Game Boy Extravaganza 3: Pocket and Light | Ashens

A few years down the line and the Game Boy is still selling. Time to introduce a new model...
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[@Larry]

It's bloody ninja turtles that seems to be the Gameboy cart you keep finding over and over for me. I've got four of the bloody things!

[@urzu117]

for me it's goddamn Castlevania. Found 3 so far.

[@Larry]

MarioTGP Yeah, but no one ever called it that back then.

[@DocDoak]

***** expect us silly germans. :p

[@DocDoak]

Jord Bijker we are too busy watching the hero turtles.

[@cancerdrink9555]

That's pretty bloody, maybe more bloody than blood. Bloody bloody, bloody.

[@VaatiVidya]

oh to have battery life that lasted more than 3-5 hours. Those were the days

[@rickyrigatoni]

And you didn't even have to waste half the battery updating shit

[@OdaSwifteye]

Are you kidding me? Do you know how much money I had spend on batteries and how many batteries I had to buy and take along with me on long car journeys? You couldn't buy the cheapo batteries either you had to buy the good kind which lasts a couple of days at best and then you had to buy more so if you played everyday on your device or it was fairly hot where you lived the you'd be going through 4-6 batteries every week? You don't have to spend a dime to keep a 3ds sitting every night on a charger. Yeah those were the days all right. Specifically the dark ages.

[@jossebrodeur6033]

Ha VaatiVidya so true man so true

[@eon9231]

Oda Swifteye Electric bills doe, wont pay more than a dime my ass :/

[@TechHug]

The Doganator Okay, you will pay a dime more... over the entire life of you device. Seriously, you're thinking about the effect of a 2W device on your power bill? Really? If you're that strained for money, you have serious issues.

[@Joe90h]

In defense of the red LED on the Game Boy: I loved having it there, because it dim when the battery was starting to run out. When you became as invested in pokemon as I was, you'd know how critical it was your battery not die on you at an inopportune moment. However, because the Game Boy would gradually die rather than just outright cut out, usually as long as you started saving when the screen started to go you were fine.

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

Gameboys are so great, I could probably play one for the rest of my life

[@KushDub64]

Unfortunately yours exploded

[@thephantom496]

TheLonelyGoomba Hi, LonelyGoomba. I have a game I recommend to you: F1 Race. It's really good and challenging in just the right amount.

[@wildcard13294]

and it takes advantage of the 4 Player Link Cable (because literally very little else did)

[@NickRowler]

I knew someone who had a copy of Pokemon Blue for the Gameboy. When they went to sell it to a store, the store refused because apparently it was a bootleg. Instead of it saying Nintendo on the back, it said Nintondo.

[@DragonslayerProd]

I thought you were going to say "They said it's a bootleg because it was blue, not gray."

[@LucasMadwordVideos]

I had a copy of Pokemon. A store sold it me. Turns out it was bootleg. :(

[@Bernd-Lauert]

LucasSaturn why? did it say "Nintendo" instead of Nintondo? hehehe...

[@LucasMadwordVideos]

***** actually it did. I didn't look at the cart until I got home. And then I found out it was bootleg. I called them up, and told them it was fake. They basically said "oh well. Deal with it.".

[@Bernd-Lauert]

LucasSaturn yea Those where the days when you could buy unlicensed, bootlegged games in normal stores.

[@Zizumia]

One of my friends had a Gameboy Light. I didn't know it was only released in Japan!

[@hayleyscomet3447]

XxStar TV $40?! wow!

[@darsparx]

still really wish nintendo had released it over here.....or at least a stinking front-lighted gbc or gba(no not the sp that thing even with a grip hurts my hands) that would've made me happy, such great systems without a proper release to fix lighting issues in a desirable way >_

[@ChristopherLiu]

Lord Zizumias he or she probably broght it from japan or online

[@PsychoIncarnate666]

I would have loved that gameboy light The day pokemon gold came out, I was awake ALL night playing it I got to the elite 4 just within that day/ night I couldn't do that nowadays though, I spend too much time grinding, breeding, looking for the perfect personality, etc.

