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Zoomers will never know how bad life was before backlit portable displays. Needing a flashlight to play your Game Boy in the back seat of the station wagon on a 10 hour drive family vacation. If either ran out of batteries, you were fucked.
what the fuck is this game
worst castlemania
gba isn't that old
older than a lot of the people posting here
I never complained. Backseat car rides were just fine and third parties had overhead lights. Things were okay and to be a cliche, maximum comfy.
I first ejaculation is older than the majority of the people posting here. Wherever that went.
It's old enough to fuck and smoke dude
>not playing in intervals timed to the passing street lights
literally old enough to post here
Probably still gunking up the buttons of your gba
I always envied people that could fall asleep in cars. I've never been the type. Would have made my childhood summers a lot nicer.
Reminds me of how you literally had to buy a lamp for these things.
Old man, I hate to do this to you, but that was 30 years ago.
>Zoomers will never know how bad life was before backlit portable displays
It wasn't that bad. Annoying that you had to buy third party solutions to hardware faults, but really no more annoying that having to constantly update your system software and download game updates. Significantly less annoying, actually, but I'll put them on the same level since you used to have to pay cash out of pocket for solutions.
A bigger annoyance was the low refresh rate on some of those older LCD screens creating damned neared unplayable levels of ghosting - especially on the Sega GameGear and Nomad. Both the Nomad and GameGear had backlit screens out of the box, but they also had godawful battery lives.
>reading comprehension
I remember when pokemon Red/blue came out, I had to go to some sperg's birthday party because he didn't have many friends. It was a really annoying couple of hours, but as a reward my parents bought Pokemon Red just as we begin a 7 hour drive to another province. It's light out for maybe 40 minutes given how late it was, and my mom's boyfriend at the time hands me a small metal work flashlight that I hold over my gameboy screen until it legit runs dead before the gameboy does. By the end of the trip I had the contrast turned up pretty high, I think I got all the way to cerulean city gym before I had to get fresh batteries. Was a good night, good memories.
Game Gear came out just 1 year later. COLOR screen. and BACKLIT. Reminder that Sega was once fucking awesome.
fun thing about being a kid is you remember lots of background details like this. Was a blue mag light similar to this one
I also remember never actually playing it because I never had enough fucking batteries
Yes, with all of its glorious one hour battery life.
Game Boy had already dominated the market by then, though. In a fair game, Sega should have easily pushed Game Boy out because Game Gear was a much better machine. But trains simpy aren't that easy to stop. It only sold 11,000,000 units. Game Boy sold 119,000,000.
it also had awful battery life and NO GAMES.
>*Batteries die*
That was a master system brick with a screen. I have one. No idea if it works. I have the batteries but I'd rather not know whether or not the capacitor leaked and fucked all of it up. Worked like, ten years ago and has a sonic 2 cartridge.
>Yes, with all of its glorious one hour battery life.
The did have AC adapters, though.
Is this penis inspection day?
Day 1 broken hardware. This thing was hell. It made your eyes and face muscles hurt. It ate all your batteries. And it was the only way to play a fuckin video game in peace.
Might as well get a Master System, which had all the same games but way better.
>gameboy color with a wormlight
So long gay bowser.
You were still fucked if you didn't ask your parents to at least buy you some packs of batteries.
The Sony PlayStation 4 of its day.
>great hardware
>but no games
Not that I know of. But, you know, porn games with dozens of barely-legal girls. One of them is bound to have a dick.
I still have a copy of this factory sealed
Hey, it had terrible sports games that I have no idea regarding the location of.
Don't forget the pixel blurring which was a big problem on games whose developers didn't take the GB's slow refresh rate into account. That's why the majority of GB games played slow or else everything will end up a blurry eye aching mess.
I should've taken more pictures in the last 20 years. I have fuck all to look forward to, and even less to look back on.
Fun fact, the Game Boy display actually ran at 59.7hz. For some reason. Considering the blurring, seems like they could have extended by the battery life further by lower the frame rate.
