Super Game Boy: One of Nintendo's Best Ideas

Gaming Historian teaches you everything you need to know about the Super Game Boy / Super Game Boy 2. Playing Game Boy games on your television in color was cool enough, but the Super Game Boy was so much more.
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[@lolman9630]

I remember on my 10th birthday, my Mom gave me a Gamecube that was bundled with Zelda: Collector's Edition, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the Gameboy Player. That was a good bithday.

[@The_Digital_Dolphin]

Happy times :)

[@chriskarsseboom2200]

I was in high school when that came out

[@semicolonasterisk]

Bithday

[@AGZhark]

Ok

[@2SINISTER57]

*b i t h d a y*

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

the gameboy was a gift from my grandma, she was old and never even knew what a video game was, yet she went to the shop, got me a gameboy with super mario land and gave it to me on my graduation.....i loved my grandma and it was things like this, such memories that reminds me of her and how much she meant to me as a kid....God bless everyone as this year ends and remember your late family members for their good deeds :)

[@WinVisten]

Rami Merehbi R.I.P your grandma. :c

[@kit7une_]

Imagine making fun of someone’s dead family member just because they’re old

[@inkbold8511]

Awesome grandma, did she bought anything for your sister?

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Cool grandma! Hope you still have that tank of a GameBoy! I never had one, so I bought one on ebay this year :D

[@matthewlane518]

Dont grandmas rule? I miss mine too and shes been gone for over 20 years. She used to get me all the best Atari 2600 games!😊

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

I got a Super GameBoy 2 a few months ago. It is, hands-down, the BEST way to play the Generation 1 Pokemon games.

[@fshoaps]

Pokemon Stadium built in emulator is substantially better.

[@WeirdLuigi]

@@fshoaps It's missing all the bonus features and only works with three games.

[@fshoaps]

TerribleVidsHD but he was referring to plAying pokemon games

[@WeirdLuigi]

@@fshoaps yeah, but SGB has all the features and more provided you aren't transporting pokemon

[@fshoaps]

TerribleVidsHD nah, but okay

[@basementninja676]

Love the high production quality, the editing and sound mixing are just wonderful. It feels like I'm watching an actual documentary, and a good one at that. Please keep making these.

[@Djiehh]

The Super Game Boy was my ticket to a Super Nintendo. My mom didn't want to spend money on an entirely new console, but when she learned that I could still play all my Game Boy games with this gadget, she finally relented.

[@GamingHistorian]

Hi everyone! The Super Game Boy was a special accessory for me growing up, so I was really excited to make this video. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it. Have a safe and Happy Holiday / New Year!

[@NotsoBright]

Gaming Historian Its not gaming history per say but you should look into retrobit they make a GBA version of super gameboy made for the super nes.

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

Gaming Historian do the GameBoy color next if you haven't. If not do the Game Boy player

[@8ByteBrian]

I totally agree, the Game Boy was my first system too (outside of an Atari 800XL {groan}) & I LOVED IT! Tetris & The Amazing Spider-Man were my first two games; I still have my original GameBoy today with my original games 25yrs later. Love that little grey brick.

[@CaptainNnif]

Gaming Historian Thank you for showing footage of Gargoyle's Quest. Not enough people know about that gem.

[@aidanstenson7063]

im 15 now this channel helped me want a super nintendo which i got for christmas last year however for several months the only games i had for it were super metroid and super mario all stars so i decided to buy more games one of which was the super game boy and pokemon blue, kirby 2, and final fantasy legends 2

[@mattorama]

Left out something massive important while covering Pokemon. The clock speed difference affected random number generation and while playing Pokemon red/blue/yellow on a SGB1, when you used a move that did between 3 and 5 attacks, it always, always did three. The clock speed fix in the SGB2 was specifically to address that, since the whole SGB2 was made for the Pokemon games.

[@iknowihaveanincrediblysmal6103]

mattorama yooooo this kid’s hairline looking like a deadass spaid

[@Wflash00]

Seriously? I feel like that wouldn't be a clock speed issue, I overclocked my DMG and I have had it do more than 3 for like Doubleslap or wrap

[@MrMarinus18]

RNG is one value so other things like encounters would also be affected.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

mattorama Now that, is really interesting.

[@P7777-u7r]

Pokemon is also the one place where the N64 kinda got a GameBoy/Colour adapter in the form of Pokemon Stadium but it's in software and can only play Pokemon games it's not a truly faithful Game Boy copy. The Game Boy pak slot adapter goes in the 64 controller in the rumble pak slot meaning someone probably could write a full GB(c) emulator cartridge and use the real hardware Stadium also provides a longer alternative route to the link cable for sharing Pokemon if one only had a SGB or a broken link slot. You can out one persons game in transfer the desired Pokemon to the 64 then put the other person's game in and move the pokemon there.

[@Kamerzy]

- "SNES can't run GameBoy games,what do we do ?" - "Let's just put the whole goddamn console in there !" Nintendo,1994

[@kidf766]

Well, to be fair the SNES didn't run much things by its own lol, the myth is that even developpers joked about the SNES being a shell able to play all the chips they could fit inside the games haha.

[@LotoTheHero]

That was in regards to games that used the Super FX chip specifically, as the games were running off of the Super FX processor, and not the one in the Super NES.

