The Best Game Boy Nintendo Ever Made: Game Boy Light

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The Game Boy line of consoles is much beloved by our generation, but it's one major flaw shouldn't go unrecognized. Luckily, Japan had a solution...
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@StrikerXL_BE 5 лет назад

I owned a Game Boy Light (gold color) when I was little. My uncle bought it for me and my two nephews when he came back from his trip to Japan.

@variationsofnoisev.o.n422 4 года назад

me too! but for it was my crazy travel godmother :) i still have it and love it... just the battery cap is missing.

@04dram04 3 года назад

Dang, that must have tripped all the other kids out

@TymekSoad 5 лет назад

"Playing only when the street light passed" That is exactly how I remember playing my game boy 😁. This and flashlight in the middle of the night trying to catch all Pokemon's. Jeeez those batteries were expensive 😅

@jaredl8524 5 лет назад

Yes, I immediately knew what he meant when he said that. Memories...

@Bro-cx2jc 4 года назад

Lucky me, I had a street light outside my window as a kid :)

@BigTrees4ever Год назад

What’s weird is that I knew a kid who had one of these when I was in 1st-3rd grade before both the gbc came out and he switched schools. He said his dad got it on a business trip to Japan though. What a cool GameBoy.

@lovelyspringweather 4 года назад

This was so great to watch. My family visited Japan when I was 8 back in 1998 and my Dad bought this for himself as a souvenir. Like you said, it was exclusive to Japan - I remember waiting for this to come out in the states and it never did.

@unkono Год назад

Japan keeps all the good stuff to themselves

@NinjaxShadowXx Год назад

Import shops in LA and New York sold these in their games section back in the 90s also I remember seeing them sold in international airport gaming stores so definitely some people outside of Japan had access buy them

@otterdonnelly9959 10 месяцев назад

I agree but cities/shop owners wanting that product were anomalies. Very rarely would a kid stumble across these in America somehow and not know it was something special.

@PixelGameSquad 5 лет назад

A bunch of channels put out regular content.....and sadly....many of these are crap content. You guys keep it rad and keep the quality up ✔️

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

this is the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me

@tqbfjotlddltojfbqt 5 лет назад

Quality over quantity!!!

@DUB_87 5 лет назад

@@WulffDen-Is it an Advance SP? What? If it's not Advance SP then it's not the best GameBoy.

@DUB_87 5 лет назад

@@WulffDen-OK. I stand corrected. Just the OG family.

@TheRetroFuture 5 лет назад

That hurts!

@bloodsuckinflea 5 лет назад

I remember having some weird contraption that hooked onto the top of the gameboy, but there was a light and a magnifying glass so that the screen got "bigger" and there was light directly on it. It was weird but very effective. I wonder if I still have it somewhere?

@DiscoJoseph 5 лет назад

Flea I had that as well for my Gameboy and Game Gear.

@Gameboy-Unboxings 3 года назад

That is called the "light boy". I have one sealed in the box.

@deckofcards87 2 года назад

Yeah that's Light Boy. An hilarious add on now in retrospect.

@1985mtv 5 лет назад

the light was the best thing I have ever owned. This is literally the most golden.

@BurgundyBurnouts 5 лет назад

Why do you keep making videos on things i didn't know that i wanted to see

@jbuggyps2 5 лет назад

Bob just knows man. He just KNOWS.

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

you're welcome

@shuntarofurukawa5577 5 лет назад

Bob is phsycic. Bob is alakazam

@jbuggyps2 5 лет назад

I bought a modded original Gameboy advance off the internet. Uses the backlight screen of the gba sp. Love it. Thinking of getting a modded gameboy color too. And yes Metal Gear Solid for the Game Boy Color is an amazing game

@gamemaniac22 5 лет назад

There are two types of Modded GBC, front light and back light. Front light will cost less but just like the original SP, doesn't have as great lighting (although i've seen some pretty damn good ones). Back light GBC use the AGS101 screen (or chinese knock off) and can cost $200+. Those are much more difficult to mod, therefore the higher price tag.

@polar-star64 5 лет назад

I've been really thinking about doing both, I've been wanting to get the Pikachu GBC and give it a backlight, and get an original GBA, give it a backlight and color it to look like a Super Famicom

@buttholeChecker 5 лет назад

You should consider the GB boy color, its a gameboy color knock off that is backlit and is actually pretty good. Costs about $50

@TimothyTimPSP 5 лет назад

Chicks dig my Gameboy.

