Game Boy 25th Anniversary - Completely Unnecessary Podcast

[@surfthestreets86]

I hooked my Gameboy Color to a guitar amp and it sounds fkn rad!

[@Jma952]

I remember my dad not letting me play when i was 3 because he would take it to work when he worked as a security guard working the night shift.

[@Fearnavigatr]

I'm working on a complete loose set for the monochrome Game Boy, all regions' releases. It's fun because the cart size makes it somewhat reminiscent of collecting trading cards. Also the long lifespan (parallel with three console generations) covers such a huge variety of themes across the games and their use of the technology. Comparing a Game Boy game released in 1989 to one from 1998 you almost can't imagine how they're using the same hardware. It was my first non-shared system and the one that got me into gaming, but my interest has nothing to do with nostalgia. The Game Boy with its library is simply so sweet and fascinating, I love it! Hats off to you, the king of portables!

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

viva la Gameboy!

[@Koopa-Klaw]

HA it's funny because you review game boy games

[@brandonthetoyandgamecollector]

I didn't grow up with the original game boy, I was born in 97 so I grew up with game boy advance, loved that system, shared one with my big brother and then me and my brothers got sp's. I didn't know there was an original gameboy until like 2006 I think, I bought Star Wars the Empire strikes back for like a couple bucks at a game store, I liked it even though it was hard. I appreciate the gameboy for what it was now that I'm older and know a lot about retro video games and consoles, home and handhelds

[@Maneras03]

Brandon Martinez same Man I was born in 96 me and some of my friends in 4th grade had gameboys, we’d play them under our desks haha good times.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

I'm the only one out of my friends that still has my OG '89 Game Boy, before that I had my Tiger Electronic games. Happy (late) Birthday Game Boy!

[@Guadaloopz]

the gameboy is awesome but i can see why it isnt collected as much. I prefer the sp with good backlight because it plays every gameboy game

[@victorhugovaldezsoto]

NES & GB - My all time favorite consoles. And now that you can backlight the GB, oh god, the experience is awesome.

[@victorhugovaldezsoto]

Look up. Lots of tutorials around :)

[@pxlsicle]

This whole video clip is "WHERE DID MY BEARD GO I CANT FIND IT"

[@AlteredPiano]

I totally agree with Ian, the bulkier systems are always so much more comfortable.

[@zackschilling4376]

I with ya Pat, I never really wanted a GB either, but I do remember renting it (The GB and sum games) from a place called Box Office Video. I would always do this when my class in elementary school went on a field trip cuz I knew my Mom would be a chaperone and I could play it the whole bus ride to where ever and even at some theater we went to once. My complaint has always been that it wasnt back lit so u had to have the screen just perfect or u couldnt see anything. I was a Nintendo fanboy but I ended up buying a GameGear and loved it, Streets of Rage was my game. I remember losing the Game Genie for it in 5th grade when my class went to a place called Camp Tecumseh. This right here is why I love this show. The stories and topics that u and Ian bring up always bring me back to being a kid and having just an all around awesome time. Keep up the great work

[@NeutronNeutopian13]

The first podcast I have ever looked forward to. So many great memories with my Gameboy like playing at school and never getting caught. LOL, and a buddy of mine keeps 2 Gameboys by his toilet with a copy of Tetris in each. Why two, I have no clue, he is strange like that.

[@pickupplay5]

I've always loved the Gameboy, it's one of my favorite systems and it started my life long love of handheld gaming systems. Glad to see you both speaking so highly of it, I was working on starting a Gameboy collection, looks like I'll have to go for a loose complete set, just for you guys.

[@shaneg9081]

I can confirm that the backlit GB was a champ when it came to not draining batteries too fast. Also, I don't remember a link cable with two different inputs, but I remember my link cable had two of the small inputs and a converter on one end that could be plugged into the small one and attached to the big one.