[@Tornado1994]

1993. Not '94.

[@MaxwelThuThu]

"the SNES didn't run much things by its own".. Yeah... like 80% of the games. Not so much uh?

[@MrMarinus18]

The SNES played a lot. It was only because the development of the N64 was behind schedule and the SNES had reached it's limits that special cartridge chips became commonly used. Also using a gameboy system is by far the easiest and most reliable way of doing it. If you take away the buttons, screen and batteries it can fit inside a standard SNES cartridge just fine.

[@sbleed]

The Gameboy was also my first personally owned system. When I bought my second system, a SNES; it came with a coupon for the Super Gameboy. I only played GB using that from then on. It is the best way to play GameBoy games. I'm glad there are people that appreciate this kind of amazing history. It's gotta be the start of the switch here.

[@Coaster42]

9:44 I think the reason for not having a link cable port was because of the slight speed increase. That would quickly cause desyncs. The SGB2, which played games at the correct speed, did have a link cable port.

[@EebstertheGreat]

You could presumably connect two Super Game Boys in two SNESes connected to two TVs, but it's hard to imagine any consumer demand for such a feature.

[@frankmarano1118]

But did they even realize there was a slight speed increase at first? That's what I wonder, because why not fix it if they had noticed it? They did fix it later so it seemed like they couldve fixed it whenever they had wanted to, & it seems far fetched to me that they didnt release something because of a slight speed increase like they were being held hostage by something that seems like it only needed a simple fix. What's more likely is that they simply did not believe it was wanted or necessary until pokemon changed customer demands. Occams Razor

[@Coaster42]

@@frankmarano1118 The SGB1 uses the SNES clock speed divided by 5 as a timing reference, which is 4.295 MHz instead of the correct 4.194 MHz. This was done intentionally so that a crystal oscillator would not have to be included in the SGB, reducing manufacturing costs (I assume they decided it was close enough that most people wouldn't notice). The SGB2 does include a crystal oscillator, which is why it can run at the correct speed. I assume they only decided to do this so they could have the link port, as including the link port was probably the entire reason they made the SGB2, likely because of Pokémon. TL;DR the SGB1 runs too fast intentionally, so they could omit some hardware to reduce costs, not because of a software bug or something. The SGB2 includes this extra hardware, so it can run at the correct speed and have the link port.

[@frankmarano1118]

@@Coaster42 Ah thank you, you cleared up any doubts I had. Now it all makes perfect sense. Only once customer demand for that feature started showing up did they decide to attempt to fix the issue, where before it was a non issue & actually done on purpose to keep manufacturing costs low. I didnt expect such a swift reply from a 5 year old comment but I do appreciate it!

[@ChristopherBurtraw]

Did it use the SNES sound chip's clock?

[@alwaysfallingshort]

We hung out at a kid's house who had this and played Pokemon on the big screen. Watching color battles on their giant tube TV was AMAZING. It also added value to my gameboy, because I could play a game there, then take it with me when I was done to play at home. I borrowed several of their gameboy games this way, and we'd play our personal version of pokemon on it. The dream we had was to link-connect with the TVs. Later, Pokemon Stadium would be an underwhelming response to that wish.

[@alwaysfallingshort]

That link cable on the SGB2 would've made our lives.

[@Wflash00]

Even though this didn't exist back then, there's way to mod the SBG to have a link port. And another one to remove that slight high pitch and slightly higher speed due to the incorrect clock speed.

[@alwaysfallingshort]

This is one of those things I want to do just to satisfy that loose end in my childhood wants. I can imagine putting all the effort in, playing it once and then never touching it again.

[@n2badsam420]

ahhhhhhh so much nostalgia great to see a youtuber who grew up with the original game boy

[@RobG1981]

"Imagine this. You're playing all your favourite Game Boy (R) games on a giant 26-inch screen." Those were the days :D

[@thecianinator]

@Aiden the Tech Boy holy shit people are calling special characters emojis instead of alt codes now, I feel so old

[@advanturepie]

thecianinator that's because those are actual emojis and not the alt codes

[@thecianinator]

@@advanturepie They show up as vanilla unicode characters to me

[@advanturepie]

thecianinator I see

[@arlopsopticblast]

The Super Gameboy was supposed to be my 20th birthday gift from my friend but he lost the order. However he repayed me back after 2 months with a super gameboy and Pokemon Gold. Ive been enjoying it ever sense and its the most perfect way to play Gameboy and some Gameboy Color games on the big screen

[@justinvilo8231]

I can not say how high the production value of your series is and how much I appreciate it. I can tell this is a passion project for you, this series could be a series on the history channel and it would be deserving.

[@hollyhandgrenade42]

Oh man. The Game Boy Player for the gamecube was sooo incredible.

[@Frilleon]

How did I never know about this?

[@just2good]

You need to make a video on the GB Hunter. That thing is incredibly crappy. I want one.

[@GamingHistorian]

+just2good it's pretty bad. I'll be covering it in a future video on 3rd party Game Boy players!

[@KatTrapable]

My parents when I was growing up with the Game Boy at night *Expecially while on the road. "Turn it off you'll hurt your eyes.." Noooh. This haz no save! D:

[@GatorRay]

Oh hey Just2good. You sure get around. though it would be more interesting to see a video on the Phantom considering Valve recently came out with the Steam Machines.

