Was The Gameboy Color A Refresh Or A New Generation Handheld?

[@SpawnWave]

What Gameboy games are your favorites that I should look for later this month at Too Many Games?

[@sean501st]

Driver was really fun on the gameboy

[@BraxtonKovary]

My favorites that I have: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Super Mario Land, Tetris (duh), and Link's Awakening

[@mikered4103]

Great video! There's so many great GB and GBC games. For the GB: Avenging Spirits, Kirby's Dreamland, and the final fantasy legends games (the ones that are Saga games in Japan) oh and of course Links Awakening! Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons were great games too. As a kid growing up with it, I didn't think of the GBC as just an iteration of the GB but looking back on it, feels much more like comparing a DS to a DSi as opposed to the DS vs the 3DS, the addition of shoulder buttons alone was enough to make the GBA feel like a new system. Congrats on the kid and thanks for all hard work and awesome videos. Edit: Can't believe in forgot all the Wario Land games, oh and for a good pokemon like, Dragon Warrior Monsters is great!

[@KierenAmero]

A favourite of mine is Metal Gear Solid/Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (it had two different titles depending on region). An honestly fun Metal Gear game, and a sleeper hit on the system, at least in my opinion.

[@for8bitgamers]

All the dragon quest/warrior games.

[@foxmccoy6595]

Pokemon Gold on my Color was an infinite source of distress for my family, you couldn't get it out of my hands. Out at family dinners, travelling, after school, in school. I used to get in trouble so often for having my eyes stuck to the screen everywhere I went. And now you see my parents sitting on their phones out at dinners and family reunions. Sigh...

[@kyrandm6045]

Lol

[@Atlessa]

Karma maybe?

[@MrSupersonic2012]

The irony. My mom used to get onto me for always being on my Gameboy, now you can't separate her from her phone.

[@catiloh6086]

@@MrSupersonic2012 accessibility and target audience

[@nicks4802]

Got a purple one with Pokemon Pinball for christmas 1999, Thanks grandma

[@michaelswitzer2121]

Grandma is always the best

[@JesseAndMike]

Miss Gameboy! It's time for a Gameboy Classic! :D

[@efanlemon9331]

I’m glad you explained this, I’ve been sleeping on upgrading from my gameboy to the colour for nearly 20 years, now I can finnaly get the latest in handheld gaming

[@demetriuspowell29]

?

[@efanlemon9331]

the spook who sat by the door. Powell Ye sarcasm doesn’t come across well when you type a message

[@DreamcastGuy]

Have such a huge Game Boy collection and the color to me will always have a special place in the market. To me it was a different generation but no matter what it was certainly a bombshell at the time. :D

[@TechAlivePT]

@@JeremySheer lol

[@bloodless653]

I always thought of the GameBoy Color as a new generation. I loved my Atomic Purple GBC so much.

[@klousazo]

I modded my GBA with a GBA SP screen. That's one of the most awesome mods for the GBA i have seen and the amp for speaker also is a plus.

[@zpushy633sora]

It that Easy to Mod a Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance or is it Hard?

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@zpushy633sora If you don't have good soldering skill, and/or equipment, then it can be hard, so on a scale from 1 - 10 I'm gonna say it's around a 6. Way easier to work on then a GameGear doing a full recap, and screen upgrade.

[@zpushy633sora]

@@CommodoreFan64 I don't know how to Solder but thanks for the tip

[@GeekHero_Bubba]

I want to mod mine badly. But I don't have the tools. Good for you for being so awesome :)

[@AnimeFanatic372]

I’ve had so many great memories with the GameBoy Color I love it so much.

[@CosmicGhost91]

I really enjoy tech waves. Very interesting. Keep up the amazing work.

[@iamnothuman27]

Dude good video . Brought me back. I had see thur purple one back then too. Still got original one too. I loved my game boy color lot of good memories

[@shortyorc121]

3:36 lmao the light!! Yes I had one and used it every time I played my gameboy. Oh the memories.

[@curtneedsaride]

Great look back! I remember getting the Gameboy on my 10th birthday. And then I remember getting the Gameboy color on my 21st birthday. So crazy that generation lasted so long. But it definitely felt like a revision. When the GBA was released, that truly had a generational leap in tech.

