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4345185 No.4345185 [Reply] [Original]

Is Gameboy Color the most disappointing /vr/ console? It would be awesome if it was 16-bits. Instead they took 9 years for something that should have been just an add-on, with a forgettable library.

>> No.4345187

>>4345185
>Is Gameboy Color the most disappointing /vr/ console
no.

>> No.4345190
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4345190

>>4345185
That'd be the Pocket, which was a GBC without the C.

>> No.4345232

>should have been just an add-on
How the fuck would that have worked? Seriously, explain to me what you're thinking here.

>> No.4345234
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4345234

>>4345185
Weak bait.

>> No.4345239

If anything the original GB is disappointing. Should have gone with the pocket straight out of the gate.

>> No.4345257

>>4345232
I mean it should have been just an upgrade, not a full-blown succesor. Also
>9 fucking years

>> No.4345259

>>4345239
They couldn't have done that in 1989. If the original GB was powered by only two AAA batteries, the battery life would be comparable to the Game Gear. They were able to slim it down so much for the Pocket because by 1996 the technology was way more energy efficient. That being said, they probably could've implemented a better screen in the original GB. The Pocket's screen is such a massive step up it's crazy.

>> No.4345275

>>4345257
It was an upgrade. The GBC wasn't supposed to be a full-blown successor, it was like the DSi was to the DS, or what the New 3DS is to the 3DS. It's just the original console with some things upgraded. Even Nintendo treats the GB and GBC libraries as one single entity.

>> No.4345287

>>4345257
9 years because it had tons of awesome games. You are some special brand of retard.

>> No.4345334

>>4345287
enjoy your shitty b&w outdated shovelware nigger

>> No.4345359

>>4345185
For me the most disappointing /vr/ console was the PC-FX
I was expecting it to be a worthy successor to the PC Engine

>> No.4345362
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4345362

>>4345334
I did enjoy it, then I enjoyed the color when it came out. It was all awesome to me.

>> No.4345376

>>4345190
The pocket was awesome. A large, crisp screen and it only ran off two AAAs.

>> No.4345405
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>>4345376
So does the color.

>> No.4345449

>>4345185
No. It was a handheld the fills the time gap between the OG & the Advanced model. Plus, it's fully backwards compatible with the OG with color.

>> No.4345468

>>4345405
The color uses two AAs, not AAAs. Not that it matters either way since both batteries cost the same and have pretty much the same availability.

>> No.4345591

>>4345190
Pocket was a similar form but it lacked the higher resolution mode that some color games had. The screen was physically larger than both the color and original system though.

>> No.4345620

>>4345591
No sorry I was wrong, the resolutions are the same between both consoles. Color exclusive games took advantage of the higher clock speeds.

>> No.4345973

>>4345362
>They animated her tits bouncing
I never noticed that before

>> No.4345976

What is with these daily threads shitting on every single game and console that is retro?

Is this just one edgelord with weaponized autism spamming

>> No.4346058

>>4345976
/vr/ has finally completed it’s metamorphosis into /v/.

>> No.4346240

>>4345973
It's a pretty cool game too if you like TR.

>>4346058
>still thinking the two were ever really different

Weirdos....

>> No.4346251

>>4345185
I know this sounds retarded, but only needing 2 batteries was a game changer for me.

>> No.4346270

>>4346240
Pre 2015 /vr/ was much better than the shithole it currently is.

>> No.4346456

>>4345190
Fuck you the pocket is classy as fuck.

>> No.4347236

>>4346270
>Pre 2010 /v/ was much better than the shithole it currently is
It's applicable to both, you're not special. They were both always shit.

>> No.4347297

>>4346251
This is not retarded. I lost my shit because of this as a kid just as much as because of the color

>> No.4347303

>>4346456
I agree with both of you haha

>> No.4347324

>>4347236
They've both always been great. Why people who hate 4chan spend their time coming here will never make sense to me.

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4347357

>>4345185
But it's library is awesome...

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4347552

>>4345185
Wish we got something like the WonderSwan.

>> No.4347605

Aside from a nice looking screen, I never felt there was any incentive to get a GBC. By the time it was released, there was already a massive library of quality games published for grayscale Game Boy, with several more being published after the GBC's release. When the GBC's life span ended, there might have been a handful of exclusives worth owning.

Remember that a lot of games marketed for the Color were actually dual-mode carts, so they were compatible with the grayscale GBs as well. Stuff like Pokemon Gold doesn't count toward the GBC's library.

>> No.4347612

>>4345234
>screenshot of a dual-mode game

That's not a Game Boy Color title. If you're going to accuse OP of baiting, at least use a relevant image.

>> No.4347616

>>4347324
4chan was never good and you only come here because you're addicted to being a trash human being.

>> No.4347623

>>4347616
None of this is trash to me, it's people being honest though the power of anonymity.

>> No.4347953

>>4345362
what a PoP clone

>> No.4347958

>>4347953
That's kind of the point. TR was already PoP in 3D.

>> No.4348170

>>4347953
>he never realised Tomb Raider is a grid snap jumper in 3D

>> No.4348189

>>4347616

Hmm, no, you're just projecting. Most assuredly both because your statement really applies to you and because you want the place to be filled with people like you.