>Ok mom I'm going to bed!
:^)

thank god I'm a zoomer and had a GBA

>>717473117
I'm a millenial and going from the GBC>GBA>SP felt like I was in the year 3000. Fucking amazing.

mom threw out the nintendo powers my friend gave me because i kept staying up reading them
i had most of the original 100 issues

>>717472886 (OP)
>tfw too poor to own handhelds until I bought a DS with my own money
feels bad man

My mom just browses tiktok and instagram at night
She doesn't really care if I go to bed early or not

>>717473210
same. moved out before i bought my first handheld.
>>717473229
grim

>>717473229
is she single or looking to fuck or what

>>717472886 (OP)
i remember this dumb thing

I tell my mom to go to bed and I use the tv in the living room to play n64 and jerk off on her doorknob

>>717473117
gba didn't have a backlight either retardo

>>717473159
Same. SP is still peak handheld design IMHO. What a fucking cool little device.

>>717472886 (OP)
My dad caught me doing this with my GBA when I was around 7 and he threw it in a pond behind our house.
I don't talk to him anymore.

>>717472886 (OP)
>Purple BGC
>Blue wormlight
Fuck anon, I feel called out

Real niggas had to play with the light from the door.
Core memory is playing pokemon yellow when it came out but got home at night and had to play in the door light with my parents 8 feet away

>>717472886 (OP)
>gameboy color
>the game is black n white nonbacklit
Huh?

>>717473787
He probably had the Gentleman’s GBA, you know, the one with the superior design and of course backlit like a civilized human being

>>717474049
>release an inferior version of your handheld console with clear design flaws that were apparent from the previous generation
>do it again with the next handheld

>>717472886 (OP)
I had one of the clamshell magnifying glass lights for my Color, though I did get a direct plugin light for my original Advance. Fucking thing killed my batteries twice as fast.

>>717474180
The net benefits of the SP outweigh any real losses, even the headphone jack.

>>717474180
My SP still works fine. You can't make everything retard-proof.

>>717473229
how old is you nigga

>>717473229
>She doesn't really care if I go to bed early or not
Are parents seriously like this nowadays? My parents would make me go to bed at certain times when I was in grade school. I loved the suspense and intensity I felt when sneaking out of bed to grab a snack in the dead of night, hoping I'd never get caught. The slightest sound, whether it came from me or not, would always put me on high alert. There was a sort of thrill and excitement to it. It felt like playing a stealth game.

>>717474269
>>717474294
I'm talking about the original GBA and original DS. Hell, the original 3DS is also a clunky piece of shit, arguably.

>>717473229
Your mom is maybe in her early 30s and you are arguably underage.

>>717473159
going from the gameboy to gbc was insane

>>717474365
The generation that hated going to bed early because they wanted to play with their tech are now parents. They would not inflict that trauma on their kids.

>>717474413
idk anon my dad is 56 and scrolls TikTok all day too
of course this is after he spent many years telling me to get off the computer and be social or go outside constantly

>>717474413
counterpoint she probably had him when she was a teen

>>717474704
Grim.

>>717473159
Real king shit. It was awesome. I played the fuck out of so many games on my GBA and SP. I sometimes wish I still had them, not sure if I gave them to a cousin or sold em.

>>717474049
This is actually the best handheld ever, though I will say the advanced was more comfortable to hold, a regular advanced with a backlight probably would have been the best option.
... but... things that flip open get an automatic +10 cool points so maybe not.

>>717474365
>The slightest sound, whether it came from me or not, would always put me on high alert. There was a sort of thrill and excitement to it. It felt like playing a stealth game.
this was me with doing drugs after my parents went to sleep. fun times honestly desu. I'd always act like solid snake

>>717474748
Yeah, there is a chance he's now older than his mom was when he was born.

>>717473159
meanwhile in current era:
>last 4 console generations have been completely interchangeable
>do handhelds even have generations anymore?
>if you sat a person from 2000 down and asked them to guess which AAA game was from 2013 and which was from 2025 they would get it wrong 40% of the time.

>>717474795
I didn't get a smartphone until like 2011 because I was not ready to leave physical buttons and clamshell designs behind. I respect the practicality of smartphones but the 00s aesthetic was fucking real. I remember seeing Motorola Razr commercials and wanting one so bad back then, that shit was made for television ads.