[@KondoAeros]

My dad got me a Game Gear when i was around 4 in preparation for long flight from Hong Kong to Canada, I was really good at space harrier back then surprisingly and my grandma loved columbus but then I noticed the game boy was much popular and had mario and such I really wanted a game boy since

[@damianwezzterman9218]

I loved my GameBoy. I didn't get one till Metroid II came out because I thought the GameBoy was more like a Tiger Handheld with switchable games. I had no idea for years, but then I was 8/9years old when it came out and no one I knew had one. Wasn't till years later I was at a Best Buy and they had one of those display models with the attached monitor and the game inserted was the then just released Metroid II. Being a HUGE Metroid fan I just had to have it and shortly after got one for Christmas. I had Metroid II and Tetris and nothing else. I still played it till it died some 10 years later. It was replaced by my SP and that was when I finally bought other GameBoy games. Funny note, I had that GameBoy SP for two years before I bought an actual GBA game, I was pretty much catching up on the original GameBoy games I missed out on.

[@victorhugovaldezsoto]

As lame as it might sound...I really enjoyed TIGER Handhelds XD - nowadays they are perfect for casual gaming. It takes 30 minutes to finish some games!

[@sonypsp66]

well i got my gameboy color when Pokemon yellow was released, and really only owned Pokemon games for it, but they gave me endless hours of fun

[@JRSanchez93]

I started started building up a collection for the gameboy at the beginning of the year. It's actually really fun to collect for and most games are cheap. The only expensive one I've ran into is Supermarioland which is 20 (I could have bought it for 8 but noooooo I had to get Mario vs Donkey Kong on the GBA instead.....still a fun ass game though). And honestly, having loose games is really great because you can swap em out really quick if you get bored or frustrated (looking at you Golf). And if you want to case them all you have to do is get an all-purpose multitool, use the saw attachment and cut off a small piece of a regular DS case (not the GBA sloted one's), cut the part that slants down where you put the game, print out a cover and you're done.

[@gabrieleriva651]

Last Game Boy game in 2003... amazing. Didn't have Fall of the Foot Clan at that time, but I had Back in The Sewers... never finished back in the day, only last week!

[@575forza]

I think I commented about this before, but try SML2, soooo good. SML will always have a special place in my heart, but SML2 changed the game.... boy.

[@Gamerguy8585]

you missed Golf, it did come with a link cable

[@palfdoodles]

For me the Game Boy is level with the SNES as my favourite system of all time. So so many awesome games to mention. My best memory was playing through (and beating) Link's Awakening whilst on holiday in Ibiza in 1995. I didn't see much sun in that two weeks! I still find it the most emotionally moving Zelda game even with all the advancements of the last 20 years.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

I love these videos, just release the whole podcast in a single video i don't mind if it ends up being over an hour.

[@FirestoneX]

I'm 28,, and you kids don't know how awesome it was to play the gameboy as a kid. My parents would leave me in the car at the casino, and many nights were spent playing the gameboy. I have hundreds of hours in a single pokemon game with all maxed out pokemon.

[@sportsnut198]

OOOOOOOOHHHHH GOOOOOD FOR YOU

[@Mhats]

someone play a violin

[@sportsnut198]

AIO inc. Bud, stop right there, don't want to get into a flamer but I will if you want me to.

[@sportsnut198]

AIO inc. ohherewe.jpeg First: You missed the sarcasm Second: You assume my age group to gain "superiority" Third: You make an assumption about my knowledge, and then put yours above mine in an attempt to further your "superiority" in the arguement. What you should do in the future, is to stop typing, and make sure you are not making an ass of yourself. You typed a comment that you should have known would incite a not so happy response. This has nothing to do with smartphones, it has everything to do with you assuming my age group and intelligence. This is why we need a sarcasm font.

[@ev88an]

You don't even lift bro. Fuck up

[@aenoire]

Man, you don't hear people talk about pre gameboy portables other than tiger electronics, great video

[@Indiana_Jones-Z]

I really enjoy your completely unnecessary podcast & flea market madness episodes. Keep'em coming, Pat!

[@Nerdstrategy]

amusing fact, when it was released in the us, a few days after i was born, my mom bought one. and i still have it. it hardly works but its kinda cool the same, it like shows its battle scars that it got growing together with me so to speak. of cause i would like to get another one but i wouldnt want to repair the one i have had for so long, attachment reasons...

[@pbj315]

can somebody give me a link to the headphones he was talking about

[@RanyBx]

I remember playing the Gameboy in the early 90s, I absolutely loved it for its simplicity. I owned a couple of games, maybe around 10-15 cartridges and none was bad. But the Game Gear had amazing games as well, i only got one a few years ago and got really surprised by its performance. Too bad, not too many games came out for that system, not nearly as many as the Gameboy at least.

