and stealing the battery door. If you took it off the display, you'd no longer have power going to the Gameboy. But anyone with batteries and a piece of plastic with tape can get it working again. But mostly the Sticker was the incentive to not steal it.
I assume that the CRT versions also had it, and presumably it would actually be true for those? And they just put the same one on the cheaper non-CRT version as well.
@@kargaroc386 Not true for those at all. Just a special cable which allowed it to be plugged into a CRT TV, but all GameBoys had that port for that cable.
It's almost certainly a theft deterrent sticker. If you tell people it won't work they might not spend a lot of time trying to steal them, especially when they were a newer item.
Yeah. Pretty much. Same reason you put a big sign saying you have a security system. If people think it's more hassle to steal from you then it's worth, that tends to stop more theifs then actually putting up the measures to stop them. At least general thief anyway, if your a sepfic target that a whole nother story.
@@Left4Cake I was robbed ar an arcade in the 90s. When I went to ask if the security cameras recorded it (there were warnings) I was told there weren't any of them.
That little lie might have stopped many a would-be thief from trying to steal the Gameboy out of the kiosk, or even store employees who might have taken it when the kiosk was finally taken down.
I would be laving if people gonna search for those gameboys with that decieving warning sticker on it no matter the cost , i would be surprised if those sticker labeled gameboys will become just as valueble as paintings with a hand drawing from known artists.
@@jorgefernandomirandamirand3297 well my friend that’s because of this covid 19 pandemic and the fact that i got no job, wich is getting more scarse overtime, and because of that, i got all the time of the world to speak from the bothem of my hearth on what’s on my mind, whether i like things or not.
Yeah if i get some of those stickers ,i can put them on my gameboys and sell them on ebay by fooling buyers with this nonsense by stating that these are kiosk gameboys from nintendo sothat i can charge extra money for it ,hahaha.
I could be wrong about this (I sure hope I am), but I think those brown/black dots inside the Game Boy is mess and droppings left by cockroaches. I've had a lot of experience with that crap recently. Moved into a place with a previous, very bad cockroach infestation (luckily fully exterminated before I moved in), and, yeah, looks identical.
Vince - keep repairing vintage / old toys. The newer stuff is great but seeing how the old stuff works is fascinating. Just my 2 pence worth. Love your videos ❤️
I just had a random question: do you have a Switch? I know you’re into retro tech, but the Switch is, in a way, a modernized GameBoy. You would like it!
Thank you!!! I’ve been meaning to ask him this for a long time. Never have a seen a guy spend so much money uselessly chasing old out of date tech. This stuff sucked in the mate 80’s/early 90’s and it still sucks. I respect the fact that my man loves this old tech but it still sucks.
Without the keys to Kiosk, and a set of electronics screw drivers about all you could access on the units do the metal bar across them where the face buttons for the game that was currently in the system. I'm in the US, and my area has Roses department stores, and when they where much bigger in the 80's, and 90's they did have video games behind a big glass display case in the electronics department, and I went there often as they had the best prices on Game Gear games, but they had a Gameboy display with the TV, and like i said impossible to steal, or use with a link cable, but at least they did change out the games every so often to try, and keep kids wanting to buy new games, unlike other places that just left the default Tetris, or Super Mario Land in the system.
I do remember using one in the Kiosk. They said it would not work. To prevent people from trying to steal it. If they did they would think no point, as it would not work. So that message is a deterrent.
@@renakunisaki really tiny ones vould get in through the speaker grille or, since this one was sold without a battery cover, thought there. A few coming and going over maby years while in storage could cover the inside with enough solid and liquid waste to be seen in this video :(
Makes sense, Stickers cost less then redesigning the hardware. The "warning" sticker and it being bolted to a marquee and that marquee being bolted to the front counter would of stopped most theft... not all but most..
i lost my gameboy about 5 years ago wen i moved :( really sad about it my parent gived it to me on chrismas the year it came out and was still in a awsome shape working really well im just glad to see some people trying to keep them alive and restoring it
Have only had three hours of sleep last night and a full day of my regular job today. After this I had an exhausting doctor's appointment. When getting home, there was some more to do for work tomorrow. It's late evening now and I just took my first free time the day to spend a bit time on youtube. I'm in my bed (not ready for sleeping, there's still stuff to do), my pets are with me and then I watch Elliot clean the Gameboy with the brush. Was probably the most relaxing thing I've seen in a while.
My guess is that it wouldn't have worked if somebody went up and stole it. Perhaps the kiosk lacked batteries and used the power jack on the Gameboy to power it. If someone actually stole it, they'd need to put batteries in it to get it to work.
I was around. Sure, it was fun, but it was just "now", like "now" is PS5. And not many people were rich enough to buy more than a couple games, and it wasn't that easy to see which games were good, so you'd spend your xmas money on a dud. Mixed times...
TBH probably the best time to be around for handheld consoles would be early DS to mid-3DS era (2005-2015). The best handheld titles were released during this time. The problem is that until 2010, not many information was available for great titles that were released, meaning that even if you were around you would probably only play a few good games.