@GrecoCalabrese 5 лет назад

I have 2 of these, and in my opinion these are the best way to play monochrome gameboy games. Its more comfortable to hold than the SP and it can be played Both in Direct Sunlight and total darkness, that makes it unique because SP ags101 and later lcd are hard to see in daylight.

@gasser5001 5 лет назад

it brought a tear to my eye when you said 'or when your parents were driving and a streetlight went by'. oh, the struggles these generations wont understand. looooooooooool

@HollowRick 5 лет назад

I know Haha it was hell when you think about it now days everything's backlit aha

@holzwurm_hd7029 2 года назад

Actually one of my friends had that... until now i thought my memory was messing with me... (his dad was working overseas) It was like 2007 and im from germany. Im really glad to see that my childhood memories aren't fading. I also exactly remember my aunt gifting me my red gameboy pocket with Pokemon Yellow ❤️❤️❤️

@El_Dorado19 Год назад

I had pokemon yellow AND a yellow gameboy

@danieljimenez1989 5 лет назад

The screen on the pocket is a TN screen that is vastly superior to the STN screen on the original gameboy. To say it didn't address the screen issue is just wrong. Also, the AGS-101 doesn't have 'a front light and a backlight', it just has a backlight.

@Bro-cx2jc 4 года назад

I like best how the Pocket fixed the ghosting issues somewhat and also gave the games a proper black and white color rather than the original pea soup green.

@crf1096 Год назад

Thank you for making a video on this obscure device! It’s my favorite handheld I own, and every other documentary or handheld history video glances directly over it, quoting obscure brands and competitors, but never the light.

@senormojorisin 5 лет назад

I just bought the limited edition, Japanese, Toys r us exclusive, yellow see through, Gameboy Light. And I am not ashamed.

@CharacterDesignForge 5 лет назад

I love the look of the Light, agreed tht it has that nice Blade Runner 80’s tech look that’s lost in later gens. I recently grabbed a mother 3 translation cartridge and all the stuff to refurbish my Advance SP. and make it purple.

@BlueAtlas1996 5 лет назад

06:25 That would so work on me, as I am a big Nintendo nerd 😂

@customfantasyhotwheels Год назад

Why do people use the word "nerd" so loosely? A nerd is a student in school or university who excels in academics. Maybe the word you meant to use is "geek"?

@baroum. 5 лет назад

Love The GB Light, ordered from japan at launch ! Still pristine with the box 🙂

@TheIzzyNobreShow 5 лет назад

I was gonna make a video like this when I got mine. This is what I get for taking too long :(

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

i would have asked for your input but this video idea was conceived at 11pm lol

@arthurcollector4002 5 лет назад

Homem galinha

@letthemfight3160 5 лет назад

I have one of these but it was the hardest thing in my collection to get a hold on, alot of them are broken in some way or another so its my holy grail

@pissdrinkeradvocate 5 лет назад

2:26 The OG Gamebois

@yobama9890 5 лет назад

i watched this channel from when it had about 40k ? i have watched every single video up till now. great stuff. keep it up

@pastabilitieswithbenji5505 2 года назад

In manhattan in the lower 90s (west side) we had a place called "cyber games" where they always had some import gameboys from japan. I remember owning an pink advance before they got big in the states and i deff saw some gameboy lights on the shelves as a kid. what a great video! now i need to try and grab one of these!

@jcarro5892 4 года назад

I think some of the confusion comes from the fact that the original gameboy(large carrying case edition set) came with a "gameboy LIGHT" it was literally a huge attachment that had a magnifying glass and light on it so you could play in the dark. I found this set at a garage sale in mint condition many years ago.

@johnaziz4464 5 лет назад

Never owned it or played on it, but I did see it available for sale as an imported item here in my local game store in the UK. It was very expensive.

@brianflores2380 5 лет назад

6:22 - 6:28 XD I just love your comedy side to your content XD. Like, I am always here to cool Nintendo content, and you never fail to dissapoint.

@kylewynn3147 5 лет назад

Respect for not drawing the video out to 10 minutes, Bob. Respect.

