I Bought The Rarest Nintendo Game Boy On eBay

[@potatomatop9326]

The rarest gameboy can actually play Raid Shadow Legends.

[@MrSpookie01]

No way!!!!!

[@erichelfrich3023]

LETS PLAY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS START NOW FOR FREEEEEEEE

[@ParalyzedPosty]

this comment has me dead lmaoooo

[@sackboy8185]

😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@_Banjo_]

Does it play Soulja games?

[@startedtech]

9:16 yep, it's a very small transformer used in powering the EL panel. Also, I imagine it was brighter when it was new. Electroluminescent components tend to degrade over time.

[@floridaboy7075]

I would like to see a new electroluminescent panel installed and see if it's brighter.

[@4ryan42]

We used to have EL nightlights in our hallway, and they faded to unusable levels in just a few years, although they were on 24/7.

[@CrossedCoder]

I have about 7 gameboy lights, and you can really tell the difference between panels. Some are brighter than others. I wish there was a drop in replacement part available for them.

[@suilenroc4997]

@@CrossedCoder Are the better ones more blueish? Or all they all the same Color but just brighter? I am asking because mine is more greenish than some pictures, and I am wondering if I'll have to look out for a less played unit

[@twodumbcats390]

Dude, I remember sitting in a very specific position on family car rides late at night just so I could get the light to see the screen.

[@TheJadeFist]

I remember what a pain in the neck that stuff used to be. Literally.

[@DeadwingDork]

There's something pretty magical about playing your authentic GBC in the morning light, though. Peak nostalgia, and I didn't even have one as a kid.

[@luissantiago5163]

Oh gnarly! Love the vids dude. Really appreciate them

[@edgelord8337]

I used to have a game boy color Had some fun times playing Mario land. I eventually sold mine for about 20 dollars.

[@trillcollins7847]

same, and I will NEVER forgive myself. my own stupidity haunts me to this very day -_-

[@erebostd]

@@trillcollins7847 just buy another one! Get a cheap scratched one, put a new shell on it, done! It's not really expensive or complicated to do that! But it's quite pointless, since there are SO many easier and dirt cheap ways to play the games today, with many nice features like save states...

[@ergonomics_of_flatulence]

that's a weird haiku

[@Hijynx87]

@@trillcollins7847Just take a trip to the ebay rabbit hole.

[@Hijynx87]

@@trillcollins7847 I had the megaman GB games, yeah I probably got about 20 for all of those, if that. I sold a lot of valuable things for dirt back in the day, always to get the newest game or system. =/ One point in my life I sold it all for stupid stuff, now I'm building my psp/ps3/ps4/switch stacks. Mainly the ps3/psp right now, I download most of my ps4/switch titles for convenience and deals.

[@EightOneFive]

Madden 08 shirt, love it when two KZbinrs cross the streams.

[@jak3w]

Scott the woz that you? Also he wears pink gorilla shirts often. Pink gorilla is a game store in Seattle owned by Kelsey who is a friend of Metal Jesus Rocks

[@Leeh270]

The nostalgia in this video, remember playing pokemon in car and having to use street lights to see what I was doing

[@BraxtonKovary]

Ah yes, the predecessor to the Nintendo Switch Light.

[@PlazDreamweaver]

Nah, that's the DS Lite.

[@BraxtonKovary]

@@PlazDreamweaver *Light

[@startedtech]

@@BraxtonKovary but it's spelled Lite on the DS and switch.

[@ThePeacePlant]

@@BraxtonKovary no broski. Lite and light are different words with different meanings

[@BraxtonKovary]

@@ThePeacePlant yeah, I know. It's a joke

[@mechashadow]

I got a glimpse of this one when I was on a flight and watched a girl playing the Game Boy Light in front,

[@Hpalhazred]

AAAh the Gameboy, many kids who played it are wearing glasses by now.

[@ElZamo92]

Mehdi Sadik this is a false statement, I got LASIK surgery so I don’t wear glasses anymore.