Here in the US I clearly remember the display stands with the TV in places like KMart, and Roses department store(yes they did sell video games back in the 80's , and 90's), and the Roses store in my area would change the game out with a new one every month, or so to keep kids wanting to buy a new game from behind the glass display case. Also no i never did think about trying to steal one, as my mother would have known because I was Game Gear kid, and she would have dragged me back into the store by my ears, stood in the middle of the store while pulling my ear shouting at the top of her lungs my son is a thief making me return it to the manager, and the next time I would have seen my dad(parents split when I was 2) my backside would have been so red from his belt I would not have been able to sit for a week, and lord only knows what other kind of punishment in chores I would have had to do.
I have a feeling that some of the Kiosks had a special Gameboy Cartridge which outputs video to the CRT and had a second cartridge slot for Retail Games, possibly inside the unit.
I think it was simpler than that: a cartridge which just reads the buttons and passes them on to the real console inside the kiosk (which might just be a modified Super Game Boy).
The ones with paper barcode serials are later models. Earlier ones had foil labels. I would think most kiosks would be the earlier kind. I got my original Game Boy in 1994 with the paper serial but I think they switched from foil in 1992 or 1993.
I worked at Toys R Us back in the 90's doing what they called security. Basically I worked the video game areas, and ticked desk. Part of what I did was manage the displays. We have one of those kiosks with the larger display on top, and the Game Boy buttons failed. It to was marked with that exact sticker. They sent a replacement, and didn't want the old one back. I took it home, removed the ribbon cable that was hanging out of the opening in the battery compartment, replaced the button pads, and used it for years. Later on I ended up with the whole kiosk, but wasn't smart enough to hold on to it.
I saw you linked on...I think Retro Dodo's site in the comments the other day and down the rabbit hole I've gone. I've probably watched a dozen of your videos while working this morning and they're absolutely awesome. Keep up the great work!
I used to work for a company that made the demo units for Nintendo. There was so many different demo units for different consoles Gameboys and The point of the sticker was keep people from stealing the gameboys and but on some units they had wires coming from the gameboys for the reset button on the kiosk or a reset timer. Also some had a black and white monitor on the top of the demo unit and the wires connected directly to to gameboy.
1:50 This actually appears to most likely be a monochrome CRT monitor with a green phosphor as they were quite cheap and common at the time especially as monitors on older computers! :)
HP did the same thing with the Sprocket printer. I saved a display unit from the trash and after prying it open and taking the pool of glue out, it worked perfect.
Honestly, that sticker is probably to deter any theft attempts, as you hinted at the end. Reminds me of a luck buy I made of a Virtual Boy. It actually lines up as being an old BlockBuster Video store display. The visor has an extra aluminum mount so that the visor was bolted onto the device to prevent theft. Pretty cool! I'm actually surprised you haven't tracked a virtual boy down on Sendico. Keep up the great content, still watching almost every video you make :)
This is a wonderful find. I got my replacement Gameboy from a used game store in Chicago for $10. It had dead pixels which I repaired and I'm happy to have it.
The lack of a battery compartment lid is also in-line with the kiosk you showed. It was probably clipped to a power supply instead, and the back left open. So, your replacement cover is in-authentic. You should use a contrasting obvious replacement like a 3-d printed cover or a clear cover to make that distinction, rather than substituting a different original cover.
One reason comes to mind for that warning sticker. To discourage thieves. From what you've shown on the photos, it looks like it would be very easy to just bent the little metal bracket (it also looks very bent in that first photo) and slide the Game Boy out.
I remember playing on the European N64 store kiosks back in the day, and noticing a sticker on those too. "This console has been modified and will not work if separated from this demo unit". I wonder how true that was?
Here's the thing about why they have that sticker its because here in the usa we post stickers onto amy console that is put on Display but we can't make it where the unit don't work when removed but we don't know how to restrict the console from not working we just put that there so it makes people think if they try to steal it wouldn't work outside of the store
Top tip for you, instead of using hand soap and water. Try muck off cleaner. I use muckoff for cleaning plastics, metals and it won't damage the membrains or plastics. Silicone lubricant is also a surprising good cleaner.
