The price is really outrageous.

GB was seriously at a level that everyone had one…

>>5

It’s a lie, I was the only one who had a Game Boy.

I was the only one using a communication cable with a converter to communicate with my friends.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B004HOX854

I was using this guy.

The one that Gunpei made.

I got a silver pocket.

My parents bought an AC adapter two weeks later because the battery consumption was abnormal.

There weren’t any cost-effective batteries, so it was even more so.

>>10

GB Pocket Light Color and

WonderSwan and Neo Pokemon

Back then, there was something like probing each other with handheld devices…

The WonderSwan itself was priced at 4,800 yen, so it was an amazing time.

The reason our Tamiya charger was upgraded to one compatible with AA batteries is Haruna.

I was in an era where I thought the GBA was cheap if it was the price of one erotic game.

When I pulled it out after 20 years…

I left the batteries in, and various things inside are dead.

That price was outrageous back then…

Even a suspicious Chinese game console is still a bit more expensive.

Even back then it was considered cheap, but I wonder why it was so inexpensive.

>>18

Maybe it was the great bass made by Gunpei.

I heard that person was good at making cheap toys out of leftover materials.

It seems like there could be opportunities to aim for profit even with tight arbitrage margins.

Perhaps they wanted to promote it even if it meant taking unreasonable risks.

It was nice that it could be pulled from the power outlet, a subtle consideration.

There might have been a huge demand since it was a few months after the release of Pokémon.

It was after a while since the release of Pokémon that it started to take off.

Are you saying that I was someone who couldn’t even get something like that?

>>24

At this time, it was more important that my eyesight was getting worse than the amount of money…

Even now, for mobile games, the pseudo buttons used for controls aren’t much different.

There was a time when there were still households where buying games was considered a forbidden act.

The game has no choice but to follow the given operating system, so it will be this way for life unless something happens on the hardware side.

I’m grateful that they made it AAA even though the battery part bulged a bit in color…

Of course, it’s about 4 AA batteries and 2 AAA batteries.

The evolution of the screen was revolutionary.

[Conversion Connector]-[Communication Cable]-[Conversion Connector]

>>30

My parents were angry about this.

I feel like after the first generation, the screen was properly black and white with sharp dots.

The backlit color LCD of the Game Gear was far too ahead of its time…

I remember that the initial version did not have a battery level light on the side of the screen.

Is the Nintendo communication cable a proprietary cable standard? Is it b-b?

At that time, I didn’t know about the existence of AC adapters or battery packs.

The tension of a low battery is exhilarating… I’m going to buy an adapter!

The rechargeable batteries for mini 4WD have really been a great help to me.

It wasn’t this bright on the screen, was it?

Was the Game Boy console that cheap!?

>>43

The final price after the discount is…

I think the price at the time of the Pocket’s release was 6,800 yen.

I couldn’t get it because they said it was bad for my eyesight.

Well, I think it’s the right judgment now.

The item that lights up the screen with a crappy light probably suggests that kids around the world were messing around in the dark.

>>45

We must wait for the Game Boy Advance SP to improve.

>>54

There is a Game Boy Light!

3800

6800

9800

12000

15000

(25000)15000

It’s steadily rising.

The hurdle of cartridges is high, but if it switched to a download format, there seems to be quite a few people who still want to make Game Boy exclusive games.

So the kids nowadays have backlighting as the default, so aren’t their eyes getting worse?

>>49

Let’s brighten the room and step away from the screen!

I used to substitute a phone adapter and stick it in my pocket.

The leftover initial version without a lamp is probably cheaper.

A design that I thought was fashionable even as a child.

The LCD is too small.

You can’t see this unless you get close to the screen.

It looks like the LCD might be damaged even if it’s unopened.

The monochrome series continued to support the original Game Boy until 2007.

I thought if it were this bright back then… but there’s no doubt I’d end up doing it in bed and ruining my eyes.

Many people mistakenly think that the launch price of the pocket was 6,800 yen.

The price of 3800 yen is the price after it was lowered for the color release.

Looking at it now, even the GBASP and the original DS seem dark…

>>62

The DS with brightness adjustment and backlight, regardless of the SP, being dark is a bit…

The front light of the GBASP looks dim now, doesn’t it?