[@VGJ]

Interesting fact of my childhood, I won a Gameboy from a packet of Quavers. It wasn't actually in the packet - that would be just silly. But I got a ticket, almost Willy Wonka style. My elder brother painted Space Wolves decals on it and then it got lost/stolen on coach six years later.... fascinating.

[@TungstenCarbideProjectile]

Being from the US i had no idea what quavers were and after a deep but brief dive into the history on Wikipedia oh boy am i blown away and seriously saddened for the loads of people who probably miss all the flavors which are no longer available, that is very sad indeed, i would like to try the shrimp i mean prawn cocktail

[@15-Peter-20]

@@TungstenCarbideProjectile are you OK now ?

[@TungstenCarbideProjectile]

@@15-Peter-20 you could say that

[@punkgrl325]

I remember as a kid hearing about the Gameboy Light as a rumor. I had no idea it actually existed until people started reviewing it on youtube. So cool.

[@mattlm64]

I said Super Mario. I didn't say "2" at the end though, so does it still count?

[@zeronics2249]

no

[@espurious]

Wilhelm Sceam I... I'm not sure you have the maths right on that. I could be wrong.

[@karter61]

Well it doesn't matter because "Nobody is going to believe you"

[@espurious]

Wilhelm Sceam thank you, much better.

[@kasenomkasenom2945]

I said game, do I win?

[@mrbarrylewis]

Used to have a Game Boy light! Need to dig that one out

[@euanfitzhugh2023]

My Virgin Kitchen did you dig it out?

[@VVJumparVV]

@@euanfitzhugh2023 did he dug it out?

[@RWL2012]

The Game Boy Pocket allowed for true black and white by using an LCD with black pixels (the DMG's LCD actually has blue pixels and they put the green polariser on top because that gave the best contrast). The reason for the reduced ghosting on the Pocket is due to the better LCD controller used, rather than the panel itself.

[@Bscott1]

the comments section beat me with paragraphs of reasons why the Gameboy series lasted longer than the 360 thanks 4 correcting Me and u guys win

[@farhadinho9]

That Gameboy Light looks amazing. The lit up screen reminds me of those casio digital watches with illumination but it does a good job. 1998 is a late release tho.

[@AmandaWspoon]

gameboy pocket was the first console that was all mine. it died when it fell off my night table. I then got a color the has been washed twice and still works.

[@Dichael502]

You forgot one of the most important details! The Pocket (no idea about the Light) didn't have the little plastic bit that moved over the cut corner, to hold the cartridge in place, when you switched the GameBoy on.

[@SpongeMagic]

That blue Game Boy Pocket is the same one that I have. I was thinking about switching my Game Boy pocket to an original one because it was bigger and would fit more comfortably in my hands, but because of the screen clarity and its size, I think I might keep it.

[@TheMamaluigi300]

If you want something slightly bigger and more comfortable, try to get your hands on a Gameboy Light

[@skippyisKOOL]

destroyerofcomedy or an emulator, gameboy light, gameboy colour, gameboy advance etc

[@KaienSander10Official]

Get a gameboy advance, there comfortabel to hold and play. But keep your gameboy pocket! Since gameboy advances arent expensive, around 20-30$ for a Used one

[@LORDPEACH99]

You shouldn't play old unmarked games that you forgot you owned, that's how creepypastas start!

[@chaskagraves]

Dark Hero Awesomeness I read hyper-realistic blood as hyper-realistic food and went "what"

[@Steets]

Oh No! Haunted Mario! Whoo!!! Scary!!!

[@Isaacandjed]

David Steets HURNTUD MAYRO IS SKARIEZ

[@someweeb3650]

***** dont worry, i call the outside the world of douchebags who work out and 90% of my time is being on hentai sites

[@ChickenPika]

To be fair, most next-gen consoles these days do have at least 60 flames of animation per second.

[@Zuudo]

ChickenPika Wow, fancy seeing you here!

[@TCWordz]

ChickenPika Nah many next gen consoles have only 30. Peasants.