Brush seems to be pretty good; but as fellow enthusiast: Toothbrushes. There is many kinds, they are more brittle and made to brush off generall harder - at your teets. Basically mini backbrush hardness that usually will not penetrate any plastics used in video gaming products but cleans them up way good. Also, I am not sure did I just see wrong and thus assume wrong: Dishwashing liquid is better than handsoap. You do not need much of it to create effective soapy cleaning water ("You always use too much dishwashing liquid" - Dishwashing liquid seller) and is generally a soap that is made to generally attack types of stains that develop on consoles and their buttons. Though; to say something I myself learned/got to figure out from this video: The brush is EXCELLENT tool for more than just little grimy button rubber membrane cleaning. I somethimes struggle with optimal way to get those clean without leaving material or residue on them that will stay on them. Alcohol pads that I use for one example, usually can leave a "invisible stain" of leftover matter that can feel weird, cause weirdly sticky feeling or not-stellar contact action from the rubber membrane's "impact" area if not rinsed well, defeating the "quick easy and effectively dry" cleanup job alcohol pads sometimes are for me. Since nobody ever talks about these, and it is all "figuring it out myself" just about for every collector, I think this is healthy input and output. Even for me the toothbrush was not an original idea. It came from working at recycling center where ladies and men in charge of cleaning up ovens and such home appliances before resale would have in their extensive menu of dish brushes, rough sponges, wipes and such, also, a lot of toothbrushes, which were used for nook'n'cranny type of deal and something I ended up using for few retro consoles I cleaned up for sale myself too. And; I am fully aware making this comment, that this might not be a "never though of that" thing as much as it could be; and delicacy with rare pieces might been the reason here (though, in my mind especially given the type of dirt, unneeded delicacy which toothbrush could have attacked better)
Nice video! I actually happen to own the kiosk that connects the gameboy to a television. Has a bunch of wires sticking from the side that go to a box that outputs the video to a tv.
Well, actually it wouldn't work if separated from display. It didn't have any battery in it, it was directly powered by the Kiosk. It's just a... Well, let's say it wasn't a clear insteuction ahahah
for some reason i get like a visual-equivalent of ASMR watching the cleaning part lol...almost like a Bob Ross video, especially because of the brush used to clean the shell xD ..."im just gonna dip this in a little Pthalo-Soap, and were gonna paint a happy little clean spot, right there" XD
I actually have real NOS display and cpu boards here and just as the displays get lines like this even the unused ones suffer from the same deteriorated bonds to the display as well, since they are just as old as the actual Gameboys age has gotten to them. so I am also aware of the heating method :)
I think the kiosk that that particular one had the battery pack built onto it rather than being able to use AA batteries, which might also explain the missing back. If someone were to steal it from the kiosk, they wouldn't be able to play it immediately, but would have to get batteries for it too
I remember a store near me when I was a kid had a version of the TV displays where the whole thing was a giant Gameboy with a normal Gameboy sticking out of it. I was there this one time and overheard a customer asking if the Gameboy required a TV.
I think the sticker is pointing out that it won’t continue working if you remove it from the display as the power would need to be disconnected to remove it, not that it won’t ever work at all once removed.
I suspect the missing battery door had to do with being attached to the kiosk. Obviously it wouldn't make sense for them to run a display model off of batteries so the display unit probably ran off of AC/DC power, and being stationary there would be no need for a battery door so instead they probably designed the kiosk itself to clip into the battery door latches for added stability/security. The idea that removing it would disable it's function is a bit of a stretch, but also not technically a lie in a short term sense, since doing so would disconnect it from the DC power.
Elliot! I was thoroughly impressed with how you made this video. All those edits at the beginning.. I could imagine you going, "Agh! Just one more shot to get it right!" Hahaha. Thank you for the hard work, mate. These videos are enjoyable and are one heck of a blast-to-the-past experience.
Discovered this channel a few days ago and had to go to my moms and get all my old Nintendo's out the loft today. Been wanting to learn some electronics for a while and this seems like the perfect in
After working in retail, I don't usually believe stickers that say things like that. If its valuable enough that they're willing to have a device brick itself if disconnected to avoid theft, why even warn anybody? Just have it brick in a way that when they bring it in to get "their" device fixed its obviously stolen. Retail chains will put labels like "security device inside" but they have no such device, while other unassuming items are packaged with anti theft devices and no warning of such (unless you're looking for them, they're not impossible to find usually). Its funny they didn't actually make it non operable when separated from the kiosk, especially when the it would have tons of space to put some kind of processor in there for such a check, along with a simple killswitch.
Eliot. That's a 0 ohm Resistor on the pcb by the power connector that needs to be moved over to work. You'll see a blank spot. If it's on the other spot it won't work vice versa. That unit has been modded
that sticker is just like how at walmart shopping carts they have a sticker that says if it is taken out of the parking lot the wheels will lock... which at a quick glance they have no mechanism that would lock them.
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I got a Nokia N-Gage QD brand new back in the day which was also a display model from a store. Someone figured out that they were fully functional and just flashed the software for a retail unit which activated everything on them and sold them as full phones. It's still working to this day.
I would guess that sticker wasn't aimed (at least directly) at theft. My interpretation of that sticker is that it was meant for kids and families that were demoing the unit, tell them not to try to slide it out of the kiosk or otherwise remove it to play it. It's powered by the kiosk (and in some cases the kiosk is displaying the screen too) and needs to remain in the kiosk to function for the demo.
That test cartridge still confuses me. "Hmm, I wonder if the buttons on my Gameboy work." "There is only one way to find out: Let me get my GIANT OFFICIALLY LICENSED AND CERTIFIED PROFFESIONAL GAMEBOY BUTTON TEST CARTRIDGE!"
