People today forget this too but the original Game Boy was heavily marketed to adults in the early '90s as a time killer for the average businessman. That brick was probably expected to fit into a briefcase.
maybe in japan but that def aint no adult in the us ad. also the word game boy if your a game boy that means your a kid they dident call it the game man when you use the term we got all the boys and girls onto the train you think kids if you change that to all the men and women well i know game boy flows better but it also has to be what your marketing towards.
I've been watching lots of old MST3K broadcasts from the early 90s which is why I'm saying this lol, they had commercials targeted only at adults and they aired one of them about a hundred times during Turkey Day '91... Anyway, they're easy to find on RUclips. "I'm sorry sir, your flight's been delayed..." "cool! 😀"
The OG Gameboy to Color time gap is insane. On the same system, you could have a elementary schooler and high schooler who both can say "I grew up with the Gameboy"
Same thing is happening with the Switch. I see comments that are like, "I just graduated and I remember playing Breath of the Wild in Elementary School."
I only had a Color as a kid, one time I saw another kid playing Pokemon Yellow on a different Game Boy and it really weirded me out. It wasn't even in color!
I will never stop loving the Gameboy Micro, it's peak convergence of early 2000 trends. Miniaturized, sleek looking, personalizable, and upgraded in tiny ways.
21:40 They tried to pull the "third pillar" stunt with the Switch in relation to the Wii U and 3DS as well, but it replaced them both that time around.
I love this kind of Scott's Stash videos! (Which is most of the content anyway) I'll be super happy to eat my dinner with this in the background. Thanks Scott!
As far as I remember, the link cable slot of the GBA was also how the small console attached to the Gamecube, which some of the latters games had extras that could be used through it...
I had a titanium edition GameBoy Advance SP. I dropped it down a flight of stairs and it landed on a concrete floor. It got a scratch on one of the corners. I had that thing for 4 years, and I gave it to someone right before I moved. I talked to that guy years later and he said he used it for 3 years before giving it to someone else. Every time I see a poster for a titanium edition iPhone, I kinda wish I could afford to get one, coz I imagine it's durability is roughly the same as that SP.
GBA's backwards compatibility is pretty interesting topic. While DS's CPU was a more developed version of GBA's ARM architecture (so it had the same instructions set + more), and 3DS evolution of DS, GBA had a completely new CPU, not related to GB and GBC chips. They just put actual GBC inside of GBA. Micro either didn't have space for that, or they didn't have enough chips left to produce backwards compatible GBA micro. That's also the reason why DS can play GBA games, and 3DS can play DS and GBA games, but GB and GBC needs to be emulated.
I now own a customized 1st model GBA designed with the color scheme of the original Game Boy and actually having a backlit screen built into it that only the later SP models ended up getting. A proud addition to my current gaming collection. 12:16 My very first Game Boy game I ever owned, right there.
@@emlyndewarThats what the screens were like. Ibought one a couple months back to mod it. But first spend a couple weeks using its original screen. In the right lighting you can definitely see everything pretty alright, but my god that motion blur when playing fast scrolling platformers is pretty bad. Still, an absolute gem of a console for its time and I will cherish it forever
@@inderet4118 The motion blur for sure, but his screen just seems so feint. I feel like a lot of the screens are much worse now they are old. I recently swapped out a pockets screen and the one it had was pretty trash, much worse than when new.
The Gameboy was the first system I ever decided to start collecting for- I had a Pocket as a kid and LOVED every moment of it. Such a fun system to collect for and so many cool hardware variants.
the original Red Blue Green Pokemon games were released so close to the GameBoy Colour that they just gave them full colour pallets so when ya play the original Gen 1 on GBC you get full colour, even on GBA you get full colour
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Red and Blue don't have GBC special features (outside of preassigned palettes) while Yellow does. Still not entirely sure what's going on there but Yellow was released with original Game Boy packaging.
Their point is that Scott is failing to understand the context Game Boy games found themselves in by the mid '90s, where SGB was a big selling point and promotional tool that kept the brand relevant. You don't have to do a discussion on SGB in the video to acknowledge that SGB features in games helped the original model and its games last that long without the Pocket.