[@someweeb3650]

ChickenPika damn, never knew fire could show animations

[@7thDylan]

WTF ChickenPika what are you doing here? You're the the master of Lord Rosen YTPs, I never expected you here O:

[@TAVIII]

+ChickenPika And my pc does well over double that in virtually every game ;D

[@scubadeer]

Loving this series!

[@tyleradam4836]

New Ashens! Always a good way to spend the night.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

I would've given a kidney for a Gameboy Light. In the States, we had to wait until the GBA SP to get a proper backlit handheld.

[@Tootsby]

I remember having an old GameBoy Light somehow (living in wisconsin, US of all places) and nobody believing that it was actually a thing that existed! Take that skeptical middle school asshats!

[@kashinimeyo]

this is my dream- to have all of these more retro consoles and just review everything I'm not eloquent enough for it though. Ashens just makes it so much more entertaining to watch with how he speaks and describes everything

[@jediarco]

Ashens, I LOVE these videos! It's so nostalgic! I had all this stuff; still do, actually. I got out my old GameBoy Color because of you, but I still have the original, pocket, the magnifying accessory with the speakers you featured previously, the carrying case, and a TON more stuff. Thank you for rekindling the child-like magic of my youth. Keep up the great work sir!

[@Nomad0036]

Didn't know "Bomb Jack" had an actual background.

[@forfluf]

Blowing on the contacts works again! Some say it's a myth that blowing does anything at all, I say nay.

[@fmsyntheses]

It doesn't work. In fact it can damage games. You just have to keep putting it in until the contacts align properly.

[@krismatic]

The fact that "blowing on the cartridge" is supposed to work is because you are more likely to re-align the contacts when you take out and place a cartridge back in. The more you blow the more often you take it out and hopefully re-align the cartridge.

[@Skawo]

***** It may also have something to do with the extra moisture you put on the contacts via the process, increasing the conductivity. But, if that's so, they'll just rust.

[@MikeDragon]

***** There is no such thing as "blowing makes the contacts re-align". What happens is that sometimes dust or other impurities on the contacts may mess up with the contact the cartridge has with the slot in the console. When you blow in the contacts of the cartridge the dust is forced out, making it clean again. The downside is that by blowing with your mouth, you also make it moist. Even if we can't see or feel, the air we expel through our mouth contains saliva. Overtime, that moisture can cause corrosion and it may cause irreversible damage to the circuitry of your game. And that's why blow into cartridges (any electronic circuit, actually) is not recommended. Sometimes it's more than dust on the contacts, though. In these cases, a proper cleaning with some specific product is the only solution.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

you can try to reason away blowing on cartridges, but in the end, it works. from someone who grew up on cartridges, you can keep trying to realign the contacts all you want, it wasn't until you blew in it that the game usually started working. it could be coincidence or the moisture helping out, who knows. it worked.

[@AndorianBlues]

Wow, can't believe I've never heard of the Light before.

[@nobel11]

Same here. It would've sold like hotcakes here in the US.

[@SergeiMosin]

I remember cursing the name of Nintendo for never including a backlight in the old Gameboy models... Now I know I should've been cursing them for only including it on Japanese versions! All those years using those crap lights that attached to the side port and just turned the screen into a horrible glarey mess... all while Japan was enjoying well lit Gameboy glory!

[@SergeiMosin]

***** Yes, but they had the OPTION to have it, which is more than the rest of us got. Ah well, I still miss my old Gameboy... I played it for many many years and have an inestimable amount of fond memories attached to it, which is more than can be said for just about any other console on the market, so bravo Nintendo! Bravo for making many happy youths many moons ago.

[@CIubDuck]

Walter Hunt I don't think it would've sold that much since the Gameboy Colour was released in the same year as the Light.

[@nobel11]

Yeah, that's a fair assessment.

[@weeseet]

Silver Gameboy Pocket was my first game system. Came with Megaman II and Pac-Man. I still remember unwrapping it Christmas morning...

[@dryder]

Hope you'll do a Gameboy Micro review!

