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Published: 2013-03-22 00:44:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 3175; Favourites: 115; Downloads: 22
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I love my old little gameboy pocket but I do wonder how I ever lived through a mobile gaming era without any back-lights or LED screens. Probably wasn't good for my eyes...<-Previous Next ->
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Meh. Still better than it's poor selling rivals from across the pond. And the original Advance model, come to think of it.
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Ummm, reminds me of why i used mom's glasses to play gameboy when she got me one... could not see a darn thing... then i grew up and now i have a ds, best thing they did... the screen is twice as big... and thank god, i didn't remember how long i wanted to see the screen with my eyes wide open.
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lmao I remember when they sold the lights that hook onto the top so it'll shine light onto the screen.
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Dude, I actually went through this the other day, but with my gameboy color XDD And is that PKMN blue in ur gameboy? XDDDD
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The GBP and GBL was both way better than the old DMG-01 in that regard, but it was still a really great system when it came out
Nowadays I play most of my GB games on my GBL exclusively though.
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My sega Game Gear had a small screen but it was at least backlit. Same with my Sega Nomad... yeah, I had a Sega Nomad!
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I remember if it wasn't "bight" enough you just adjusted the dial on the side and it got brighter.
It's because of that feature I could navigate the dark caves in red and blue without teaching my pokemon flash XD
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The lightboy only blurred the screen even more and those small bulbs didn't really provide a great source of light
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... a magnifying glass AND LIGHTS? That's some magic wizardry right there.
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Haha, I found mine the other day as well! xD I remember the times when I thought a battery that lasted over 2 hours was freakin' amazing.
Those were the days, man, those were the days.
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Despite having spent countless hours playing game-boy
and reading
and staring at a computer screen at a relatively constant distance
I still have fine eye-sight
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well I guess that's because you also were small. like when you ere a little kid, the gameboy and the screen where like giant!
hehe well great job as always! X3
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I have mine but the glass screen is cracked clean off. Other than that the only game I had was tetris; that being said, I was perhaps the most patient child in existence.
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I got my glasses about a year after I got my Gameboy. XP
Coincidences????????
Perhaps.
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I'm ashamed to say that I can't look at a Gameboy without feeling a smidgeon of pure unadultured rage at how it still managed to be more popular than the GameGear.
Oh GameGear, you had color AND backlighting in a time of dark, dark Gameboys...
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they could have fixed it! they could have fixed it faster than gameboy took to add a backscreen!
(*sob*)
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....so awesome....my first Gameboy was a purple Color model.....bought together with a copy of Pokemon Blue right when it first came out.....burned through so MANY batteries.....X3
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Oh man, It was always a nightmare running around the house trying to find any batteries with juice in them.
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Yeah, I never played on the color or pocket, but the Gameboy Advanced was aweful! I blame it for making me suck bullocks at pokemon.
a;sdlkjaf;lkj HOWEVER--!! The Gameboy Advanced SP will always be my homie~! vuv I might dig her out and see what's going on in FF Tactics Advanced. I never did finish that...
-Chaos
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Tactics was a great game. 
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Not many people remember it, or count it as a Final Fantasy game, at least from my encounters. D=
I call BS, because it says "Final Fantasy" right in the title!
-Chaos
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This with the added stupidity of playing it at night under my covers with a flashlight is exactly the reason I need glasses. I am sure of it.
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Wow. Irony. I just got a copy of Pokemon Blue in the mail today. Learned the joy of non-backlit, mono-chrome games on really tiny screens.
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I remember the days I tried playing the GBA at night
those were the days
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Once there was a week-long blackout due to an ice storm when I was a kid. I tried to play Pokemon by the sun/cloudlight coming in through the window.
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Been there done that. That was probably the closest I've ever gotten in tune with nature as a kid.
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I climbed a tree once and found a giant stick, so I think I'm as in tune with nature as kids get.
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My brother's GBA sp compared to by GB colour! AMG. The brightness!
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Hahah, this is too true. Even playing my old ps2 as opposed to a 360 was a drastic enough change. But Gameboy, pfft. I don't know how we did it in the first place.
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We braved the frontiers of mobile gaming in its primitive state!
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