[@alekg.3999]

I had exactly the same set of games as you: Pokémon Blue/Silver, Oracle of Ages and Link's Awakening. My brother would have the other versions

[@gman2015z]

Same

[@seanscarborough4023]

Same, but throw in Oracle of seasons as well. Man, things were so mind blowing back then. Gotta miss it

[@geezus7833]

Omg you’re sooo special. Someone give this man a cookie!!!!!

[@mightylink65]

I remember when I was a kid I was desperate to play Pokemon Crystal on my original Game Boy so I broke the little plastic piece that prevented it from turning on and it worked! The game still ran fine in black and white and I played it for years until I finally got a Game Boy Color. Pokemon Crystal also used the IR port for the Mystery Gift feature that would give you and your friend a random decoration for your home.

[@PixelSprixie]

I'm a huge fan of the Gameboy Color, owning 4 different units, and I was always under the impression the Gameboy Color was a new generation. It came out after the N64 while the original Gameboy was around the Super Nintendo, the GBC really feels like a product of the late 90s, both in style and modest technology.

[@Jon-dr9th]

please keep doing these kind of videos, theyre amazing

[@stopthrm]

it was and still is one of my favorite systems of all time. The Color was a revelation when it came out. I had grown up with the Gameboy and I had long dreamed of a Gameboy with a color screen. Several years later the GBC came out I loved it. Pokemon, Zelda, and other interesting titles were on the GBC. I had only scratched the surface when it came out but through the power of the internet I've since learned of the many gems, original titles and ports that made up the library of this system truly put it up there with the true classic of all time.

[@themcfaceman]

Loved my GBC, and I had the purple one, although I remember being embarrassed to take it outside b/c I thought purple was too girly. I definitely put more hours into my original model. Sold it a long time ago, but I recently ordered the GB Boy Colour to relive some of that nostalgia and play some games I missed.

[@top_notch_taters]

I like how you keep hitting ⬆️ while playing TETRIS!🤣🤣

[@awesomedude5558]

Good ol' Tetris 99 skills ain't gonna work on your good ol' GameBoy.

[@jasnabega3958]

Oh I remember first schoolday after xmas. Everyone came up with the green or purple gameboy color. Happy memories😁

[@Snakeater222]

Amazing vid, Spawn Wave! I remember playing my brother's original gameboy and I eventually got an Advance/SP when I got older. A trip down memory lane! Love it.

[@qwertylerqw3]

I LOVE seeing these type of videos from you. I hope to see more in the future!

[@leeartlee915]

I grew up with the Gameboy and got one from a foreign exchange student who was living with us in the early 90s (apparently her father actually worked at Nintendo). I played the hell out of it like most kids my age did. When I graduated high school at the end of the decade, I was packing up all my stuff with one exception: my Gameboy stuff. For the first and only time, I took all those games and put them in a Goodwill bag. I think, for the most part, the Gameboy was something you played not really for fun but to past time. In fact, my experience with the Gameboy was so negative that it put me off of handheld gaming for years. I didn’t own a handheld system until the Switch came out. After I got that, I had this epiphany that “yeah, maybe some of those later handhelds had some worthwhile games”. And yeah, there were. But yeah, my relationship with Gameboy has been a complicated one. I think it was ubiquitous in its time but for the most part, I think the games were not very good. It did puzzle games well but that’s about it. I hate love you Gameboy. Gameboy Color, I hardly knew ye.

[@jessicawilson8240]

I have extremely fond memories of my GBC. My brothers and I wanted game boys for Christmas and really only expected to get pockets because we weren’t exactly rick and the colour was brand new - imagine our surprise and delight when we each unwrapped a GBC on Christmas Day. I put a lot of hours into Pokemon silver and the Zelda oracle games.

[@rushikakkirala948]

Definitely new gen. It completely amped up the visuals and made it so you could see, the gap was significant, and specific games were supported better on this and more were exclusive to the GBC. Considering the number of games not playable on the original GB, it should be considered a new gen

[@rushikakkirala948]

Neverrr mind, I was wrong

[@gman2015z]

I still got my lime green Gameboy and my brother's purple Gameboy like the one seen in this video. Also still got the link cable, light cable, and other accessories like Game Boy Print! I miss those days when Goodwill and thrift shops had good stuff.