[@masterds64]

Its tiny has face places works better for smaller hands and battery life is questionable. Apart from the gameboy light its the only other gameboy model I've skipped

[@P0k3rm4s7]

***** Is a bad model? I trying to have all of the standard model (GB, GB Pocket, Light, Color, Advance, SP and Micro) But I'm missing 3 of them (Pocket, light and Micro) and I don't want to pay a lot of money if the Micro isn't worth...

[@masterds64]

P0k3rm4s7 Im sure you can find it cheap, its not bad its just...designed in a certain way that would only appeal to a select audience, if you're a collector and go for a specific version then yeah thats alot of money... Right now on ebay there is one for $50 all up (including shipping) so if you really want the whole set, go for it, who knows, maybe you'll like it more than me. I've only ever touched one never actually owned. (Also backwards compatibility was taken out...it is that small)

[@P0k3rm4s7]

***** If I can find one cheap I will probably buy it, I don't know why but it seems to be kinda hard to find. I don't think I'm going to play that much with it because I have an SP and it is the best to play GB, GBC and GBA games. But it looks nice and I need it if I want to have them all :P Thanks alot for the response!

[@masterds64]

P0k3rm4s7 Well there is that one on ebay now...I'm not sure on the matter but I assume only a limited amount were made and people are jacking prices. Or they assume being long outdated they can just jack prices anyway

[@UrSammich]

I remember the color. You were hipster in the 90s if you had the color...least mid 90s for me. :-:

[@Dant2142]

Didn't the color come out in '98?

[@DragonslayerProd]

Brett Bates He may be referring to the Play it Loud series. A series of original Game Boy consoles in different colors, including red, black, green, and clear.

[@OdaSwifteye]

What are you talking about? Everybody that had a gameboy moved up to the gameboy color money permitting. It's not even remotely exclusive or overly expensive. You were a hipster if you bought the game gear.

[@NickRowler]

Most of the people I knew who had a gameboy were kids. And with the popularity of Pokemon, almost every kid had one. So yeah, not Hipsters.

[@OdaSwifteye]

***** Can't it be both?Winning the bit wars was often the case of having the device that nobody played.

[@chloebrown5555]

How you haven't got a million subs yet I do not know?! I love your humour! Awaiting the next video :D

[@tweetedn]

"...Fit it in a human pocket..." Me: *Sees a human pocket*

[@memriloc]

HAHAHAHA. Bomb Jack....I had to listen twice as I thought you said Bum Jack which was a term we use to use in Australia in highschool for gay anal sex...Now I cant hear anything BUT that...Ok, time to be a big person again :-/

[@vatossan]

I was right. it was Mario!!!! 8:14

[@vatossan]

Austen Cho well, I thought A Mario game; not specifically that one.

[@vatossan]

Austen Cho A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

[@vatossan]

Austen Cho I don't believe you don't believe me.

[@vatossan]

Austen Cho ha! I won.

[@jessekivinen462]

+Austen Cho i don't belive you not beliving in that

[@SimaanFreeloader]

Ashens, on a completely unrelated note, I hope you do another advent calendar series. It was great to have a whole month with daily Ashens videos the other years. I have seen Lego has made several new advent calendars.

[@MissSoviro]

The thing about the battery light is that you could tell when the batteries were about to die. It was hard to spot but if it got dimmed a bit, you knew it was time to save your game and not lose all of your data.

[@sleigher98]

never had a gameboy

[@Nipponing]

Get out.

[@sleigher98]

always wanted one but my parents never got one for me :( the psp was my first handheld console

[@Nipponing]

***** You bought GBA after NDS wtf?

[@noname8791]

feel sorry for your childhood

[@th3trollwhodi3d]

Same I never had one

[@aalexjohna]

cock and tits-a win double. xxx

[@WhatDoesDStandFor]

Who the fuck are you

[@grimeyx]

CaptainDriad He's motherfucking Meat Pie Mildred

[@SSketchii]

WHATS HAPPENING

[@LucasMadwordVideos]

OH NO!!! NOT Meat Pie Mildred PLEASE NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[@shockwave122]

Just seeing the Game Boy Light screen light up makes me want to cry; it brings back traumatic childhood memories of needing a flashlight to play games in the dark.