[@chinuochinu2070]

There was another device WIDEBOY 64.There were 2 versions one could play GB and GBC games and other could play GB,GBC and GBA games.It was only available for devs only and it was developed by Intelligent Systems

[@thespiderspartian]

just2good awwwww I found you but not sure n your videos I subed

[@NihilOni]

I gotta admit I never knew a super gameboy 2 existed

[@millieman76]

Sonic 1991 Pretty sure the majority of us didn't

[@holyballswappfalls1158]

they should make a super game gear

[@holyballswappfalls1158]

***** kiss my supper balls thunder stealer

[@Kimarnic]

Human3v3 the resolution of the 3ds is 240p tho

[@GatorRay]

I didn't know about it until I watched Game Sack's Gameboy video.

[@nostalgiaontheairmichaelch9932]

I have the 72 page Super Game Boy guidebook. I was lucky to come across a copy earlier this year in southern Texas. :)

[@KetsubanSolo]

Came back to say that for fun I scheduled a Wario Blast battle on the SGB2 with a Multitap with some friends and used Brook SNES adapters to plug-in a bunch of controllers not originally designed for the SNES: 1 - Gullikit KingKong 2 2- A Pingu PSX controller (needed a PS1/2 to PS3 adapter to go into the Brook) 3 - An etokki Omni Arcade Stick 4 - A Pokken Tournament controller It was such a bizarre hilarious way to play it lmao

[@kaydwessie296]

I had this and loved it I also later had the GBA one that plugs on the bottom of the Gamecube. That was definitely a good investment because my sister and I were always playing our GBAs, and sometimes one of us could take the TV and the other would watch while doing something else.

[@kaydwessie296]

"They're pretty easy to find these days" I got mine in like maybe 2000, and I found it in a store that sold random old stuff. I remember it not being expensive

[@hybridmoments333]

I had a super game boy and it was AMAZING! I loved the different background templates, drawing them, changing color palates. It was the best.

[@GR8GUYNo1]

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[@DeathToDrugUsers21]

I swear every time one of your videos ends I think she's going to say "is funded in part by viewers like you"

[@AmariieMaerthos]

I was thinking the same thing. Reminded me of my childhood watching PBS shows like Reading Rainbow and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

[@DeathToDrugUsers21]

J Williams I never really watched carmen, idk why. I watched it a few times. I watched Arthur mostly and later Zoom when I was at my grandparents house where they had antenna tv.

[@Ristarite]

DeathToDrugUsers21 Thank you.

[@deezy81]

DeathToDrugUsers21 Arthur. I remember that show.. That was the rat with glasses. I just randomly remembered Bananas In Pajamas and Magic School Bus..

[@lrgogo1517]

Arthur's actually an aardvark.

[@squalled90]

Great video man! The Super Game Boy is one of the best accessories ever made! Also real talk, Donkey Kong on the Game Boy is so incredibly underrated.

[@bobbybobbinson]

I really like that game too

[@calamusquill116]

I remember going to Sears with my mom to buy clothes, and I'd just play the Game Boy kiosk every time. She was there for grown-up/parental reasons, I was always there for games lol

[@Buttermilkjug]

I don't even play video games, and haven't in close to 20 years, but I love watching your videos~

[@keanukage644]

God i love that Pokemon gold music

[@Yagara28]

Same bro

[@xenodeath7065]

I could not recall the game, thank you

[@Shadows5815]

Damn, It brings up so much memories from middle school.

[@flyforce16]

Opening song is actually from Pokémon Pinball for GBC!

[@opportunityinchina9871]

I think it brainwashed me. Even to this day, I can occasionally hear that screechy 8-bit, 16 bit?, music playing when I'm on my smart phone, especially if I'm playing games (Clash Royale.)

[@n40798]

1:55 Thanks for showing this, since I was a kid I wondered how the stores connected Gameboys to TVs

[@connief3730]

I own. A sp but it was not a 101 model

[@thearbinator2487]

This was the Nintendo Switch before the Nintendo Switch

[@braelinmichelus]

No, that was the Wii U

[@daijindekablaze1492]

DatLegoMann: Yeah, like Usf2.

[@davidv4018]

@The SNES Man You can dock you handheld game into a tv (like if it was a regular home console). The comparison is pretty fair, and its only made for fun purpose.

[@smirnoffvodka2618]

David V except that you dont dock this thing at all, the sega nomad was probably among the first if not the first you actually hooked up to a tv rather than just putting the cartridge into a home console not the same thing

[@isaacthered]

The SNES Man Even other modern consoles?

[@eltedioso]

The reviewer who was like "what's the point?" clearly never wanted to share a Game Boy game with a friend or sibling, share tricks, trade the controller back and forth, etc. This simple device made Game Boy games a more communal experience rather than just a solo quest. And to this day, my collection of 90s Game Boy games occasionally get played on my dusty CRT TV via a Super Game Boy cartridge placed in an FC Twin console. As an 80s/90s kid, the Super Game Boy was pure magic.