[@speedyink]

Its kinda funny how you started this... My first Gameboy of my own was a Gameboy Color, and I bought it with Pokemon Red. The release of the Gameboy Color sparked it for me, as I thought the color screen on it was just so darn cool. It was so crisp for motion, the blacks were very black, and of course the color capability. I honestly didn't really mind the lack of the backlight at the time. It's just how Gameboys were and I'd always find a way to make it work. I spent so much damn time with my Brother and friends playing that system, so many fond memories.

[@ben31uk]

It would of been cool if the switch had a slot for ds and 3ds cartridges

[@qwertylerqw3]

That would’ve been an INSANE library to start out with

[@drewroberts9488]

I'm still crossing my fingers for revision that adds that, even if it only played 3ds. Playing switch, ds and 3ds games would be amazing.

[@djtremix1]

For those of us who lived in what I prefer to call, the golden age. These devices with all the other classics will always have a big spot in our hearts. Ahh, the nostalgia of those good old days

[@Jdb63]

Every generations childhood was the "golden age"

[@the.littlest.toaster]

@@Jdb63 not the kids from the 30's and 40's

[@Jdb63]

@@the.littlest.toaster I'm sure they found something to reminisce about lol

[@djtremix1]

​@@Jdb63 hehehe well said XD.

[@the.littlest.toaster]

@@Jdb63 i hope so.

[@zkatt3238]

The real question: Why didn't nintendo give the Wii U built-in GameCube support (even though it can play it perfectly) and the 3ds a full GBA slot like the DS Lite?

[@zkatt3238]

Pretty much all the system is missing is the controller ports. With some homebrew you can flawlessly run GC games on Wii U, since it's basically just two wiis taped together, and the wii is basically just 2 Gamecubes taped together. They all have very similar chip architecture.

[@DJ-mq6tx]

Awesome look back into the past!

[@samvimes9510]

I got that exact same Gameboy Color as a kid, and I had the limited edition "Ice Blue" Gameboy Pocket. Still have both of 'em too. As for the games I played the most on the Pocket/Color, it was Pokemon, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Game and Watch Gallery, Megaman, Wario Land, Harvest Moon and Donkey Kong Land.

[@MFTony727]

All of these games that you're mentioning are games that I loved playing on my gbc. I had the turquoise colored one with my first games being the Pokémon yellow and red. Damn, where'd the last 20 years go?

[@MrSupersonic2012]

Growing up the Gameboy and Gameboy Color were a bit before my time. I got a GBA for my 5th Birthday alongside Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland. My brother had a Gameboy Color and I remember watching him play Pokemon Red. I was a fan of the cartoon and had played Stadium on N64 so I got the newest Pokemon game for my birthday which was Sapphire. Loved it so much I went and got gen 1 and 2 games. My GB/C library consisted of Pokemon Blue, Yellow, Gold, and Silver. And nothing else.

[@smgofdvld]

Not really Gameboy color but in general it was spongebob And pokemon I think I played megaman games too

[@enthused7591]

I got the Gameboy Pokemon Trading Card game in 2000 with the holo Meowth promo included. Kept that card in its sealed wrap in my old beat-up binder for 21 years until I sent it to PSA in 2021. It came back a PSA 10 and when I went to look up how much it's worth, found out only about 50 of them ever graded a PSA 10 in the entire world and no PSA 10's had ever shown up on the market for the entire previous year at the time. Even today almost to 2025, only 68 total #10 Gameboy Meowth blackstar promos exist in a PSA 10. When I listed it on Ebay for $2,000 it sold in a couple hours. Pretty awesome experience.

[@FullBitGamer]

Silly Jonathan, you can't fast fall in classic Tetris! XD (9:26)

[@RhythmGrizz]

For your Game Boy collection: Pokémon. Pokémon, pokémon, and more pokémon. Every single one is worth your time. I'm going to personally recommend Crystal and Yellow in particular.

[@neocaron87]

The question on everyone's lips watching this video... Do GameBoy Color games work on the OG console if forced to fit...You know what you gotta try do Sir ^^ Awesome video by the way!

[@the.littlest.toaster]

Right i remember wanting to file down the notch on the side so it would fit. Never did it though.

[@AxelAlexK]

Loved my Game Boy Color when I was a kid. I had a yellow one, and I still have it and it still works. However, as a 30-something my eyes just can't take the tiny screen these days. I wish we had a way to play the cartridges on a TV because there's plenty of older games I'd love to replay but I'm just not going to stare at that tiny screen for hours on end.

