All the Game Boys

[@PixelatedCatMan]

This is not all of the game boys. I still have mine.

[@kelb0y9o20]

Haa

[@amine423]

belly laughed at this one

[@levi-oy6ym]

lol simple but effective joke😂.

[@damianramos1947]

Mine has been missing and I’m convinced Scott has it

[@jhunt7235]

Not for long

[@ds-il7ik]

Scott is my game boy

[@MHSchonberg]

If you’re taller than him he can be your game boy micro

[@whywhysson]

@@MHSchonberg If you're 15 feet tall he can even be your game boy pocket

[@XxChristmanXx04]

If scott was black he could be your gameboy color

[@PiranhaPyp]

If Scott was 1lbs he could be your Game Boy Light.

[@donkeyparadise9276]

Wacist ​@@XxChristmanXx04

[@Tirgo69]

People today forget this too but the original Game Boy was heavily marketed to adults in the early '90s as a time killer for the average businessman. That brick was probably expected to fit into a briefcase.

[@KaitouKaiju]

Facts. It was made for adult size hands, something you could play on the train to work.

[@xentrix89]

maybe in japan but that def aint no adult in the us ad. also the word game boy if your a game boy that means your a kid they dident call it the game man when you use the term we got all the boys and girls onto the train you think kids if you change that to all the men and women well i know game boy flows better but it also has to be what your marketing towards.

[@Tirgo69]

I've been watching lots of old MST3K broadcasts from the early 90s which is why I'm saying this lol, they had commercials targeted only at adults and they aired one of them about a hundred times during Turkey Day '91... Anyway, they're easy to find on KZbin. "I'm sorry sir, your flight's been delayed..." "cool! 😀"

[@qwertzy121212]

@@xentrix89 if you don't know shit, why are you talking? why open your mouth just to speak nonsense? are you stupid?

[@RemoWilliams1227]

I was just talking to a guy at work about how our parents (80s)weren't into games but would play tetris

[@DonWeaselYeehawEdition]

26:43 Okay but if your dad had said "all these kids with their Wii U's and whatnot" you would have cried and given a standing ovation

[@BoneStack117]

Game Boys this, Game Boys that. I want some Game Men!

[@andrewdriver3318]

So, was that intentionally homoerotic or where you going for a word joke?

[@masterace9543]

"Both....both is good"​@andrewdriver3318

[@kR-qj7rw]

I'm hoping for the game Twink to drop

[@CarlosDiaz-fs6cv]

​i think this comment made me homosexual

[@tyjuarez]

I think I know a guy who mentioned being in a Game Men's choir.

[@RyanMercer]

Back then the DMG was the greatest thing ever, yes now it's worth having a DMG with a modern screen though.

[@SpaceCadetGenocide]

What advantage does it have over a gameboy color with a IPS screen?

[@RyanMercer]

@@SpaceCadetGenocide nostalgia for those of us that saved for months to buy one as a kid. Also friendlier to the of us with big bear paws for hands.

[@FunkyGhost37]

The OG Gameboy to Color time gap is insane. On the same system, you could have a elementary schooler and high schooler who both can say "I grew up with the Gameboy"

[@sesboks]

Yup, my older sibling from the 80s had an OG Gameboy, and my closer siblings and me from the mid to late 90s had the Color

[@kid14346]

Same thing is happening with the Switch. I see comments that are like, "I just graduated and I remember playing Breath of the Wild in Elementary School."

[@geoffgero6081]

I was a toddler when the original game boy launched and in high school when it was discontinued.

[@Tirgo69]

I only had a Color as a kid, one time I saw another kid playing Pokemon Yellow on a different Game Boy and it really weirded me out. It wasn't even in color!

[@ThatNinjaGuy]

0:41 Scott stash face reveal

[@tbhhhryry]

you can see his face already on scott the woz

[@ThatNinjaGuy]

@@tbhhhryry that’s the joke.

