Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

  • Deadeyegai@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    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).

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      17 days ago

      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:

      • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 days ago

        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.

        • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          17 days ago

          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.

      • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        16 days ago

        I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.

    • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      Can confirm. So far I’ve gotten an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, docking station and a stand for it so it can be used as a laptop as well while traveling.

      It certainly has issues but it’s an impressive device.

  • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    I actually got that kit from a friend as a kid, I used it all the time when playing at home, the fake analog was legit, and I think there’s a light on the magnifier too.

  • you_are_dust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    17 days ago

    What would actually happen if you used an action replay and a game genie at the same time? Would it not even be able to boot up? Would it work and just one supercedes the other? I only ever had game genie so I couldn’t test it. Does anyone know?

  • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    This is like the Thanos glove with the stones (can’t remember the actual names) but for Nintendo in the 80s and 90s. The only thing missing is a power glove which it’s all mounted on, and an NES Zapper somehow integrated into it all.