[@billyh88uk]

Game Boy Pocket was my first, in Woolworths around the time the Colour came out - free carry case and both Super Mario Land games included, and being sold off ridiculously cheap, I think around £20-£30 which for what you got seemed a mega bargain.

[@TheDutyPaid]

Guess what! Oh never mind you won't believe me.

[@espurious]

What? I *MUST* know!

[@TheDutyPaid]

espurious I done on guessed right, I did.

[@espurious]

TheDutyPaid I believe you.

[@RagnarokiaNG]

A sign of success is making hardware with the same games for 7 years? Popstations do better than that!

[@dennett316]

No, selling huge amounts of said hardware is a sign of success.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Making hardware that can withstand an explosion and still be perfectly functional is also often a sign of success...

[@stridermt2k]

Can hardly wait for next installment!

[@TheSektorz]

I was playing the gameboy version of bomb jack emulated on my PSP whist I watched this, it was somewhat satisfying watching someone else play it at the same time, while reviewing it and talking in the background.

[@donaldtramp3661]

+The SektorZ Hey, ever play Final Fight 3 on your PSP? :)

[@TheSektorz]

Nope, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 tho - often

[@donaldtramp3661]

The SektorZ The arcade port or the SNES port?

[@TheSektorz]

The Sega Genesis one, I used to play that one as a child

[@Heeknot]

Gameboy > NintendoDS

[@smbmadman1]

***** Except games. With all that's good on the DS, there's loads more crappy games.

[@DragonslayerProd]

Ryan S. There's a lot of shitty games on the Game Boy too.

[@smbmadman1]

***** Not as many, though.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

Ryan S. the gameboy had a ton of bad games. take your nostalgia glasses off. it's my favorite handheld to date, but let's not fool ourselves.

[@smbmadman1]

Thomas Jenkins The Game Boy never had monstrosities like AMF Bowling, M&Ms Kart Racing, Chicken Blaster/Shoot/Hunter, cash grabbin' Doodle Jump DS, monstrosities based on cartoons/movies (It only had good-to-kinda bad), crappy ports of console games like Pac-Man World 3 and King Kong, and bad Ninja Turtles games.

[@OverproofMMA]

Dear Mr. Ashens, I would like to inform you that if you don't shut down your channel in 48 hours, I will be pressing charges. As of late, my daughter has started watching your videos almost daily, and I have noticed a huge change of attitude in her. What was once a very quiet, obedient child who spent most of her time studying has now started using cuss words like : stupid, dumb, crap and butt. I'm afraid of her going to hell with these crimes against the Lord, and I have done everything in my power to stop her from acting like this. I have taken her clothes away from her, beaten her, cut her precious hair, and yet she continues to act like this. In fact, the other day she tried to fight back, like one of those stupid children you see everywhere these days. I feel like you are encouraging her to act like this and you must be stopped before you ruin our country. I believe I speak on the behalf of all parents when I say that I am doing the right thing here by trying to stop this madness. 

[@girrrrrrr2]

Oh one of these, how retro!

[@Limbomber]

lol obvious troll is obvious

[@tommytillman989]

Come on bro those are not cuss words and its not his fault he is so awesome

[@The0riginalpr0]

Omg I remember these old trolls xD

[@SilverRazor388]

Ladies and gentlemen, the people who are ruining Christianity! Say goodbye to the Good Samaritans and say hello to the guy who "sues in the name of the Lord." I don't think there's a "thou shall sue people who plague children's minds" in the 10 commandments. Whatever, I'll just go call my mother stupid after watching ashens and burn in hell afterwards.

[@SMAAAASHTV]

Ashens, buddy, where's part 4? I love these vids.

[@lewisr8244]

1:13 am in the uk and you upload now! Ehh can't complain why am i up at this time anyways. Good night everyone :D

[@TallestGargoyle]

I don't know what kind of lighting setup you have rigged behind you, but it's damn impressive how well I could see the original Gameboy screen through the camera.