[@kcidd12]

dude stupid lol

[@joelphillips2016]

seeing all of these peoples stories about everyone’s special console gifts makes me cry tears of joy

[@Larry]

Oh something you might like to know Norm, while Space Invaders was region free, the SNES game locked inside wasn't. (Found that out the hard way as a kid - The Super Gameboy wasn't released for nearly half a year later in Europe, so I Imported a US one >.>)

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

That must have been a bummer.

[@LAST_STAND_FAN]

Larry Bundy Jr I love how little people are commenting on this. It's Larry Bundy Jr commenting, yet it has 3 replies.

[@RetroGamerVX]

Larry Bundy Jr now where do i know you from? ;)

[@Larry]

Joego Lol, its not really something that you can respond to. but its "technically" the only region locked gameboy game.

[@LAST_STAND_FAN]

Larry Bundy Jr Weird. Does that make the GB version of Space Invaders the smallest SNES cart?

[@rickysoto3256]

I love gaming historian and hearing and seeing the old school system true nostalgia

[@AiOinc1]

Can't wait for the GB Hunter / GameBoy Player videos!

[@deeganpoores1652]

Loved the Royals shout out!

[@susanfit47]

From the very early days of video gaming, it was always a novel concept to be able to have something to play with you on the go, anywhere you went. It first started with the Game & Watch and Tiger Electronic handheld gadgets that went with very crude designs and technology, though at the end of the 1980s, the Nintendo Game Boy broke the mould and gave us a system that operated much like any console, in that it had interchangeable cartridges to allow you to play all kinds of different games on the same system, and a generally much better level of gameplay and interaction with the improved technology over the handhelds that came before it. Though with a small, monochrome screen that makes some graphical details hard to make out, as well as a small speaker that emits some tinny music and sounds, it made some of us yearn for a way of getting to enjoy the same great gameplay, though on a big screen with clearer graphics and deeper, clearer sound. The Super Game Boy adaptor, released in 1994, did just that. The Super Game Boy is a Super Nintendo cartridge-shaped peripheral approximately one-and-a-half times the height of a regular SNES cartridge. On the front of it is a small connector into which you can insert a regular Game Boy cartridge, as well as many of the black-cart Game Boy Color games. You plug the thing into your SNES console and fire it up like you would any game, and from there on your Game Boy game will display on your TV screen, with enlarged graphics and better sound. Controlling the games is easily done with the use of the SNES controller's D-Pad, A, B, Start and Select buttons. so all games released before the Super GameBoy was will be playable on the Super GameBoy, but some features will not be selectable. All or most games released after the Super GameBoy was carry a ''Super GameBoy Game Pak'' symbol. All the options are selectable, as well as options that aren't selectable with the games released before the Super GameBoy. Also, many GameBoy Color games, such as Quest for Camelot, Men in Black: The Series, Shanghai Pocket, Bomberman Quest, Pocket Bomberman, Game & Watch Gallery 2, Game & Watch Gallery 3, Titus the Fox, the Game Boy Color versions of Frogger, Centipede, Super Breakout, Monopoly, Asteroids, Battleship, Chessmaster, Space Invaders, Black Bass: Lure Fishing, Prince of Persia, Pac-Man: Special Color Edition, Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition, Harvest Moon GBC, Legend of the River King GBC, Tetris DX, R-Type DX, Looney Tunes, The Rugrats Movie, Wario Land II, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Gex: Enter the Gecko, NFL Blitz, Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy, Looney Tunes: Marvin Strikes Back!, Looney Tunes: “Twouble!”, Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3, Tazmnian Devil: Munching Madness, Daffy Duck: Fowl Play, Speedy Gonzales: Aztac Adventure, Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy, Pocket Bowling, Yar’s Revenge, Star Wars: Yoda Stories, Mega Man Xtreme, Quest RPG: Brian’s Journey, Godzilla: The Series, Barbie: Fashion Pack, Barbie: Ocean Discovery, Metal Walker, Antz, Bust-A-Move 4, Babe and Friends, Oddworld: Adventures 2, Rampage: World Tour, Bass Masters Classic, Catterpillar Construction Zone, Rats!, Shamus, Wings of Fury, Uno, Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver, Las Vegas Cool Hand, Pitfall: Beyond the Jungle, Ballistic, NBA Jam 99, Rugrats: Time Travelers, Rox, Ronaldo V-Soccer, Klustar, Midway Presents Arcade Hits: Joust/Defender, Midway Presents Arcade Hits: Moon Patrol/Spy Hunter, The New Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley, Mary-Kate and Ashley: Get a Clue!, Mary-Kate and Ashley: Pocket Plannet, WWF WrestleMania 2000, Ghosts ’n Goblins, Hello Kitty’s Cube Frenzy, Evel Knievel, Jeff Gordon XS Racing, Montezuma’s Return, 720, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000, Sesame Street: Elmo’s 123s and Sesame Street: Elmo’s ABCs, Puzzle Master, Mortal Kombat 4, Disney‘s Beauty and the Beast: A Board Game Adventure, Classic Bubble Bobble, Blaster Master: Enemy Below, Revelations: The Demon Slayer, Quest: Fantasy Challenge, TNN Outdoors Fishing Champ, NBA 3 on 3 featuring Kobe Bryant, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Conker’s Pocket Tails, Monster Rancher Battle Crd GB, International Track & Field, Grand Theft Auto, Survival Kids, Chase H.Q.: Secret Police, Madden NFL 2000, FIFA Soccer 2000, NHL Hockey 2000, Shadowgate Classic, Dragon Dance, Harvest Moon 2, Roadsters Trophy, Robopun: Sun Version, NBA in the Zone, International Rally, Power Quest, Test Drive 6, Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory, Lil’ Monster, Legend of the River King 2, Dragon Warrior I & II, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi‘s Journey and Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara‘s Adventure, Mega Man Xtreme, are compatible with the Super GameBoy. That isn't quite all there is to it, though; a few particular games even display special border frames and boast full colour for a more enjoyable and visually-appealing experience; for example the first-gen Pokemon games, which when loaded will surround the game screen with all kinds of Pokemon-styled decorations and a red, blue or yellow colour scheme respectively. For games that do not have these special frames or recoloured graphics, by pressing L or R on the SNES controller, the player can access the system menu and make a customised frame with a Paint-like tool, or go with a few pre-created frames that include a theatre audience that watch and react to the way you play your games, my personal favourite. There is also a selection of colour schemes that you can implement into the graphics; you can opt to stick with the classic Game Boy green-and-black monochrome style, or choose from a selection of over 30 different colour schemes to see if there's one you think makes the game look better and more pleasing on your eyes. As far as the details in the graphics go, they aren't changed or enhanced in any way; they're simply stretched in size, though they do at least look much clearer and easier to make out than on a standard Game Boy screen. The inevitable 'but', however, is that the Super Game Boy is now somewhat outdated by the Game Boy Player peripheral that was released for the Nintendo GameCube several years later. Though the features that come with the Game Boy Player aren't quite as outstanding as those available with the Super Game Boy, it does at least also allow you to play all Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges on it as well, whereas given that the Super Game Boy was released many years before work began on the Game Boy Color, its technology is therefore incompatible with the more advanced GBC and GBA cartridges. Still, however, that's not to say that you shouldn't own one of these things should you still be in possession of a working Super Nintendo console. I still personally find the looks and gameplay of the original Game Boy games to be best when used with the Super Game Boy. The graphics are much clearer and nicer to look at, the sound is a lot better, the extra features for some games and the customisable frames and colour schemes make for a very enjoyable experience. Other than it being restricted to only Game Boy and early Game Boy Color games, I can't really say there are any major drawbacks with this thing. Even now, getting a hold of one shouldn't really prove too difficult, unless you're after a boxed one in good condition, which could bump the price up by a substantial amount. I was able to score a Super Game Boy cartridge on its own with 4 other SNES games, all together for ten quid, so for 2 pounds per game, this is probably the biggest steal I've ever acquired as a game collector. That's what this thing is mainly these days; a collector's item, but one very much worth owning. If you want something to play every game from the Game Boy library including Color/Advance games, you would otherwise be encouraged to look for a Game Boy Player to connect to your GameCube console instead. Otherwise, if you find a Super Game Boy for a good enough price, this is definitely a recommended purchase for your SNES and video game collection, and the most enjoyable, and best-looking, experience of playing Game Boy games on a full-sized television screen.