[@tbhhhryry]

@@ThatNinjaGuy dont see the joke but i was jst letting u know in case u didnt 😊

[@idklolwut]

@@ThatNinjaGuy its not a joke if its not funny

[@daniel_4625]

R/wooosh

[@KevinFought]

This video really makes you feel like a Game Boy™️

[@jumentoqueanima]

Yesir.

[@QwerkyWorkings]

I think Wii™ can all agree!

[@ikaros4203]

*blinkkkkkkkkk*

[@supermariobro93]

Dude, you gotta Switch™ up your attitude.

[@alfonsobiggers2452]

Scott has officially redefined the phrase, _"Me and the Boys"._

[@DrySushi]

I will never stop loving the Gameboy Micro, it's peak convergence of early 2000 trends. Miniaturized, sleek looking, personalizable, and upgraded in tiny ways.

[@xp0da]

I just received my micro like two weeks ago, and I LOVE it!

[@SuperM789]

HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE GAMECUBE GAMEBOY PLAYER

[@ExileHeretic]

Or Super Game Boy 😡

[@f86tune48]

Or the soulja boy

[@masterace9543]

​@@f86tune48 We don't talk about it 😂

[@MrMadMister1]

Hey - your not supposed to be here! Go back to playing SM64

[@kraftypk7283]

Because it's not a Gameboy, it's an adapter for another console

[@Nerdtendo6366]

Nintendo, release the Game Man already. I want to prove that I ain’t no boy anymore

[@kraftypk7283]

They'd have to call it the gamethem in 2024

[@kR-qj7rw]

​@@kraftypk7283I d be down for that I see no issue

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

​@@kraftypk7283 Now you're playing with power, no gender specific power.

[@pass_]

as a game boy myself, I'm glad to have taken part in this video

[@gplastic]

21:40 They tried to pull the "third pillar" stunt with the Switch in relation to the Wii U and 3DS as well, but it replaced them both that time around.

[@Beardman64]

“This thing is nothin but cuuuurve city” -Scott Wozniak

[@Zerethn]

I remember pulling Donkey Kong out from the bowels of a couch when I was little. Ever since the Gameboy was the go-to device for me growing up.

[@Irosicndosjnf]

Best donkey Kong game ever

[@Mickey_Human]

The Game Boys are back in town

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Game Boy was the best TI-83 I’ve ever played

[@DC_Prox]

I had a titanium edition GameBoy Advance SP. I dropped it down a flight of stairs and it landed on a concrete floor. It got a scratch on one of the corners. I had that thing for 4 years, and I gave it to someone right before I moved. I talked to that guy years later and he said he used it for 3 years before giving it to someone else. Every time I see a poster for a titanium edition iPhone, I kinda wish I could afford to get one, coz I imagine it's durability is roughly the same as that SP.

[@startedtech]

SP would still clear the iPhone im sure, no way the screen wouldn't be broken with a drop like that lol

[@PrixtoTNT]

I love this kind of Scott's Stash videos! (Which is most of the content anyway) I'll be super happy to eat my dinner with this in the background. Thanks Scott!

[@anactualmotherbear]

People born after the 90s don't know that the original Game Boy screens actually worked pretty well. It's only NOW that the screens are starting to degrade. The ghosting and missing rows of pixels were nowhere near as bad as today. The OG Game Boy I had still had an pretty decent display well into the early 10s.

[@dapperfan44]

I was thinking that same thing, and unfortunately my GBA screen has degraded. It is a LOT darker than I remember it being.

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

Happens with eyes too

[@genderender]

the OG gameboy definitely had ghosting, although more than good enough. nothing compared to a degraded screen or basically any other greenscale screen of its contemporaries. funnily enough, nintendo had support for this ghosting on the 3ds

[@f86tune48]

Alright boomer

[@chipklip2]

I grew up with a GBC and it's a whole lot darker. It's still great playing it out in the sun once in a while.

