Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.
You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.
If you think that's bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.
26 min running time per battery pack.
This was our screen time limit in the 80s.
...my game gear case carried an automotive-sized external rechargeable battery...
I think one of those attachments are actually for a 12V 70Ah car battery
That Gameboy watch really sells it.
Noticing it only after parsing the rest of the setup made me giggle a little bit.
Rockin' the little watch too, that's legit.
Pretty sure that's the biggest watch I've seen
Gaming in the 90's was so glorious.
Game Man
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).
8AAs, right?
WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???
This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.
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.
Imagine the shits you could take with that thing
You’d have maybe 5 minutes before it’d suck the battery dry.
You have a GameShark plugged into a game genie? The hells the point of that.
spits
Filthy casual.
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?
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Based on further research (read: exactly one DDG query) It appears the Action Replay is actually significantly more complex than I had guessed and functions differently enough from the Game Genie that they quite often simply cannot operate in tandem like this and can cause serious issues.
Read on if you'd like a cool story that has little to do with reality, or would like to imagine how chaining game genies might work if that was feasible :3
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Based on my (admittedly not incredible) knowledge of how those devices both work, they intercept reads for specific memory addresses from the CPU and insert their own values. As long as they both weren't set up with codes to modify the same address very little would happen, it would behave as you might expect.
If the two both had codes that modified the same address the Game Genie would "win" here since it is physically closer to CPU in the chain. It would see the address matching one of its codes and spit back its value, neither the cartridge nor the Action Replay would see the memory read occur.
Cool watch.
I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.
Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?
Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?
A game genie and action replay on one unit? I seem to recall that being a very bad idea.
No, you do not mix AR and game genie but there is a distinct absence of anything Gameboy camera/printer attachment so it's clearly incomplete. I'd also suggest the attachment reading lamp, but I think if that magnifying attachment comes with a light that works, too. Not sure if that particular one does, though.
Imagine showing up in school with that in the 90s!
Well yeah! My uncle works for Nintendo!
"So I have this ultra portable gaming device..."
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.
Transformers.. Robots in disguise
I tried to find a photo of this janky Game Gear peripheral I had, but came across this angelfire website instead: https://www.angelfire.com/games4/icecoldatari/Gamegear.html
I feel like this website may actually be from the 90s... It's literally just a person talking about the cool shit they have for their Game Gear, and the only email address is @aol.com. Made me very nostalgic.
That's glorious
Where’s the camera?
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.
How heavy is that?
AVGN is about to meet his match
Good game choice, too.
Vintage gaming community.
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