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

thats how we do

@jaykelley103 4 года назад

I'm colorblind and I want one so bad because the way it looks is so pleasing to my eyes. I hope I can get one for a price that isn't TOO crazy

@vjallen75 5 лет назад

Crazy to think we used to play the gameboy color the way we did. I have the magnifier and light still for mine. I found the pelican rechargeable battery pack on eBay marching my color so I bought it. I really loved the gameboy. I played Pokémon red so much. Wish I still had my copy.

@Bro-cx2jc 4 года назад

I incorrectly remembered the GBC as having a backlight, but was reminded of the harsh reality a few years ago when I bought one again. I'm not sure how I put up with no light in my childhood years but then again all the handhelds I played were like that so meh.

@AntyboyMD 5 лет назад

My dad bought me the game boy color and the Pokémon game with it, Idon’t remember witch one, but it didn’t matter. We travel through Texas for 7 days (yes is that big), and it’s one of the best memories I have. He even bought me the light so I could play in the night.

@AhmadStpats 5 лет назад

This is my first ever game boy. My parents got it for me when I was 7. In Singapore the game boy light was common. I did not know that it never arrived to the states

@eyesrajones 5 лет назад

I have an original GBA that I modded with a 101 screen. It's amazing. You get to play every Gameboy game and the original GBA is really good ergonomically, and as I get older that is becoming more important to me.

@Riniesya11 5 лет назад

HAHAHA that bus ride convo!

@ericg1149 5 лет назад

Ah memories of staying up late or riding in the back of the car with he worm light plugged in lol

@Bro-cx2jc 4 года назад

Bought mine months ago, and now and again the novelty strikes back up and I play Pokemon Red again (even though it keeps losing its data) XD

@newvirtue968 5 лет назад

some kids had a lite on my bus in school growing up but i live in hawaii. lots of kids had family in Japan

@supervegeta101 5 лет назад

I had the light accessories for every one of those. The magnifying light, the GBA bendy light one.

@dawng-schnurr4325 5 лет назад

Just bought a Gold GB light for, $60CND! It's become my favourite for OG Gameboy games. I mainly play Tetris, the best game, in my opinion. Also, I use my Krikzz GB Everdrive. Great combo

@bsanchez3563 3 года назад

Yeah I recognized that vcr sound @ 6:32 lol nostalgia

@Kunio 2 года назад

Gameboy Light and modded Gameboys/Pockets/Colors/Advances is SO good for stuff like Kirby Tilt n' Tumble and Gameboy Camera. Don't have to deal with turning your GBAsp upside down when taking pictures, nor worry about reverse controls in Tilt n' Tumble

@user-oi8sq6ci8j 3 года назад

Is there varying levels of brightness with used consoles because of use and time or are they all pretty uniform? In the market for a used one and want to know if this is something I have to consider. Some seller don't even include pictures with the light mode on!

@mymarci 4 года назад

Never heard of this one before, and i think that this one is the coolest. Im considering to buy one, just to play old games from my childhood with an additional coolnes touch :)

@estrange9351 5 лет назад

hecc yes a new amazing video. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

THANK YOU

@dinosaurgod6163 3 года назад

Is the speaker significantly quieter than the DMG? I just bought one and it seems too quiet. My headphone also only work in one ear

@newbleppmore7855 Год назад

i remember gameboy colour screen was easy to see the advance near impossible

@SilverEye91 5 лет назад

Wait, the first SP only had a front light? I am really starting to wonder what version my friend had now. Was there much of a difference between the back and front light versions? I'm assuming the front light works by just having the light behind the plastic screen but in front of the actual display?

@SlipScope 5 лет назад

the ags 101 only has a back light, not a front and backlight. but it has 2 brightness settings

@SlipScope 5 лет назад

also the pokemon centre gameboy light is going for 1000 so i duuno what price you found but its probably a reshell. sorry to say

@SlipScope 5 лет назад

also i did the gameboy pocket backlight mod and it is way better than a gblight, definitely worth the effort, or pay someone else to do it

@gamemaniac22 5 лет назад

I agree. It's not too difficult so long as you have the correct tools.

@fromthisdecadence4022 4 года назад

Import games and consoles were a HUGE part of every non-chain video game store I shopped at in the 90s.