[@dmann1982]

As far as I remember, the link cable slot of the GBA was also how the small console attached to the Gamecube, which some of the latters games had extras that could be used through it...

[@emlyndewar]

The trash talk on the OG hurts my soul. A magnificent console.

[@emlyndewar]

Feel like your OG’s screen is actually broken.

[@inderet4118]

​@@emlyndewarThats what the screens were like. Ibought one a couple months back to mod it. But first spend a couple weeks using its original screen. In the right lighting you can definitely see everything pretty alright, but my god that motion blur when playing fast scrolling platformers is pretty bad. Still, an absolute gem of a console for its time and I will cherish it forever

[@emlyndewar]

@@inderet4118 The motion blur for sure, but his screen just seems so feint. I feel like a lot of the screens are much worse now they are old. I recently swapped out a pockets screen and the one it had was pretty trash, much worse than when new.

[@SuspiciousScout]

​@@emlyndewar Well, Game Boys are decades old at this point, it's only natural the screens are gonna be worse over time. Maybe it was unfair for Scott to criticize the screen so harshly as if it was in the context of it being 1989, but something tells me the screen was not THAT much better when it was in its prime.

[@emlyndewar]

@@SuspiciousScout Could be the rose-tinted glasses, but I played A LOT of OG Gameboy when I was in school. It wasn't *that* bad.

[@hokage1997]

i remember my mom coming home in 2003 with a copy of ruby and sapphire with a clear blue gba. fun times. i still have the gba too

[@HitnRunTony]

The original GameBoy was not black & white. It was Green and Greener

[@darkhayy]

the best game boy is obviously the virtual boy

[@nicksorenson940]

I now own a customized 1st model GBA designed with the color scheme of the original Game Boy and actually having a backlit screen built into it that only the later SP models ended up getting. A proud addition to my current gaming collection. 12:16 My very first Game Boy game I ever owned, right there.

[@sopas5791]

I LOVE THE GAMEBOY!

[@jr637-1]

3:00 Scott the Woz jumpscare

[@PRHPSWRLD]

Thank you

[@Green.Blood.]

Spooptober

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

My favorite story about the original gameboy is a soldier took it to war with him and after dealing with the abuse of war and even a bombing it survived and still turned on despite it looking like a charred brick after the explosion lol

[@Coolman13355]

Yeah it was in a museum here in the States, now in a Japanese museum.

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

@@Coolman13355 that’s sick as hell lol

[@aftermarkgaming]

Playing the GBA SP with adult hands feels like trying to wedge yourself into an elementary school desk

[@NintendoCollecting]

The Gameboy Advance SP not having a native audio Jack on a handheld was just stupid

[@kyuchumimo]

5:42 When it comes to talking about the Game Boy, you always forget that the Super Game Boy exists.

[@Tirgo69]

Their point is that Scott is failing to understand the context Game Boy games found themselves in by the mid '90s, where SGB was a big selling point and promotional tool that kept the brand relevant. You don't have to do a discussion on SGB in the video to acknowledge that SGB features in games helped the original model and its games last that long without the Pocket.

[@alex_-yz9to]

Also ironically the Super Gameboy is just made out of an actual gameboy besides the screen and buttons... hell the only physical difference the Super gameboy 1 has with the 2nd japanese model is that they kept the Link cable port that was axed

[@JoeBidenOfficial]

i'm excited for the scotts stash alarmo video in 6 years

[@mimikyulostatail4705]

GBA's backwards compatibility is pretty interesting topic. While DS's CPU was a more developed version of GBA's ARM architecture (so it had the same instructions set + more), and 3DS evolution of DS, GBA had a completely new CPU, not related to GB and GBC chips. They just put actual GBC inside of GBA. Micro either didn't have space for that, or they didn't have enough chips left to produce backwards compatible GBA micro. That's also the reason why DS can play GBA games, and 3DS can play DS and GBA games, but GB and GBC needs to be emulated.

