I remember how my mind was blown when I got a Gameboy Advance SP which had the backlight. It was revolutionary
omg i just remembered I had those light attachment thingys on my gameboy. good times
Amen brother.
I ordered the LE today. I’m seriously hoping I don’t get any dead pixels on mine. Lots of anxiety regarding that.
I remember the fun challenges I had to do to see the screen riding in the car with my parents. I had a head lamp to see the screen.
Yall remember the GameBoy Advance SP? The first models had awful spotlight front lighting (or none). The second model had an amazing screen that was bright as hell. Felt like a totally different system
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Some how brings to mind Grandpa Simpson. I read it in his voice too. And he had an onion on his belt… which was the style at the time…
Dam right we did!
Now you have quite a few LEDs in your faces with the OLED screen.
In a dark room, we had to use flashlight
Highly relevant:
http://i.imgur.com/TNgyOmz.gif
The first mobile gaming device that had a screen I thought was decent was the original PSP many years later.
PSP is still awesome!
This is an excellent animation. I have a specific memory of playing this way with that exact game pictured (Zelda: Link’s Awakening).
Worm light!
Ah yes, until the days where you could plug in a flexible LED lamp that drained the batteries even quicker!
I don’t understand why ppl is complaining about the led light. Why are they forgetting where we are coming from?
That’s a typical appeal to worse problems.
The worm lights! Those were the shit back then.
The only problem with wormlights was finding one that illuminated the whole screen instead of just spotlighting a few pixels of it. I had to return three or four of them before I got a good one.
Who cares. Those worm lights were technology from the future. You had that shit you felt like a boss.
Correction: you were a boss
Some cereal boxes had these glow in the dark cardboard cutouts that were designed to fit around the screen
I grew up with a front lit gba sp
it is the flashlight
a surprising amount of light is projected up from the bottom of the screen
In the back seat of a car, I would play for a few seconds and pause for a few seconds at night.
Could only play when passing under a street light.
Lol, the old days 🤣
Or,if you are lucky, a car behind you with their headlights on.
yesssss
Real men play under the sheets and use the red light as a lamp
I had this awesome magnifier attachment and also a light attachment that slid on the gameboy. still have it. All. It was so much fun back in the day.
I kind of get it. My kneejerk reaction was also “oh, that’s going to be weird” which was almost immediately followed by pangs of nostalgia, and quickly forgotten.
For me, though, it was the purple game boy advance. And see through game boy pocket.
Never got one of those n64’s though, that would have been rad.
Didn’t that light turn on when the batteries were getting low, so you actually DIDN’T want to see that LED because it meant you had to change your batteries soon?
Yeah, this is what I remember too.
Honestly the easiest way to tell the battery level was to check what contrast your LCD was set at using the adjustment dial on the left side. If you were pretty close to max contrast, the batteries were almost done.
It was always on when the Gameboy was on, but you’re right that it could be used as a battery indicator. Basically the LED would get dimmer and dimmer as your batteries got lower.
I’m too old to remember at this point! :P
I have a og dmg Gameboy and to play it I just use any sunlight coming in
Haters gonna hate but I like the led shining through the case! I think it looks cool and extenuates the light. Not distracting at all. But I also grew up with a Gameboy, Game Gear, and a DS Lite with LEDs blasting in my face
Yeah definitely looks cool to me, I’m floored people think this is an issue or a design flaw…
I agree 100% I really like it!