I think the warning sticker is referring to the fact that the kiosk had a physical power connection and would "not work" if you detached it from that power supply and didn't steal a pack of AA batteries along with it. Not that it had a security feature that would disable it if you removed it from the kiosk. Of course it's vaguely worded to sound like an ominous warning that it'll self-destruct if you even think about f* with Nintendo.
Propably it meant to say that it was connected to a power supply on the side and that in case of theft, wouldn't work without it or something...In Greece, kiosks didn't have that sticker...
I remember one of those kiosks with the crt monitor connected to it at my local Toys'R'Us and just remember going there to play on it one day after school and it not being there, when i asked someone who worked there what happened to it he told me "they told us to throw it away and so'n'so (cant remember the person's name) just took it home instead of trashing it" Thinking to myself how lucky that guy that took it home was to be able to play gameboy like that in his own home, that was until my 8 year old mind discovered the super gameboy for the Super Nintendo, but still "Today Me" would rather have the Kiosk in my home to play gameboy games like how i remember playing them once upon a time
I think the reason the sticker saying it won’t work is there is so people wouldn’t be inclined to steal it from a kiosk back in the day. Who’s to say Nintendo put that there? Could’ve been something a store printed up because maybe they were told it wouldn’t
It probably was true of the Game Boy units that were attached to the CRT display, then they simply used the same stickers for the cheaper kiosks with no display. Technically, even with the cheaper kiosks, the Game Boy wouldn't work if removed because it would lose power. Easily remedied with a pack of AA batteries, but still technically true.
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The simplest answer is often right. An incredibly cheap anti-theft measure. No need to change hardware, just spend $0.05 per sticker.
My thoughts exactly.
Yes this is exactly what it was for.
and stealing the battery door. If you took it off the display, you'd no longer have power going to the Gameboy. But anyone with batteries and a piece of plastic with tape can get it working again. But mostly the Sticker was the incentive to not steal it.
I assume that the CRT versions also had it, and presumably it would actually be true for those?
And they just put the same one on the cheaper non-CRT version as well.
@@kargaroc386 Not true for those at all. Just a special cable which allowed it to be plugged into a CRT TV, but all GameBoys had that port for that cable.
It's almost certainly a theft deterrent sticker. If you tell people it won't work they might not spend a lot of time trying to steal them, especially when they were a newer item.
Yeah. Pretty much. Same reason you put a big sign saying you have a security system. If people think it's more hassle to steal from you then it's worth, that tends to stop more theifs then actually putting up the measures to stop them. At least general thief anyway, if your a sepfic target that a whole nother story.
@@Left4Cake I was robbed ar an arcade in the 90s. When I went to ask if the security cameras recorded it (there were warnings) I was told there weren't any of them.
That little lie might have stopped many a would-be thief from trying to steal the Gameboy out of the kiosk, or even store employees who might have taken it when the kiosk was finally taken down.
That's what I was thinking too. But those things are bolted down so..
@@harrisonhall1139 makes it harder to remove but not impossible.
The sticker was probably just a cheap theft prevention technique
I would be laving if people gonna search for those gameboys with that decieving warning sticker on it no matter the cost , i would be surprised if those sticker labeled gameboys will become just as valueble as paintings with a hand drawing from known artists.
Yup and pre internet couldn't really search up if it was lieing or not
@@johneygd Hello there. I see you everywhere
@@jorgefernandomirandamirand3297 well my friend that’s because of this covid 19 pandemic and the fact that i got no job, wich is getting more scarse overtime, and because of that, i got all the time of the world to speak from the bothem of my hearth on what’s on my mind, whether i like things or not.
Maybe it did not run on battery then but it works if you put some in 😅
In 3 years... the ds is 20 years old....
Damn I’m old
I already feel old as is lol.
@Gary nah, keep that GBA. The GBA is awesome.
@@Pixiuchu but the ds would be better.
@@gamingnubs7628 even better, the old ds that lets you play gba and ds
Wait really? It's gonna be that old?
“For display only Unit will not work if separated from display” I should get a hundred of these stickers so that ppl can stop stealing my stuff lol
I would like to have a couple of them stickers too
“For display only, unit will not work if separated from owner” 😂
@@TrepidRez I like it
"for display only, vase will not work if separated from display"
Yeah if i get some of those stickers ,i can put them on my gameboys and sell them on ebay by fooling buyers with this nonsense by stating that these are kiosk gameboys from nintendo sothat i can charge extra money for it ,hahaha.
I could be wrong about this (I sure hope I am), but I think those brown/black dots inside the Game Boy is mess and droppings left by cockroaches. I've had a lot of experience with that crap recently. Moved into a place with a previous, very bad cockroach infestation (luckily fully exterminated before I moved in), and, yeah, looks identical.
make a reverse mod: pick a modded Gameboy and put original parts in the gameboy
Lmao
@Back from the Deadpool lol
YOU SEPERATED IT FROM THE KIOSK! YOU MANIC!! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO - oh it still works. Cushty!
Nicely put together video Elliot. Good job mate :-)
Ikr?