[@KatOwO2235]

the original Red Blue Green Pokemon games were released so close to the GameBoy Colour that they just gave them full colour pallets so when ya play the original Gen 1 on GBC you get full colour, even on GBA you get full colour

[@GeomancerHT]

All colored cartrides, not transparent/nor gray, are gbc-enhanced games, they have extra features and colors but they work on the original gb.

[@KatOwO2235]

@@GeomancerHT well I just think that Pokemon gen 1 was better on GBC because of how late it was in the GB line

[@Tirgo69]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Red and Blue don't have GBC special features (outside of preassigned palettes) while Yellow does. Still not entirely sure what's going on there but Yellow was released with original Game Boy packaging.

[@genderender]

red/blue/green didn't have full color support, they just swapped palettes around. gold and silver had full color

[@siljeff2708]

I’m ready for the Scott’s Stash on the Pocket Pikachu Mini

[@kelb0y9o20]

I often remind my nephews, "you boys dont know how good you have it with your switch's... Back in my day i had to play all my games in black and baby poop green". They looked at me like i was crazy then i showed them videos of game boy games and they proceeded to look at me as if i was even crazier after seeing what i meant😅

[@aiodensghost8645]

Give them a GBA SP if weather knocks the internet out, lemme know what happens PLEASE

[@kelb0y9o20]

@@aiodensghost8645 I gave em an original ds a long time ago actually lol

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

​@@aiodensghost8645the switch doesn't need Internet to play games.

[@kelb0y9o20]

@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 yeah I found his comment weird but eh 😅

[@Coolman13355]

Play GB on NSO on the Switch.

[@supergearland]

The original game boy screens haven’t gotten worse with age, I can report from the early 90s they always sucked. But if you were stuck and had the choice of playing on that screen or no video games at all you’d be amazed at what you’ll put up with when bored

[@roflBeck]

Yeah pretty much. I remember trying to play F-Zero or GT Advance or whatever with less than ideal light lol. I also played GB and GBC but don't have lots of memories of which ones. I lost all of em except Stunt Track Driver lol.

[@Enecororo97]

The fact that the screens are getting blurrier with age and that it was also pretty bad to begin with are both true

[@johnwloneill]

“Dad it’s 2018” got me so good

[@FaizalKuntz]

Stop playing with Boys Scott!

[@phorchybug3286]

Brings a whole new meaning to THE BOYS

[@hiddenflare6169]

As usual Scott is doing well. Just him and the boys.

[@darcyska]

The Gameboy was the first system I ever decided to start collecting for- I had a Pocket as a kid and LOVED every moment of it. Such a fun system to collect for and so many cool hardware variants.

[@Bubbabyte99]

"Name a single Atari Lynx game you give a damn about." Easy! Chip's Challenge!

[@myriadmediamusings]

All the boys…except the Virtual one because it is the literal red-headed stepchild.

[@jumentoqueanima]

RedHeads keep being disrepected.

[@ganjafi59]

Super Gamboy being left at the orphanage

[@richardperaza5083]

What’s sad is that the Virtual Boy though not the best Nintendo handheld was also invented by the same guy who invented the original Gameboy

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

Sigh… Virtual boy games need a Remaster these days.

[@betastagevirus997]

26:26 best Gameboy with official hardware, u forgot the 4th option headless ds light.

[@Rihcterwilker]

You did the og gameboy dirty. Just imagine being in the 80s, it being the ONLY way to play anything out of your house. It was definitely ahead of it's time.

[@dapperfan44]

Or a kid in the 90s with just them little Basketball Tiger Electronics.

