I love my grey brick. I never leave home without it. Last year, thanks to a black friday sale, I picked up a Game Boy Everdrive and it's been one of the best decisions I ever made. Not too long ago, I was playing it in public somewhere and someone asked permission to take a picture for their facebook page because they couldn't believe some people still play the original.
I'm playing through Castlevania Adventure on the Xbox one Castlevania Anniversary collection with the Gameboy original filter on. IT. IS. AWESOME. As I'm doing it I'm trying to get myself into my mentality back in the day when rocked my Gameboy. It's a retro-zen experience. I'm loving it.
I think the portability component of the original Gameboy can not be overstated enough. Back in the day it was pretty common for a family to only have a single TV that they all had to share. For me personally, I wasn't always able to play my NES because my parents wanted to watch something on TV. The Gameboy solved this issue for so many kids back in the day.
I will never stop collecting for the Game Boy - it's so beautiful - I'm at about 300 boxed games and 280 loose carts. The nostalgia, the box art, the square boxes, the font - I love it all
I have another argument in favor of the gameboy screen without a light. I find it to be the perfect device to play outside in a sunny day. That's when the screen looks the better and precisely when other devices don't. I find it almost impossible to play my 3ds or psp out in a bright day. The same principles apply with reading a physical book or an electronic book outside. So if you go on a camping trip or a picinc and want to relax under a tree playing some video games, get your gameboy or gameboy color. Btw gameboy color is my prefered way of playing all gameboy games. The screen is far better than both the original, the pocket and the advance (without light), and the battery life is just insane 30+ hours, you can finish a whole rpg with just two AA batteries. Which is far greater than whatever modern system you can take on a trip. Another point for gameboy
I don't know how bad screen-burn can be since I've never experienced it, but beware of that if you want to go outside. Though honestly, if you're watching this channel you probably already know about it.
@@llamathenerd1672 I think it happens when you leave your gameboy in the sun or in very hot places for prolonged periods of time. I think it is difficult for it to happen to actively used gameboys. Since people also don't stay in the sun long enough to be burned. I lived in Mexico and played with mine for years and my screen is pretty good. But yeah thanks for the warning!
@@diegog1853 Yeah, that makes a lot of since, leaving it in a sunny window for years vs. playing it outside for 20 minutes. Thank you also for your perspective!
“game on the go and let everyone know” i think you have a good T-shirt idea. great thorough video. Did you finish Donkey Kong? i liked it alot but it was so long i was relieved when it finally ended.
Hahah that's what the save battery is for Jake! I've always admired your ability to play a game all the way through before moving onto something else. To answer your question, no, I'm far into the game and like to come back to it here and there. It's definitely super long, especially compared to most Game Boy games.
I'm kind of late seeing this video in January 2021, but GB is and always has been my favorite console. It's the only one I collect for (though the Switch is rather appealing in the same way, too). I'm currently at around 115 titles for the DMG, but I also have nice collections of color & advance titles. It's still fun to play & goes anywhere a cell phone can...which is EVERYWHERE!
Still collecting Game Boy Games today! Heck people are still making Game Boy Games to this day! If your a fan of Castlevania I suggest Black Castle. My parents were not rich so they thought games would ruin there tv, so no consoles for me. The Game Boy solved all that and that was my 1st very own gaming system. I play it laying down like I would playing with my toys, so for me it's like going back in time to feel like a kid again. My Game Boy will never get old.