>>717474003
REAL niggas remember catching the light as the street lights went by while driving home from at night.

>>717474650
I would

>>717473229
Link to your mum's only fans if you will my good sir.

>>717474413
>Your mom is maybe in her early 30s
Unfortunately, this is also the fate of all boomer women.

>>717474704
It's crazy how when tech was coming out my parents would say the same shit. But now they're the ones on their phones all the time. Even my fucking grandma browses tiktok...

>>717473117
Glad didn't have a backlight either. I remember hiding in my room playing Metroid Fusion after my bedtime.

>>717475304
Social media was a mistake.

>>717474602
It didn't feel like that big of a leap to me, DKC for GB doesn't look that much worse than the Donkey Kong Land games for GBC. Pokemon red and gold weren't that far apart either. idk. the leap to GBA felt insane though, it was like having a snes (A REAL CONSOLE!!!) in the palm of your hands. totally blew me away. My biggest wow moment growing up though was seeing Sonic Adventure 1 on display at walmart for the dreamcast. i couldn't believe how incredible the water looked and how round sonic was in 3d. it just completely blew my socks off.

>>717473159
SP made me cum buckets. Still does

>>717475580
as a thirty something i just can't find anything on the gba i want to play. it sucks but it's true.

>>717475716
Pokémon emerald
Legacy of Goku
Fire Emblem
WarioWare
Metroid Zero Mission
Metroid Fusion
The Minish Cap
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

That's just off the top of my head I'm missing a ton

>>717475268
>435kb
Its fucking nothing

>>717472886 (OP)
They knew. That's why they bought it for you. You're welcome.

>>717473117
I got the first GBA that didn't even have a backlight so to stay up and play Fire Emblem I had to bust out the same old wormlight I used to stay up late to play Gold Version with.

>>717474998
>tfw always went to my uncles house on the weekends
>1 hr car ride
>Would ALWAYS get car sick if I tried to play gameboy
It sucked

>>717474049
SOVL
i had the red one

>>717475716
all of castlevania and metroid on gba is god tier and i've played them all several times
t. mid 30s boomer

>>717474650
My mother slept in the living room. I despise her for it.

>>717473117
Fpbp

>>717474049
fucking casuals
If you weren't fighting and cursing the sun while trying to play your GBA, you weren't a real GBA gamer.

>parents won't buy me this because they know I'll use it to stay up late
>Haul CRT to downstairs bathroom every night knowing these fatties won't go downstairs after 9pm
I miss playing resident evil while eating pizza goldfish on the shitter

>>717474650
>getting a decent night's rest is considered a trauma now
lil bro this website is 18+

>>717472886 (OP)
i had this beast

Shit like this is why the SP was the best handheld.

>>717479513
>identify problem
>design a solution
>sell your product with the solution
Modern designers literally cannot FATHOM this process. If you ask them about it, or explain it to them their eyes will glaze over and their business school training will completely tune it out and they will start telling you about how if you remove the speakers from the GBC you could reduce the price by 20 cents and charge 5 dollars for a proprietary speaker add on.

>>717473229
My mom keeps dming me the most brainrot tiktoks and it genuinely makes me laugh. I might be cooked as a 30 year old.

Bump

>>717473229
>frogposter
>underage

>>717472886 (OP)
for me it was comedy central

>>717481463
For me it was the latenight callgirl infomercial with the girls on the boat. The redhead in particular.

>>717478062
sp fags wont tell you theirs doesnt play gbc carts like ours

spent nights playing donkey kong country and pokemon blue

>>717481794
wtf are you talking about, of course it does? I never even played an advanced game on it, I only played gen 1 and 2 pokemon.

>>717474049
I remember getting this along with Firered. Even came with a jeweld metal box... what a time to be alive

>>717474365
Most modern parents will teach their kids how to swim or ride a bike and then neglect them for the rest of their lives because now the kids aren't cute anymore. That's why there's so many 20+ year olds that can't drive, clean, cook, do laundry, do taxes, know how to handle money or how to have normal social interactions. Then schools get blamed for it.