[@zackschilling4376]

Loved me some Streets of Rage on GG, awesome game! MK was even pretty good, at least for a handheld. I chose the GG over the GB cuz I couldnt get over the non back lit screen

[@RanyBx]

You have to try the Shinobi games on the Game Gear, they're very well done.

[@daleva187goligo]

Neo Xbit the only game I remember playing on the game gear (my cousin had it) was the jurassic park one and it was pretty good, I remember the graphics were actually really good at the time for a handheld, it's kinda like PSP's predecessor

[@ev88an]

Only problem I had with GG was you had to be tethered to a wall outlet to use it. Otherwise you'd be buying a 6-pack of AA's every couple hours

[@DrGonzoOBoogie]

I always had a Gameboy when I was younger & a bunch of games, Super Mario Land is one of my favorite games in general. happy 25th Gameboy!!

[@DjVinny23]

Long live the Gameboy. The color was my very second system and I got it with Pokemon Red :) great vid. The only thing I gotta say is that, about the battery life, I've read somewhere that batteries nowadays are much more powerful now than back when the GB was in it's prime. It compared it to how the Sega Nomad lasts much longer today in comparison to when it was first launched.

[@SuperToybox123]

Gameboy was the first console I ever had when it was new, It was also the first system I ever bought myself.Play gameboy color almost everyday, since I re-bought one

[@TheCodedtestament]

Ah, the Game Boy. The first game I ever beat was Super Mario Land 2, and since then, I've been a huge fan of Nintendo hand held consoles. At this point in my life, I own a 3DS and a Vita, and I would almost go out on a limb to say that I am dedicated portable gamer. I do enjoy console & PC games, but I find myself gaming on portables the most.

[@burningpapersun1]

I played the Legend of Zelda game and the Ducktales game a whole lot as a kid on the gameboy. I have a lot of memories with that system.

[@ChimairaGod]

F1-Race came with the 4 player link. That was fun at lunch time back in the day.

[@franco7363]

Yes. Even my Mom played the damn thing with Tetris. Revolutionary product indeed.

[@vankook]

To celebrate I bought one off of a library patron where I work along with Metroid 2, Super Mario World, Wario World, Tetris, Kirby Dream Land, Kirby Pinball, and DK land for 25 with manuals, ac adaptor and LIght boy. I've been so addicted!

[@Drawkcabi]

I got my first Gameboy early December 1989. It was supposed to be a Christmas present but I was there when my mom bought it and I nagged her so much. "I NEED to take this to school before Christmas so I can show everyone!" So she let me have it. Batteries: I played it a couple hours almost every day. I remember a fresh set of Energizer batteries I was good for almost a month. I remember Duracell lasted a week or two less longer. All I had at first was Tetris but then for Christmas I got Alleyway and Super Mario Land. I never used the link up cable. No one ever had a Gameboy around but me and they all wanted to play it. I don't know why I brought it with me, I never got to play it around other people. Eventually it got stolen because I let someone play it at school and it got confiscated. When I went back to the teacher to get it, it was gone. The game that was in it was Castlevania, I got a new Gameboy, but I never got a new version of that game. I also held out on getting the SNES for the longest time. I had a NES, Genesis, Sega Master System, and Turbo Graphx 16 (also an Atari and Colecovision). I figured I was set with video game systems. But when I saw the Super Gameboy come out a couple years after the SNES was released, I had to get it, I wanted to play my Gameboy games on my big 19" TV. Gameboy is also the only system I've lost games too. I never lost them, but relatives would come over, they'd get into my games, have to play every single one, and they'd go home and I'd have Gameboy games all over the place and sometimes one or two would be missing.

[@The_Laser_Channel]

I still have the old grey Game Boy....but I only have 5 games.....I also have a Game Boy Color, but no GBC exclusive games...I put SOOOO many hours into Tetris......I loved trying to get high scores, how many lines I could get, etc....just so fun really

[@AboboKing]

Being the youngest of three brothers I didn't get much time using our houses 1 TV to play console games. Because of that I loved my big fat green screened Gameboy. I spent so many hours playing Wario Land and Pokemon Red. I didn't realize it until recently but over half of all my systems are Gameboys. I've got every version but the pocket.