@FTB1776 5 лет назад

keep in mind that most US homes in 2018 use led and or "energy efficient" lighting which are "Dim" when compared to the 100w incandescent bulbs of the 90's go to the hardware store grab a good old 100W old school glass globe style incandescent and pop it in a lamp close by and enjoy that old school quality goodness

@pixelgames9765 Год назад

In 1989, Nick saw a trailer for a game boy. He loved the concept of playing NES games wherever he’d like. He begged his parents day and night for one. Finally, in Christmas of 1990, he got a present that his parents said, was video game related. Excitedly, knowing what it was, he ripped open the present. 100 likes for part 2.

@polycube868 10 месяцев назад

How about 1 like? It's been 7 months

@Spintechfilms 5 лет назад

I remember my friend had one of these back in the day when we were in grade school, and the only reason he had it is because his dad traveled to japan for buissness almost 3-4 times a year Also its not hard to back light a GB Pocket so idk what your talking about

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

im sure in the same eway it's not hard to replace a joy-con shell lol

@AC3electrosphere 5 лет назад

What's the background music? Great video by the way!

@tomendacott3728 5 лет назад

6:20-6:30 a look into Bobs dating life

@str8poisintv131 5 лет назад

Hold up i had a game \ comic book store near me that had like 6 of these when i was a kid and u mean to tell me it was exclusive to japan damn i wish i knew that because the game store near me always had imports but i never wanted to pay the mark up prices to get some of the japanes games and systems they had. It was the only play in my area where you could actually walk in and buy a neo geo...lol half of my friends didnt even know what one looked like

@austinconlin217 3 года назад

I used to have a gameboy light that my Aunt brought back from Japan for my birthday one year but i have since lost it and never found out what happened to it

@i.george2321 5 лет назад

dude, backlit GBC kit from BenVenn, ultimate gameboy experience

@karnagefails333 5 лет назад

Pretty damn cool. Thanks, Bob!

@robotictaco2663 5 лет назад

Hello Wulff Den i was wondering your opinion on the minty pi project?

@Mundus66 5 лет назад

You could get the gameboy light in scandiavia when it came out (not sure if it came out elsewhere in Europe) but definitely in Sweden as i've seen it on shelves with my own eyes. Might have been imported but yeah there where places that stocked them in EU at least so they might not be lying.

@Ohsnapthisisit 5 лет назад

So I love you because I just ordered the Astro boy edition this was the first gaming platform I grew up on and I thank you for this video! But I did have a question when I buy games for the light do gameboy color games work on this?

@HollowRick 5 лет назад

Good choice and same here I'm currently trying to get a hold of that Clear yellow Toys R Us edition :D

@HollowRick 5 лет назад

Yes but Only the backwards compatible GBC games will work you can tell as it will be in a black cartridge the ones in a clear case wont work on the normal gameboys but as Bob said you're not missing much the color was full of shovelware minis a handful of good exclusives btw pokemon gold and silver work on old gameboys too

@WizardClipAudio 5 лет назад

I have a blue game boy pocket with a light mod that I bought for 20 dollars. It otherwise looks exactly like the one I had as a kid.

@Meschersmit262 3 года назад

My aunt in the US bought me a game boy light and shipped it here in the Philippines. So no, they’re not exclusive to Japan.

@chainsinlink 5 лет назад

The beginning static noise was from V/H/S

@thehorsefromGOTs8 4 года назад

yeah, I'm gonna need that translucent yellow one.

@OnGod1007 2 года назад

I finally got my Game Boy light in the mail today that is the jewel of my collection. The speakers a little bit low for my liking but nobody outside of a brain surgeon is going to be opening that device up. It is an original Game Boy light with the battery cover and I love it like it's my third child

@TheMikero 5 лет назад

Funny to see how long Nyko's been making weird-ass peripherals for Nintendo stuff.

@approxahmed 5 лет назад

I prefer the GS out of them all (although I forgot which I had this or the SP), going for the upgrade from the Gameboy advanced to the SP/GS was a big thing to me before, because of the rechargeable battery (being used to batteries and buying a lot, it was such a life saver to get the rechargeable Gameboy) Fun fact I didn't know how to charge it until my cousin taught me how hahaha.... I believe it was a few days of me thinking I can no longer play in it...maybe weeks..

@QuarioQuario54321 2 года назад

the color has an active matrix screen so it's not as blurry

@WizKoulikov 5 лет назад

I'm on the hunt for one as well to finish out my collection. I'm tempted to shamelessly plug one my videos about this, but I won't.