[@jimmyli34]

@@ElZamo92 so that makes 2 of us, out of millions

[@Titanz91]

@@ElZamo92 he said many, not all (not that it even really matters lol)

[@abrahamct6]

@@jimmyli34 make it three, I never needed to wear glasses or get laser surgery.

[@LoekTheKing]

I feel attacked. :p

[@_Banjo_]

I've always loved the look of t hese, the shine, and the sleakness of the actualy model looks awesome. Was hoping to one up one day. Though its ...kinda not needed based on all the other mathods of playing games.

[@StarlinkNova]

Oh boy! Another system breakdown. I love these!

[@everettdawn7811]

Great in pitch dark. I turn my phone down to that level when I’m watching things at night. Sometimes I wish it was brighter though.

[@DerivitivFilms]

I actually feel like that glow would be much brighter 20 years ago.

[@startedtech]

Yeah, EL panels degrade over time

[@GoochiFPV]

Just got one from Japan to fix and flip, might have to keep it in the collection, they are a bit special

[@slim6391]

Awesome video spawn. You should consider doing a video installing light screen on gameboy pocket

[@spongescenes8115]

i love the color of the light so much. it has a teal ish blue glow and it looks so unique and cool

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

My parents liked the fact that the Gameboy couldn’t be played at night because then I couldn’t sneak it into my bed to play when I should be asleep

[@daytonchris8351]

ah the worm light...it worked by it was annoying. it drained my batteries faster, but it was either use that or lean over the side of my bottom bunk bed so i could play pokemon. i remember wanting the ice blue gameboy pocket because it was limited edition, but this one would have been way better. lol

[@larelare1]

Were these called Indiglo on the watch faces back then?

[@Emjayography]

Who remembers having the light with a Magnify glass

[@RegimentJoker]

I do

[@lumberdabomb]

Where I live is out in the country in Canada. When I was a kid, one of my friends growing up had one of these. Coolest thing I ever seen out in the middle of nowhere. Never knew it was rare

[@jtnachos16]

We made the backlight-less gameboys work by developing the arcane art of intuiting the perfect angle for all light sources. Had one of my nieces inherit a AGB game boy advance and some games for it from her older sister, and she asked how the hell you were supposed to see anything. I proceeded to tilt it the correct way while it was still in her hands, while facing her, and had her call me a wizard because I managed to get the angle correct without being able to see the screen myself. It became pretty much muscle memory, and like riding a bike, you never really forget.

[@SidNightWalker]

Man I tell ya, after having had a GBA SP, which is in many ways one of the most well designed mobile devices of all time, I have absolutely no idea how anyone ever put up with a completely unlit screen. Including me, have no idea how I put up with it.

[@ergonomics_of_flatulence]

you prolly had no alternatives

[@TrickArrow]

Yeah. I installed ips screens on my Gbc and Gba. But before I did I turned on the old screen for nostalgia, and said what you did! XD How did we play these!? And in cars at night.

[@CyberDragon10K]

@@ergonomics_of_flatulence Not just that, but in our youths we likely didn't know any better.

[@zenunderground9893]

Well except for Game Gear, that's all THERE EVER WAS. Accidentally coming across those "worm lights" at a store, not knowing something like that even existed, was incredible. Playing in bed with the lights off (heh heh when you were supposed to be asleep) felt like it could never get any better than this. Felt like you were cheating "the system".

[@zenunderground9893]

Trick Arrow Wow, the memories. On long car rides there was always that time when it was time to stop playing because it was getting too dark to see the screen 😌

[@adrienbrasseur8809]

Never seen tear down of the game boy light that very cool to see how it was made

[@cday131]

It looks awesome honestly. Like you're playing a glow in the dark Game Boy.

[@born-again-nerd5537]

I repaired one today because the screen had some horizontal dead zones (unrepairable, side ribbon cable was torn in one spot) I fixed using an spare Gameboy pocket screen (had to remove the back lens like for a bivert mod) I was shocked that the pocket board and Gameboy light seemed pretty darn close. It’s probably my favorite model Gameboy closely paired with Gameboy SP ags101. What I like about it is it’s not too bright to cause migraines-Glad you covered this Spawn.