[@kelb0y9o20]

Ooo yess i had a bat man one and spider man one and those were my video games all the up until i was 6 and i finally got my own gameboy color from santa ​@dapperfan44

[@leighdappa]

@RihcterWilker: This is the problem with Scott and his generation who were born in the very late-90s or early-2000s. They weren't there when these devices first came out so haven't got a clue how they were seen back then. The DMG was a highly desirable machine back then or at least it was for me. Back then, it was the ONLY way to play both 'Mario Land' games and I loved the 2-D Mario games. (I still do and always will!) I also disagree with Scott in two of his other Videos; The Stash one where he debates SNES vs Mega Drive. Debates in the school playground never went anything like that. The second Video I disagree with is his Woz Video 'Sonic 1: Laughing Stock'. Again, Scott TRASHES it but when this game came out in 1991 (here in the UK), the Title Screen alone was seen as a revolution. It's only more recently I learnt the 3-D effect was due to different layers that moved at different speeds. Regardless, STH1 was seen as a ABSOLUTE rival to 'Mario World' and for the longest time, I couldn't decide which 16-Bit 2-D Platformer I preferred. (It eventually became SMW)

[@jaemorrison6729]

Okay boomtown

[@mango2450]

@@leighdappa I mean I think he knows that and appreciates that and if he was talking about each gameboy in a historical context he would have a lot of good things to say about it but in the context of right here right now the OG gameboy is just the worst version of the gameboy. That doesn't make it bad because its still a gameboy and it doesn't detract from the massive impact it had on gaming, and the lives of a whole generation really but its still just what it is.

[@RetroZero64]

1:13 CHIPS CHALLENGE

[@AlanRedgown]

Was thinking the same thing! Although I give more of a damn about the Windows version.

[@madmanonyt9943]

The Game Boy is such an interesting piece of Nintendo history, and it’s wild just how much of a mark it left on the company’s future.

[@gadpunkzine]

I gotta say, I had an easier time seeing the games on the O.G. GB over the GBC. Yeah, the screen was was nicer and there was color, but I think that color made a lot of games just look like a dark wall unless I was in direct sunlight. I feel like the GBC was originally intended to have a backlight and was designed with that in mind. As soon as GBA SP came out I was back. That felt like all my portable gaming dreams come true.

[@randytyson]

Guipei Yokoi set nintendo on a path that outlived even him and set them to new heights. Legend

[@ГригорийБуров-м1ъ]

"Aint your mother ever give you a gameboy?" "What is a gameboy?" "You know what? - move"

[@chad12345678]

It would be cool to get a gameboy classic

[@bland9876]

I have a good grip for my GBA SP AGS 101 (it's buy dream gear) and I love that thing so much. (I also have a heart shaped one that ironically I don't love so much.)

[@jckorn9148]

It blows my mind to think some people actually played Pokemon Gold/Silver on the Original Gameboy.

[@leonlegend]

The GameBoy is still what some non-gamers call a portal gaming system. Last year, I was playing my PSP & my only American friend said 'I don't mean to come between you & your GameBoy but-'

[@juiceala]

Imagine if the Gameboy Color was rekeased WITH the backlight as a selling point.

[@MrSquid-sn1vl]

what about game girl, scott?

[@VampireA1056]

0:03 Ey you don't talk about a legendary piece of history like that.

[@MattRevs]

I feel like they didn't add original Game Boy game support for the micro because the screen was already tiny, so playing games with an even smaller aspect ratio wouldn't have aligned with their quality standards.

[@ryanschwartz4959]

13:03 Fun fact: because of how the original Game Boy was designed, you can't physically turn the system on with a GBC game inserted, as there's no notch in the Game Pak for the power switch to slide into

[@RobotacularRoBob]

Might have originally been intended as a means to prevent games from being dislodged or removed by accident, though they also adapted GBC only carts to be sure they at least couldn't be played on the original, since the pocket didn't have a lock notch.

[@RobotacularRoBob]

Scott forgot to mention that the GBC could swap out color palettes of original GB games when the system starts up, either by pushing a direction on the D-pad along with A or B. It could even simulate actual Black and White (Not pea soup green) by pressing right and B, but I think there was an all green option too. There were other funky palettes and some worked better than others depending on the game, so it was fun to experiment with what colors worked best with what games.

[@RabbiKrieg]

The gameboy color was like gameboy 1.5, more than an actual true successor.