Also ironically the Super Gameboy is just made out of an actual gameboy besides the screen and buttons... hell the only physical difference the Super gameboy 1 has with the 2nd japanese model is that they kept the Link cable port that was axed
People born after the 90s don't know that the original Game Boy screens actually worked pretty well. It's only NOW that the screens are starting to degrade. The ghosting and missing rows of pixels were nowhere near as bad as today. The OG Game Boy I had still had an pretty decent display well into the early 10s.
the OG gameboy definitely had ghosting, although more than good enough. nothing compared to a degraded screen or basically any other greenscale screen of its contemporaries. funnily enough, nintendo had support for this ghosting on the 3ds
The original game boy screens haven’t gotten worse with age, I can report from the early 90s they always sucked. But if you were stuck and had the choice of playing on that screen or no video games at all you’d be amazed at what you’ll put up with when bored
Yeah pretty much. I remember trying to play F-Zero or GT Advance or whatever with less than ideal light lol. I also played GB and GBC but don't have lots of memories of which ones. I lost all of em except Stunt Track Driver lol.
I have a good grip for my GBA SP AGS 101 (it's buy dream gear) and I love that thing so much. (I also have a heart shaped one that ironically I don't love so much.)
My favorite story about the original gameboy is a soldier took it to war with him and after dealing with the abuse of war and even a bombing it survived and still turned on despite it looking like a charred brick after the explosion lol
I often remind my nephews, "you boys dont know how good you have it with your switch's... Back in my day i had to play all my games in black and baby poop green". They looked at me like i was crazy then i showed them videos of game boy games and they proceeded to look at me as if i was even crazier after seeing what i meant😅
I gotta say, I had an easier time seeing the games on the O.G. GB over the GBC. Yeah, the screen was was nicer and there was color, but I think that color made a lot of games just look like a dark wall unless I was in direct sunlight. I feel like the GBC was originally intended to have a backlight and was designed with that in mind. As soon as GBA SP came out I was back. That felt like all my portable gaming dreams come true.
„…the first revision of the Game Boy released seven years later.” The first MAJOR revision. There was a minor revision of the original design in 1995 with upgraded speaker on the „Play It Loud!” series of DMG. All the colorful variants are „Play It Loud!”
It's really amazing how much modern day mod upgrades really fix Gameboy shortcomings, like sharper back lit screens and longer lasting on-board rechargeable batteries.
13:03 Fun fact: because of how the original Game Boy was designed, you can't physically turn the system on with a GBC game inserted, as there's no notch in the Game Pak for the power switch to slide into
Might have originally been intended as a means to prevent games from being dislodged or removed by accident, though they also adapted GBC only carts to be sure they at least couldn't be played on the original, since the pocket didn't have a lock notch.
A very cool collection! I love being able to flex by having an SP-101, one of my better finds as a collector. I think the older game boys are a great experience if you want to try basic electronics mods, it's surprisingly easy to do screen swaps these days!
21:55 They put the DS as a third pillar because it was literally improvised as a response to the PSP. Nintendo was very afraid of Sony taking the portable market from them. They were actually developing a true sucessor to the game boy at the same time, Project Iris if I'm recalling it right and it would have 3d graphics, a touchscreen, a camera, it would be the first Nintendo console with the eShop, and it would have the PSPGO formfactor with a retractable gampead so you could focus entirelly on the touchscreen. Basically the DSi but with only the bottom screen, in fact, the DSi is probably what the Project Iris was turned into after the DS success.
I love my original GBA with a DSi screen. It’s pixel perfect, so unlike those OLED or IPS mods, the picture is tack sharp. The form factor + that beautiful bright screen are unbeatable
The GameBoy is still what some non-gamers call a portal gaming system. Last year, I was playing my PSP & my only American friend said 'I don't mean to come between you & your GameBoy but-'
You did the og gameboy dirty. Just imagine being in the 80s, it being the ONLY way to play anything out of your house. It was definitely ahead of it's time.