[@commandertaco1762]

I was all about using the street lights on road trips to play my gameboy color

[@WideMouth]

I clicked on a video uploaded by Spawn Wave...And this is what I got

[@hexywesky]

I bought something from eBay...And I opened it up

[@monkeyman245]

I worked at toys r us during the time Gameboys was out. We would always sell out on the worm light. I still have mine and it works perfectly fine to this day. It definitely was a necessity to play in darker areas.

[@nb5029]

Coming from the gamboy and gameboy pocket, the color had an extremely easy screen to see on since it was reflective.

[@eladiocofresi5202]

You were not kidding on the shock from being used to the more recent system. I just received a Gameboy Color to go with my recently acquired Singer Izek, and I thought for a moment something was wrong with the system. The sewing software game is supposed to arrive tomorrow, so hopefully, I can see if the cable works. At the moment, the pedal jack is not working (and your videos inspired me to open the sewing machine to how the jack and GameLink cable were connected.)

[@richfiles]

I used to do overclocking and backlight mods on TI graphing calculators, like the TI-82, TI-83, TI-85, and TI-86 using a similar EL panel.

[@remygaulin6839]

It looks like the panel/backlight on this unit has degraded a bit over time; tough to say though. I just picked up a gold Game Boy Light on eBay a few weeks back and it seems to get significantly brighter than this one in complete darkness. Great video!

[@johnodaz1273]

Really cool TechWave Jon(SW). I didn't have any backlit Gameboys, I just had too struggle with the Standard Gameboy lol and Playing probably the most popular game at that time in Tetris, Played that game a ton hehe but I am more of a Home Console Gamer, never really enjoyed Handheld Gaming although I've tried many times over the Years.

[@vidman5000]

Nice vid! I learned something new today.

[@elec8101]

The background music is pretty fire. Sounds like Link's Awakening.

[@jeff666p]

I remember this. I only saw one in person. I could never find one in stores. Guss it not being released outside of JP explains it.

[@DaemonCaedo1]

I had the attachment that was a light and magnifying lens that hooked over the front of the gameboy.

[@AzrialAlaria]

Same here!

[@Ray_2112]

I'm surprised they didn't try something like a "Virtual Gameboy" that works like a Labo VR set, just put the Gameboy on it and watch it in "VR" through a huge lense lol.

[@moomoopuppy5810]

I had an orange "horizontal" GBA and installed a backlit screen that you can adjust the brightness. Someone invented a kit for it. I'm not sure if I had or still have a GB Light. I do have that same clear purple GB Color and also an Ice Blue GB Pocket and an NES system GBA.

[@rssbrry]

I had a GB Light a few years back that had a VERY bright backlight. At least comparable to a new Casio watch backlight. Unfortunately it delveloped a pretty serious issue with the screen where it would randomly glitch out and sometimes it wouldn't display graphics at all. Too bad!

[@Pc-oh8ov]

I just got a retroflag GPI Case and a raspberry pi zero w oc to 1100mhz and (32) 2800mah rechargeable AA batteries now I have 8,000 games on it. Time to relive my childhood

[@dudeguy7347]

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the ghosting effect on these.

[@PH96Official]

Stop complaining about things you can't control.

[@PH96Official]

@dyy Fethiiyhn not complaining about his comment just saying that since Spawn here is a father now his priorities lay elsewhere... as in the fact he doesn't have the time to please everyone.

[@JasonJrake]

I bought and resold one of these about fifteen years ago from a "pop culture" store, having no idea how rare they are here in the United States. It was definitely much brighter than yours, more like your modded pocket, I used it as a flashlight around the house before we all had phones to do that with, so I guess that the "indiglo" fades over time.

[@FoxMcCloudFF7]

I bought a GameBoy Light from ebay for around $20, it was listed AS IS or something like that, might have said something like "doesnt power on" or something like that and I figured that they just had dead batteries in it or something so I took a chance on it at such a cheap price and put in some fresh batteries and it worked like a charm! It even came with a Japanese copy of Super Mario Land 2!

[@neopiru7904]

that's incredible, never heard of this model before! Nostalgia hitting so hard...

