The struggle. Playing the gameboy at night

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dudderson@reddit

I had one of those things you snapped onto it and it had a light and a magnifying screen. Added like, 30 more pounds to that brick but it was PERFECT for our road trips!!! As long as I beat Island Adventure before the batteries wore out....which never happened, lol

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

There was an aftermarket light kit. Basically a light and magnifier combo.

Source: I had one in my 1st gen

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Dakkin4@reddit

Yes! This is what I came to say. I had it too.

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PYCHYOUOUT97@reddit

or trying to read in the car at night

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Daylight-Silence@reddit

That's why the true degenerates had this abomination

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Secret_Elevator17@reddit

Yep, it was necessary in the stationwagon on 14 hour drives.

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the_well_read_neck_@reddit

I had one of these and it was awesome for the 15 minutes it worked before it drained the batteries.

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Dandruff83@reddit

I rocked the Booster Boy

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Daylight-Silence@reddit

That looks somehow more absurd than the other one, which as I recall was semi functional once you took the button covers off

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Dandruff83@reddit

Loved it 👌🏻

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

I would have been jelly... all i had was the little light thingy

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Daylight-Silence@reddit

This one? Don't be jealous, I had both and the little light was way more functional, and actually still portable unlike the other fiasco

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Yep thats the one nice find!

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Sirtriplenipple@reddit

I was this degenerate.

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solidwhetstone@reddit

You gotta show the OG though

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NatrousOxide23@reddit

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jaywinner@reddit

That's why you get a Game Gear.

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Powerful_Wombat@reddit

And burn through six AA batteries in a few hours playing Columns? I’d rather have a Game Boy

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Satur_Nine@reddit

It came with adapter. I used that more than the six batteries

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an_inverse@reddit

Columns as a diss is the best thing ever. Lol 🤣

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ConfidenceFragrant80@reddit

You mean playing the original sonic the hedgehog just to run out of battery life on the very last level.. 😭

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FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit

Or mortal kombat and same lol

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jaywinner@reddit

It will burn through batteries but it had good games too.

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weedtrek@reddit

That's why I had one of these...

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TheDukeofArgyll@reddit

Money bags over here had accessories

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weedtrek@reddit

I feel like it was like $12, which was cheaper than most games. It was a life saver on car rides.

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TheDukeofArgyll@reddit

$12 for a toy? Is it my birthday or Christmas? I guess you must be Richie Rich with that kind of cash.

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neuro_space_explorer@reddit

I rocked this light until the backlit gba.

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YogurtOld412@reddit

Still have mine, it's green

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theforestbather@reddit

I had one of these bad boys. Wasn't the best, but it helped. Mostly it just doubled the amount of batteries needed.

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CantaloupeAsleep502@reddit

Who's got a working giant og game boy these days??

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brainfreeze77@reddit

I have one but it's impossible for my old eyes now. I play emulators on a Retroid Pocket now.

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brainfreeze77@reddit

I refurbished mine this winter so I could play some games and it's impossible to see. I ended up getting Retroid pocket and it's so much better.

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46handwa@reddit

Watched an interesting video about how the fact that it wasn't backlit meant that it consumed less batteries which allowed it to outcompete backlit systems, due to having to budget less for batteries

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robin_888@reddit

We even turned of the music or dialed down the volume to save batteries.

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XennialDad@reddit

I saw this too. I would have doubled the AA use. I would have been ok with that honestly. Especially if they'd designed it to still work with 4 and no backlight, or you slap 8 in to get the backlight.

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Joker-Smurf@reddit

Or in sunlight. Or in low light. Or direct light. Or indirect light.

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alwaus@reddit

The gameboy could if had a backlit color sxreen butbit would of cost an extra $3 per unit and cut the runtime down by 25% or require 2 more AAs so we ended up with the smeary monochrome abomination they used.

No big loss, they ended up selling the screen to make the Game Gear.

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FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit

Nothing like realising how much you put up with when we didn’t know better haha.

I got my old psp out to show the kids and wow, even just basics taken-for-granted control systems for movement hadn’t been developed yet. Even the best games on it can be a total slog.

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JediRebel79@reddit (OP)

🤣😂🤣 they lied to us!!

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