Ooo yess i had a bat man one and spider man one and those were my video games all the up until i was 6 and i finally got my own gameboy color from santa @dapperfan44
@RihcterWilker: This is the problem with Scott and his generation who were born in the very late-90s or early-2000s. They weren't there when these devices first came out so haven't got a clue how they were seen back then. The DMG was a highly desirable machine back then or at least it was for me. Back then, it was the ONLY way to play both 'Mario Land' games and I loved the 2-D Mario games. (I still do and always will!) I also disagree with Scott in two of his other Videos; The Stash one where he debates SNES vs Mega Drive. Debates in the school playground never went anything like that. The second Video I disagree with is his Woz Video 'Sonic 1: Laughing Stock'. Again, Scott TRASHES it but when this game came out in 1991 (here in the UK), the Title Screen alone was seen as a revolution. It's only more recently I learnt the 3-D effect was due to different layers that moved at different speeds. Regardless, STH1 was seen as a ABSOLUTE rival to 'Mario World' and for the longest time, I couldn't decide which 16-Bit 2-D Platformer I preferred. (It eventually became SMW)
@@leighdappa I mean I think he knows that and appreciates that and if he was talking about each gameboy in a historical context he would have a lot of good things to say about it but in the context of right here right now the OG gameboy is just the worst version of the gameboy. That doesn't make it bad because its still a gameboy and it doesn't detract from the massive impact it had on gaming, and the lives of a whole generation really but its still just what it is.
Just something to quickly note about the Game Boy Light, but... electroluminescent (EL) light panels dim over time with a lot of use and age too, much moreso than LED backlights. The light was likely stronger when it came out, as on mine I can usually see the light it adds in average indoor light, which gives the screen a tinge of green and covers the darker parts pretty well. That said, the Light is likely the model you'd only turn on the light for if you're actually playing it in low light conditions. It can clear up the darker parts of the screen if the backlight hasn't worn in much, but it's more for comfortable play in a dark room or at night rather than the light being helpful at basically all times like the AGS-001. Not to mention compared to the AGS-101, the backlight it has is super-comfortable for night time play as the light isn't pure white, and is more of a greenish-teal or teal-green depending on who you ask. It's more relaxing on the eyes.
You can tell Scott isn't a 90s kid because of how he reacts to the Game Boy Light. That color backlight was in so many things back in the day, it was even trademarked "Indi-Glo." It's a crazy nostalgic aesthetic to an old geezer like me
This was clearly written by someone who was introduced to Gameboy long after the original Gameboy came out.... the original Gameboy was well deserving of it's longlife...
Scott forgot to mention that the GBC could swap out color palettes of original GB games when the system starts up, either by pushing a direction on the D-pad along with A or B. It could even simulate actual Black and White (Not pea soup green) by pressing right and B, but I think there was an all green option too. There were other funky palettes and some worked better than others depending on the game, so it was fun to experiment with what colors worked best with what games.
I feel like they didn't add original Game Boy game support for the micro because the screen was already tiny, so playing games with an even smaller aspect ratio wouldn't have aligned with their quality standards.
I will always, always love the DMG. I didn't even grow up with it, but every time I get a handheld I look for DMG colors. I grew up on the Advance SP, which has affected my brain chemistry so much I almost exclusively play games on handheld
I played the original Game Boy way back in the day, but I ended up getting the Pocket when I i finally got my own. The screen was 100x better lol (and bigger!)
I picked up both the Game Boy Micro and the Nintendo DS back in the days. The Micro was definitely a little meh at the time, but 15+ years later I am so glad I have a Micro, but I don't care about the original DS anymore.
The ultimate Gameboy is an original GBA that is modded with IPS screen and USB C rechargeable battery. You get the best form factor, a much superior screen to anything OEM, and can charge using a modern cable standard
I wanna get my hands on something like that so bad, but they're so expensive. Four hundred CAD, I wanna say. The original models are already pricey and then you gotta factor in the screen and the labour to mod everything. Maybe one day in the future as a little treat; my 101 SP is treating me well enough these days.
The Gameboy Micro is an oddity but oh boy does it have the best looking portable screen I've seen to this date, including what came after (with exception of OLED screens)
If you can't appreciate the technology that was, you'll never truly appreciate the technology we have today. And, yeah. There's almost no reason to own a DMG model now. But that Game Boy was EPIC to me as a kid. It made me think outside the box about the MANY cool things it could possibly do. And if you're gonna diss the screen, think about this for a moment. LCD tech was still kinda shit back then and the displays aren't getting younger. Polarizers often need to be replaced as well. And if you think constantly fiddling with the contrast wheel was bad, then your TV apparently never had a vertical OR horizontal hold knob before. We put up with a lot of shit to be entertained back then. And PLEASE never call 2 AAA batteries a good thing ever again. Those things cost the same as AA but have far less capacity. It's no wonder Nintendo went back to AA batteries for every handheld until they made the GBA SP.
The reason why you'd play the original GameBoy was because it had WAY better battery life than any of the revisions which came later. The OG used four AA batteries instead of two AAA batteries that the Pocket used. Not only is that just fewer batteries, but they're smaller too, so way less longevity.