I'm a fresh out of college young fella who just recently got his first big-boy job and discovered expendable income. As I already had a modest Gamecube collection and had just been introduced to the glory of the HDMI adaptors people make for them, I was thrilled to play my favorite Gamecube games in the highest definition the system natively outputs to. And oh, my! Games looked stunning on my modern HD TV. I couldn't hold myself back from shelling out the money to get a Gameboy Player, and wow, was that a good decision. The few gameboy games I had looked so great through the HDMI adaptor, it was like playing the NES mini! Since that moment I became a bonafide Gameboy game collector. I was pleased to discover that many gameboy boxes aren't as expensive as you would think, considering how old they are and how many got thrown away. For any "major" title, I get the box and manual, and everything else I'm fine with loose cartridges. I'm really happy with how easy it is to throw together a decent sized collection, with not too too many games running high in price. Especially with Gameboy Advance, I try to focus on GB and GBC, but find myself constantly running into GBA games that I'd like to have, and are priced pretty fair. I'm getting close to a full set of mario games all in boxes, and I'm basically finished with all the non-GBA pokemon games all complete (talk about nostalgia!). I tend not to shop for sealed games, as I like to play the games that I own, but there are a couple I have here. One, is Super Mario World, because how many different ways do I need to play it? I have the Switch, the SNES mini, and I have it on the actual SNES. When I found a sealed copy of it for the GBA with the yellow Best Buy sticker, I knew I'd be fine with it. My other sealed game is Resident Evil Gaiden. Not the greatest game for the system, or for the franchise, but I'm a big RE fan, I have a loose copy to play with, and the game doesn't have many copies floating around, so it's my own little piece of history. My favorite thing about the Gameboy is how many games and franchises it has that are incredibly fun but have faded into obscurity. Most fans seem to respect the Mario Land series, but there's so much more to discover, and a lot of the titles can't be found on modern eshops. How many gamers have never played Donkey Kong 94? A lot of people talk about Golden Sun, but how many have the opportunity to play it? Then there's games like Mole Mania, Ballon Kid, Survival Kids, Legend of the River King, Gargoyles, and all the major franchises that have had their time on the systems, like Zelda, Kirby, Mario, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy even had some ARPG spin offs, and of course, Pokemon. I absolutely love this little section of retro gaming I stumbled upon.
I'm from the U.S. but I'm living and working near Tokyo and I agree Japanese GB games are the way to go! In most cases they're usually the exact same game with maybe a different name. Most games cost only the equivalent of $3-5 dollars (even the hit games). I usually pick up a new game every weekend at the retro shops, it's a nice way to collect something and treat myself without breaking the bank!
I LOVE my game boy. the library has so much range in genre, and the portable ports of games are usually wayyy better than their NES counterparts! I personally like the form factor of the original game boy because it's so comfortable to hold! One of the best handhelds ever made and probably the best system to collect for.
Playing on my own Gameboy pocket as a kid and my cousins original Gameboy was great! So many memories.. As an adult I prefer The Switch Lite, because I can play, snes donkey kong, Super mario world, super mario 3+ all stars, original nes Donkey Kong 1-2. and a few more, that's about the only Retro games I play, And I play them a lot actually.. Also Crash bandicoot and Spyro are a ton of fun, the 4/3 tv option mode is great, the only 2 bad things about the Switch Lite are that I can only lie down on the bed or couch on my back whle playing and not sit on a table because of the wide form factor. Second is that I need to rent these classics games and go online every fucking week to play them.. god damn.. But stil the Switch Lite is the only thing I am playing on now, even my 3DS is starting to get boring now, only have a few games for the 3DS... The gameboy advance SP I have an 101 ags FANICOM version, very very cool with my favorite game Super mario bros 3, I can sit normal on a chair and a table playing the SP, it's probably the best form factor of handhelds out there, together with the original Gameboy... But man the original Gameboy WAS SO BIG/COOL back in the 90's..
