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Title: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: NintendoKing on April 23, 2015, 12:12:48 pm
I was actually inspired a week ago to restore my old original Gameboy back to perfect functionality! :)

The birthday was 2 days ago but I forgot to post then, so here's a belated birthday to the handheld that really started the craze.


Edit The light is the second best Gameboy peripheral behind the link cable, it's the Nuby Game Light! The only good light designed for a original Gameboy, and highly collectable. (I own two of them.)(http://i.imgur.com/m5kfZ.jpg)
Stock Photo
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: BaconBitsKing on April 23, 2015, 02:40:48 pm
I completely missed it!  ;D Happy belated birthday, Game Boy.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: mdrobnak on April 23, 2015, 07:39:58 pm
I totally remember the Nuby light! It really was a must-have accessory. I think I still have my gameboy and maybe even the light...somewhere.

-Matt
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: manuel on April 23, 2015, 08:49:45 pm
Now I feel kind of old... I was 10 the year the GB came out.  :-[

Happy Birthday, GB!  ;D
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: NintendoKing on April 24, 2015, 03:41:01 am
Quote from: mdrobnak on April 23, 2015, 07:39:58 pm
I totally remember the Nuby light! It really was a must-have accessory. I think I still have my gameboy and maybe even the light...somewhere.

-Matt


Oh yes, with the Nuby it removed glare and can light up cleanly especially well at night. :) I used to play my Game in my room during pitch black night under my covers when I was very young. My parents never noticed. :)
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: mrtselevel on April 24, 2015, 10:04:13 am
Happy Birthday Gameboy

Use to have that Nuby Light, then i started to use this after a couple of months

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51F1QnjtAUL.jpg
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: Byron on April 24, 2015, 01:18:27 pm
I didn't get a Gameboy when they came out. I finally got a GB Color a few years later, so the light peripheral I used the most was that LED on a bendy stick. (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31D99CKV6NL.jpg)

The only original GB peripheral I have is one of these... Ridiculous things.

(http://41.media.tumblr.com/lzHBTRNzqoe07qu8Wd28ZyM0o1_1280.jpg)

Happy birthday, you blurry SOB.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: fredJ on April 25, 2015, 08:28:14 am
I missed out on this,

Well game boy was my first console. Actually bouhgt in Japan by my father. Also had Super Mario Land from Japan.

I Still enjoy Game Boy a lot. :D
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: Protoman on May 07, 2015, 04:16:56 am
Hell to the yes. Gameboy was my second game system after NES. I still own it too, although I have lost my games; Super Mario Land, Kwirk and Shadowgate Classic. And I don't play my Gameboy anymore because the screen blur making playing the games very hard... It's weird how I didn't have a problem with it until I started playing on a GBC.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: P on May 09, 2015, 02:31:55 pm
Yeah it was my second console too, and the first one I bought for my own money.

I think the screen blur must have gotten worse by the years so it's not only because we are used to GBC and GBA.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: mbannick on May 24, 2015, 06:12:02 pm
Dug mine out of the shed recently and added a nice backlight to it (makes a world of difference). I still remember waiting in line to get one and the joy of playing tetris for months :P. Best handheld ever despite needing the power of two suns to see whats actually happening on the screen.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: mario_bro2065 on September 06, 2015, 11:58:30 am
Quote from: Byron on April 24, 2015, 01:18:27 pm

The only original GB peripheral I have is one of these... Ridiculous things.

(http://41.media.tumblr.com/lzHBTRNzqoe07qu8Wd28ZyM0o1_1280.jpg)




That gameboy does not look all that portable anymore with that stuff on... IT WOULD BE TOO BIG FOR HANDS.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: L___E___T on September 06, 2015, 01:35:33 pm
I have one of these too but those speakers on the side always really bothered me.  They look, disturbing.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: P on September 06, 2015, 02:50:41 pm
How do you use it though? It looks too thick to be used as a pad, and the joystick looks too small to be used as an arcade stick.

My Gameboy's display is a bit faded and it's getting hard to see what's going on, on the screen. Even harder than before I mean.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Gameboy, 26 years old!
Post by: MaxXimus on September 06, 2015, 03:21:46 pm
Quote from: P on September 06, 2015, 02:50:41 pm
Even harder than before I mean.


Say it isn't so!!! That screen is hard to see at the best of times.