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This is not all of the game boys. I still have mine.
Haa
belly laughed at this one
lol simple but effective joke😂.
Mine has been missing and I’m convinced Scott has it
Not for long
Scott is my game boy
If you’re taller than him he can be your game boy micro
@@MHSchonberg If you're 15 feet tall he can even be your game boy pocket
If scott was black he could be your gameboy color
If Scott was 1lbs he could be your Game Boy Light.
Wacist @@XxChristmanXx04
People today forget this too but the original Game Boy was heavily marketed to adults in the early '90s as a time killer for the average businessman. That brick was probably expected to fit into a briefcase.
Facts. It was made for adult size hands, something you could play on the train to work.
maybe in japan but that def aint no adult in the us ad. also the word game boy if your a game boy that means your a kid they dident call it the game man when you use the term we got all the boys and girls onto the train you think kids if you change that to all the men and women well i know game boy flows better but it also has to be what your marketing towards.
I've been watching lots of old MST3K broadcasts from the early 90s which is why I'm saying this lol, they had commercials targeted only at adults and they aired one of them about a hundred times during Turkey Day '91... Anyway, they're easy to find on RUclips. "I'm sorry sir, your flight's been delayed..." "cool! 😀"
@@xentrix89 if you don't know shit, why are you talking? why open your mouth just to speak nonsense? are you stupid?
I was just talking to a guy at work about how our parents (80s)weren't into games but would play tetris
Back then the DMG was the greatest thing ever, yes now it's worth having a DMG with a modern screen though.
What advantage does it have over a gameboy color with a IPS screen?
@@SpaceCadetGenocide nostalgia for those of us that saved for months to buy one as a kid. Also friendlier to the of us with big bear paws for hands.
Game Boys this, Game Boys that. I want some Game Men!
So, was that intentionally homoerotic or where you going for a word joke?
"Both....both is good"@andrewdriver3318
I'm hoping for the game Twink to drop
i think this comment made me homosexual
I think I know a guy who mentioned being in a Game Men's choir.
26:43 Okay but if your dad had said "all these kids with their Wii U's and whatnot" you would have cried and given a standing ovation
The OG Gameboy to Color time gap is insane. On the same system, you could have a elementary schooler and high schooler who both can say "I grew up with the Gameboy"
Yup, my older sibling from the 80s had an OG Gameboy, and my closer siblings and me from the mid to late 90s had the Color
Same thing is happening with the Switch. I see comments that are like, "I just graduated and I remember playing Breath of the Wild in Elementary School."
I was a toddler when the original game boy launched and in high school when it was discontinued.
I only had a Color as a kid, one time I saw another kid playing Pokemon Yellow on a different Game Boy and it really weirded me out. It wasn't even in color!
This video really makes you feel like a Game Boy™️
Yesir.
I think Wii™ can all agree!
*blinkkkkkkkkk*
Dude, you gotta Switch™ up your attitude.
HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE GAMECUBE GAMEBOY PLAYER
Or Super Game Boy 😡
Or the soulja boy
@@f86tune48 We don't talk about it 😂
Hey - your not supposed to be here! Go back to playing SM64
Because it's not a Gameboy, it's an adapter for another console
0:41 Scott stash face reveal
you can see his face already on scott the woz
@@tbhhhryry that’s the joke.
@@ThatNinjaGuy dont see the joke but i was jst letting u know in case u didnt 😊
@@ThatNinjaGuy its not a joke if its not funny
R/wooosh
Scott has officially redefined the phrase, _"Me and the Boys"._
I will never stop loving the Gameboy Micro, it's peak convergence of early 2000 trends. Miniaturized, sleek looking, personalizable, and upgraded in tiny ways.
I just received my micro like two weeks ago, and I LOVE it!
Nintendo, release the Game Man already. I want to prove that I ain’t no boy anymore
They'd have to call it the gamethem in 2024
@@kraftypk7283I d be down for that I see no issue
@@kraftypk7283
Now you're playing with power, no gender specific power.
I remember pulling Donkey Kong out from the bowels of a couch when I was little. Ever since the Gameboy was the go-to device for me growing up.
Best donkey Kong game ever
21:40 They tried to pull the "third pillar" stunt with the Switch in relation to the Wii U and 3DS as well, but it replaced them both that time around.
