Thread 11958395

The classic Game Boy experience.

>>11958395 (OP)
kek

We had this thread the other day

>>11958395 (OP)
The screen looked good when they were new. Over time the pixels decayed and turned green.

>>11958409
fact check: true

>>11958395 (OP)
don't remind me. I got a worm light for a reason

>>11958463
Missed opportunity to replace "Boy" with "Gear" there.

>>11958465
The boxes are marked “AAA”. Therefore, this could only apply to a Game Boy Pocket.

>>11958395 (OP)
but they said that the glare was a lie manufactured by sega fans...

>>11958409
It's more likely that it's your eyes which have rotted.

>>11958409
This is what 10s babies really believe

>>11958420
shader name?

This thread again?
A digital photo of a GB screen isn't the actual "classic Game Boy experience", but you can get better at taking pics

>>11958852
OP was clearly using something like this, and yet your "good pic" looks significantly worse.

>>11958420
That's how I remember it looking fresh out of the box.

>>11958691
I'm not quite that old yet only in my 40s.

>>11958937
>im not quite in my 10s yet im only in my 40s
Yup, them 10s babies sure are dumb.

>>11958395 (OP)
Someone make this a RA shader

>>11958420
what is this supposed to represent? what are the white squiggles?

>>11958852
>you can get better at taking pics
well get on to that asap

>>11958463
>the constant scrounging for batteries and using half dead ones with new ones and trying tricks like pressing down on the ends to squeeze out the last bits of power that we could.
Zoomers will never understand what a big deal it was that the Gameboy Advance SP came with a charger.

>>11959920
i had the rechargable battery pack for my gameboy, only had to worry about batteries for the light attachment (thank god for that battery pack, the light took 4 AAs so if the GB was running on 4 AAs too it was heavy as hell)

The current Gameboy experience
IS SHIT

>>11960035
My family was too poor for fancy stuff like that (even though in retrospect it probably would have saved money long term)

>>11958395 (OP)
As intendo nintended.

>>11959242
People born in the 10s would be 110, retard.

>>11958395 (OP)
holy shit I remember playing link's awakening in bed when I was supposed to be asleep and it was exactly like that

I WILL now stop remembering that the contrast adjustment exist and start retroactively disliking the Game Boy.

>>11960494
the contrast slider doesn't do what you think the contrast slider does

>>11960510
Yes the things that I believed to be real aren't real. Game Boy was never good, I never had fun with it. I now stopped liking the Game Boy.

Reminder that this is what the people laughing at the screen of the Brick think is better.

kek

>>11960519
>>11960524
I'M BLUE DABADEE DABADAA

>>11960517
apparently yes because the op image is exactly what a perfectly calibrated game boy looked like under real world play conditions

>>11960552
Yes, I will now erase my memories of how the Game Boy actually looked like IRL and will now start accepting OP's digital grainy photo as the source for reality.

>>11960315
>10s baby doubles down on cope
>outs self as 10's baby cause math is racist
Why are children like this?

>>11960519
>Game is green monochrome
It’s official Nintendo! Soul!
>Game is red monochrome
It’s official Nintendo! Soul!
>Game is grey monochrome
It’s official Nintendo! Soul!
>Game is blue monochrome
This doesn’t look anything like my childhood! Boo!

>>11960617
They don't know any better. Also, instant gratification has rotted their minds.

>>11960628
stop liking nintendo

>>11958395 (OP)
this is exactly what the gameboy looked like and anyone who thinks otherwise either never owned one or is remembering the games rather than the experience

Now you're playing with power... portable power!

>>11960428
You and I both. I also remember trying to find a spot on the house where I could see wtf was going on

>>11961627
>8 lights
>center of the screen is still dark

>>11959920
don't forget batteries in the freezer so they last longer

>>11961627
you know you can replace the scratched to shit plastic in front of the screen, right?

>>11960060
Emulators win again.

>>11958395 (OP)
I could never get into handhelds as a kid because of this major issue. If you had fun, fine, I'm not trying to say it's impossible to like, but for me not being able to see things comfortably made playing more of a chore than something fun still.

Nowadays with modern emulation handhelds I can finally enjoy these libraries, and appreciate their quality, just a shame I couldn't do it before.

>>11964001
>you know you can just rip the SOVL out of the handheld and replace it with a sterile piece of chinese plastic, right?

>>11964834
you can scratch it again to bring some of that sovl back