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    PTE59: A Boy Amongst Giants

    This year still has one or two anniversaries left uncovered and this is a big one for many peoples nostalgia buttons.

    25 years ago Nintendo launched a small and unassuming device for gamers called the Gameboy.

    It would go on to topple multiple rivals which had more power or even just colour visuals. It felt like everyone had one and Nintendo managed to give it as long a life as possible until a true successor was required. What for you is your preferred version and what are your memories of the handheld?
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    Gameboy Pocket
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    Gameboy Light
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    Gameboy Color
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    Gameboy Micro
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    #2
    I got the original Gameboy for Christmas. As well as the standard Tetris my parents got me a pack with Jurassic Park, this wasn't a good game but as was the case back then you played whatever you had to death whether it was good or bad, and this got played to death, I don't remember much about it apart from getting killed at a certain point repeatedly i think it was something to do with a stamped, Tetris, Zelda, and golf where my go to games for this system.

    i skipped the gameboy colour and went for a Neo Geo pocket and didn't regret it metal slug and Neo Turf masters what more could you ask for, but i did come back for the excellent Gameboy Advance picking up both the original and the sp.
    Last edited by Lebowski; 07-02-2014, 08:49.

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      #3
      POK?MON

      This game was an obsession bordering upon mania for me when it was released. My life became eat/sleep/Pok?mon, I played it everywhere constantly on my transparent Pocket (decorated with a sticker of a Charmeleon on the back). I remember getting sick and having vivid fever dreams, all of them about Pok?mon. It was mental. Great game!

      Before that I owned Super Mario Land and SML2 Six Golden Coins, both superb titles. I couldn't believe how much better the graphics were when I played the second one. Wave Race was also a favourite, and I also liked the original Star Wars game, despite it actually being quite rubbish and far too difficult.

      I also owned some truly dire Gameboy games....the Worms port awful, and the less said about Star Wars: Yoda Stories the better. MTV Snowboarding wasn't much better either. The port of Grand Theft Auto actually wasn't too bad, although it must be the most deserted Liberty City has ever been!

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        #4
        Oddly the game that sticks in my mind most on Gameboy is the Simpsons game where you play as Bart at some camp. Awful.

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          #5
          Was it really 25 years ago???

          I still remember seeing the original Jpn release on my local market stall & picking it up on a whim with some of my money left to me after my nan passed away
          I fell in love with it

          It had some amazing games on it.

          I wish I still had my original but as a dumb kid I traded it off for some other tat I got into.

          I do have a PAL Solus still which is in it's box but it's developed problems & has lines on the display

          I never did any of the colours & only upgraded when the Advance hit

          Neil

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            #6
            Originally posted by wakka View Post
            POK?MON

            This game was an obsession bordering upon mania for me when it was released. My life became eat/sleep/Pok?mon, I played it everywhere constantly on my transparent Pocket (decorated with a sticker of a Charmeleon on the back). I remember getting sick and having vivid fever dreams, all of them about Pok?mon. It was mental. Great game!
            Pok?mon became the reason why I loved the Game Boy so much. Being a child during that period of time was amazing, I'll never forget finally buying a link cable and destroying my friend's party to which he yanked out the cable and never wanted to battle again. We eventually completed each others Pok?dex too and it made school trips just a massive Pok?mon event basically, almost everyone had a Game Boy and a copy of the game. Sadly Gold and Silver failed to reach the heights that Red and Blue did (although I only played a copy of Red a friend owned, I was bought Yellow on release pretty much). What always fascinates me is that some people still see getting to level 100 as an achievement but over the years I must have owned at least 200 or so level 100 Pok?mon. To be fair though I did play that franchise to death. It was only when Diamond and Pearl rolled around that I kinda fell off - Ruby and Sapphire were amazing though.

            Other than Pok?mon I'll say Super Mario Land 2 and Mole Mania.



            I voted Light because I'm a showoff but as a kid I owned a transparent Pocket. Got the pack for Christmas with the case, Metroid 2 and Wave Race when I was 6 I believe. Got it before my PlayStation, which was my first home system. The DMG-01 is probably the best machine overall though.

            :3

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              #7
              My other half isn't much of a gamer, but she did have a brick Gameboy when she was younger, but it went AWOL at some point (she thinks her sister sold it) along with her games. I got many kudos points at Xmas for giving her a replacement and most of her favourite games
              Lie with passion and be forever damned...

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                #8
                Originally posted by speedlolita
                Being a child during that period of time was amazing


                It was awesome, wasn't it? Almost every kid in my class - and certainly all the boys - were obsessed with the game, the anime and the trading cards. Not to mention all the toys they produced.

                Everyone would bring their Gameboys and link cables into school every day to trade and battle, as well as their cards for the same reasons. It was a genuine phenomenon and tons of fun.

                I had Blue on release day. It was intense. I later got Yellow when that came out but found it boring because I'd rinsed Blue so hard and Pikachu following you around didn't really add anything. I remember the first pictures of the new monsters in Gold and Silver appearing in all the magazines with Japanese names and opinion on the playground was divided - I remember one kid announcing that Pok?mon was ruined forever (so it wasn't much different from this forum ). Me and my best mate were the only people in the school to have the new games on import from the US when they came out there, months before the UK release. I had Gold and he had Silver amazing times. I remember the colour graphics seemed immense, too.

                Thinking about it that must have been my first ever import game.
                Last edited by wakka; 07-02-2014, 13:06.

