Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.
AVGN is about to meet his match
This is the ideal Gameboy body. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like (just be sure to have all the batteries nearby).
8AAs, right?
Cool watch.
You have a GameShark plugged into a game genie? The hells the point of that.
You’ve never sharked a genie? What a prude!
spits
Filthy casual.
This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.
You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.
If you think that’s bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.
Imagine a stock game gear
Ah game gear TV. Battery life meant nothing to you.
I loved that TV tuner cartridge.
Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the ‘good’ alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.
26 min running time per battery pack.
This was our screen time limit in the 80s.
…my game gear case carried an automotive-sized external rechargeable battery…
How many minutes do the batteries last?
I had the GameBoy Color version of the magnifying glass/speaker/fake joystick combo. It ran the speakers and the light off of its own pair of batteries. The speakers were an upgrade (especially for the stereo sound) but everything else was a gimmick. The incandescent bulb was too dim and housing around the screen made it darker and even more difficult to see:
Later on in early 2000s we got the worm light. LED and was powered from the link cable port. It was considerably brighter and hardly affected battery life from what I remember:
We also eventually got magnifying glasses that didn’t have the housing around the screen to darken it:
Those worm lights were the first time I ever saw an LED. It was crazy to me that it was so bright it was blue.
Same but I was 12 at the time so I didn’t think much about the bulb tech nor it’s color temperature. I was just like “wow that’s a bright bulb”.
Later on around 2005 I got my first piece of tech with an OLED screen: a Kenwood car stereo. It wouldn’t be for nearly another 20 years when I finally got my first OLED TV.
That Gameboy watch really sells it.
Noticing it only after parsing the rest of the setup made me giggle a little bit.
“THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”
WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???
Gaming in the 90’s was so glorious.
Imagine the shits you could take with that thing
