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Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 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).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

8AAs, right?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

AVGN is about to meet his match

[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago

You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

If you think that's bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Imagine a stock game gear

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ah game gear TV. Battery life meant nothing to you.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I loved that TV tuner cartridge.

Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the 'good' alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

"one on boil" is such a good expression for charging batteries. Stealing that.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think one of those attachments are actually for a 12V 70Ah car battery

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[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago

That Gameboy watch really sells it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Noticing it only after parsing the rest of the setup made me giggle a little bit.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

“THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Rockin' the little watch too, that's legit.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure that's the biggest watch I've seen

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Gaming in the 90's was so glorious.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

How many minutes do the batteries last?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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:

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

About tree fiddy.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Imagine the shits you could take with that thing

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

You’d have maybe 5 minutes before it’d suck the battery dry.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week 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?

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[-] Squirrel 12 points 1 week ago

This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

You have a GameShark plugged into a game genie? The hells the point of that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

spits

Filthy casual.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

You've never sharked a genie? What a prude!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

A game genie and action replay on one unit? I seem to recall that being a very bad idea.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Cool watch.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Imagine showing up in school with that in the 90s!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Well yeah! My uncle works for Nintendo!

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Batteries drained in 5 minutes

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Transformers.. Robots in disguise

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"So I have this ultra portable gaming device..."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That's glorious

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Good game choice, too.

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