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                  #9
                  I still have all of my rarer cards in one of those Wizards of the Coast Pok?mon 2x2 binders. I traded about 14 shiny cards for that binder. Funny to see that Charizard is worth about a tenner, with Venusaur and Blastoise not costing much less.

                  I rewatched the 4kids dub last year too, just the Indigo League - first 80 episodes. The dub is charming, I used to watch the show on Sky One before school at my friend's house.

                  I do remember buying those crappy Pok?mon mags that were really popular back then that had very early Gold/Silver shots, hinting at a skateboard at one time as I recall? As for Gold and Silver, being the huge Pok?mon fan that I am I noticed a few choice carts in my friend's Game Boy game drawer. The carts were Gold and Silver. Pok?mon Gold and Silver. His Nan had imported them for him months before the UK release and HE HADN'T EVEN COMPLETED THEM. I think I spent the rest of my time at his house getting as many badges and seeing as much as the game as I could. To this day I don't understand how he could leave them unplayed. It was nuts. I remember saving my ?1 a week pocket money for 15 weeks to get Pok?mon Gold - which my Mum then matched as a reward for not spending the money on sweets for 15 weeks. I recall popping into Woolworths to grab that before football training and then playing it when I got home - had a Typhlosion before bedtime.

                  Funnily enough at that football training in question everyone was saying how terrible Pok?mon was and all this other rubbish which I just smiled and nodded at..
                  Last edited by speedlolita; 07-02-2014, 12:32.

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                    #10
                    Gameboy was f'ing great.

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                      #11
                      And I get like 20 hours of battery on a DMG-01. My Vita and 3DS XL struggle to make 5 hours. Rubbish.

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                        #12
                        My first memories of seeing a Gameboy was when i was in highschool someone had brought in a weird looking electronic game, at first i thought it was a boring single screen lcd jobby but then i noticed the screen was scrolling, back then it blew me away. It caused quite a stir as back then nobody had even seen a Gameboy as it still wasn't released in the UK that kid had managed to get one imported. Once i saw one i knew i had to have one for myself, wasn't till i was in college & on the glorious YT training scheme lol that i actually had cash of my own, took months to save up for one but i eventually had enough to eventually buy one from the little indie import shop just up the road from me. Ended up like most people with tetris & i played the **** out of it as thats all i had but as the months went on i started to amass a small collection of games, ended up importing quite a lot of USA stuff as thats what the shop up the road mainly sold.The excitement of playing Kirbys dreamland & then the dissappointment of finishing it in 30 mins of getting it home LOL.

                        Played many games on it over the years, in town there used to be the most amazing game shop called Microbyte that sold imports for all the main consoles. Everywhere you looked inside there were imports, on the middle aisle there were glass display cases full of import Gameboy & Gamegear games i used to go in most weekends & just look around at all the exotic looking games. This ended up been the weirdest coincidence i have ever had in my life so far, i had mistakenly seen a game box in the display case for Ganbare Goemon on the mono gameboy or at least i was convinced i had seen it. (the box i had actually seen was for a unrelated gamegear game as i later found out) when i went back the box i had seen was gone so i asked if i could order a copy, after many weeks of waiting i went into the shop to pick it up. I realised that it was a totally different box to the one i had seen in the display cabinet. It just so happened that there was a Goemon game released for the gameboy that month in Japan, it's almost like i was meant to have that game. It chose me LOL, managed to finish it despite not been able to read japanese due to more lucky coincidences in the game, seemed to find all right parts to progress even while messing with the password screen i stumbled across the code that lets you start on level 2 with all the treasure pieces found so you can see the true ending. God i love that game i still have it now i'll never ever sell it.

                        Over the years i have owned all of the various versions of the gameboy, still have from the light onwards would love a mono one again for nostalgia but the light is suitable for that. Out of all the games i have had i only have a small core of gameboy/advance games left now. Most of my older games i sold a long time ago but there are special ones like the original Japanese pokemon games & the goemon ones that i will never sell. Slowly been piecing a small GBA collection together as i still play on that regularly, if i had both the space and the money i'd try & go for a massive Japanese original GB colletion as i love the tiny boxes. Remember playing Rockman world for the very first time & loving every second of it.

                        Could ramble on for hours about the crazy amount of quality games for the GB/GBC/GBA

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                          #13
                          My 1st play of a Gameboy was on a pod at woolworths. Before that though, it was knocking about in various gaming magazines, it just seemed so special. I bought it out of a catalogue whilst still at school. Still have the original Gameboy. I did a long time down the line enjoy playing Gameboy games on the Snes Gameboy player, after-all, its not just a special console, considering its age, there are a lot of, a hell of a lot of great 2d games on it. I loved tetris and got good at it, I loved and finished gargoyles quest, double dragon I & II are solid. Ninja Gaiden, Turtles, Mario, Wario and golf.

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                            #14
                            First time I had with the GB was round a friends house which set me off wanting one. I was bought the original model with Tetris (itself 30yrs old this year!) and Mario Land. I can't lie, I didn't and still don't rate the original Mario Land much but in its many years it was interesting to see how far they pushed it. I adored Mario Land 2 abd though fun was gutted that Wario Land took over from there. DK Land was a tight squeeze but fun too. Pokemon wise I didn't jump on till Yellow but played it a fair bit. The GB was always good for a playground and even by college I was still knocking around a GBC which for me married function and form best for the original machine. Never really got on with the Pocket or Micro.

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                              #15
                              Micro is a GBA anyway, it doesn't even play GB games. Not sure why that is in the poll when the Advance and Advance SP are not.

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