[@RTB-x2f]

Also I love the concept that Scott literally owns all 200 million Game Boys in existence.

[@banortwi]

„…the first revision of the Game Boy released seven years later.” The first MAJOR revision. There was a minor revision of the original design in 1995 with upgraded speaker on the „Play It Loud!” series of DMG. All the colorful variants are „Play It Loud!”

[@louckavanmuylem4703]

I love every video from Scott

[@randylogan4339]

This was clearly written by someone who was introduced to Gameboy long after the original Gameboy came out.... the original Gameboy was well deserving of it's longlife...

[@alexspeedwagon3701]

The amount of gameboy color exclusives is enough for me to consider it its own system tbh, even if nintendo lumps them together

[@Adam-jw3uz]

You can tell Scott isn't a 90s kid because of how he reacts to the Game Boy Light. That color backlight was in so many things back in the day, it was even trademarked "Indi-Glo." It's a crazy nostalgic aesthetic to an old geezer like me

[@secretagentmandanV2]

I had gba sp growing up. thanks for this! I didn't know much about the original.

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

Anyone else's heart skip a beat, whenever Scott's reflection shows up in a game boy?

[@elim9054]

I've owned at least 3 SPs in my time, and this channel is the only reason I know Nintendo released a second SP model with a better backlight.

[@chronossage]

I never had an Atari Lynx but I can name my favorite game and it's Chip Challenge! Most people probably know the game from it's PC port the the Lynx version is actually the original. After that I have a lot less Lynx knowledge.

[@bushytail]

I can name a single Atari Lynx game I give a damn about (Chip's Challenge) but I can't name two of them.

[@hunterkeps9058]

I gotta be honest, a part of me felt these were all dubbed over. Glad to see he's talking in real time

[@adoomino]

Original gba with an ips display, usb c battery + door and an ez flash omega ode is the perfect gameboy experience

[@metroidjones122]

Nintendo Switch 2 is actually the Game Man.

[@DarkBowser64]

Just something to quickly note about the Game Boy Light, but... electroluminescent (EL) light panels dim over time with a lot of use and age too, much moreso than LED backlights. The light was likely stronger when it came out, as on mine I can usually see the light it adds in average indoor light, which gives the screen a tinge of green and covers the darker parts pretty well. That said, the Light is likely the model you'd only turn on the light for if you're actually playing it in low light conditions. It can clear up the darker parts of the screen if the backlight hasn't worn in much, but it's more for comfortable play in a dark room or at night rather than the light being helpful at basically all times like the AGS-001. Not to mention compared to the AGS-101, the backlight it has is super-comfortable for night time play as the light isn't pure white, and is more of a greenish-teal or teal-green depending on who you ask. It's more relaxing on the eyes.

[@l3rvn0]

21:55 They put the DS as a third pillar because it was literally improvised as a response to the PSP. Nintendo was very afraid of Sony taking the portable market from them. They were actually developing a true sucessor to the game boy at the same time, Project Iris if I'm recalling it right and it would have 3d graphics, a touchscreen, a camera, it would be the first Nintendo console with the eShop, and it would have the PSPGO formfactor with a retractable gampead so you could focus entirelly on the touchscreen. Basically the DSi but with only the bottom screen, in fact, the DSi is probably what the Project Iris was turned into after the DS success.

[@TiroDvD]

Donkey Kong '98, Shantae, Megaman 5, Kirby's Dreamland 2, Daikatana. All great games from that weird Gameboy Color era.

[@jsutton0010]

The Original Game Boy was my first gaming system. I had all versions of the Game Boy, Original, GBC, and Advance.

[@TheTNTPVP]

Honestly, any Game Boy that isn't a GBA is just a shelf piece. My original Game Boy literally just holds up my Switch games now.

[@epblu]

Sometimes I grab my GBC for nostalgia or when I buy new GBC games...but yeah, after an hour or so it wears off and I grab an SP like any actual sane person should.