[@RetroGamerVX]

Arrgh, your hair has gone back to the 90s!! ;o)

[@richardxavier5442]

He looks a bit like Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree, lol

[@Lightspeeds]

GENERIC 90'S GRUNGE SONG. EVERYONE IN DENIM!!! GENERIC 90'S GRUNGE SONG SOMETHING FROM SEATTLE!

[@thevenom2731]

EJ Taylor Lighten the f*** up!

[@AnonymousFrogNG]

Yuck. No wonder you are not like that today!

[@ethansvault4574]

Ikr

[@WhiskeyPieSometimes]

My SBG came packed in with my SNES, along with Super Mario All Stars. Good times.

[@WilliamHasMelted]

Greg Lytle the Super Boy Game

[@spoonhanz]

that glorious mane of hair tho.

[@jjeaze]

Geez this brought back memories. I remeber getting the super gameboy just to play pokemon then branched to other games with the super gameboy logo on them. Thanks for this vid.

[@dannydr]

Back in the days we've put a Gameboy Camera in the Super Game Boy on the SNES. That was a great experience! Miss the good days!

[@TheLarryburns84]

I like the longer hair.. Super game boy seems rad

[@KjordsFjord]

Nice profile picture, that Coroner album is great.

[@woldemunster9244]

My brother and his many hippi-kinda friends, when i had an ponytail i would walk to small room to game and there are 4 dudes with ponytails too..... I noticed that if something is cool and works without effort, there must be some kinda trap...

[@woldemunster9244]

now i have to get smart look 2 times a year because it grows out of cntrl

[@Ghosthound_X]

He should grow a long beard to go with it. Really go for the ancient philosopher look.

[@TheLarryburns84]

FearAbsentia No More Color was awesome, have a bootleg tape of it

[@franzpattison]

I'm addicted to this series, I'm watching all of them :D

[@RealMasterpieces]

0:18 I can't even bring my 3DS to recess at school without getting in trouble!

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Super game boy was so cool. Mortal Kombat 2 on the SGB was lots of fun, and the custom backgrounds were really cool. We'll never see this kind of innovation again.

