What was it like owning the first game boy for the first time?

What was it like owning the first game boy for the first time?

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It was hard to get good lighting and some games have motion blur out the ass.

>What was it like owning the first game boy for the first time?
Tetris was fun and I even got my mom to play with me. Mario was hard as hell.

It was like you had freedom to have fun anytime.
I could only play my NES when my dad was still at work, and after school so if only be able to play for 2 hours, so a Gameboy let me play when he was home.
After my first Gameboy, my dad got me a sega nomad and I had way more fun with that.

Like owning any other console/handheld for the first time. I was super hyped and played the fuckin thing constantly, but eventually dropped it instantly once I got a Color.

It was nice being able to take a video game anywhere and play it anytime, but with the OG gameboys, you had to be in good light because they weren't backlit.

really fucking fun, it was surreal how much fun that little guy with monochrome display could be.

Also, I still have it, along with my original Mew given at toys r us

Kinda like salty milk and coins.

It was the first gaming "anything" that i owned. It was the best. When you didn't play games, you could just put your ear up to the speaker and listen to the music games had.

Im so old i can remember Gameboy being a thing with nothing like Pokemon to exist.

Gameboy camera blew my kid mind, it was too fuckig surreal. I spent hours Just trying to find all the bizzare secrets it had.

Memories.

Used to play mine for so long that even after turning it off, I could still kind of hear the chipset tunes ringing in my ears.

Was also durable as all fuck. My backyard caught on fire, and I had left my gameboy outside, probably for days. Shit was half melted and still worked perfectly. Had it for a long while after until my mom chucked it on me one day without asking me when I was around 17. Kept it as a testament to how old shit used to be made to last, while new shit is made to break and force you to rebuy.

Never had many games on it though. Had Tetris 2, Spiderman, Batman, Super Mario Land, Donkey Kong Jr, and that was it.

Lol PS4 ports when?

>Gameboy camera blew my kid mind, it was too fuckig surreal. I spent hours Just trying to find all the bizzare secrets it had.

I loved the little shmup on it

>Gameboy Color comes out
>ask parents for Gameboy Color with Pokemon Gold
>get a Brickboy and Pokemon Red
>enjoy it anyways

Was alright. Sucked not being able to see shit.

BUT THATS A GAME BOY ADVANCE GAME
WHAT

i still remember going to wal mart and picking mine out for my birthday

what a good feel.

I love my mom. Love my dad, too. RIP dad.

feels of all kind. thanks op.

does the gbc count?

My left hand was broken, so beat pokemon blue with only my right hand.

Look at this fucking box. Can you fucking imagine how this blew a 6 year olds mind getting that for christmas?

They are tough no doubt.

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I use to platy kirby's dream land until I would get headaches and had to stop. I was so confused when I booted up a different kirby game years later and it had all the powers and junk

Good times

What is this meme?

Got it for Christmas of 1995. We spent that holdiay in Nicaragua visiting senpai, so my parents had order it internationally mailed. It was a transparent version, letting you see all the circuitry. Came inside a giant plastic container the size of a Nintendo 64, and bundled with Power Ranger the Movie game. When we got back to America, my dad took me to Toys R Us and bought me Super Mario Land.

The Gameboy was my most prized possession for a long time. Sometime after highschool I think I got rid of it. I regret that, but I'm happy with my memories.

it was fucking shit. i never even wanted one until the gameboy color came out. my grandma and cousins all had original game boys and i never understood the appeal of the green and black scheme. plus you could never tell what the fuck was going on once shit started moving

played the everliving fuck out of this though

It was great.
>motherfucking headphone jack
>SHIT, IT'S TOO BRIGHT HERE. I CAN'T SEE SHIT.
>SHIT, IT'S TOO DARK HERE. I CAN'T SEE SHIT.
>carrying spare batteries on trips for GB and walkman
>link cable matches with friends
>Mortal Kombat II on it was fucking garbage but everyone at school had it and we thought it was great
>your face is the third boss in the shmup
>dancing Shiggy

It was like the future was now. But it also made you appreciate home consoles alot more.

>tfw I used to play Kirby Tilt and Tumble for the GBC in my parents car

So much sickness

>What was it like owning the first game boy for the first time?
Blurry as fuck, went through batteries like Pez, and incredibly awesome being able to play video games without taking up the family TV in the living room. It meant you could just go to your room and play for as long as you wanted, not limited to the one hour or whatever you normally had in the evening.

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>They don't make them like they used to
Cherrypicking and selective hindsight. Fallacy. U R dum

Boss ass shit. Color aside it was like having a portable nes. Games were quick, screen was small enough the resolution wasn't an issue. You were always jealous of game gear tho, except the battery performance was a hundred times better.

