a Pokemon Red cart I borrowed from someone as a kid, you don't happen to live in England do you? :P That would be super odd.

😂

Dave Moynihan I am Italian. The actual name Mario is pronounced Mawrio. BUT I say Mario because that's how everyone said it and it caught on for me.

Americans saying it like “Marwwwrrrrrrrio” 😂

I remortgaged then travelled the world for a year. This year though I have become a school teacher, so I get 14 weeks off work to travel a year now.

Sharif Sourour Dropping redundant U's = "bastardize". Funny thing for someone to get their jimmies in a twist over.

Everdrives, man. Well worth the price.