[@kathartik]

I had a Super Game Boy (and I also had Wario Blast!) everyone loved it. back in the day we would all trade games on a borrowing basis, and the Super Game Boy game often commanded 2 games back in trade

[@LeviathanRX]

I remember showing my friend Pokemon for the first time at his house on his Super GameBoy It was magical

[@elModo7]

The music of the video is what makes me want to watch it... kirby, pokemon, pkmn pinball...

[@Nexfero]

2:12 I was literally just playing pokemon silver on my gameboy and I was in goldenrod city with that same background tune. I thought I was going crazy hearing pokemon music in my head lol

[@garycooper5687]

I got a Super Gameboy with my SNES for Christmas along with the Batman Forever game. I didn't have any Gameboy games, so I traded it to my cousin for his copies of Super Mario World, and Super Mario Allstars. My cousin loved it, cause he could play all of his favorite Gameboy Games on the big screen.

[@Purrrple]

You have NO idea how happy it makes me tosee Gargoyle's Quest getting some love. It was my all time favourite original GameBoy game, (and the first I ever owned), and it's mostly forgotten and criminally underrated. THANK YOU!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

$10 to $15? That's practically a steal!

[@Clay3613]

The original GameBoy market is pretty neglected outside of Pokemon games. I think everyone prefers using the GameCube adapter due to it being superior.

[@awwrelic]

I paid 14.99 for mine a year or so ago. Playing Donkey Kong makes it worth the purchase price for me.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

sickly sporification *strokes beard* Hmmmm.

[@jig7810]

Andrew Vrba lol

[@iCach0]

Had one of these as a kid, my favorite accessory from the 8-16-bit era by far

[@TVsMrNeil]

That hockey hair is more fabulous with every vid, Norm. Say, there's a blog colorfully titled "F*ck The Super Gameboy" which is actually a really good resource for understanding the device and its use of color, particularly with the games that really pushed the device. For example, did you know that the Super Gameboy could actually do independently-colored sprites and tiles? Apparently it could, but it went unused for the most part. The only known example is the Mario Picross title screen. Even if you try to change the color palette of the game, the title image will retain its own unique color palette. I used to think that Donkey Kong '94 was the most advanced game use the peripheral, but based on what I've seen, Kirby's Dreamland 2 may have it beat. Granted, the platforming stages look like your typical SGB fare, but in every other regard, the game looks amazing. Even the pause screen is amazing, as it blends into the border. There are even screens that I'm not even sure how they mapped the colors. One other interesting tidbit, one which I learned from Gameboy World, is that the Space Invaders cart is actually a compilation unique to America. In Japan, the Gameboy and Super Famicom versions of Space Invaders were released separately, and there was no Super Gameboy support at all for the GB version. It was kind of a neat little feat of engineering to have a cart that could bypass the Super Gameboy and load a Super Nintendo rom.

[@Techno-Universal]

Even newer Gameboy games that were released after the Super Gameboy but before the Gameboy Colour actually had colour data that could be utilised by the Super Gameboy but those games would also play in colour on the Gameboy Colour which was a really handy compatibility feature with the Gameboy Colour! However earlier Gameboy games that didn’t have colour data would still be displayed in greyscale or possibly a selected colour pallet on the Gameboy Colour! :)

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

My cousin from my dad's side of the family let me have the Super Game Boy back in the late 90s since they already have one. I still have it to this day. And I do have a few Super Game Boy enhanced games, like "Donkey Kong" (based on the classic 1981 arcade game of the same name).

[@RealMasterpieces]

I didn't know that Super Game Boy controller existed!

[@hunterking572]

When you watch a lot of these videos in a short period of time the haircuts really stand out more than they should. And this is the most glorious.

[@ItsRetroPlanet]

I loved this thing. I always used the "Theatre Setting" And play something Like Donkey Kong and pretend it was a Nintendo Movie. Until The Mario Bros. Movie Came.

[@JUSXTREME96]

Gorgo the Orc The mario movie came out before the sgb.

[@hostileX7]

I loved my SGB and have many great memories 'Mario Painting' that thing up, scribbling all over the screen and drawing lude images on title screens 😂! The best has to be when I lent it to a friend and he surprised me by modding my GB Game Genie to work with it. He essentially gutted it out just to make it fit with all three devices at once. He was so excited and proud to show off his gift to me but I was pissed he basically broke my friggin Game Genie apart. It looked like crap but everything worked so I got over it and now the Super GB and the Game Genie could mate!

[@schmittywerbenjaegermanjen2221]

This is the only channel that I have the little notification bell turned on.

[@psp785]

pokemon stadium and the gameboy transfer pak good times

[@koopakape]

I always wondered why they locked those things to only work with Pokemon games; they couldda sold a ton of transfer paks if they just let you use it like a SGB normally.

[@aguchamp7766]

hip indeed This is due to the fact that the Transfer Pak is so rusty and overall poor with emulation. The Pokemon games are already dumped on the Stadium games(Why its also region locked). All the Transfer Pak does is access your save file and overall progress. People have modded the rom to play other games on it, but all it leads to is glitchy and unstable results.