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Vince - keep repairing vintage / old toys. The newer stuff is great but seeing how the old stuff works is fascinating. Just my 2 pence worth. Love your videos ❤️
I just had a random question: do you have a Switch? I know you’re into retro tech, but the Switch is, in a way, a modernized GameBoy. You would like it!
Haha yes I do!
Thank you!!! I’ve been meaning to ask him this for a long time. Never have a seen a guy spend so much money uselessly chasing old out of date tech. This stuff sucked in the mate 80’s/early 90’s and it still sucks. I respect the fact that my man loves this old tech but it still sucks.
@@reagandow850 Of course!!! I’m so glad someone else was thinking about asking him the same question :D
@@reagandow850 honestly the only thing I think sucked about the Gameboy was the lack of a backlight lol
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Rochester, NY thanks you for buying Kodak Batteries.
Wait until you find out that Genny creams are his favorite beer
I should send him some white hots or something
@@mink03 Do they even sell their beer in the UK? I rarely see it here in Michigan.
@@mr.skeltal8687 white hots are good. but I think I prefer me some red hots.
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Imagine if pokemon was in it and someone came and linked his gb to that one and stole all the pokemon on it
The link cable port was covered in the kiosk unfortunately!
Without the keys to Kiosk, and a set of electronics screw drivers about all you could access on the units do the metal bar across them where the face buttons for the game that was currently in the system. I'm in the US, and my area has Roses department stores, and when they where much bigger in the 80's, and 90's they did have video games behind a big glass display case in the electronics department, and I went there often as they had the best prices on Game Gear games, but they had a Gameboy display with the TV, and like i said impossible to steal, or use with a link cable, but at least they did change out the games every so often to try, and keep kids wanting to buy new games, unlike other places that just left the default Tetris, or Super Mario Land in the system.
I do remember using one in the Kiosk.
They said it would not work. To prevent people from trying to steal it. If they did they would think no point, as it would not work.
So that message is a deterrent.
Im oretty sure the marks that look like coffee is cockroach droppings.
Please don’t
This is correct sadly
How the heck would roaches get inside a Game Boy?
@@renakunisaki really tiny ones vould get in through the speaker grille or, since this one was sold without a battery cover, thought there. A few coming and going over maby years while in storage could cover the inside with enough solid and liquid waste to be seen in this video :(
I work in the Hospitality industry, as IT support. It’s 100% roach poo. Sorry bro....
Makes sense, Stickers cost less then redesigning the hardware. The "warning" sticker and it being bolted to a marquee and that marquee being bolted to the front counter would of stopped most theft... not all but most..
Dude anytime I see his vids they make my day
Ikr
same
"Unit Will not work when seperated from display" my brain: of course you can't use it when you remove the display. What makes this one special?
i lost my gameboy about 5 years ago wen i moved :( really sad about it my parent gived it to me on chrismas the year it came out and was still in a awsome shape working really well im just glad to see some people trying to keep them alive and restoring it
I guess they put that sticker saying it won’t work if separated from display so people don’t attempt to steal it
Have only had three hours of sleep last night and a full day of my regular job today. After this I had an exhausting doctor's appointment. When getting home, there was some more to do for work tomorrow. It's late evening now and I just took my first free time the day to spend a bit time on youtube. I'm in my bed (not ready for sleeping, there's still stuff to do), my pets are with me and then I watch Elliot clean the Gameboy with the brush. Was probably the most relaxing thing I've seen in a while.
Ahhh glad enjoyed it mate!
My guess is that it wouldn't have worked if somebody went up and stole it. Perhaps the kiosk lacked batteries and used the power jack on the Gameboy to power it. If someone actually stole it, they'd need to put batteries in it to get it to work.
i wish i was around when the game boy was around, i’m really interested in retro gaming and i’ve even started collecting pokémon games
I was around. Sure, it was fun, but it was just "now", like "now" is PS5. And not many people were rich enough to buy more than a couple games, and it wasn't that easy to see which games were good, so you'd spend your xmas money on a dud. Mixed times...
TBH probably the best time to be around for handheld consoles would be early DS to mid-3DS era (2005-2015). The best handheld titles were released during this time.
The problem is that until 2010, not many information was available for great titles that were released, meaning that even if you were around you would probably only play a few good games.
Me: Are those batteries in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Elliot: 2:48
Watching eliott, his editing skills, and subscribers grow is so pleasing
Thanks man
I can't believe nintendo would lie
Would Nintendo do that? Just go on the Game Boy and lie?
Plot twist:
What if Nintendo had nothing to do with it, but it's a generic anti-theft sticker that game shop put on its demo units? Just a thought...
@@JarodMoonchild1975 that's what I was thinking
Here in the US I clearly remember the display stands with the TV in places like KMart, and Roses department store(yes they did sell video games back in the 80's , and 90's), and the Roses store in my area would change the game out with a new one every month, or so to keep kids wanting to buy a new game from behind the glass display case.