[@ahart86]

Wish I knew where my old Game Boy is. Mortal Kombat II and Kirby's Pinball Land got me through a lot of long car rides when I was a kid.

[@elasticbox4421]

love the shirt ian! happy songs for happy people changed my life.

[@jrockgamerocker3887]

i just revitalized my brother's old Gameboy and restored some dead pixels, so glad to keep the Gameboy alive!

[@Thrakus]

Are game boy game`s color i found one in the trash with the snes addon card , i think it dose show the game`s in color but i don't have a snes to try it

[@VectrexRoli]

So it is nice that the Everdrive GB flashcart for the Gameboy just came out now right in time. ;-)

[@mysteriosupafan]

I recently got mine backlight modded its the same one i had when i was a kid still my fav thing to collect for

[@crackcorn0404]

The battery life was huge selling point. Think about it; were the kids buying the batteries or the parents? The Gameboy had like 20 hours on four AA batteries while the Gamegear only got like 3 hours on 47 D cell batteries (obviously an exaggeration, but the 3 hours is accurate). Gameboy was much more road trip friendly.

[@Vriess123]

It was just crazy how much more batteries the game gear used. 25+ hours on 4 versus 3-4 hours on 6.

[@OrfinMusik]

Castlevania the adventure was a launch title, I actually got that game two days before the game boy was released. Game boy was the bomb! I remember long road trips between TX and FL stopping for batteries for both the game boy and the light boy light/magnifier for night time play.. Gargoyles quest: big time

[@TooBokoo]

Great Podcast, Pat and Ian. I enjoy these a lot and always love when you make more lengthy episodes. As for the Gameboy, I had one and loved it. I also had a Gamegear and although, I wish the Gameboy had been in color, I never understood the people who snubbed it because it wasn't. It was cool that the Gamegear was in color, but the screen really didn't look that great and I also feel like all of my Gameboy games were far more polished, all around, than any of my Gamegear games, which totally negated the fact that the Gamegear was in color.

[@Jallge]

I still enjoy the Game Boy. I have the Japanese Game Boy Light in silver. Man, the electroluminescent back-lit screen is so cool. As far as games go, Super Mario Land and Tetris are the two that I played the most as a kid, I still play them now and Super Mario Land 2, Donkey Kong Land, Wario Land and Pokemon Pinball. I swear, playing the Game Boy on the toilet is a real time killer, you can lose three quarters of an hour just sitting there playing Tetris or something.

[@randywatson8347]

my entry to gameboy was in early 2000 and bought along link's awakening.

[@splattercore]

Absolutely love handhelds. Always have, always will. The last major home game console I own is the Nintendo Wii. Right now I am currently using the Sony PS Vita and I love it to death. Before that was iPhone Gaming, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, GameBoy Advance, GameBoy Color, and the first was the GameBoy. I love the feeling of taking your games on the go. Amazing console. Amazing idea. Don't ever get rid of portable gaming.

[@mykewaters]

I remember wanting the Gameboy soooo bad for xmas in 89. I ended up getting it and was on cloud nine. My friend called me later on xmas morning to tell me he got the Genesis and Sonic. I remember feeling kind of jealous and that I should have asked for the Genesis instead. Suffice it to say, I got over that and loved my GB for years. As of now, I would pick the Gameboy over Genesis any day of the week. There's just something about it that I love.

[@pxlsicle]

They're both great systems but the Gameboy is just so great for pick up and play titles. A system and a stack of cartridges is a great way to waste an evening.

[@PurpleGameRoom]

The gameboy is awesome, although I started out with the GBA I have the classic gray one and a play it loud series red one. Very good system with lots of quality games and very comfortable to play.

[@thegamerschompion]

Can't believe it's been that long since it was released.

[@brpadington]

I remember playing F1 race with my brother on the link cable.

[@VETRIS84]

I collect gameboy games, alot of them really are timeless.

[@FONTAINEISABITCH]

17 minute chat about gameboy. fuck yes

[@megacide84]

I would love to see TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan,Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge & Motorcross Maniacs on 3DS Virtual Console.