“This thing is nothin but cuuuurve city” -Scott Wozniak
I love this kind of Scott's Stash videos! (Which is most of the content anyway) I'll be super happy to eat my dinner with this in the background. Thanks Scott!
The Game Boys are back in town
as a game boy myself, I'm glad to have taken part in this video
The Gameboy Advance SP not having a native audio Jack on a handheld was just stupid
i remember my mom coming home in 2003 with a copy of ruby and sapphire with a clear blue gba.
fun times. i still have the gba too
The original GameBoy was not black & white. It was Green and Greener
As far as I remember, the link cable slot of the GBA was also how the small console attached to the Gamecube, which some of the latters games had extras that could be used through it...
I had a titanium edition GameBoy Advance SP. I dropped it down a flight of stairs and it landed on a concrete floor. It got a scratch on one of the corners. I had that thing for 4 years, and I gave it to someone right before I moved. I talked to that guy years later and he said he used it for 3 years before giving it to someone else. Every time I see a poster for a titanium edition iPhone, I kinda wish I could afford to get one, coz I imagine it's durability is roughly the same as that SP.
SP would still clear the iPhone im sure, no way the screen wouldn't be broken with a drop like that lol
Game Boy was the best TI-83 I’ve ever played
GBA's backwards compatibility is pretty interesting topic. While DS's CPU was a more developed version of GBA's ARM architecture (so it had the same instructions set + more), and 3DS evolution of DS, GBA had a completely new CPU, not related to GB and GBC chips. They just put actual GBC inside of GBA. Micro either didn't have space for that, or they didn't have enough chips left to produce backwards compatible GBA micro. That's also the reason why DS can play GBA games, and 3DS can play DS and GBA games, but GB and GBC needs to be emulated.
Playing the GBA SP with adult hands feels like trying to wedge yourself into an elementary school desk
I now own a customized 1st model GBA designed with the color scheme of the original Game Boy and actually having a backlit screen built into it that only the later SP models ended up getting. A proud addition to my current gaming collection.
12:16 My very first Game Boy game I ever owned, right there.
The trash talk on the OG hurts my soul. A magnificent console.
Feel like your OG’s screen is actually broken.
@@emlyndewarThats what the screens were like. Ibought one a couple months back to mod it. But first spend a couple weeks using its original screen. In the right lighting you can definitely see everything pretty alright, but my god that motion blur when playing fast scrolling platformers is pretty bad. Still, an absolute gem of a console for its time and I will cherish it forever
@@inderet4118 The motion blur for sure, but his screen just seems so feint. I feel like a lot of the screens are much worse now they are old. I recently swapped out a pockets screen and the one it had was pretty trash, much worse than when new.
I LOVE THE GAMEBOY!
I’m ready for the Scott’s Stash on the Pocket Pikachu Mini
the best game boy is obviously the virtual boy
The Gameboy was the first system I ever decided to start collecting for- I had a Pocket as a kid and LOVED every moment of it.
Such a fun system to collect for and so many cool hardware variants.
the original Red Blue Green Pokemon games were released so close to the GameBoy Colour that they just gave them full colour pallets so when ya play the original Gen 1 on GBC you get full colour, even on GBA you get full colour
All colored cartrides, not transparent/nor gray, are gbc-enhanced games, they have extra features and colors but they work on the original gb.
@@GeomancerHT well I just think that Pokemon gen 1 was better on GBC because of how late it was in the GB line
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Red and Blue don't have GBC special features (outside of preassigned palettes) while Yellow does. Still not entirely sure what's going on there but Yellow was released with original Game Boy packaging.
red/blue/green didn't have full color support, they just swapped palettes around. gold and silver had full color
5:42 When it comes to talking about the Game Boy, you always forget that the Super Game Boy exists.
Their point is that Scott is failing to understand the context Game Boy games found themselves in by the mid '90s, where SGB was a big selling point and promotional tool that kept the brand relevant.
You don't have to do a discussion on SGB in the video to acknowledge that SGB features in games helped the original model and its games last that long without the Pocket.
Also ironically the Super Gameboy is just made out of an actual gameboy besides the screen and buttons... hell the only physical difference the Super gameboy 1 has with the 2nd japanese model is that they kept the Link cable port that was axed
Brings a whole new meaning to THE BOYS
People born after the 90s don't know that the original Game Boy screens actually worked pretty well. It's only NOW that the screens are starting to degrade. The ghosting and missing rows of pixels were nowhere near as bad as today. The OG Game Boy I had still had an pretty decent display well into the early 10s.