Also no i never did think about trying to steal one, as my mother would have known because I was Game Gear kid, and she would have dragged me back into the store by my ears, stood in the middle of the store while pulling my ear shouting at the top of her lungs my son is a thief making me return it to the manager, and the next time I would have seen my dad(parents split when I was 2) my backside would have been so red from his belt I would not have been able to sit for a week, and lord only knows what other kind of punishment in chores I would have had to do.
That sticker translates to “don’t steal this, dumb@$$”
Correct!
USE NICE WORDS YOU FREAKING ANTI-CHILD CHICKEN
@@MCAlexisYT the fuck is wrong with you
@@MCAlexisYT there's something called youtube kids for that
Dominik Harder REPORTED.
Every copy of the Gameboy is personalised
I have a feeling that some of the Kiosks had a special Gameboy Cartridge which outputs video to the CRT and had a second cartridge slot for Retail Games, possibly inside the unit.
I think it was simpler than that: a cartridge which just reads the buttons and passes them on to the real console inside the kiosk (which might just be a modified Super Game Boy).
@@renakunisaki Well, that's definitely interesting.
The ones with paper barcode serials are later models. Earlier ones had foil labels. I would think most kiosks would be the earlier kind.
I got my original Game Boy in 1994 with the paper serial but I think they switched from foil in 1992 or 1993.
Nice!
i was ready to cry while listening to stale cupcakes, but thanks for making me stop that.
If nintendo lied about the Gameboy, does that mean they truthed the GameGirl?
Me when I read the title: "EEEEEEVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG" - Weird Al, sometime around the 2000s.
ha
whos that????!???!?!?
@@whoeusbsknsi music guy
but even me being 25 born in 1995 if he was still before my time, i remember “white n nerdy” for ridin dirty but thats about it lmao
Spotted you!
"Rancid liquid that looks like coffee".
Don't be shy, taste it. I bet its Coca-Cola.
@Back from the Deadpool I wouldn't doubt it and have a swig of vodka to disinfect his mouth afterwards.
I have a sinking feeling it was sweat and related human grime. Though, the penetration through the device sorta refutes that.
@@signa8 we will never know now will we? He didn't have the fortitude to taste it.
I'd love to see a video that's just all about your rare Nintendo finds.
This gameboy is like cake
It's a lie
Dam then what have I been playing portal for lol
I worked at Toys R Us back in the 90's doing what they called security. Basically I worked the video game areas, and ticked desk. Part of what I did was manage the displays. We have one of those kiosks with the larger display on top, and the Game Boy buttons failed. It to was marked with that exact sticker. They sent a replacement, and didn't want the old one back. I took it home, removed the ribbon cable that was hanging out of the opening in the battery compartment, replaced the button pads, and used it for years. Later on I ended up with the whole kiosk, but wasn't smart enough to hold on to it.
I saw you linked on...I think Retro Dodo's site in the comments the other day and down the rabbit hole I've gone. I've probably watched a dozen of your videos while working this morning and they're absolutely awesome. Keep up the great work!
I used to work for a company that made the demo units for Nintendo. There was so many different demo units for different consoles Gameboys and The point of the sticker was keep people from stealing the gameboys and but on some units they had wires coming from the gameboys for the reset button on the kiosk or a reset timer. Also some had a black and white monitor on the top of the demo unit and the wires connected directly to to gameboy.
I adore the loving care you put into each GameBoy's cleaning on this channel. I'd watch an hour montage of cleaning B-Roll from you.
1:50
This actually appears to most likely be a monochrome CRT monitor with a green phosphor as they were quite cheap and common at the time especially as monitors on older computers! :)
The "Will Not Work If Separated From Display" was just an antitheft measure. :3
That cleaning montage just.. brings a tear to my eye. Lovely video.
I had one of those test cartridges when I worked at a Nintendo repair center, but I mostly just used Tetris!
HP did the same thing with the Sprocket printer. I saved a display unit from the trash and after prying it open and taking the pool of glue out, it worked perfect.
This was surprisingly satisfying to watch. I’m not really into asmr but watching unclean those components man I was so relaxed
Honestly, that sticker is probably to deter any theft attempts, as you hinted at the end. Reminds me of a luck buy I made of a Virtual Boy. It actually lines up as being an old BlockBuster Video store display. The visor has an extra aluminum mount so that the visor was bolted onto the device to prevent theft. Pretty cool! I'm actually surprised you haven't tracked a virtual boy down on Sendico. Keep up the great content, still watching almost every video you make :)
Your collection is getting vast!
Thank you!! Getting rather crazy now!
DAMN! I had one with a very similar sticker back in 1997 and I had stupidly removed the sticker and threw it away.
This is a wonderful find. I got my replacement Gameboy from a used game store in Chicago for $10. It had dead pixels which I repaired and I'm happy to have it.
Nintendo: DOesn't work without the display unit.
Eliot *playing Minuet Tetris*: You lied to me.
The lack of a battery compartment lid is also in-line with the kiosk you showed. It was probably clipped to a power supply instead, and the back left open.
So, your replacement cover is in-authentic. You should use a contrasting obvious replacement like a 3-d printed cover or a clear cover to make that distinction, rather than substituting a different original cover.