[@Fendera1]

Damn, SpawnWave you really have some guns there! Hitting the gym pays off :)

[@FoxBlacksmith]

A backward-compatible half-step generation? Although, the Gameboy Color did have exclusive games that were only playable with the GBC, so . . . new generation? Syntax Error: historical discrepancies - Forge Onward.

[@Toddwick6]

Confirming integrity of Source-Code, Dr. Blacksmith. Commencing Reboot sequence.

[@StarlinkNova]

I still have my Atomic Purple Game Boy Color and still use it occasionally to this day. Such a fantastic little device.

[@the.littlest.toaster]

Man i remember buying a light and when i got home plugged it in the light color was a orange color like a old street lap i was soo mad but now looking back it was probably meant to be easy on the eyes for nighttime sessions.

[@izaicslinux6961]

I was badly addicted to my brother/parent's gameboy color and gameboy advanced back in 2007-2010. I remember burning out the battery on one pokemon yellow cartriadge, and a pokemon ruby cartridge which was starting to corrupt saves. So many sleepless nights!

[@SpouTSmemS]

I love your retro topic videos! Keep em up

[@jtnachos16]

The gameboy color was definitely a refresh. The massive number of game boy color games that also worked on the original are proof enough of this. You had the grey carts, which were OG game boy games and worked on both systems, with just a set of predefined system palettes native to GBC, you had the black carts, which were GBC games that had a degraded colorless mode for the original system (with a few exceptions that wouldn't run on an OG gameboy) but had special expanded palettes for GBC that weren't changeable, then you had the bulge carts, which were typically clear plastic, even when colored, which worked solely on GBC. The various solid colored carts tended to be, aside from red and blue pokemon, the equivalent of black carts. You also had a few carts that had built in things like rumble packs, which were typically, iirc, bulge carts. As for gameboy games you may wanna take a look at? Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest (NA/PAL region names). It was basically the blueprint for the legendary 'mana' series. Sword of Mana is a remake of it. I really wish I hadn't lost my cartridge of it way back in the day. Was very impressive for a grey cart. There was also a version of the original gta on game boy, iirc. I think it was a black cart. It might be worth a look. There was also a conker game on the game boy or GBC, don't remember which specifically. It was, iirc, a prequel to bad fur day that was drastically different in tone. I also fondly remember an interesting sylvester and tweety game that switched between sidescrolling platformer and isometric puzzle game. There were just so many gameboy games. I've never seen a full list, because noone seems to be sure just how many were released, let alone the ones that were completed but never actually released. There's also always the more well-known staples like Shantae (good luck finding it for a reasonable price), Pokemon, wario land.

[@danielaakhus3549]

I think it was it’s own system because it had games specifically for game boy color. It didn’t just add color to regular game boy games.

[@Bidwellz9]

thats like saying sega 32x isnt just a sega its something different

[@Angultra]

I agree it was a refresh, similar to how the New 3DS was a refresh that was faster with a c-stick and 2 extra shoulder buttons.

[@qwertylerqw3]

I grew up with the GBA but I agree. The whole situation just mimics the New 3DS

[@jackson5116]

In the late-90's Nintendo pitched it as the next generation of Game Boy, but later recanted, considering it a refresh of the original, even including its sales totals of roughly 50 million in with the 70 million of Game Boy/Pocket.

[@PashPaw]

It’s a revision. I always had considered it to be such. It can communicate with almost all of the standard GB peripherals like the link caboe and Camera and the weird black cart games worked on all Game Boys.

[@bluejay7071]

OMG I grew up with an Atomic Purple Game boy Color. I even had atomic purple joy cons made for my switch. That "color" is my childhood.

[@johnodaz1273]

Great video Jon(SW). I wasn't really into Handheld Gaming, I remember playing a ton of Tetris on the Original GB and I've played the GBC aswell but outside of afew of the usual games, I didn't really play it alot preferred Home Consoles.

[@devilishmode]

Gameboy Pocket ‘Light’ was out was out before the GBA & GBC I believe!

[@ReasonableRam]

Japan Only though :-p

[@reloadpsi]

A refresh. A bloody good one though.

[@skyline112006]

The IR Blaster was use with the pocket pikachu as well if I remember correctly. Mine was pretty much a Pokémon machine too. I’m not sure but wasn’t Silver sold as a GBC game without the clear case?