I was thinking that same thing, and unfortunately my GBA screen has degraded. It is a LOT darker than I remember it being.
Happens with eyes too
the OG gameboy definitely had ghosting, although more than good enough. nothing compared to a degraded screen or basically any other greenscale screen of its contemporaries. funnily enough, nintendo had support for this ghosting on the 3ds
Alright boomer
I grew up with a GBC and it's a whole lot darker. It's still great playing it out in the sun once in a while.
Stop playing with Boys Scott!
3:00 Scott the Woz jumpscare
Thank you
Spooptober
The original game boy screens haven’t gotten worse with age, I can report from the early 90s they always sucked. But if you were stuck and had the choice of playing on that screen or no video games at all you’d be amazed at what you’ll put up with when bored
Yeah pretty much. I remember trying to play F-Zero or GT Advance or whatever with less than ideal light lol. I also played GB and GBC but don't have lots of memories of which ones. I lost all of em except Stunt Track Driver lol.
The fact that the screens are getting blurrier with age and that it was also pretty bad to begin with are both true
1:13 CHIPS CHALLENGE
Was thinking the same thing! Although I give more of a damn about the Windows version.
i'm excited for the scotts stash alarmo video in 6 years
Imagine if the Gameboy Color was rekeased WITH the backlight as a selling point.
I have a good grip for my GBA SP AGS 101 (it's buy dream gear) and I love that thing so much. (I also have a heart shaped one that ironically I don't love so much.)
“Dad it’s 2018” got me so good
My favorite story about the original gameboy is a soldier took it to war with him and after dealing with the abuse of war and even a bombing it survived and still turned on despite it looking like a charred brick after the explosion lol
Yeah it was in a museum here in the States, now in a Japanese museum.
@@Coolman13355 that’s sick as hell lol
I often remind my nephews, "you boys dont know how good you have it with your switch's...
Back in my day i had to play all my games in black and baby poop green". They looked at me like i was crazy then i showed them videos of game boy games and they proceeded to look at me as if i was even crazier after seeing what i meant😅
Give them a GBA SP if weather knocks the internet out, lemme know what happens PLEASE
@@aiodensghost8645 I gave em an original ds a long time ago actually lol
@@aiodensghost8645the switch doesn't need Internet to play games.
@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 yeah I found his comment weird but eh 😅
Play GB on NSO on the Switch.
I had gba sp growing up. thanks for this! I didn't know much about the original.
The Game Boy is such an interesting piece of Nintendo history, and it’s wild just how much of a mark it left on the company’s future.
As usual Scott is doing well. Just him and the boys.
The Original Game Boy was my first gaming system. I had all versions of the Game Boy, Original, GBC, and Advance.
Anyone else's heart skip a beat, whenever Scott's reflection shows up in a game boy?
I gotta say, I had an easier time seeing the games on the O.G. GB over the GBC. Yeah, the screen was was nicer and there was color, but I think that color made a lot of games just look like a dark wall unless I was in direct sunlight. I feel like the GBC was originally intended to have a backlight and was designed with that in mind. As soon as GBA SP came out I was back. That felt like all my portable gaming dreams come true.
My first Nintendo console was a Gameboy Pocket. Links Awakening & Metroid 2 were my favorite games. 😊
I love every video from Scott
Guipei Yokoi set nintendo on a path that outlived even him and set them to new heights. Legend
0:03 Ey you don't talk about a legendary piece of history like that.
If I was was serious about collecting as a kid I know I would be a sucker for the Gameboy Color game boxes with the shiny strip.
First time I have been happy to come in under a minute
Wait...
Ew
@@dapperfan44 What? I got here less than a minute after the video was posted... Something wrong?
„…the first revision of the Game Boy released seven years later.”
The first MAJOR revision. There was a minor revision of the original design in 1995 with upgraded speaker on the „Play It Loud!” series of DMG. All the colorful variants are „Play It Loud!”
Real quick. Half an hour video. Awesome
9:00 Hold on now, don't be dissing my worm light you whippersnapper. Especially not my Jurassic Park one I had back then.
It's really amazing how much modern day mod upgrades really fix Gameboy shortcomings, like sharper back lit screens and longer lasting on-board rechargeable batteries.
The gameboy color was like gameboy 1.5, more than an actual true successor.