If you have to ask, you're very obviously a newfag.

I was so fucking jealous of this one game my friend had for the game gear.

It had some generic title like demon guns. You were slaying monsters and upgraded your weapons to be crazy strong. It was so cool

I liked this game.
Well, relatively speaking. I did play Castlevania Adventure on the Game Boy, after all.

I played my first procedurally generated roguelike on a borrowed game gear. What a night

bull

its Aria of Sorrow

Lurker since 05 actually. Saying something like thst makes you seem like... A newfag.

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How do you fix the screen width and height when using this shader? I've tried playing gba games with this but the bottom of the screen is cut off too much.

Found it, it was called DARK ARMS and it was for the NEO GEO POCKET

It was pretty neat, the fact that you could play video games in the palm of your hand really your mind as a kid. I got mine when I was 6 years old, and the first games I played were Tetris and Kirby's Dreamland. This handheld had a metric fuckton of games, from RPGs to platformers to shumps.

Younger folk these days would probably scoff at the graphics and say they look like shit, but at the time it looked incredibly, even without color. The games look better as dot matrix, playing on emulators just isn't the same.

OP it was so good that I was thinking about this nostalgia over xmas. To relive it I bought myself a gameboy advance SP (simply because the rechargable battery and backlight are too convenient) and a flash cart so I can relive all of my GB, GBC and GBA memories.

It was the best, I never went anywhere without my original game boy from about the age of three. Shaped me a lot.

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A kid in 1st grade had one with Mario Land, Tetris and Castlevania (yes he was spoiled). I played Mario for a while but I remember having problems to see things clearly.

Also the thought of having to carry at least 4 spare batteries all the time was weird. Back then only big ass boomboxes required such a ridiculous amount of batteries.

>game included
>headphones included
>link cable included
I'd be pretty excited too.

Kids these days take backlighting on screens for granted.

>(yes, he was spoiled)

Eh, that doesn't sound too bad. I would probably call him spoiled if he had both a SNES and Genesis. Gameboy was pretty affordable, even my poor ass had one with a bunch of games back then.

How long do you guys think the battery life would have been if Nintendo had made the Nintendo IRIS (successor to GBA with one screen)?

I imagine 3DS still expends a ton of power emulating GB games because of the backlit lighting, route power to both screens (for the virtual console menu and what not), and keep the HOME Menu in the background.

What if we went back to simpler days before backlighting? Would you buy a Nintendo IRIS if it had only 2D games, a screen the size of a 3DS' top screen, and a 100 hour battery life? Let's say it launches with Undertale, AM2R, and Pokemon Prism. How much would you pay?

Playing Warioland, Game And Watch Gallery, and Jurassic Park 2 on the darkness of a freeway was an art form.

>Let's say it launches with Undertale, AM2R, and Pokemon Prism
What a bizarre selection, user.

My Brick has lasted me years. It lost it's screen protector a while back after the glue went completely dry, but it still works to this day So long as I keep pressure on the battery pack.

This. Also went through so many batteries, I'm pretty sure Gameboy was responsible for millions of battery waste.

Those are the only 2D games in the news these days.

Maybe Terraria, but Sup Forums never talks about it.

>Man, those games for the GBA sure look nice
>I can't wait to play them and experience less eye strain!

Hell yeah duuude.

Many games were shit though and there was no Youtube to look up gameplay so you had to rely on the cover art.

I only played Tetris on it.

>Kept it as a testament to how old shit used to be made to last

A side effect of being extremely simple.
Less points of failure versus newer electronics gives the illusion of being made better.

>100 hour battery life
Is that even possible with just taking away backlighting?

>a screen the size of a 3DS' top screen, and a 100 hour battery life? Let's say it launches with Undertale, AM2R, and Pokemon Prism.

Technically we have such devices, too bad they
a. Don't receive much attention
b. Cost almost the same as a regular laptop

Pretty awesome. Mario land was hard as balls. When pokemon came out it blew everyone's mind, as did Link's Awakening. It took too long for the little dongle lights that plug into the trade port to come out. I used to play in the car with my parents driving, playing using just the streetlights passing by.

>love Contra and Metal Slug
>uncle buys me this
>still have fun
I like it more than the arcade.

Playing a shitload of pokemon and then a shitload of dragon warrior monsters.

>be a kid
>own a gameboy
>mom bring me to a toy store to buy a new game
>have to decide between wario land and one of those tiger handheld that featured sonic
>decide for sonic handheld because i was really curious about sonic
>realize later that day i made a shit decision and start crying
>mom return the sonic handheld and convince the toy store owner to trade it for wario land
>which i must have cleared like a thousand time

Man, i was spoiled
also fuck sonic! he almost ruined my childhood

>CastleKino boss
>I've got a BONE to pick with you!