[@danielcabrera5547]

Great video bro! 🤟

[@themailman3331]

I like to sit in the dark and turn my game boy on and off.

[@Mr.madmight266]

Most people would wonder why they didn't bother to make the Game Boy Colour have the same backlight as the Game Boy Light.

[@jbee02]

The lack of a back light was annoying but the ability to use outside light sources as a means to illuminate the screen is some thing I wish my cellphone could do when outside on a bright day. Even with brightness on full its difficult to see my cellphone screen in the bright sunshine. Didnt have that problem eith the game boy.

[@Frank_D]

Is Spawn Wave the monster that mommy and daddy consoles tell their children about, so they'll behave? "You'd better be good, or the Spawn Wave will open you up!"

[@Schuyler2614]

I used to sneak my Gameboy Color into bed and play Pokemon late at night by laying down and resting a flashlight on my shoulder. It worked well enough, but I remember having to adjust the flashlight a lot because it had to be angled just right or it would light the screen up too much or not enough. I would have killed for one of these.

[@DBitowf]

I have one in storage that I bought brand new in 1998 its screen brightness decreases over time. It was extremely bright like those watches when it was new.

[@georgetena8692]

big fan of these videos. you should do a psp next!!! modding community is awesome for it.

[@angelotanidis]

I bought my one in 2007 in excellent near new condition. I didn't use it much and yeah the screen is brighter than shown in the video. I guess the EL panel degrades with use over time.

[@timothylewis2527]

I only had the original Gameboy but I bought the Nuby Game Light pretty early on. Probably the best lighting option for that system.

[@PatrickGoodspeed]

I remember them, there was a store that carried them in San Francisco for a short time. I was broke at the time and couldn't afford it.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

That reminds me of the battery pack i bought for my gameboy colour, which used 2 ni-mh batteries, and basically worked like the wii remote battery packs, and it still works, so it was definitely worth the purchase!

[@Elkott]

I was a Game Gear kid, yeah I couldn't leave a plug socket but I had a bright screen

[@clblanchard08]

I forgot to mention the Handy boy. It was like announcing your nerd status from 4 miles away. It was also amazing for what it was, no matter how much people made fun of it.

[@menhirmike]

I just realized that it's so unusual to see "blank" buttons and the printing on the case. I guess it changed with the original Playstation controller that we started to mark the buttons instead of the case? Anyway, just a random thought.

[@abelperez1434]

My friend gave me a Gameboy Light for free a long time ago. It's awesome to have and a shame it never came out outside of Japan.

[@MoistyRain]

Nice pic.

[@Schwarzorn]

I had this as a child, but my friend stole it. I was my favorite thing ever. I loved the silver color, and the Indiglo backlight. But the price is just too high nowadays to get another one. :/

[@shanoo2746]

Mug ur friend

[@gloriusk7105]

shouldn't call them your friend

[@WildVoltorb]

Kæðr go to yahoo auctions japan, they're cheaper

[@Schwarzorn]

Voltorb Oh, true! That’s a good idea. I’ll do that. Thanks!

[@Schwarzorn]

Glorius K I don’t anymore. That’s for sure. Lol

[@armchairrocketscientist4934]

Now if only we had a system you can see in sunlight and shadow.

[@zenunderground9893]

Lol. I was thinking how on car rides you had to deal with it getting too dark, and today you have to deal with it getting too sunny. Took my Vita once to the lake and a cookout thinking I was going to get a full day of gaming...couldn't see sh*t.

[@obvfw]

Maybe something like the Kindle PaperWhite, except with color and a good refresh rate for gaming.

[@speedwaynutt]

Glad to see you have finally seen the light.

[@JeffreyTabben]

it was released outside japan, i have one i bought in the store here in the netherlands way back. so i am sure we had them in europe

[@TheLostBoy1974]

I bought one at small shop in the east village back in 1998. Wish I had kept it...

[@RobMost]

Never actually heard of this!

[@AndrewO83]

Glad I'm not the only one!

[@gundamwarrior]

Platinum colored gameboy no less too. I'm jealous. I made it a habit to pick up any of them. GBA / NGC i have them in platinum color.