My gameboy experience goes all the way back to 1992. Overall a very shit year for me but for my tenth birthday my dad sent me some birthday money and I used it to get a gameboy and I freakin loved that thing. Took it to school and played it just about everywhere for a while. It was technically my first Nintendo console as the swap deal that saw my master system with 8 games become a NES with four games happened afterwards. It was so cool at the time to buy it new and to get that full unboxing experience at the age of ten. I really wished I kept the box but it wasn’t until the late nineties that I realized that keeping the box and looking after it is worthwhile. By the mid nineties I was expecting the OG gameboy to be finished due to its limited graphics but then a game called Pokémon came along and not made me glad I still had a gameboy in fact it made me glad I could get a second gameboy very cheap, for less than half of what the corresponding Pokémon game cost brand new. Haha good times. One more thing tho I held off on getting a GBC because I was hoping for a bigger jump in graphics output and the GBA made that dream come thru and it only took three years. I can remember getting a brand new GBA at toys R us for my birthday almost ten years after getting my OG gameboy. Naturally I kept the box for that and still have that console in addition to my OG gameboy
A word of caution with the SP. There's a fuse in the charging system that's known to blow. When that happens, you can't charge the system or even play it while plugged in once the battery dies.
I'd argue the experience of playing super Mario ports on the gameboy and gameboy advance is better than home consoles. The smaller screens allow you to take everything in at once and react to enemies and obstacles without moving your eyes.
any idea where to buy Gameboy DMG.03.-05 DC6V charger that uses usb?would love to use it with an anker portable charger for long playtimes i just hate having to buy batteries tbh i do remember a solar charger attachment for it but yellows quickly so not as appealing imo though it did have a neat headphone jack iirc fitted snug too
I actually have 2 fanny packs for gameboy! If I remember correctly some department store had a island full of them for a discounted price and I bought 2.😋
I loved the Gameboy. I had the original and pocket. I now how the gameboy light and love playing that in the dark. I also had a ton of fun with the gameboy camera as as kid.
When you mentioned taking batteries from the TV remote, man, that made me smile ha! Used to do that all the time even if it meant facing the wrath of my folks. Gameboy is and always will be a classic. My advice to any collector as always is to simply buy what you feel you'll play and interest you, not what everyone else considers the best; that way you'll possibly build a more humbling and personal collection. Great video as always.
love your videos man! As for gameboy I love the original one, a tons of memories about this awesome handheld, and I still love to use this badass inspite of the screen, just playing with led lantern on my forehead as you show in this video :)
Always enjoyable! Love collecting for the GB, GBC and GBA. An absolute ton of variety to be had for not a lot of money. Agree with the SP buttons but the 101 is my weapon of choice, for gaming that is!
I like buying some of the same games on multiple consoles cuz they all play diff. Example. Pirates of the carribean dead mans chest is a VERY HIDDEN gem on the gba (so is the lion king ). I also bought pirates CAR dead mans chests on the DS for the touch screen gimmicks and psp version plays like a console port even tho it never made it to the home consoles
I Modded an original gameboy advance. Its great except that for some reason movement can stop when pressing on the D pad. I cleaned the contacts and replaced the membrane but I still have the issue. It was tolerable in Pokemon but a pain for the metroid games. I actually have the GameCube gameboy player start up disc and Hori gameboy player Controller. At home its the most fun. I think I'm either gonna try to find another GBA and mod it or buy one pre Modded. I like the backlight GBAs and don't want to deal with missed inputs.
The Gameboy was basically a portable NES and lasted 10 years. That's quite the feat. The biggest issue for me was not the lack of a backlight but the motion blur itself. The Gameboy Color screen is a huge improvement. It's still not backlit but the motion blur was greatly reduced and was much easier to see requiring only a little bit of light. You weren't a true gamer unless you were rocking a Gameboy fanny pack in the 90's.
I agree that the motion blur is the biggest issue, and it makes sense that the Game Boy would improve it's screens with each iteration. You're right, the Color has a really nice screen. But with that said, the original Game Boy's limitations just don't bother me like I would think. It's charm makes up for it with me. Also, the blur seems to be less of an issue with a game like Tetris (making it even more of a brilliant pack-in). Yes, fanny packs are a sign of dedication!
I got a GBA SP blue for 80$ a few days ago, i'm literally stalking my window in excitement everyday waiting for the mailman to give it to me! I need it NOWWWWWWWW!!!!