[@CheetosForBreakfast]

psp785 does get those things give me anxiety because the transfer package always come out while playing

[@LianRozen]

psp785 🦄

[@KizulEmeraldfire]

That's why you always use two controllers: one that holds the Transfer Pak and your game, and the other one you use to PLAY the game. :D …It's worked for me. xD

[@LukaMusics]

Holy Christ, your mane is beautiful.

[@Aj-me8mo]

Don't you just wanna pull it? Hehe...

[@hekkn]

Luka Bucar you need to look at my user pic to figure out why I'm commenting this .-.

[@SuperPiposaru]

It's beautiful!

[@LukaMusics]

Community Watch I can't appreciate somebody's hair without being a homosexual?

[@hekkn]

Luka Bucar ...and you still can't see I am a pony.

[@skinhead-ej8ff]

big respect for the original pokemon pinball music

[@SanguineUltima]

Nice. I just finished a play-through of Link's Awakening on my Super Game Boy. I love how all my old 90s era Nintendo stuff still works- unlike my PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox360... Oh, I could go on, but why bother :)

[@absurdlynerdy54]

I found my super gameboy a few years back and it completely fried my gameboy game the heartbreak and betrayal i felt still persists to this day.

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

Your hair reminds me of the 90s. I love it!

[@justinmohns8279]

It is impressive! I rocked the same style for most of my life. I miss it.

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

Meh. I prefer the Game Boy Player add-on for the GameCube. The Game Boy Player was awesome because it was backwards compatible with your Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games which would allow you to play your Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games on your TV or on an attachable GameCube monitor.

[@shaneg9081]

And if you have the disc for that you have something that's as valuable today as the day you bought it. Or maybe more valuable. Good on you.

[@gahlblah5649]

But super gameboy was doing it a lot longer. I like the GB player, but super gameboy was mind blowing back then.

[@BatsuOhno]

but....that didnt exist back then...when that SGB came out it blew minds and exploded hearts.

[@KizulEmeraldfire]

I'm a huge fan of the Game Boy Player, but I used to use it only for Game Boy Advance games - because trying to play GBC games on that thing… well. They all looked horrible, because the Game Boy Player doesn't run at 240p (…at least, by default…); instead, it runs at 480i, and is very, very blurry. :( I recently acquired a way to load GameCube homebrew, though, via an exploit in Super Smash Bros., and with that I can force the Game Boy Player Start-up Disc to run in 240p, which - on my ancient CRT television set - suddenly makes my GB/GBC games look GLORIOUS, and even my GBA games look better! :D

[@what9681]

I bought the Game Boy Player for the Gamecube a few years ago just to play both Casltevania: Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow (Harmony of Dissonance sucks!) as well as Metroid Zero Mission and the fan-made English reproduction cart of Mother 3 =)

[@LivingWithTheGuzmans]

Thanks love your channel great gaming info

[@thethree13o]

This explains why Pokémon red and blue and yellow can change the colour palette mid game depending on the town you are in when you play on the game boy colour(and I assume the game boy player) since it is a late game for the system. Great vid as always

[@drygnfyre]

Only Yellow was capable of doing that. It was officially a Game Boy title but the international releases (so not the Japanese original) had the bonus of taking advantage of the GBC. Red & Blue did NOT do that, they only did color shifting on the Super Game Boy. (If you played either on a GBC you'd just get a single color pallet). Also the colors Yellow chooses are not the same as the Super Game Boy, most are the same but some places, like Pewter City, deviate.

[@thethree13o]

@@drygnfyre yeah, I recently found that out a month ago when testing on an emulator that supported gbc but not sgb. Interesting stuff

[@whatever8282828]

This is quite fascinating! I didn't know about this stuff because I was busy being an older teenager at the time!

[@magebit]

This thing meant playing Pokemon on a big screen when I was a kid

[@RaymondCampesino]

Did it work?

[@magebit]

@@RaymondCampesino Totally! Was fun to see the original pokemon in color.

[@lucaswvargas3826]

This whole time I thought the GBA attachment for the GameCube was the first attempt.

[@kuroibuta]

Uncle Deluxe you must be young!

[@lucaswvargas3826]

Well I'm 28 years old. I never owned a SNES.

[@xenodeath7065]

There was also the Gameboy adapter for the N64 too

[@wessrocket2831]

That hair tho!

[@dedomenici]

The Super Game Boy was also compatible with the Game Boy Digital Camera, I used this setup to transfer crudely made animated films to videotape in the late 90s.

[@ashspades5307]

That guide book was absolutely amazing by the way.

[@chanceishikawa1699]

When Norm says "Pokemon" he sounds exactly like Professor Oak.

[@emrewas_lit]

the first nintendo switch. PLAY ON GAMEBOY/PLAY ON NES/SNES

[@Aenima308]

I had a Chinese knockoff called a super Jimmy boy

[@finnallen2576]

Jason Lee *Gotta blast!*

[@neyoid]

Super Jimmy Boy, take out the dog. *cocks gun* _shoots the dog_ For a walk, Super Jimmy Boy

[@afriend9428]

*ha! Ha! HA! HA!*

[@VanillaSkyCrawler]

What an amazing and underrated channel

[@jefferyjones8399]

My friend let me borrow his Super Game Boy when we were kids. Seeing Pokemon in color made me so happy.