[@kbgaming925]

There is an ebay listing in the U.S. for $150 and free shipping!

[@_Banjo_]

I keep forgetting these exist then suddenly i really want to buy one again!

[@TechnologistAtWork]

It's still not visible in total darkness.

[@StrikerXL_BE]

My parents gave my gold version away of the Game Boy Light when they were cleaning up the closets... .

[@bigtasty1082]

Elliot would have something to say about having the rarest gameboy pocket haha

[@ErdrickHero]

You missed the opportunity to talk about Nintendo's PPP: Price Power Pokemon

[@senorsnipey1595]

I remember this and the Gameboy pocket. Pocket was super crisp. A friend of mine had the lite and I was super jealous lol I gave away my Forest Green Gameboy and my Kiwi Green Gameboy color! Gave them to people that really needed it. I'm glad I did but I just checked the price on the Kiwi.....399 new. I'm so sad now lol

[@musicvideoenhancer]

Your video helped me a lot. I bought this gameboy light, in the hope it would have a backlit screen as the one the modders do, and frankly, I was highly disappointed, because it almost don't make any difference when compared to the original gameboy. It's still hard to see, and I thought I bought a defective one, and because this gameboy is so rare, I can't find any documentation about it. Thanks to this vid, now I know mine is working as expected. Still disappointing, but at least, I don't need to look for any fix to it.

[@leafshade3643]

What you probably want is something like an IPS screen mod for the colour.

[@Videogamelover58]

Awesome video!

[@therealjasonbueno]

Been tanning bro?

[@DJRanoia]

That panel reminds me of a cob led.

[@miles13092]

The gameboy advance sp released in 2003. I remember my uncle got a blue one with pokemon sapphire.

[@danielevans7439]

These days people pay big bucks for the best controller. Back then, people paid for the best light for their Gameboy.

[@robh.2400]

The lack of any kind of screen illumination on Gameboys really sucked. Even back then. I wonder why Nintendo didn’t release this in the US?

[@julianlindsay4000]

The rarest varient is actually the glow in the dark shell that you won from the racing game. But only in japan.

[@anthonymichel7745]

i bought one of them the last time I was in japan because I bought pokemon gameboy games but didn't bring anything to play them haha. hat surprise me (and what made me think it was broken) was the contrast was set to the lowest setting so it just gave me a black screen when I turned it on for the first time.

[@Nmbowen69]

Nice handheld and cool video. How is your GC collection coming along?

[@tediz8280]

One of my classmates had one of these.. i wonder if he still has it.. and where he lives now :P

[@afistfulofpimples1745]

He's possibly deceased.

[@thenightowls2804]

@@afistfulofpimples1745 wtf lmao

[@poopn69]

I have one from when I was a kid .

[@mikebigelow561]

The rarest gameboy is a glow in the dark case. It's a first gen gameboy a game company gave them away in a contest drawing to win.. they came in a white plain box and one shows up on ebay every couple of years.. less than 350 were Givin away..

[@Crazyman-hj1th]

I have a silver gameboy light and its amazing I really like it really wish they released them in America...i think it would've been the best selling gameboy

[@msg4672]

I still have two original Gameboys that work, but I’ve never seen one of these.

[@markpugh6808]

Japan exclusive that's why

[@kingbill8155]

A game boy that Spawn Wave found on ebay? More like a game eboy!!! 😂😂😂 (please kill me for making horrible puns)

[@DisgruntledPigumon]

They INCREASED something, they ENLARGED something, they did not “up” something or “grow” something.

[@ElricSowrd]

I've been aware of this like 10 years ago.

[@clblanchard08]

Should have compared it to a standard Game Boy. That would have really set it off. I'd've killed for this in '93.

[@sebastianflesjandersen939]

Wasn't the GBA AGS 001 frontlit?

[@9aracna.]

I remember really wanted one of these about 10 years ago

[@QunMang]

Nintendo Gameboy Pocket- now with Indiglo™.

[@OnGod1007]

Is there third party replacement light panels? I own a game boy light and it comes on it glows but I've been reading some comments that it fades over time and I'm getting concerned