>I also remember never actually playing it because I never had enough fucking batteries
After a week I ended up resolving to save my allowance and buy a battery pack instead of a new game. I also got a cigarette lighter power cord. Batteries were never an issue unless you were actually hiking somewhere or going camping or some shit. I was one of the last kids off the bus, took nearly an hour and a half to get home from school - and I never had much of a problem with the battery packs running out of juice between the ride there, time at recess, and the ride home. If anything, the bigger problem was that you had to carry around an accessory that looked like a fucking dildo clipped to your pants.
I got this with my Gameboy for Christmas back in the early 90's. It actually kind of sucked as the magnifier just distorted the screen and the lights only lit up the edges of the gameboy so you still had a dark spot right in the middle.
Best light solution was the Worm Lights but those came out in the GBC era.
Some black kid stole my Game Boy in the 5th grade. True story. Started my on my long path of hating black people a little more and more each year the more I was around them. This is Memphis blacks, though. Not exactly the same as, say, South Dakota blacks.
>South Dakota blacks
all 3 of them?
Little kid me would have shit his pants if he knew what modders would get up to in the 21st century
god DAMN that game boy is fucking sexy
no homo
Paradise, right?
you're more impressed with a gameboy pocket with a backlight than a device that fits in the palm of your hand and can play every game up until the ps2/gc era, store every movie, tv show, song, and can browse the Internet and play games online and make phone calls?
Not that guy, but YES.
Fuck phones and their shitty retarded touch screens.
Anyone tried those retro handhelds on ebay? Not chinese knockoffs sold to fool people but handhelds made to play roms.
>you're more impressed with a gameboy pocket with a backlight than a device that fits in the palm of your hand and can play every game up until the ps2/gc era, store every movie, tv show, song, and can browse the Internet and play games online and make phone calls?
Wait... you can't make phone calls on the Vita.
>a device that fits in the palm of your hand and can play every game up until the ps2/gc era
That device does not exist.
Uhh car internal lights anyone?
Are there any emulators with sick built in borders like that? Filters are cool too but not necessary.
Dolphin runs perfectly fine on a 2 generation old flagship phone bro... you can even emulate DS games at 100% if you weren't aware with DraStic
Dolphin, as optimized it is, is far from perfect on phones. PS2 emulation on Android is laughable.
>implying your parents let you illuminate the entire interior, making it hard to see while driving at night, just you can play your little game
Yeah no.
Oh, wait, I just remembered this board is full of zoomers. They've probably never been in a car where all the lights were on the same circuit.
I just bought a BittBoy Pocket Go for $40 and it's fucking ace.
Big bulky
required a shit tone of batteries
no good game
There is a GOOD reason SEGA lost to nintendo
Zoomers will never know the comfy times of the 90s while playing quality 8 bit hand held games like zelda links awakening on the go for a 8 hour drive or on a plane
>be essentially a shittier Master System, which was already a piece of shit
>have a whopping ONE (1) hour battery life on SIX (6) batteries
>garbage library
>bulky as fuck compared to even a BrickBoy
It didn't matter if it was a more powerful hardware when it had fuckall people ACTUALLY cared about - a strong library and longevity. There's a reason why Nintendo got a fuckton of flack for the Switch being a failure as an actual handheld.
I can emulate plenty of GC games on my One Plus 7 Pro.
>no good game
Dragon Crystal was fucking great you dumb nigger. Basically a portable Fatal Labyrinth and ignited my appetite for Rogue-Likes. Also, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 for the GameGear were objectively superior to the GameBoy versions in both graphics and gameplay.
I used a light boy, one of the first screen magnifier/light attachment and probably the best. Unfortunately the batteries died often. Then the bulbs burned out.
On GBA I got one of those wormlights free and it was shit, always had a bright spot on the screen
The difference between the GB battery pack and the GG battery pack was that the GB battery pack lasted forever on a single charge. Of course, it also lasted on 4 AA batteries quite a long time too. They always said 30 hours on 4 AA batteries but I never quite got that much with my GB. Battery pack lasted weeks on a single charge. GG I hear got a few hours which is better than burning AAs I suppose. But you can’t run it off two AAs (I seem to remember the GB working with only two AAs present)