Advance? There’s no way this would sell (it sold).

DS? There’s no way this would sell (it sold).

I used to get really excited when I saw the big ones on display at the store…

I used to play with old NiCad batteries from my Mini 4WD that I stopped using…

Hey… why is this weird liquid coming out…?

>>67

It was tough that the pocket couldn’t do that.

I was really happy to return to color in AA size…

>>69

There was a size AA nickel-cadmium battery.

I mean, I was playing with that.

>>72

There are AAA batteries, but Mini 4WD uses AA batteries.

>>67

Didn’t the manual say not to use it?

I grew up in a house where we couldn’t buy batteries, so I borrowed batteries from my friends’ TV and air conditioner remotes to play around.

Because my friend’s older brother was doing mini 4WD, I borrowed from that as well.

Back then, elementary school kids had strange information networks saying things like “Alkaline is good!” or “Manganese can come back if you just leave it alone!”

>>75

At that time, many toys for children used dry batteries…

Until the Wii, they used AA batteries…

I think the first vomit was clearly too much for the child.

The sense of omnipotence you feel when you discover the existence of a 100-yen shop is great, isn’t it?

It has poor durability!!

Wasn’t Tamiya’s AA NiCd for RC use?

It might be the craft kit.

The original Game Boy felt very bulky, so I was impressed by the stylishness of the Pocket; it’s also easy to carry around.

But in the early version, there was no power indicator, so it often happened that the battery would run out suddenly and the save would roll back…

The color was 8,900 yen, and then it became 6,800 yen in about six months…

Considering the current standards, it’s amazing that the latest hardware is under 10,000.

Everyone was into Mini 4WD, so we had some knowledge about batteries.

I think I was doing things like directly attaching the battery box and playing with batteries other than AA.

>>84

Kawachi-kun, who is good at soldering, was revered as a god.

I don’t know the causal relationship between gaming and eyesight, but most people who like games tend to have poor vision, so I can’t really say anything.

I remember getting a colored picture from a friend for 1000 yen.

It was quietly appreciated because the foundation was SGB.

>>87

If the decline is 3,800 yen, then it’s a good purchase price…

Isn’t the reason they say not to use nickel-cadmium batteries in GB because they have a characteristic of rapidly dropping voltage?

I thought the power indicator suddenly dimmed, and then it felt like the power just turned off.

The GBA is still priced at 9,800 yen, which is quite cheap.

At that time, there were NiCad batteries that ran out quickly, but now there are eneloop rechargeable batteries.

>>90

Actually, it’s Eneloop.

Many machines cannot be used because the voltage is 0.2v lower.

Lithium-ion batteries really were an amazing invention…

The blue flyer featuring peripheral devices is nice, isn’t it?

One aspect of the mechanism of nearsightedness is that you are not under sufficient light during the day.

There is no direct causal relationship with the game, but it is likely related.

I haven’t seen Eneloops lately; everyone has switched to batteries.

“You might end up knowing more about batteries than your parents.”

>>97

Get to know more about your parents’ batteries.

No matter how unstable it is and even if it lasts only a few hours from a full charge, I have no choice but to use this nickel-cadmium battery…

It might have actually cost more for the batteries than matching it with the cassette.

I didn’t have it in my pocket, but I remember getting a NiCd rechargeable battery for the original model and using it.

It was promised that the day would end when the battery ran out.

Because they are technical parents, they understood well.

My dad often brought home batteries, so I played games a lot.

The manganese didn’t last even an hour.

When I asked my parents to buy batteries, they often mix up AA and AAA.

>>104

The first generation has four AA batteries, so it seems even easier to make mistakes.

When my father was alive, he had prepared the environment for rechargeable batteries and also bought the software…

I was envious of those who had an AC adapter that could bring power from the outlet to the GBC…

Too cheap…

>>107

After releasing it in color for 8900 yen, there’s no way it can be sold for 5800 yen, so of course, the price will be lowered.

By the way, the price of the Game Boy Light was also reduced from 6800 yen to 5800 yen at launch.