Is it just me, or has your videos went from You Tuber grade to documentary? Just saying, awesome work!
just you
they are definitely quality, but nothing close to a documentary, in appearance or length lol
One reason comes to mind for that warning sticker. To discourage thieves. From what you've shown on the photos, it looks like it would be very easy to just bent the little metal bracket (it also looks very bent in that first photo) and slide the Game Boy out.
I remember playing on the European N64 store kiosks back in the day, and noticing a sticker on those too. "This console has been modified and will not work if separated from this demo unit". I wonder how true that was?
Here's the thing about why they have that sticker its because here in the usa we post stickers onto amy console that is put on Display but we can't make it where the unit don't work when removed but we don't know how to restrict the console from not working we just put that there so it makes people think if they try to steal it wouldn't work outside of the store
Top tip for you, instead of using hand soap and water. Try muck off cleaner. I use muckoff for cleaning plastics, metals and it won't damage the membrains or plastics. Silicone lubricant is also a surprising good cleaner.
imagine if this was actually just being sold because it broke and the owner wanted more money
Love the videos! Where do you get your game boy acrylic protectors from? I remember you mentioning it on the last but can’t remember
Jelly Belly Customs, a Gameboy parts website based in the UK.
Watching you clean and repair that Game Boy was so satisfying for some reason. Good job!
Brush seems to be pretty good; but as fellow enthusiast:
Toothbrushes. There is many kinds, they are more brittle and made to brush off generall harder - at your teets. Basically mini backbrush hardness that usually will not penetrate any plastics used in video gaming products but cleans them up way good.
Also, I am not sure did I just see wrong and thus assume wrong: Dishwashing liquid is better than handsoap. You do not need much of it to create effective soapy cleaning water ("You always use too much dishwashing liquid" - Dishwashing liquid seller) and is generally a soap that is made to generally attack types of stains that develop on consoles and their buttons.
Though; to say something I myself learned/got to figure out from this video: The brush is EXCELLENT tool for more than just little grimy button rubber membrane cleaning. I somethimes struggle with optimal way to get those clean without leaving material or residue on them that will stay on them. Alcohol pads that I use for one example, usually can leave a "invisible stain" of leftover matter that can feel weird, cause weirdly sticky feeling or not-stellar contact action from the rubber membrane's "impact" area if not rinsed well, defeating the "quick easy and effectively dry" cleanup job alcohol pads sometimes are for me.
Since nobody ever talks about these, and it is all "figuring it out myself" just about for every collector, I think this is healthy input and output. Even for me the toothbrush was not an original idea. It came from working at recycling center where ladies and men in charge of cleaning up ovens and such home appliances before resale would have in their extensive menu of dish brushes, rough sponges, wipes and such, also, a lot of toothbrushes, which were used for nook'n'cranny type of deal and something I ended up using for few retro consoles I cleaned up for sale myself too.
And; I am fully aware making this comment, that this might not be a "never though of that" thing as much as it could be; and delicacy with rare pieces might been the reason here (though, in my mind especially given the type of dirt, unneeded delicacy which toothbrush could have attacked better)
Yessss it’s out! Saw you put it on Twitter have a nice day my guy
Nice video! I actually happen to own the kiosk that connects the gameboy to a television. Has a bunch of wires sticking from the side that go to a box that outputs the video to a tv.
This very much feels like an old-school Retro Future video. Love that
Well, actually it wouldn't work if separated from display. It didn't have any battery in it, it was directly powered by the Kiosk. It's just a... Well, let's say it wasn't a clear insteuction ahahah
Maybe but there would have to be a metal wire or something to pass power
@@SirSans842 just metal pads on the battery connectors, ez
The sticker was also on the Demovision Gameboy and on those the Display had wires soldered into it for the signal on the TV.
for some reason i get like a visual-equivalent of ASMR watching the cleaning part lol...almost like a Bob Ross video, especially because of the brush used to clean the shell xD
..."im just gonna dip this in a little Pthalo-Soap, and were gonna paint a happy little clean spot, right there" XD
I actually have real NOS display and cpu boards here and just as the displays get lines like this even the unused ones suffer from the same deteriorated bonds to the display as well, since they are just as old as the actual Gameboys age has gotten to them. so I am also aware of the heating method :)
I think the kiosk that that particular one had the battery pack built onto it rather than being able to use AA batteries, which might also explain the missing back.
If someone were to steal it from the kiosk, they wouldn't be able to play it immediately, but would have to get batteries for it too
I remember a store near me when I was a kid had a version of the TV displays where the whole thing was a giant Gameboy with a normal Gameboy sticking out of it. I was there this one time and overheard a customer asking if the Gameboy required a TV.
Whoaaa the cleaning part was sooo satisfying thanks Elliott
I think the sticker is pointing out that it won’t continue working if you remove it from the display as the power would need to be disconnected to remove it, not that it won’t ever work at all once removed.