[@u0aol1]

Gameboy Color was my first true love. I remember not having money for batteries and learning contortion to use a half meter dc adapter to play pokémon red. The memories heh

[@artart9671]

Last week I had my birthday and i was going to be 12 years old, I asked my mom and dad if I can have an SNES because it was so retro and it had all those great games, and so this week they gave me a SNES with a super game boy and i was so happy with it and without this video I didn't know how to use it

[@paultapping9510]

Oh, whst a fantadtic present! you should totally get a N64 next year, amazing console!

[@artart9671]

@@paultapping9510 Thx! But, yes! That's a great idea! An N64! I am totally gonna ask that for my 13th birthday! Thx for the idea!

[@SHR7778]

AlSch Sch enjoy it dude! Definitely try to pick up MARIO land 2, Donkey kong , or Castlevania 2 Belmont’s revenge, Kirby’s dreamland 2 as well! They’re all platformers but they’re all pretty different, Castlevania being the hardest and kirby being the easiest

[@artart9671]

@@SHR7778 Yeah Thx dude! And 3 months have passed and i have all the games you mentioned and even more! Have a Nice day btw!

[@creditworthy6414]

6:50 me and the boys partying like it's 1985

[@ianburnett8985]

Dude, seriously, this is an amazing public service. Thank you for making these videos.

[@SoUnA92]

Lost track of the video when I heard that old Pokemon gen 2 music. Not intentionally mind you, just a very strong nostalgic pull.

[@cchibi24]

GamePro is absolute trash. They gave Wally Bear and the NO! Gang a 5/5. Not to mention, Wally Bear and the NO! Gang wasn't even a licensed game from Nintendo. They give higher scores to actual fucking pirated video games than they do to licensed video games.

[@jaym5118]

GamePro also gave Earthbound a low rating. Ever since then, I thought they were NUTS! Earthbound is one of my top favorite RPG's. It's SO good.

[@Christopher-N]

(0:39) "But in 1994, my prayers were answered when Nintendo released ..." the Handy Boy? "... the Super Game Boy." That was cool, too, but not like the Handy Boy.

[@marycollins1945]

8:38 *_H A L P ! H A L P !_*

[@silleywilley]

Love your channel man, I’m 39, and never stopped playing my NES, in fact still using the same console to teach my kids how to play, to this very day.

[@ThaRBMVenom]

I Loved My Super Game Boy! All the pallet swaps, custom borders and being able to keep playing my games when I didn't have battery's. Good Times😊

[@midnightsun2085]

"4 shades of grey"?????????

[@deadguy718]

I think he meant 50.

[@sammyyo461]

+deadguy718..................oh dear...........

[@shaneg9081]

Who would need more? You could have 50 shades of grey on the GB and it wouldn't change things...lol

[@gahlblah5649]

Joke over head. lol

[@deezy81]

Yeah, they had to trim 46 shades for the sake of memory.

[@cappygamecubegengar8853]

A retro Nintendo switch

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

Yee

[@RageUnchained]

Not really, the switch is a concept Japanese game makers have visited many times, for example Sega had the game gear which was essentially a handheld mastersystem, although using different cartridges, that being said they did later release a handheld that actually played megadrive/genesis carts, and could be connected to a TV (I forget the name but my neighbor had one growing up)

[@vittosphonecollection57289]

@@RageUnchained That was the Nomad

[@RageUnchained]

@@vittosphonecollection57289 no sir, the nomad was a handheld genesis, while the game gear boasted 8 bit graphics and similar hardware to the master system. The sonic the hedgehog port on game gear is literally the same as the master system one it's a port of it with only sonic 2 and triple trouble being unique on the game gear.

[@vittosphonecollection57289]

@@RageUnchained I know about the Sonic's games on the Game Gear. I like them,more than the Master System ones. I don't played them but watching the videos I think they r super funny to play.

[@baronvongreenback]

"po-kay-mon"

[@kylem1112]

technically that is how it's pronounced because there is an accent above the e. which makes an ey sound

[@baronvongreenback]

I never knew that! Either way it made me smile. Oh god, does that mean I've been pronouncing sega wrong my whole life too?! Norm pronounced it as "seh-ga" as opposed to "say-ga"

[@kylem1112]

lol i dunno i still say pokeymon instead of po-kay-mon though. i personally say seh ga and i'm american while on the other hand ive heard brits usually pronouncing it say gah

[@baronvongreenback]

***** Yeah im a brit, thats probably why, iirc, we used to have official adverts for the master system that pronounced it say-ga...

[@ABlob]

Wait. The é is pronounced "eeh", not "ay". So it's "Po-Keeh-Mon"... For me at least.

[@adrian5b]

I love this channel so much.

[@thetruthexperiment]

I agree. When game boy came out and even now. It was like all those fake little digital games but a true real actual screen. The games were extremely playable in my opinion. I loved it. I’m surprised I never bought the clear colored small ones they made. I loved them.

[@wendy5256]

Switch before switch

[@SageOwl]

Oil up and hit the Super Game Boy.

[@user-og6ol2im7v]

your hair is extremely sexy

[@TrueTheology]

the n64 controller attachment for pokemon stadium was one of the most important parts on my youth. my brother and i trading and training and playing on the big screen.