[@ReasonableRam]

At first I was going to say it's a new generation because it has games specifically for the Game Boy Color only, but then I realized it was the same story with the "New 3DS" which also had exclusive games for that version. So now I consider the GBC a revision instead.

[@nateswanson2443]

Awesome content like always keep up the good work

[@fatmatt589]

9:10 Gamecube did not have any backwards compatibility either. There was no N64 cartridge slot on that lunchbox.

[@demetriuspowell29]

You could play Gameboy advance game's

[@fatmatt589]

@@demetriuspowell29 Yeah with an accessory that you had to buy separately and plug in. Not natively out of the box.

[@demetriuspowell29]

@@fatmatt589 yes I know

[@MSGSlayer1]

Before GBC there was the Japan-exclusive Game Boy Light with a backlit screen. But yeah, the rest of us had to wait for the GBA.

[@wimwiddershins]

I think Edge magazine saw the GBC as "more evolution than revolution" which sums it up for me.

[@AirshBornely]

Oh my gosh. I grew up with that Tony Hawk GBC game. I remember blindly buying it expecting it to be exactly like the console versions. Luckily I still I still enjoyed this version of the game and it brings a lot of nostalgia

[@flashblade9316]

would be cool if Nintendo released a switch mini in clear purple.

[@thejonofalltrades]

Except there likely won’t be a switch mini, at least not for a good while

[@tabhamza021]

IT's so funny that your conclusion was exactly was i said on twitter , even the exemple of the 3DS

[@HugeHandsJackKelly]

Bonks adventure is always a classic! I loved playing that game on my thicc Boi GB

[@rolph1082]

Love how you tried to harddrop in tetris :D

[@ReasonableRam]

9:26 Twice in a row actually lol. I would be doing the same. I forgot they didn't add hard drops until later on.

[@NullusTristis]

Great video! You should make more like this.

[@Tom-xy7mx]

The GBC was my first handled, got it on my B-day along with wario blast as my first game. Played the shit out of it as a kid. Not only did it solidify my love for gameboy, but also for bomberman style games oddly enough.

[@freedomandwhathaveyou4062]

Very good video, your content is getting a lot better, very good video, very professional

[@genwunnergreen2100]

The Worm Light was a godsend for road trips.

[@theshadowdirector]

I always thought of it as a new system as it had so many games only it could play.

[@ReasonableRam]

I thought the same too until Nintendo released the "New 3DS" which also had games only it could play, so now I'm more on the side of revision.

[@theshadowdirector]

@@ReasonableRam but the New 3DD had about 2 or 3 exclusive games in its entire life. GBC had a Heck of a lot more, in the latter half of its life. Almost all releases were color only.

[@Snotnarok]

I don't recall any discussions whether or not it was a next-gen system. It was always simply an upgraded Gameboy, nothing more. The games were very similar, but colorized. Sure some games were more impressive but it wasn't the leap the GB had to the GBA, similar to the NES to SNES. Still 8bit hardware at it's core. Especially given that the system wasn't seeing nearly the same amount of releases. More seemed to be the cross compatible versions.

[@zpushy633sora]

I Remember when my Sister gave me her Atomic Purple Game Boy Color when it 1st Released Years Ago I would play it I would always had a Hard time seeing the Screen and I would show my Mom what I was supposed to do and SHE would have a Hard Time seeing it too and then she would look at it Closer and she said "it says here "Press Start" and I Pressed Start (because I Already knew how to do that) and I would just sit back down and start playing the Game

[@OZEEtube]

I also had an atomic purple GBC back then. Good times.

[@danielpatrick3268]

Gbc is it's own separate system imo. This is because of the shere amount of exclusives. And not just obscure third party exclusives either. The new 3ds had like 5 exclusive games.

[@tunnel77xx32]

Great video man!

[@kringhetto]

I remember asking for a GB Pocket that year because there wasnt a red option for the GB Color. I ended up getting both Pokemon Red and Blue, so I gave blue to my older brother who got a GB Color.

[@newphilmz3605]

The Color was definitely a new gen but it wasn't made clear. When it came out, based on the name, I thought the GBC just colorized gameboy games. Which is does but in a simple way with only a few colors. Gameboy color games were full color, but some could be played in the original gameboy like Pokemon gold & silver, while Crystal could only be played on a gbc. So it got confusing. Plus the jump in original gameboy vs color games wasn't that big to make a huge noticeable difference besides the color.