I suspect the missing battery door had to do with being attached to the kiosk. Obviously it wouldn't make sense for them to run a display model off of batteries so the display unit probably ran off of AC/DC power, and being stationary there would be no need for a battery door so instead they probably designed the kiosk itself to clip into the battery door latches for added stability/security.
The idea that removing it would disable it's function is a bit of a stretch, but also not technically a lie in a short term sense, since doing so would disconnect it from the DC power.
Elliot! I was thoroughly impressed with how you made this video. All those edits at the beginning.. I could imagine you going, "Agh! Just one more shot to get it right!" Hahaha. Thank you for the hard work, mate. These videos are enjoyable and are one heck of a blast-to-the-past experience.
Discovered this channel a few days ago and had to go to my moms and get all my old Nintendo's out the loft today. Been wanting to learn some electronics for a while and this seems like the perfect in
After working in retail, I don't usually believe stickers that say things like that. If its valuable enough that they're willing to have a device brick itself if disconnected to avoid theft, why even warn anybody? Just have it brick in a way that when they bring it in to get "their" device fixed its obviously stolen. Retail chains will put labels like "security device inside" but they have no such device, while other unassuming items are packaged with anti theft devices and no warning of such (unless you're looking for them, they're not impossible to find usually). Its funny they didn't actually make it non operable when separated from the kiosk, especially when the it would have tons of space to put some kind of processor in there for such a check, along with a simple killswitch.
oh look, nintendo lied...that almost never happens.
Seeing this old school game boy reminds me of when I was young. I had that and warrio world. Played it a lot. Wish I still had it.
now elliot just needs the kiosk itsself
Imagine :O
Eliot. That's a 0 ohm Resistor on the pcb by the power connector that needs to be moved over to work. You'll see a blank spot. If it's on the other spot it won't work vice versa. That unit has been modded
2:27 *pulls gameboy gently out of the case*
Man you have no idea how many times i dropped mine back in the 90s lol
It probably says it will not work, so people did not try to steal them from kiosks.
that sticker is just like how at walmart shopping carts they have a sticker that says if it is taken out of the parking lot the wheels will lock... which at a quick glance they have no mechanism that would lock them.
I got a Nokia N-Gage QD brand new back in the day which was also a display model from a store. Someone figured out that they were fully functional and just flashed the software for a retail unit which activated everything on them and sold them as full phones. It's still working to this day.
Do you put silica gel in those display boxes or do they have airholes to stop any moisture building up
I personally enjoy your videos in general
So informational
Appreciate it
Glad you enjoy!!
I saw a 3DS display unit on eBay a few weeks ago, was tempted to buy it tbh.
I would guess that sticker wasn't aimed (at least directly) at theft. My interpretation of that sticker is that it was meant for kids and families that were demoing the unit, tell them not to try to slide it out of the kiosk or otherwise remove it to play it. It's powered by the kiosk (and in some cases the kiosk is displaying the screen too) and needs to remain in the kiosk to function for the demo.
Wow that intro tho! Look at my boy Elliot being all ultra professional and all!
That test cartridge still confuses me.
"Hmm, I wonder if the buttons on my Gameboy work."
"There is only one way to find out: Let me get my GIANT OFFICIALLY LICENSED AND CERTIFIED PROFFESIONAL GAMEBOY BUTTON TEST CARTRIDGE!"
Cleaning tiny parts with a brush: A true man of culture I see.
I have one of these with the kiosk. The CRT was missing though, but after a lot of searching I found a flatscreen that fit inside.
I think the warning sticker is referring to the fact that the kiosk had a physical power connection and would "not work" if you detached it from that power supply and didn't steal a pack of AA batteries along with it. Not that it had a security feature that would disable it if you removed it from the kiosk. Of course it's vaguely worded to sound like an ominous warning that it'll self-destruct if you even think about f* with Nintendo.
Hi Retro! I really enjoy the content and keep up the hard work!
Propably it meant to say that it was connected to a power supply on the side and that in case of theft, wouldn't work without it or something...In Greece, kiosks didn't have that sticker...
I remember one of those kiosks with the crt monitor connected to it at my local Toys'R'Us and just remember going there to play on it one day after school and it not being there, when i asked someone who worked there what happened to it he told me "they told us to throw it away and so'n'so (cant remember the person's name) just took it home instead of trashing it"
Thinking to myself how lucky that guy that took it home was to be able to play gameboy like that in his own home, that was until my 8 year old mind discovered the super gameboy for the Super Nintendo, but still "Today Me" would rather have the Kiosk in my home to play gameboy games like how i remember playing them once upon a time
I think the reason the sticker saying it won’t work is there is so people wouldn’t be inclined to steal it from a kiosk back in the day. Who’s to say Nintendo put that there? Could’ve been something a store printed up because maybe they were told it wouldn’t
It probably was true of the Game Boy units that were attached to the CRT display, then they simply used the same stickers for the cheaper kiosks with no display. Technically, even with the cheaper kiosks, the Game Boy wouldn't work if removed because it would lose power. Easily remedied with a pack of AA batteries, but still technically true.
5:59 that sounds like the pixar lamp lmao