>>717481925
Sorry, I was confused with the original DS that played gba but not gbc.In my defense, its been a couple years

>>717481463
>turn brightness down on TV real low
>tune into spanish channels through the antenna
>keep one hand on the remote to turn the TV off in case I hear footsteps
>jack off to the infomercials
Video related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpptYB5DII

>>717473159
I skipped the SP and went straight to the DS
Being able to not only see the fucking screen but also play Mario 64 on a handheld was mind blowing
I also bought Melee at launch and legitimately thought graphics couldn't get better than that.

>>717481463
>catch the new episode sunday night
>high-intellectual convo with my nigga alex in 8th grade homeroom the next morning
<archie bunker voice> THOOOOOSE
WERE
THE
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS

>>717472886 (OP)
In hindsight I would've gotten a lot more sleep and done better in school if my parents were wiser about this sorta thing.

But actually, I don't even play Pokemon anymore and the general pop cultural knowledge that playing Red/Yellow/Gold/Ruby gave me is still more relevant than any of the algebra/calculus/etc. that I learned, so I guess it worked out. Not like they taught me something useful like how to file my taxes anyway.

>>717473159
insanely real
then the fucking fat DS
take me back

>>717478486
You didn't believe that when you were 10 and don't tell me that you did.

>>717481463
Genuinely iconic. Catching this shit at 1 in the morning was a goddamn rite of passage.

>>717474049
>be like 2008
>unemployed and bored thanks to the fucking recession
>ask a high school friend if she wants to play pokemon with me
>she says she would love to
>buy two game boy advance SPs for like 20$ each
>emerald for like 20$
>ruby for a little less and get a free trading cable with something
>we play for awhile and its fun
>She names her pokemon names like Faggot and Assmuncher
It was fun. Don't look at the prices of those items now though unless you want to feel old and angry.

>>717474769
I still have my SP. The screen needs to be replaced though. it has a dead pixel.

>>717478973
I had this thing too and it doesn't fucking work. It's AWFUL.

>>717473159
The feeling of being able to play multiplayer with four friends and just one cartridge. A friend introduced me to Advance Wars this way. Everything was so social.

>>717472886 (OP)
>sorry baby it's gaming time

>>717482737
A weapon to surpass metal gear

>>717481920
is that a purple monster light on a game boy color? Oh how I would have loved that.
QUICK EVERYONE ITT POST YOU ARE CHILDHOOD GAMEBOY HERES MINE ITS ATOMIC PURPLE I LOVE IT SO MUCH

>>717482737
>this isn't even my final form.webm

>>717482737
Such a simple and elegant solution to make it playable.
Or
Back in my day we had to add SIX addons to even SEE a game boy color screen properly, and thats JUST how we liked it, zoomy

>makes it to where you can neither see nor use the buttons
nothing personal, kiddo

>>717481463
>>717481756
For me it was our family moving to a new home, where apparently the old family was accidentally paying the Cinemax bill for us for like 3 years... if you know you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHiKqEYQb2E

The music in this commercial occasionally lives rent free in my head. I bought Spider-Man because of this commercial, seeing a Game Boy do pseudo-3D shit like this blew kid me's mind. I also had Star Wars Episode II. Absolute piece of shit shovelware. Spider-Man was bretty gud though.

>>717483069
what was the reason

>>717483254
Probably so that the light didn't reflect off the screen and into your eyes.

>>717482737
>average woman sex toy experience

>>717473159
this right here, in my mind the only rechargable stuff were brick nokias and laptops, so it was like an in-between deal from another dimension.
Then the PSP was everything i ever wanted. Gayming peaked around these years

This was the one I had, didnt actually have any games with color for a while though. The old Ninja Turtles game was kino but hard as fuck, anyone remember the music?

>>717483089
Your dad was paying it and just said otherwise because your parents knew why.

>>717482845
Can't be assed to go and look for mine but I had one of these

>>717483430
5got pic like retard

Had the purple one. Purple was my favorite color. Even had a purple school bag.
Suck it faggots

>>717472886 (OP)
>never play with sound cause it "saves power"

in hindsight that probably saves a trivial amount of power and isnt worth having no sound

>>717483432
Nah, neither of them were even tech literate enough to know TV porn existed, thankfully. I had full reign of it, any time I snuck out of my room in the AM.