[@EnforcerX71]

You gotta love how it took Nintendo three generations of Game Boy to put a light in the thing, then they went backwards with the original Game Boy Advance.

[@GenerallyEpicFroggin]

Love this series woop

[@EDSKaR]

We had an attachment for the gameboy that had a single AA cell and an incandescent bulb so you could play it in the dark. It also had a flip down screen that magnified the gameboys screen to make it larger. My mum used to use it and was very annoyed that it couldn't take a wall socket so she had to change the cell really often, where she would run the gameboy itself off the wall socket for infinite Tetris. It had the major downside/upside/feature that you couldn't see the screen unless you had it pointing directly at you, so only one person can see the screen at any time. No more looking over the shoulder of someone else playing.

[@plasticineformaldehyde9611]

Is it like a trend that EVERYONE'S parents have played Tetris for at least 90 hours?

[@communistpootisbirb]

This and good reviews are the only reason I subscribed.

[@fagaction]

Nostalgia bomb. I'm surprised the Gameboy Pocket wasn't released into 1996, though. And oddly enough, the other day I was discussing the Gameboy camera/printer.

[@AllieRX]

I had that exact same blue Game Boy Pocket (and still do).

[@ithinkilostmybagel]

i absolutely love these videos :')

[@NacManInc]

I was fully expecting some sort of creepy pasta at the end.

[@KyuubiNaruto41]

Ah the gameboy pocket that was my introduction to the gameboy. I believe mine was the Ice Blue one hard to tell since it doesn't have any identifier on the thing.

[@MadGamess]

The hull joke got me 😂

[@darkashtar]

I remember going off to college and still having my gameboy and playing pokemon red and meeting other gamers... Damn that was a long time ago, and now I feel old.

[@TehSuperWaffle3000]

nice time to upload here ashens

[@Dizbulance]

Glorious Gameboy Goodness.

[@peteralexander2941]

I have that same gameboy pocket, colour and everything

[@geoserenity]

Someone probably said, but bomb jack is probably a port of mighty bomb jack which i think was on the nes. Random trivia, it was played on the Japanese show Game Center CX, which is awesome.

[@tktru]

Toward the end, I was really thinking that the jolly bald guy with the goatee that Ashens brings up every now and then would appear on the Game Boy.

[@TheCaboose568]

That Bomb jack theme is snazzy

[@zacgeorge6235]

I remember having that exact cartridge for my SP , Bombjack for life

[@swytchblayd]

I used to have a Pocket before I dropped it in the bathroom at the local Target (on the ground, not the john). Think I replaced it with a GBA SP after that. We still have a working Game Boy in our house... Mom rarely pops it out to play Tetris.

[@ch3fxexcell3nce]

Part 3!?!?! Man where the hell have I been...

[@MrRawfishgaming]

Love these

[@ryanleary8760]

I have an original Game Boy DMG-01 from 1989 with Tetris. I love it.

[@junker154]

The Gameboy Pocket looks extremely sleek, I love it.

[@ybunnygurl]

I remember the game boy Light being sold in the US, at game stop, also I think there were Ads for it form toys R us

[@ryanlimrocks]

This is now the device you can happily play in your bed closed without your parents knowing you've been staying up all night playing video games and that why you failed all your exams. *game boy displays game over sign just after the sentence*

[@laurakemp3896]

Still have my Gameboy pocket, love it.

[@MrDJidZ]

IN. oh man, was waiting for this follow up vid

[@CharlesEBright]

Game Boy was great. That handheld is still regarded as one of the best of all time. It had a kickass choice of hundreds of games. Massive game library. They kept it simple and made a killing doing so.

[@jordangoulding5963]

An excellent video!

[@mattlm64]

An excellent comment.

[@channot]

The Struggle of Playing Gameboy at night during a road trip, but you cant see.