A backlight would be great, but I'll never understand why they couldn't have added at least a frontlight by the time the GBC rolled around

Poor lighting and I only had one game that was about connecting gears across the screen or something. That said it was the shit with Pokemon red.

Its limitations for batteries and visibility in the dark made the handheld more charming in my eyes or maybe that's just nostalgia talking.

If you got a gameboy in 1990 you were set for like 8 full years until the successor came out.

Even commercials couldn't make Tiger handhelds look good.
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I don't think I had a game I generally disliked on the Gameboy. Even the completely shit ones like Bart Simpson's escape from Camp Deadly had some redeemable things I appreciated.

This game was my shit back in the day. I found all the treasures, but I forgot to do the boss rush. Never did finish that.

The one i actually owned was this
Just looking at it makes me angry

Pretty stabil

>implying this didn't rock the shit out of my childhood that Christmas.
Actually worked well given how little you actually could do with those things.

I owned a few of these back in the day, including this one. It was the poorman's Sonic.

Played this at my cousin's grandparent's place once. I don't remember much other then occasionally hitting an enemy for 20 second spurts.

I got one in 93 I believe. I played it and Game Gear exclusively until Nintendo 64 came out in 96.

>give in and buy a worm light
>worst thing ever
I'd see more holding it up to the fucking sun.

>What was it like owning the first game boy for the first time?
Let me think:
>1991
>be 10yo poorfag
>win Brickboy in a raffle
>beat Tetris
>beat Super Mario Land
>beat Prince of Persia
GB introduced me to vidya.

Listen man, I don't want to get too personal, but that light saved me from getting my ass beat by my Father. That little light let me play at night under my covers. I couldn't play it during the day because he hated computers and videogames with a burning passion and wouldn't allow them in the house. So my sister got me a gameboy with Link's Awakening, Mario, and Pokemon Blue for my birthday one year along that shitty little light, and I hid it under my bed and played only at night with the sound off. You may think it sucked ass, but to me it was perfection.

Jesus how old are you people? People over the age of 20 should not post here.

I'm 28, currently on an airplane. The fuck else is there to do with this shitty worked-provided laptop with a 2nd gen i3 and 4gb ram?

I had this one as well. I think I had just about every Sonic tiger game. It kept my occupied as a little kid until our financial situation improved and I got better games.

30
i actualy still own the brick

>it took nintendo until the SP to get backlights working

Quiet you fool

28 and fuck you faggot.

The original Game Boy used so many batteries that it only actually NEEDS two to run, but takes four for longer playing.

Seriously, dig out your old brick, put two batteries in the outside slots, and some paper clips in the middle. It'll still work.

They cared more about battery power after seeing the Game Gear's failure due to its constant need for a wall plug

what're you fucking amish?
hope you're doing well user, youir dad sounds like a psycho

You're here forever, also you're jelly because you missed the golden age of vidya, enjoy growing up with SJWs and DLCs
Gen Z was a mistake.

Post game boy games I should download and play right fucking now ITT.

People over the age of 18 shouldn't post here.

Molemania

You're here forever. 26 here and been posting since I was 15. You will never leave and you will regret all the time you've wasted here. But it will also be the best times you ever have. You'll see soon enough.

it was pure and utter shit. but i did not know any better and so it was awesome. ignorance is bliss.

I recently replayed Kirby's Dream Land on my original game boy for the first time in a long while and it was a completely different experience from playing it on an emulator and it was so much more enjoyable.
Emulators just can't compete no matter how advanced the shaders are.

links awakening

Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario Land 3 Wario Land
Kirby's Dreamland
Kirby's Dreamland 2
For the Frog the Bell Tolls

we had low standards as children back then
dont even want to remember the glory days

>Not playing Pokemon Prism
I admit the new types fall into donut steel territory but at least they add an extra difficulty

I dunno my brother wouldn't let me touch it :^(

Yep, emulators can't capture that dot matrix goodness. They were made to be played in that format. Everything else, including Gameboy Color, just makes the games look worse.

Nah dude just had some pretty serious anger issues and hated whatever he didn't understand. A lot of people do that, but when you take someone with severe anger issues, it just exasperates things.

I ended up finally getting a computer in highschool, even though he was pissed. But no internet was allowed, so I had to build a little cantenna system to get my neighbor's shitty wifi (which was brand new at the time, and even a light rain would kill off any chance of staying connected).

I'm actually doing pretty well now. I moved out about 10 years ago, nice paying job, sweet girlfriend, and generally have my shit together thankfully. Thank you for asking.