It was a battery until the Advance, right?

I was impressed that I can now charge the main unit with the SP.

>>108

You don’t have to buy and wear some crappy halfway accessories.

I was grateful that I could play it casually even when I was in bed or turned off the lights and couldn’t fall asleep; also, the popping was the best.

Since my first Game Boy was an early model Pocket, I really struggled with the batteries.

I was impressed by the built-in light after I got the DS.

I was using a lot of cheap batteries that were sold at Shimamura…

I had a rechargeable battery for my Mini 4WD.

At that time, the charging time was pretty long, you know…

Back then, there weren’t many household appliances that used AAA batteries, so we don’t really have much stock at home…

I didn’t need this because I was playing on the PC.

This was selling well in Pokémon.

I think the final stage is quite hard, but what were you all playing?

>>118

It’s two years before the color release, and even after the color release, there were quite a few compatible software titles released, so it doesn’t feel like the hardware is in its final stages at all.

At that time, it was all AA batteries, so AAA…

There’s a possibility that there was even a demand for size D and size C batteries used for things like heaters.

The Advance SP is great because it can fit into a tight pocket and the way it transforms into a square box to become a game console is nice.

It’s a gadget that children will definitely love.

I heard that they added the communication adapter because the cost was the same, but was this connector a proprietary one?

Honestly, the feeling of them releasing slightly improved versions lately to extend the lifespan of the hardware doesn’t leave a good impression.

I was basically dead until Pokémon came out.

>>122

Since Pokémon appeared and came back to life, there was a need for prolongation.

>>127

It seems that the removal of the communication port was also considered during the development stage.

It’s hard to believe that development started after Pokémon was released.

But wasn’t this released during the peak of the Game Boy?

It’s amazing that a low-cost version of a two-button black and white handheld console came out during the era of the Super Famicom.

The Pokémon power was insane.

Even just the first generation of Pokémon should have had enough to reach the second and third boom, so it’s seriously amazing.

I mean, the screen is super easy to see.

There weren’t many color-specific cartridges, and it’s amazing that there are no shortages of games that can be played on the GB.

>>129

The dual compatibility was an amazing specification.

I was happy to do Pokémon cards.

But if you try to buy a light and a pocket now, it’ll cost almost 10,000 yen…

>>130

If you buy it now, the one with the liquid crystal broken due to vinegar syndrome…

I definitely bought it because of Pokémon, but what was popular on the GB before that?

>>133

Mario?

I was playing Tetris and SaGa 2.

>>134

…I’m glad Pokémon was born into the world!

The battery consumption is more intense than I imagined!

I remember playing Super Mario Land 2, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Selection, and Pack-In Time before Pokémon.

There are plenty of software titles that sold reasonably well, but the impression of Pokémon is just too strong…

The battery runs out much faster compared to the first generation.

Since it uses two AA batteries, it’s unavoidable, but I thought the screen was dimming and then it shuts down immediately.

I was given it along with the AC adapter.

It’s strange to say that it’s been maintained since the screen became dim.

I feel like there wasn’t really a boom that was a mix of good and bad.

Pokémon is truly extraordinary.

Pokémon is popular, but Teruwan, which aimed to capitalize on the excitement of the GBC, is also strong.

It could be said that it was hardware just for Pokémon, but in reality, Pokémon was just one of many games among various others.

>>146

I think that the one at the center when pockets came out was either Pokémon or Moguranya.

>>146

I’ve never seen something treated as hardware just for Pokémon…

It’s natural to consider Pokémon as a representative work, but…

I heard great things about using AA batteries.

I bought the charger as a set.

I was completely absorbed in playing the Pokémon cards I bought for 500 yen at a flea market.

It seems like there are quite a few anonymous people who bought one of the SD Sengokuden games.

For better or worse, it was all games that I played alone.

A child who often needed hospital care found Pokémon to be quite essential even before it was released.

>>152

Maybe it’s because of my age, but when I hear stories like that, I tear up.

I remember that even at barbershops, the original was placed there for passing the time along with manga.

Although it has become colorful,

The software was released until 2002, you know.

I wonder what kind of game console can be made now that runs on two AA batteries.