[@johneymute]

Also an big advantage of the gb pocket is, that the vissible area of the screen is centered well, it's not that you have to turn it a 45 dagree to the richt to see the the edge of the screen like you have to do it on the 1st gameboy, i don't know maybe it differs per 1st gameboy model manufacturing stages but still it's annoying,also the fact that the screen was placed to deep inside the 1st gameboy along with a glassy plastic screen prtector only makes it hard to see because of light reflections,aaarrrggg.

[@jackglaser2001]

I remember getting the original Gameboy, then stupid over-enthralled with the Gameboy color and it's see-through purple glory!

[@mikeos]

Super Mario 1 was the first game I ever completed when I was about 7. Original gameboy but it was black. Huddled in the shade of a parasol next to a hotel pool in Crete. It's the only thing I remember from that holiday. Apart from getting a hole in one on Mario golf and my mum threatening to throw the gameboy in the pool if I didn't stop playing it.

[@hendrikhanshavermoudt7520]

I had a gameboy color with all these games i did not understand. I also had a lot of extrast like battery charchergs and flashlights. I remember one game i had which was like a Ariel type game or something but i cant remember what it was about, just that i had it.

[@ConkerTheCat]

Never heard of the gameboy pocket or light in the usa. Looks a lot like the gameboy color. Neat

[@beardedsega9272]

my very first system was the gameboy pocket "the blue one" and the only game i had was super mario land 2. even after i got a gameboy color i often played my pocket more. strange thing is i was born in 95, and my systems were handmedowns from other family members. this includes my sega genesis and later game cube. i can honestly say i had a great gameing life. mario sonic and animal crossing

[@GaMeZaHoY]

Gameboy Color is my first Gameboy and defines my childhood. Hope you get your hands on those :)

[@SsnakeBite]

That's weird, I live in Europe yet somehow the Game Boy Light rings a bell. I could have sworn I once met a kid who had one. Guess they had it imported. Or I'm delirious, as is often the case.

[@YF501]

Yay new ashens!

[@psicosis155]

I still have my blue GB pocket. Still works after over 15 years... I feel old now.

[@ahums16]

And now it's 23. I feel your pain.

[@rockerseven]

bombjack was also the star of best super bowl half time show ever! :D also, interestingly, the gameboy pocket was able to make out the pyramid and the sphinx in the background the best. the gameboy light wasn't able to do so as well.

[@robcosplaycover2071]

Love how my home town got a name drop 🤣😊

[@xen84]

I'd love it if Ashens would continue these. It'd be great to see one on the Game Boy Color, and the many iterations of the Advance (original, SP, SP with truly backlit screen, and Micro). Though I'm guessing he may not be able to do the Micro unless he already has one or can borrow one, since they go for over $400 USD most places these days.

[@svsguru2000]

The red led was a battery life indicator that got dimmer the less charge the batteries had.

[@TyKaspy]

I've been thinking about importing a Light from Japan for my little collection of Nintendo handhelds. I had no idea the screen is like one of those old night lights. I'm very intrigued by it. Also, the King James Bible from Wisdom Tree is an interesting "game" if you get a chance to look at it. Very strange cartridge design, and it only works on older handhelds, not the newer ones. Worth checking out if you can find one!

[@Jakers457]

I had the gameboy color as a child, was new age tech for sure

[@eggsack]

That's the one I started with. Mine came bundled with this Tetris like yoshi game.

[@ZHOLT1979]

I had the oringinal gameboy and recently found one in mint condition! I got the battery pack and gameboy light for it and Super Mario land 1,2 and 3. I'm looking for Castlevania Legends. I've got the other 2. In the early 90's you weren't cool unless you had one, especially on field trips. I just wished the color had came out back then.

[@mgrogian]

THE PROPHECY HAS BEEN PROFILED, HE MADE A NEW EPISODE OF THIS SERIES

[@MisterDutch93]

I remember a kid who had a Gameboy Light back at school. He would always brag about his 'special silver GB' when we were on the playground, even though my superior yellow GB color could display games with, you know, color.

[@kittenclanclan]

if i remember correctly, having the light on for the game boy light actually significantly reduces its framerate and really arguably makes the pocket the better model if you have decent lighting due to the more comfortable size