Kool!

I've never seen a colored one either, only the pockets.

I had a Game Boy with lines in the screen but I could still play it just fine. Lots of Mario Land and Alleyway and Baseball and CV adventure and FF Legend and Dedaelian Opus and Tetris.

Then I won a brand new Game Boy in a Mario 3 contest inspired by the movie & somehow got the battery pack. that was awesome!

Nice! Thx

I wish the ost to this was online. Gameboy Race Drivin seems to have cool music

Cool great to know. I'll probably be smart and go with SP for the screen and for the GBA and GBColor games that don't work on regular.

My first was the old fat one too but mine was red with back/dark grey buttons. Everyone I knew at the time had the white/light grey with purple buttons and they all thought mine was super cool because no one else had a red one but me. Pocket had alot of colors to choose which made it seem new to ppl at the time since all the original around where the same.

I had got my red one by selling things out of a magazine for my baseball team, with the help of mom having everyone in her office buy something, it got me enough points to the special red gameboy with Big Hurt baseball and a custom clear plastic gameboy case that held a few games and the system.

It's my only system to ever go missing. I stopped playing a week or 2 and went to my closet to grab it and it was gone. Last I recall was playing it in a hotel room, and couldn't remember beyond that. I had GameGear at the time as well but still wonder what happened to it lol.

I found out later after I got internet that there were other colored original fat models too, but I never seen em in the wild so that red o.g. gb was special to me.

I also had the glass that would enlarge the screen and had lil lights on it to see in the dark. And I also had the gameboy camera and gameboy printer. A few ppl i knew, the only pics i have of them are tiny crappy gameboy prints that give em googly eyes lol

I've been collecting and HEAVILY gaming for about 10 yrs and so far I've never had to replace a SP battery. I've had about 12-15 GBA SPs and still have 5 or 6. I've played the hell out of them and it's the handheld I've used the most. In my opinion those batteries hold up remarkably well. I highly recommend GBA SP for game boy, GBC or GBA games in my opinion as the best way to play game boy games. Even though I still hold on to my original Game Boy and use it some times.

However I do know that one can wreck the battery by playing games while charging the GBA SP. I have a couple of SPs that only hold about 1 hour of a charge due to my mistake of playing on while charging.

But even this seems preferable to using 4 AA batteries in a GB. IMO.

On the other hand, nothing can compare to having that game boy charger pack on my hip powering my Game Boy!! In class ignoring the nonsense and playing baseball or alleyway etc !!!

So as much as I recommend GBA SP ... I really do love that good old original grey game boy.

Some reason the resolution never bothered me. The games were pixelated but in a crisp way rather than a blurry way. On the original screen it just seemed to work. I spent many many hours on it, but it was well over a decade ago so I may see it differently now.

I always loved Gameboy, probably because I grew up with it.
I first had the original in the early 90s, then I had GameGear when that was new. Then I went back to Gameboy with pocket since GameGear was fading away and Gameboy library kept growing. I liked Pocket because the screen was slightly bigger than original Gameboy, the black and white looked cleaner than pea soup, and it could actually fit in my pocket for once. My favs were the Donkey Kong Land games "especially because I didn't have snes and the DK Countrys so it seemed new to me and seemingly better graphics than GameGear "even though it wasn't color". My Lil cousin got GBColor but I was blown away by how hard it was to see the screen, even with good lighting in the room it still bugged me, as where Pocket I was happy.

GBA impressed me, I had that, Monkey Ball and Tekken Advance were my favs but the screen was nearly as hard to see as GBC.. but it was the best way to game on the go. Then GBA SP came out and I traded it for that and was super happy. I caught up on more Snes stuff I never owned like Mario World.

But at one point I lost interests in games as a whole and traded in mostly everything I had except a laptop with Windows XP that was handed down from my Uncle, I still have that and its what I bring to game on trips.. but the battery is now shot on it unless its plugged to a wall and I feel like going back to the simple Gameboy times.

I'd get an SP since it plays it all and easiest to see but I hear their battery packs are starting to mess up from being so old.
GBA takes AA but has a hard to see screen..
Game Gear screens have all gone blurry by this point unless modded, plus I want the Nintendo library since I have no Nintendo systems atm.

I think I could get use to a GB Pocket again.

I enjoy some games on my smartphone like Pinball Arcade but I rather have physical buttons and real dpad over a touch screen. + I like classic original hardware.

The buttons on Gameboys always felt perfect to me. The Pocket has a slim feel and a decent screen for its size imo.

Imo all the Nintendo made games feel well done, and Gameboy always felt a slight step up from original NES to me, even with the small b&w screen it had alot of life to it.

The last GB games I remember playing non stop was Kirby's Pinball along with Nemesis "R Type shooter" , Game & Watch Gallery...

I was looking up other pinball thougg since thats what im into atm, Gator Revenge looks good, the screen stays steady so it's not jerky. The Getaway looks a bit jerky on emulation but the smaller screen and slight motion blur might fix that on o.g. hardware. I can just tell I'll have a blast, I like playing outside to.
I use to play GB Pocket on the beach lol. It's part nostalgia but the games I wanna get will be new to me. Nice lil Nintendo on the go.

I wonder what color it will be, probably whatever one feels good at my local shop after testing it there.

If I get sick of it, itl be easy to sell on ebay. So I also look at it that way.

Gameboy was always my window into the Nintendo world since I'm more of a Sega, Sony, Atari guy. But I don't want to go any newer than GBA lol

Hehe. I'm gonna have to check out what all the different ports look like. :)

I have the arcade ver on Midway Treasures 3 but the control on that emulation is WACK. Just terrible. Genesis ver I like, even beat the Fantom "though that may have been Hard Drivin". I should grab both games for Genesis again too its been years but i enjoyed them unlike Xbox Midway Treasures 3. Snes ver looks bad, missing way too many frames and so slow.

I watched some gameplay of GB just now and it plays way smoother, looks alot better than Snes. Seems they cut back in the right spots to make it work.

I know I'd enjoy it!

Next time I'm by my Gameshop I bet they have a copy for my Genesis, I'm so gonna grab it so I can start beating records here. I was really good at it.

But totally on my GB list now as well.
I think im going for a GameBoy pocket.
Most of the games I want are standard Gameboy games.

I'm concerned an SP won't hold a charge after all these years, and I recall the original GBA being difficulty to see.

Have you ever had to replace the battery pack on your SP or do they still hold a good charge?

Thx

I know! They gave everything a try on Game Boy
I actually like the GB version better than on Genesis or Arcade.

Wow the GB really has it all ! I should add this to my list too, really enjoyed it on Genesis.

Yes!