>>717483470
That's the one I had too. I also had a glacier GBA. Traded both of them in for my silver GBA.

>>717483640
Kek retard

>>717483640
I never turned my Game Boy on. Saved a lot of power that way.

Is it weird that I slept in my parents' bed with them for the first 10 years of my life and never got to be sneaky and play my Gameboy with the light attachment underneath the sheets?

>>717483927
I'm sure that's normal in some culture somewhere.

>>717483927
why did you do that? no bedroom?

>>717483927
thats normal in poor victorian times when the only bed a family had and they all slept together.

>want to play vice city past bedtime
>quietly sneak down into the kitchen for drinks and snacks
>all ready to go
>Forget to turn down TV volume.


https://youtu.be/y9Ln-qyvX_I?si=NLDOR9ghXUyyTsmf

>>717478062
Yep, every GBA session was in my garden

>>717473159
the SP was fucking amazing, so many nights of playing Megaman Battle network and progressing the story, as I couldn't play games while my parents were around, and I'd be a "good boy" doing homework or going outside to play.

>>717483927
Imagine being the parents of you as a fucking manchild baby. No sex or ANY intimacy for 10 fucking years because you're too scared to sleep alone. Fucking grim

>>717484023
I did have my own bed but apparently I would get upset if I couldn't sleep with my parents. I would use my dad's arm as a pillow and hug him every night

>>717482845
I've got one of these now
I recommend getting one if you love GB/GBC

>>717472886 (OP)
Jesus Christ, my guy, you just unlocked a core memory for me. I used to do this shit all the time.

>Tfw you would turn the Gameboy on when you were supposed to be sleeping and you forgot you had the volume at MAX

>>717485132
This but it's porn on my smartphone

>>717484997
Gay, get an fpgbc instead.

unc thread

>>717485241
Nah thanks, I want 1:1 resolution
Otherwise just get an emulator at that point

>>717482845
too lazy to find it in my closet

>>717473159
90s kid here.
GB to GBA was insane. Getting SNES in the palm of your hand was mind blowing.
GBA to GBA SP was also crazy because you can actually play in any lighting condition.

Zoomzoom here, this was my first portable console and the first game I've ever played on it was Pokemon Emerald

>>717482737
>>717482952
the whole satellite economy that spawned around gameboy was interesting
pretty sure my 3rd world country was making accessories for it, too

>>717485497
The DS ruled

>>717472886 (OP)
I'm 30 yo and I still do this.

>gameboy color
>gameboy advance
>gameboy advance sp
how were each of these so fucking kino? The nintendo ds had a great Y2K futurism sleek style, but it was missing something

Gimme your top five gba games

for me its
>Mario Tennis: Power Tour
>Metroid Fusion
>Pokemon Emerald
>Mega Man Battle Network 3: Blue
>Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

>>717473159
>>717473854
>>717474769
>>717475716

Facts my fellow 90's kid homies. We lived through a really cool era of technology.

>>717486884
nintendogs alone shits on any game from those generations

>>717473159
I remember getting chills when I first saw ads for the sp. felt like the future was there

>>717487125
I liked nintendogs, but it isn't beating pokemon anon

>>717487125
My sister cried because my mom bought her this game instead of a real dog.

>>717474269
Oh yeah? Well thanks to having first gen GBA, despite all the hype I had for the console after noticing how poor the light is I lost all interest for GBA gaming and I never bought nintendo handhelds afterwards.

Once my mom got a little tipsy and hit me really hard and blinded me in my right eye and in exchange for me not telling anyone i got a GBA, a gamecube, and ten games. I still have that wind waker special edition with the Ocarina of Time port, my favorite way to play OoT personally.

>>717483640
My like 30 year old gameboy lasts maybe five months before needing batteries, how did kid you even care about that

>>717473159
Your gen is so full of shit

>>717489019
I'm sorry you didn't get to witness anything actually getting better in your life. On the one hand it might be nice to not know what you're missing, but on the other you never got to feel what progress felt like.

>>717489019
Not as bad as boomers and zoomers.

>>717482737
what does the wild things do? stereo speakers? did gameboy even have stereo sound?