[@ProtosMerkabah]

First console I owned, with Tetris. Unfortunately my fat grey one was destroyed over the years, but I got two more clear ones.

[@brpadington]

My play it loud gameboy got atleast 20 hours. I don't remember what my color got but I remember it being about the same but on two batteries.

[@InazumaDash]

Gameboy have so many good games. I always carried mine with me. Playing Pokémon, Mario and Zelda... I played it everyday from age 6-11. Then I got a GBA...

[@0730bcorm]

The extra release game in japan I’m sure Ian knows is Yakuman! A fun mahjong game. And if you mod the gameboy screen to be lit with a better screen. I think the black and white is fine, add a colored backlight or get the rgb mod and you got a party 🎉

[@holderbee7811]

I think they DID come with the link cable

[@RonRose]

I still have my original Gameboy and some of the games I played back then (Metroid II, Link's Awakening, etc.). I enjoy them to this day, but I prefer playing them on the GBA SP+. The original Gameboy's display strains my elderly eyes. lol

[@SAMU2A1]

I know I'm commenting on a video that is almost 6 years old now, but halfway through this I noticed Pat keeps flexing his pec. It's now all I can see.

[@hobotron2000]

I wish chiptune artists would branch out from using Gameboy tech as well, but I can definitely see why it's the gold standard. And oh my god, the time I spent playing Tetris as a kid.

[@SPac316]

Yeah, I was at a time against the gameboy because it wasn't in color. However, I started to realize that there were some good games on it and it grew on me.

[@masterofhomebrew]

I remember the 1st couple games i got with my gameboy for christmas. Dragonheart and adventure island. Then my 2nd gameboy had kirbys dream land and zelda links awaken. Still my fav handheld

[@EternalOblivion]

"We should link up"

[@thiagovscoelho]

and if you want to find out more about the handheld gaming market of the time, we'll put some Lynx in the description

[@darksyde3278]

mine was 79.99 i remember saving up pretty much all that year to buy it and two games don't remember what games i bought i still have it not too sure if it works

[@TheSaskOtaku]

I would watch a F1 Race 4 player match... granted recording that could get messy. all I imagine is 4 gamecubes with game boy players all linked up... but I would watch!

[@JoshDragon18]

The life-span of the first generation Gameboy (including color) was 12 years. In fact some of the best games came out during those last few years. Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal and the Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons.

[@AmandaWspoon]

I loved the gameboy/nintendo handhelds because didn't have to share with my brother, who was 5 years older, like the consoles. The gameboy is about 6 months older than me so by the time I got one, my dad had a big case filled with GB games. I had an arsenal of games available and I didn't have to wait for my brother to 'die' or whine until my mom demanded he let me have a turn. And with Pokemania many many more hours were played.

[@sjmatiak]

My first personal system that was mine was the original "phat" Gameboy. I beat through Mario Land and played Tetris for hours. My favorite games are: Donkey Kong Land, Pokemon Yellow, Wario Land: Mario Land 3, and speaking of Sunsoft, I played their Looney Tunes and Speedy Gonzales games to completion as well.

[@indiejacob]

This is funny as I just did a series of videos covering the history of the Game & Watch series and the GameBoy!

[@Ritchstorm]

When thinking about the battery life you have to remember that the batterys back in the early 90s were no where near as good as they are nowadays so 22 hours now is more like 12 hours then. Still a long time though.

[@Troutslayer_]

Im pretty sure mine came with the link. I only used it once though

[@GEEKAMANIACS]

I loved the Gameboy was such a great console. Had some many great games like Pokemon, Mario Land 2 and many others.

[@Daviljoe193]

Yay, more #CUpodcast on KZbin! :D

[@Emufreak]

Actually I´m collectiong loose Game Boy games and am aming for a complete set, at the moment ich approximatly have around 200 carts and also some of the really rare ones like Trip World, Spuds Adventure or Turrican and when I look what I regret most I came across The Amazing Tater for a cheap price one time and did not know yet that it was one of the really rare games.

[@bicyclegamehunter8404]

10:42, wheat is going on with Ian's hand?

[@aljr357]

I've had two game gears and one only got six to eight hours battery life and the one I have now gets about eighteen to twenty hours which is amazing for the gamegear

[@OrfinMusik]

F*ck yeah on the TMNT:FOTFC tip.. Easy but oh so many hours spent playing that one as a kid.