[@EWOODJ]

Speak for yourself

[@jacks559]

Modded og Gameboy with an IPS screen is great, it's a battery life beast as well.

[@dapperfan44]

9:00 Hold on now, don't be dissing my worm light you whippersnapper. Especially not my Jurassic Park one I had back then.

[@jordanhoughton1948]

It's really amazing how much modern day mod upgrades really fix Gameboy shortcomings, like sharper back lit screens and longer lasting on-board rechargeable batteries.

[@greyshadow9498]

First time I have been happy to come in under a minute

[@dapperfan44]

Wait... Ew

[@greyshadow9498]

@@dapperfan44 What? I got here less than a minute after the video was posted... Something wrong?

[@DefinitelyNotJay]

scott the game boy talking about every single boy? count me in!

[@hayden7525]

I just have an analogue pocket now, and my gameboys are in storage for the time being

[@CaptainSwag101]

The reason why you'd play the original GameBoy was because it had WAY better battery life than any of the revisions which came later. The OG used four AA batteries instead of two AAA batteries that the Pocket used. Not only is that just fewer batteries, but they're smaller too, so way less longevity.

[@Deraphim]

I will never understand why Nintendo never gave us a Gameboy mini. Load it up with20-30 GB/GBC games, a rechargeable battery, headphone jack and ergonomic design. And then do it again with the GBA SP (but with a headphone jack) For that matter, It’s baffling that Sega didn’t do this with the game gear (imagine a GG mini the size of the original GBA)

[@SemiHypercube]

27:15 They should call it the "Game Boy Omega" so that that one future consoles video from ages ago finally becomes real

[@sm64bloopers]

clicked faster than you can say, "Yibbity, yibbity, yibbita!"

[@RTB-x2f]

I'm sure someone's already said this, but the DS was truly the Game Man.

[@two-nichegaming]

If I was was serious about collecting as a kid I know I would be a sucker for the Gameboy Color game boxes with the shiny strip.

[@Davidgon100]

The ultimate Gameboy is an original GBA that is modded with IPS screen and USB C rechargeable battery. You get the best form factor, a much superior screen to anything OEM, and can charge using a modern cable standard

[@peaberry9413]

I wanna get my hands on something like that so bad, but they're so expensive. Four hundred CAD, I wanna say. The original models are already pricey and then you gotta factor in the screen and the labour to mod everything. Maybe one day in the future as a little treat; my 101 SP is treating me well enough these days.

[@Davidgon100]

@@peaberry9413 I built a few myself and the parts alone are pretty expensive but still comes out a lot cheaper than buying one already made

[@Spectacular66]

I played the original Game Boy way back in the day, but I ended up getting the Pocket when I i finally got my own. The screen was 100x better lol (and bigger!)

[@GroundThing]

I won a GBA SP in a church raffle, (no joke) and I feel like that fact single-handedly revitalized my gaming experience. My parents weren't well off enough to get me a new GBA model when I already had a perfectly good one, but winning the GBA SP, I could trade between my pokemon games, I could play GBA games in the back seat on road trips, and without it, I don't know if I would have even half the memories I had with the original GBA.

[@Homodemon]

To this day, I'm a proud owner of two original Gameboys, one being my dad's, and the other being mine, which was given to me as a Christmas present in the 2000's, my very first console.... It survived me accidentally throwing it down the stairs, getting almost melted by spilled nail polish on my dresser, getting corroded by batery acid, and getting shelved somewhere for almost 10 years straight in a box on a hot and humid place unknowingly God, beautiful memories of a tough as nails console...

[@0cellusDS]

I picked up both the Game Boy Micro and the Nintendo DS back in the days. The Micro was definitely a little meh at the time, but 15+ years later I am so glad I have a Micro, but I don't care about the original DS anymore.

[@LoosGuccreen]

The Gameboy Micro is an oddity but oh boy does it have the best looking portable screen I've seen to this date, including what came after (with exception of OLED screens)