[@finesir]

Love the topic, alot of people have strong opinions on this topic, including me, so i love a good discussion video on it

[@shanematthews1985]

Mystery gifting worked on Gold and Silver aswell iirc

[@josephdunn5368]

Dragon Warrior Monsters, Azure Dreams and Lufia The Legend Returns were all really enjoyable for me!

[@jbuggyps2]

Metal Gear Solid on the GBC was amazing. Definitely check that out

[@PSNGormond]

Still have my yellow GBC with Pokemon Yellow. Although as you suggested, I tend to use my GBA SP AGS101 for playing older GB(C) games.

[@MonadoJoJo]

I remember playing my Gameboy Advance SP A TON when i was a kid. My two favorite games were Mario Kart Super Curcuit and Super Mario Advance!

[@pablocoss1283]

Thinking about it, yeah, I also believe the GBC was a revision. Most played game on GBC? Pokémon Gold. I had a bunch more, but that's was basically the one I always had on the console. The port of the PS1 Spider-Man game, the one developed by Vivendi, was also one of my favorites.

[@zgoaty9235]

Seeing as I have a GB Color that one of my parent’s managed to find while going through some old things, I would like to be able to find someone to be able to do a backlight mod for it, seeing as I don’t really have the tools or the know-how to do it myself (the last time I worked with a Soldering tool was back in middle school and that was 11-12 years ago). Also, GB and GB Color games do not look all that great on the GBA/SP due to the pixel and aspect ratio mismatch.

[@michaelswitzer2121]

Wasn't it called donkey cong land on the game boy I had 1 and 2 and they didn't have color maybe I'm just remembering wrong

[@supermark64]

different game

[@jzeke91]

Spawnwave retrospective? I’m with it. I of course loved the pokemon and zelda games, but Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Lands 1-3, and the Mario Land titles kept me busy

[@grimmjonog6851]

I want them to add a GameBoy app to the online service like they did NES.

[@renossantinc768]

i remember they had a convention at a shopping mall for pokemon... my parents took me and my siblings and found hundreds of kids in this mall, all with gameboys and pokemon and link cables lol. fun you couldn't even describe to kids of this generation! good ol days

[@nocfox3050]

The Gameboy.. Pretty much the most iconic handheld family of systems If only I had one when I was growing up, but it was hard getting systems where I live But I did get the DS Lite, which is another iconic handheld for it’s time

[@dragonfistX200]

Wish I still had my gameboy color. Have no idea where it's gone

[@nocfox3050]

dragonfistX200 Yeah, that’s one of the issues with handhelds.. Especially if you were younger..

[@Zed596]

Got the gameboy color bundle that came with pokemon yellow + strategy guide back in the day and it was the only game I ever had =p

[@gundamwarrior]

Tetris DX was a great upgrade to the original Tetris on the gameboy. Pocket Bomberman was also a great game. I really enjoyed it when I was a kid. Also obligatory Gold / Silver / Crystal pokemon. Mario Land was a decent game. Had some unique mechanics in it that were to that series of games. I didn't get the second one however. Donkey Kong Country on the GB was interesting too. It was as one can expect of a DKC game, difficult.

[@BraxtonKovary]

Never had a GBC, but always thought it was an interesting little console. I do, however, have a GameBoy, and wouldn't mind if I find myself getting one to play my older games in color.

[@randomnumbers710]

This topic was on reddit like 2 days ago. Same CPU/architecture same gen

[@Commander_ZiN]

you could also use the IR transmitter to transfer pokemon mystery gifts in the main games.

[@ShiningSakura]

dumb question but what is the music called that is in this video... I tried finding it on the website you mentioned and could not find it. Thanks!

[@mielthesquid6536]

I didn't know some people thought the GBC was a new generation console... Generation are definied with game libraries. Today there's a lot of overlap and it's less clear than before, but you still can't play a Wii U Mario Kart 8 on a Switch that's why the Switch is no matter what some people think a 9th gen console.

[@TechAlivePT]

Luv the gamboy but the 3DS is the true gem,so many great games and some neat 3D games just make it magical

[@kyrandm6045]

That circle pad is shit though

[@coochie8670]

Yeah, no. You didnt grow up with the gameboy. It was superior in terms of game quality back then compared to the 3DS.

[@kyrandm6045]

@@coochie8670 I grew up with the ds lite, Wii, PS3 and xbox 360 typical 2000s