13:03
Fun fact: because of how the original Game Boy was designed, you can't physically turn the system on with a GBC game inserted, as there's no notch in the Game Pak for the power switch to slide into
Might have originally been intended as a means to prevent games from being dislodged or removed by accident, though they also adapted GBC only carts to be sure they at least couldn't be played on the original, since the pocket didn't have a lock notch.
All the boys…except the Virtual one because it is the literal red-headed stepchild.
RedHeads keep being disrepected.
Super Gamboy being left at the orphanage
What’s sad is that the Virtual Boy though not the best Nintendo handheld was also invented by the same guy who invented the original Gameboy
Sigh… Virtual boy games need a Remaster these days.
The amount of gameboy color exclusives is enough for me to consider it its own system tbh, even if nintendo lumps them together
A very cool collection! I love being able to flex by having an SP-101, one of my better finds as a collector. I think the older game boys are a great experience if you want to try basic electronics mods, it's surprisingly easy to do screen swaps these days!
21:55 They put the DS as a third pillar because it was literally improvised as a response to the PSP.
Nintendo was very afraid of Sony taking the portable market from them.
They were actually developing a true sucessor to the game boy at the same time, Project Iris if I'm recalling it right and it would have 3d graphics, a touchscreen, a camera, it would be the first Nintendo console with the eShop, and it would have the PSPGO formfactor with a retractable gampead so you could focus entirelly on the touchscreen.
Basically the DSi but with only the bottom screen, in fact, the DSi is probably what the Project Iris was turned into after the DS success.
27:15 They should call it the "Game Boy Omega" so that that one future consoles video from ages ago finally becomes real
Donkey Kong '98, Shantae, Megaman 5, Kirby's Dreamland 2, Daikatana. All great games from that weird Gameboy Color era.
I love my original GBA with a DSi screen. It’s pixel perfect, so unlike those OLED or IPS mods, the picture is tack sharp. The form factor + that beautiful bright screen are unbeatable
scott the game boy talking about every single boy? count me in!
The GameBoy is still what some non-gamers call a portal gaming system. Last year, I was playing my PSP & my only American friend said 'I don't mean to come between you & your GameBoy but-'
Also I love the concept that Scott literally owns all 200 million Game Boys in existence.
You did the og gameboy dirty. Just imagine being in the 80s, it being the ONLY way to play anything out of your house. It was definitely ahead of it's time.
Or a kid in the 90s with just them little Basketball Tiger Electronics.
Ooo yess i had a bat man one and spider man one and those were my video games all the up until i was 6 and i finally got my own gameboy color from santa @dapperfan44
@RihcterWilker: This is the problem with Scott and his generation who were born in the very late-90s or early-2000s.
They weren't there when these devices first came out so haven't got a clue how they were seen back then.
The DMG was a highly desirable machine back then or at least it was for me.
Back then, it was the ONLY way to play both 'Mario Land' games and I loved the 2-D Mario games. (I still do and always will!)
I also disagree with Scott in two of his other Videos; The Stash one where he debates SNES vs Mega Drive.
Debates in the school playground never went anything like that.
The second Video I disagree with is his Woz Video 'Sonic 1: Laughing Stock'.
Again, Scott TRASHES it but when this game came out in 1991 (here in the UK), the Title Screen alone was seen as a revolution.
It's only more recently I learnt the 3-D effect was due to different layers that moved at different speeds.
Regardless, STH1 was seen as a ABSOLUTE rival to 'Mario World' and for the longest time, I couldn't decide which 16-Bit 2-D Platformer I preferred. (It eventually became SMW)
Okay boomtown
@@leighdappa I mean I think he knows that and appreciates that and if he was talking about each gameboy in a historical context he would have a lot of good things to say about it but in the context of right here right now the OG gameboy is just the worst version of the gameboy. That doesn't make it bad because its still a gameboy and it doesn't detract from the massive impact it had on gaming, and the lives of a whole generation really but its still just what it is.
I just have an analogue pocket now, and my gameboys are in storage for the time being
Just something to quickly note about the Game Boy Light, but... electroluminescent (EL) light panels dim over time with a lot of use and age too, much moreso than LED backlights. The light was likely stronger when it came out, as on mine I can usually see the light it adds in average indoor light, which gives the screen a tinge of green and covers the darker parts pretty well.