Ah yeah! I remember my first DMG. Got it in '96. At the time, I had no problem with the screen, as I didn't mind gaming outside during the day, and near a lamp when outside was not an option. Eventually sold off the grey brick, a dumb decision, but got the original GBA at the time and still played outside or by the lamp. Today, I own the Clear Play It Loud DMG, have a GBC, and a GBA, and a Super GameBoy too. Had an SP 101 at one point, but sold it. I enjoy the DMG for nostalgia, but really can't spend much time on it today, as there are better options today, my favorite for playing old school games is Black and white mode on GBC.
I bought a Gameboy from a friend of mine in 1997. He never used it. He got as a Christmas present a few years back. The only game he has was Jeopardy. He played once or twice and stuck it back in the box. I ended buying more games. The problem was I didn't care for it either. So I have 16 games along with the boxes, manuals, advertising inserts, everything that came in them. They've been sitting in the cabinet for almost 25 years. I'm happy to hear that the values have skyrocketed. It might be time to sell.
I want to get the same Gameboy Pocket and the same Gameboy Color you have.With the same colors. I've always liked this kind of retro videogame stuff.I was born in Puerto Rico on February 29, 2004 and I always used to play with my older brothers Nintendo 64 after school.Good old times.♥️ Greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷👍🏻
SP AGS-101 for me. I'm trying to cover maximum platforms with minimum hardware, so an SP and 2DS XL has me covered for all portable Nintendo. I don't like the idea of having to take consoles in and out of storage and mess with connections, so having all game consoles installed and ready to go all the time definitely puts a limit on what I choose to pursue. Already I have 4 portable systems (SP, 2DS XL, Switch Lite, PSP) which are primarily used for playing at home, when I don't feel like screwing around with going downstairs, turning on the TV, the sound system, the console, the controller, and walking over to the bookshelves to get a game and walk back to put it in, then wade through all the splash screens and menus before I can begin playing. The draw for portable systems for me is portability within the home! =D
I agree that portability within the home ends up being the biggest use for portable consoles. It's easy to just grab a handheld and jump right into a game.
Great video, that definitely helped while I think about options for GB games. I didn’t realize the ags 101 pad was a weaker option and completely forgot about the snes adapter. (and everdrive as mentioned in the comments) 👍 As for games I never hear much about Bionic Commando on GB, but it’s pretty solid. I fire it up on 3DS.
I had the long/tall official hard shell plastic case for my original (DMG) Game Boy. I’d be able to carry everything in it and despite the number of years I actively played the machine I’d never run out of space for my games. I guess I never felt the need to have many of those strangely enough. I honestly remember the total number of games I put into it being roughly 11 or twelve, but also that being my total library of games for the machine. But that would be a lot for a kid with a single console in the 90’s who relied upon birthdays and Christmas’s anyway. That sounds about right actually. Great Stuff, as always.
I just got a good deal on a modded GB pocket system, so been slowly building up the library of games! (started with a 3rd party flash cart (which might eventually be relegated to games way too far out of our price range.) but trolling the likes of ebay/amazon for good deals I've came across a good handful and have a few on order already! definitely gonna try to cut costs via the JP versions whenever I have to.
LOL @4:12 I do the "headlight" thing all the time! Some rechargable AAs for the GB and rechargable AAAs for the headlight and you're good to go! ... I feel like it makes me look like an idiot though 🤷♂
My handheld of choice is the DS, with the GBA and 3DS right on its heels. That being said, the GameBoy and GameBoy Color has a vast library of games and shouldn't be missed or underestimated. It's funny, I've never seen anyone "whip out" any hand held gaming devices in public. It's a shame cause, if you want to game, then GAME.
Man that lime green gameboy color and my favorite old trusty green pocket is peak nostalgia. Had the OG advanced too. Better form factor than the SP, but the SP lighting and Rechargeable aspect made it goto. Wish rechargeable batteries were as efficient and affordable back then.
Kids with Game Boys were always the most popular and they would _never_ let you play their Game Boy under any circumstance. It was just an unwritten rule back then.