[@GregotheGreat1]

Got mine in the early 90s. Love me some Warioland Super Mario Land 3.

[@daleva187goligo]

I was playing gameboy (original) all way well into the late 90's, like 99' I remember I had the pokemon blue game and played the crap out of it lol I had just gotten an adapter to it too back then so I didn't have to worry about batteries... a few of the games I had for gameboy were ren and stimpy vidiots, double dragon (can't remember 1 or 2), of course the aforementioned pokemon blue, gta 1, I think pit fighter, of course tetris, and there's a few more I'm forgetting but thats the bulk of them ... I fell like digging it up now out of the garage lol I know it's somewhere buried in there

[@Apjooz]

Game Boy has an amazing sound.

[@OrigamiJungle]

Dear pat I am going to kobeys swap meet and I would like to know if you will be thier tommorrow if so please respond to me thank you

[@zbrown02]

are they in the same room?

[@Stealthborn]

Since this is for the 25th anniversary, I might as well share my top 5 that I enjoyed growing up: 1. Tetris (I've played several other versions of this game but this was my first) 2. Link's Awakening (Best handheld Zelda game IMO...unless I play ALBW) 3. Pokemon R/B/Y (Although I'm not as big on Pokemon I did play this game for a time) 4. Donkey Kong (This surpasses the original for some reason in my mind) 5. TMNT II (Never could beat this game but I'd be lying if it wasn't fun)

[@AlteredPiano]

Hmmmm, Link's Awakening was very good. But A Link Between Worlds is fantastic. It'd be hard for me to pick the best handheld Zelda XD

[@Stealthborn]

That's why in my comment I abbreviated A Link Between Worlds. I've heard many good things about it. I haven't had the opportunity to play it yet, but I would like to. From what a lot of Zelda fans are saying it is one of the greatest games in the series. I believe them.

[@AlteredPiano]

The only thing I would argue toward it is that Link'a Awakening was unique from the ground up and even though they are NOT the same game, Link Between Worlds borrows a ton from Link to the Past. Still great, though. :3

[@Stealthborn]

I agree that Link's Awakening was unique overall especially considering Koholint island in general. Each Zelda game had something that stood out about it. Even though A Link Between Worlds borrows from my favorite Zelda I still would like to try the gameplay mechanic of merging onto walls.

[@AlteredPiano]

^ Yeah, it's a great mechanic and Nintendo includes it just enough to keep it fresh but not annoying. Some parts of the overworld and certain collectibles use it and it feels like a real part of the game instead of something shoehorned in.

[@dannyjameschrist]

@9:46 AMAZING!

[@dannyjameschrist]

listening to you two talk is very comforting

[@slyguythreeonetwonine3172]

GGs at the time came with transistors that would eventually go bad. I think that is the reason most people don't collect them. Its hard to find one that actually work still. I think they eventually fixed it, and you might be able to replace them, but its still a risk. And I loved mine. I had a number of games but the ones that stick out the most in memory were the Sonic games, which really weren't terrible (No Sonic 06), World Series Baseball, and True Lies. It was perfect for road trips, and had a nice sound chip. Though of course the GB blows it out of the water. I didn't get one till I guess Pokemon got big. And it was a color so not "really" a GB proper. Wish I had one of the old ones.

[@TheYamichan16]

My grandpa had the GB. He only had Tetris because he liked playing puzzle games.

[@apcreed]

Link's Awakening is a pretty good old Gameboy game.

[@seren9936]

lol @9:20 pat attempts to comprehend playing without a game console

[@AirZonkWorldChamp]

Faceball 2000 is also 4 players.

[@TheManCaveYTChannel]

I miss my gameboy!!! As soon as I find one CIB for a good price I'm going to do an unboxing on my channel! Yeayuhhhhh ^.^ I remember my cousin had this and thought it was huge!!! He ended up giving it to me when he bought the gameboy pocket! Or was it the gameboy color...? o.O

[@gamerdude612]

My first Gameboy was the Color verison then the Advance line I love both of them great game libraries but I'd like to thank the Original version for starting what we enjoy now with the DS,3DS &The Switch making portable gaming awesome!