That said, the Light is likely the model you'd only turn on the light for if you're actually playing it in low light conditions. It can clear up the darker parts of the screen if the backlight hasn't worn in much, but it's more for comfortable play in a dark room or at night rather than the light being helpful at basically all times like the AGS-001. Not to mention compared to the AGS-101, the backlight it has is super-comfortable for night time play as the light isn't pure white, and is more of a greenish-teal or teal-green depending on who you ask. It's more relaxing on the eyes.
"Aint your mother ever give you a gameboy?"
"What is a gameboy?"
"You know what? - move"
It blows my mind to think some people actually played Pokemon Gold/Silver on the Original Gameboy.
You can tell Scott isn't a 90s kid because of how he reacts to the Game Boy Light. That color backlight was in so many things back in the day, it was even trademarked "Indi-Glo." It's a crazy nostalgic aesthetic to an old geezer like me
I miss my original Gameboy! I loved that thing. To this day, one of my favorite games is Super Mario Land 2
thank u for ur hard work scott 🙏 ohio boyz up
I always called the original GBA model "The Wing." Still prefer the SP (and mine still works 20ish years later.) Great line of handhelds.
I'm sure someone's already said this, but the DS was truly the Game Man.
Original gba with an ips display, usb c battery + door and an ez flash omega ode is the perfect gameboy experience
I've owned at least 3 SPs in my time, and this channel is the only reason I know Nintendo released a second SP model with a better backlight.
This was clearly written by someone who was introduced to Gameboy long after the original Gameboy came out.... the original Gameboy was well deserving of it's longlife...
Scott forgot to mention that the GBC could swap out color palettes of original GB games when the system starts up, either by pushing a direction on the D-pad along with A or B. It could even simulate actual Black and White (Not pea soup green) by pressing right and B, but I think there was an all green option too. There were other funky palettes and some worked better than others depending on the game, so it was fun to experiment with what colors worked best with what games.
what about game girl, scott?
I feel like they didn't add original Game Boy game support for the micro because the screen was already tiny, so playing games with an even smaller aspect ratio wouldn't have aligned with their quality standards.
I will always, always love the DMG. I didn't even grow up with it, but every time I get a handheld I look for DMG colors. I grew up on the Advance SP, which has affected my brain chemistry so much I almost exclusively play games on handheld
I played the original Game Boy way back in the day, but I ended up getting the Pocket when I i finally got my own. The screen was 100x better lol (and bigger!)
I picked up both the Game Boy Micro and the Nintendo DS back in the days. The Micro was definitely a little meh at the time, but 15+ years later I am so glad I have a Micro, but I don't care about the original DS anymore.
Nintendo Switch 2 is actually the Game Man.
The ultimate Gameboy is an original GBA that is modded with IPS screen and USB C rechargeable battery.
You get the best form factor, a much superior screen to anything OEM, and can charge using a modern cable standard
I wanna get my hands on something like that so bad, but they're so expensive. Four hundred CAD, I wanna say. The original models are already pricey and then you gotta factor in the screen and the labour to mod everything. Maybe one day in the future as a little treat; my 101 SP is treating me well enough these days.
@@peaberry9413 I built a few myself and the parts alone are pretty expensive but still comes out a lot cheaper than buying one already made
The Gameboy Micro is an oddity but oh boy does it have the best looking portable screen I've seen to this date, including what came after (with exception of OLED screens)
If you can't appreciate the technology that was, you'll never truly appreciate the technology we have today. And, yeah. There's almost no reason to own a DMG model now. But that Game Boy was EPIC to me as a kid. It made me think outside the box about the MANY cool things it could possibly do.
And if you're gonna diss the screen, think about this for a moment. LCD tech was still kinda shit back then and the displays aren't getting younger. Polarizers often need to be replaced as well. And if you think constantly fiddling with the contrast wheel was bad, then your TV apparently never had a vertical OR horizontal hold knob before. We put up with a lot of shit to be entertained back then.
And PLEASE never call 2 AAA batteries a good thing ever again. Those things cost the same as AA but have far less capacity. It's no wonder Nintendo went back to AA batteries for every handheld until they made the GBA SP.
The reason why you'd play the original GameBoy was because it had WAY better battery life than any of the revisions which came later. The OG used four AA batteries instead of two AAA batteries that the Pocket used. Not only is that just fewer batteries, but they're smaller too, so way less longevity.
clicked faster than you can say, "Yibbity, yibbity, yibbita!"