I love the gameboy. I will admit absolutely everything you said was true, even that part when you were walking around with a headlamp playing your DMG. Once I went camping and brought a DMG and a pocket along and played them with my friend late at night in the tent using a headlamp. And I also admit that it really is better on your eyes too, and playing with no backlight feels so good, even though I do have a modded pocket that I love to death that I use most often. I loved the video but I have one more tip for people who are collecting, and that’s the launch titles. There’s only 6 and they’re all really solid games for like 10 bucks each. It’s a great way to get into collecting
I don't know about other countries, but back in the late 80's/early 90's we had what we call a "brick game" fad. It was essentially Tetris on handheld (think of it as game-and-watch that plays Tetris). Everyone had them, everyone was addicted to them. It was a tiresome ordeal. Every freaking aunts and uncles will gift you one (during birthdays and christmas) and most homes have multiple units of that infernal device. So a Tetris on Gameboy wasn't really a novelty in my region. It is like more expensive way to play "Brick Game" during the time when everyone was exhausted with playing brickgames. Basically a wasteful redundancy.
I will, never, ever or won't stop collecting for the regular Game Boy. I like the games, accessories, box arts, square boxes, the font in Gill Sans typeset - I still like it. I played the NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Adance and the Super NES And I haven't play my original Game Boy games on TV via the Super NES yet.
Some of my best memories from childhood was sitting on the playground with all of my friends and swapping games back and forth and talking about Gameboy games non-stop. It was an amazing time to be a child.
I love your videos, but what I don't understand is why you never mentioned Game Boy games stop saving. I started collecting and I didn't know this. How do you make sure your game boy games keep saving and why didn't you mention this crucial piece of information?
I'm playing through Castlevania Adventure on the Xbox one Castlevania Anniversary collection with the Gameboy original filter on. IT. IS. AWESOME. As I'm doing it I'm trying to get myself into my mentality back in the day when rocked my Gameboy. It's a retro-zen experience. I'm loving it. Oh BTW I LOVE scan lines. So do my aging eyes.
Definitely agree that getting rechargeable batteries and a recharger was the way to go. Just don't leave the charger in a hotel room when you're on vacation. Related to that lapse of judgment, the game boy, to me, felt like a badge of maturity. I was able to take care of my game boy pocket well enough that my parent's bought me a gameboy color when they came out.
This was brand new when I was a kid... This new generation don't know how good they have it... Try going from point A to Point B without your Phone app GPS and use a Map...
All the gameboy devices are revisions of the same machine even the advance.. It was basicly the Gameboy Pro boosting it up a console generation but just because the base tech was so old the leap was allot bigger than today's pro consoles .. The ds was the first successor
I have a GBA that's modded with the AGS 101 screen, and it's awesome. It gives you the benefits of both the SP and the original model GBA. That said, one game I play crap out of on GBA is Metroid Fusion, because although Zero Mission is a great remake, Fusion had a much more interesting and often scary setting. The BSL Space Station is like a strange hybrid between space station and virtual habitat. I also love the control scheme in Metroid Fusion. Instead toggling missiles with the Select button, you hold R and press B, and this makes it easier to just equip the missiles at a moment's notice to spam them into a boss. Samus will also automatically grab ledges and go into morph ball automatically while holding a ledge near a morph ball tunnel. Wall jumping is easier as well. Metroid Fusion is such a great game, and I could go on for hours about it. The other game I play most on GBA is Mario Bros, by which I mean the remake on Super Mario Advance 3. Better graphics, controls, and it actually includes music. Just a lot of quality of life improvements that were added in the GBA Mario Bros Remake, and it's included on the same GBA cartridge as Yoshi's Island.
Even as someone who grew up in the 2000s, it's pretty easy to get a soft spot for old Game Boy games, even when they were stuff like a Godzilla-themed side-scrolling maze game (actual example of a Game Boy game I'm legit nostalgic for).