@Prawduk730 3 года назад

I actually owned a GB Lite back in the days.

@enshk79 4 года назад

Game boy pocket and lite look so awesome. Love that design

@s0ggy_flannel 5 лет назад

Bob, i used to not pay attention to tumbnails on your channel. But MAN your thumbnails are great. i guess it pays off doing this kinda stuff in college. And a question. What happened to the early video? its fine but i wanted to see the video before school.

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

I MISSED ONE EARLY VIDEO ALRIGHT JEEZ

@rumisosoup 3 года назад

I started looking at the Gameboy and I started wanting it. Sad thing, I’m skeptical that the sellers will rip me off, and I’m broke.

@unhelpfulYT 5 лет назад

Anyone else notice all the pokemon stuff in the videos lately? I think bob is coming around to playing pokemon

@sean666999100 5 лет назад

Yeah remember playing battle city on a gameboy light ... Good days

@Kynareth6 3 года назад

the best current option before the release of Game Boy Classic, is to manually mod Game Boy Pocket or Color by adding a backlight

@Gameboy-Unboxings 3 года назад

I've always said, I would have preferred to have a gameboy light over the gameboy color I think. I did have a worm light when I was a kid. But it still just boggles my mind that one of the best selling consoles of all time had a screen that you can't even see. I mean try playing one today, it's just terrible. How much more would it have really cost for them to put a back light or hell, even a damn front light in the gbc though? The gbl literally used he same type of light as a watch so it could not have cost much.

@3a.m.284 2 года назад

Nintendo has always been historically behind the curve when it comes to even the most basic tech, really makes me wonder why they’ve always been so popular

@crobinson2624 5 лет назад

The screen lighting looks the same type used in the timex watches.

@GameLikeYouMeanIt 5 лет назад

Thanks Nintendo online. You helped me find an awesome channel

@madrazproductions5776 5 лет назад

Definetly copping one of these bad bois now.

@nickandjones9574 2 года назад

I have one but the screen docent work

@scarletscarlet800 5 лет назад

I finally got a SF30 pro yesterday. I have to say, its D-pad is fantastic, now I have to throw away my switch pro controller.

@WulffDen 5 лет назад

dont do that lol

@unklespooktober8511 5 лет назад

I prefer the colour because it gives this small nostalgic feel

@salduchi1785 5 лет назад

I have mint GB light CIB. Once I got it last year, first game I played was Mario Land 2 and it was almost unplayable. Screen blur and hard to see enemies. Playing it makes me feel like something it wrong with my eyes.

@newphilmz3605 4 года назад

I know what you mean with everyone nowdays acting like they're common in the states. I asked a game store about them and the guy was like "Yeah they're pretty common". Me surprised by what he said, I told him they were only in Japan, and he was like "No they were here in the states too." And of course they didn't have one.

@pollock8000 4 года назад

I'm craving for one of those! even though' I have a Color and an AGS101

@dariusq8894 5 лет назад

"Yeah, I remember that version. I had that as a kid." "Either you grew up in Japan or no you @#%* didn't." Or you could have imported like I did. And yes, that was a thing even before the internet. =)

@Bro-cx2jc 4 года назад

Yeah, I kind of don't like how he said that. It's pretty dumb to just call a bunch of random strangers liars if you don't know for sure.

@newphilmz3605 4 года назад

I told a game store they were a japan exclusive, and the guy was like "No they're common and were sold in the US." I never saw one growing up as a kid. Imports weren't that popular

@fromthisdecadence4022 4 года назад

Imports were a huge part of all of the non-chain video games stores I shopped at in the 90s.

@KNineteenVRC 5 лет назад

Theres a possibility that those pokemon ones might be a reshelled console

@karlos1358 5 лет назад

Now light messes with your screen how

@TevyaSmolka 5 лет назад

Aw memories good times

@buttholeChecker 5 лет назад

I bought one straight from japan and its factory sealed in box. I want to play it badly but as a collector I cant open it..... lol

@Jwick-xu8cz 5 лет назад

I have every gameboy but not the light one, i havent found it yet

@jamesbaxter5816 5 лет назад

What was the outro song

@BillyFrost1865 4 года назад

i actually just got a dmg gameboy in amazing condition for about 15 bucks and yes, in 2019, almost 2020 im currently playing pokemon yellow on one of those thickbois