What's with the over-fascination for the Game Boy?

[Anonymous No.6345950]

To me, the GBA and even the DS have a more appealing library. Have you tried going back to a potato resolution unlit screen? It's horrible. At least the GBA is comfortable to hold, but I'd take a modded 3ds that can play all past nintendo handhelds over this piece of shit. Hell even when I went to Akihabara last year, I saw some hipster with one on the train.

[Anonymous No.6345965]

>>6345950
OK zoomer

[Anonymous No.6345970]

>>6345950
>GBA
>DS
Who cares not retro.

[Anonymous No.6345974]

[Anonymous No.6345976]

>>6345950
The gsme boy color screen is gorgeous though

[Anonymous No.6346010]

>>6345950
The same fascination that drives all retro gaming, nostalgia. A device that sold 11 hundred billion units, and for many was their first actual game console, has a lot of fans.
Now go back to your Pokemons and loot boxes, zoom-zoom.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6346020]

Proprietary displays come with instant nostalgia

[Anonymous No.6346046]

>someone makes a thread about <insert system here> that isn't about jacking off to the said system
>at least one 'op iz a faget' post, see >>6345970 and >>6345974
>at least one zoomer shaming post, see >>6346010
Every single time.
Every.
Single.
Time.

[Anonymous No.6346050]

>>6346046
Yeah so?

[Anonymous No.6346051]

>>6345950
There are good Game Boy Color exclusives. I'm playing Mario Golf and it's comfy.

[Anonymous No.6346054]

>>6346010
>nostalgia
How do you reconcile people playing retro games and systems in the present that they never played in the past with nostalgia?

[Anonymous No.6346056]

>>6345950
GBA is a better system but GBC is easier to hold.

It does have a good library even if overall it's not as good as GBA. Pokemon, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Survival Kids, Kirby, lots of good spinoffs like Mario Golf/Gallery and Pokemon Pinball/TCG.

[Anonymous No.6346064]

I just like how short most of the library is. I love being able to sit down and beat 2-3 games in under an hour.

[Anonymous No.6346097]

>>6345950
I owned a Game Boy Pocket as a kid, and I didn't find the screen to be that bad under most conditions. The monochrome display actually had really good contrast, and it was pretty easy to see in most lighting conditions. I "upgraded" to the Game Boy Advance, which was a mixed bag. In full sunlight outdoors, it was great; perfectly sharp and readable. Indoors it was a fucking mess. Totally illegible, undefined, and you were constantly tipping the thing to catch the light. The worst was getting killed in-game because you couldn't see something on the garbage screen. I remember absolutely hating it, and I actually went back to the Game Boy Pocket after a while because I just couldn't stand the screen. That being said, when I got around to doing a backlight mod years later, the GBA became one of my favourite consoles. The layout is super comfy, way better than the cramped SP (and more comfortable to hold than the original Game Boy). So it had a good form factor, and with a backlight, it's enjoyable. But anyone who defends the reflective colour screen with strawman zoomer arguments is fucking delusional.

Similarly, I used to have a Palm m505 with a reflective colour screen similar to the GBC's and the GBA's. The difference is the m505 had a backlight, so you could counteract the shit reflective screen indoors. Similar to the Game Boy Pocket, a monochrome Palm Vx or Handspring Visor both had really good legibility in most lighting conditions.

[Anonymous No.6346116]

>>6346097

[Father Electronics Couture No.6346119]

>>6346054
Fantasy nostalgia. It's a thing.

[Anonymous No.6346127]

>>6345950
>unlit
Real Gameboys had eye-melting green back lighting that would make you go blind

[Anonymous No.6346136]

>>6345950
What's up with all these "Why is A (which I won't acknowledge came out may years or decades before) so popular and used by people when B and C (which are way newer) are so much better?" threads lately?

[Anonymous No.6346149]

>>6346136
Zoomers gonna zoom.

[Anonymous No.6346154]

>>6345950
Because it has some really good games, bro.

[Anonymous No.6346159]

game boy games feel awkward when emulated on a larger screen. not cozy at all

i haven't tried emulating on other handhelds
but if you don't have other handhelds then i think just getting an og gameboy is the most affordable option

[Anonymous No.6346161]

lol your underage is showing bad.

gameboy might be shit from today's technical pov, but back in the day it made us fly.

the power of a tool is not in the tool itself but in the minds that use it. back then, there was nothing like it before, it was a revolution. today, the new stuff is just an improvement of what was already there.

[Anonymous No.6346163]

>>6346054
I collected and played Atari 2600 back in the early 2000s and I was born late 80s, it's cool to play through them and wonder how people enjoyed them as state-of-the-art technology, and there is fun to be had in stuff like Warlords and some of the arcade adaptations

[Anonymous No.6346165]

>>6346010
Is the joke that Pokémon started on the Gameboy?

>>6346051
There were great titles on the GBC, love its library.

>>6346159
I think they emulate ok.

[Anonymous No.6346170]

works on my machine

[Anonymous No.6346173]

>>6346054
I honestly just play what I think looks fun. Never played Rise Of The Triad until a few years back, but boy did I enjoy it.
Emulation, sourceports, and DosBox, they all make so many classic games accessible.

[Anonymous No.6346180]

>>6346173
This pretty much. Something about the GB's limitations that made the devs get creative and it resulted in some pretty good games.

[Anonymous No.6346183]

>>6346159
>game boy games feel awkward when emulated on a larger screen.
Huh, I feel the opposite. Gameboy was my very first "real" console (before that, we had a second-hand Atari) and I have great memories of the games. Seeing Link's Awakening and Six Golden Coins on my monitor with the big blocky pixels is just delightful. I appreciate the artwork even more now that I can see it enlarged and without the blurring the Gameboy screen was known for. Not to mention the classic chiptune sounds coming through a decent set of speakers.

[Anonymous No.6346184]

>>6346165
>Is the joke that Pokémon started on the Gameboy?
Yes. You win 4 channel dot org's meta troll trophy for today.

[Anonymous No.6346187]

>>6346119
Hauntology. Kinda like vaporwave. Kids having nostalgia for a time that didn't actually exist outside their imaginations and they wouldn't have been alive for in the first place.

[Anonymous No.6346191]

>>6346136
>he doesn't know they're (((bots)))

[Anonymous No.6346208]

>>6346119
>>6346187
This is just ridiculous. "It's still nostalgia even when it's not!". Why is there such a hang-up on explaining away enjoyment of older games on nostalgia alone? It's really weird and doesn't apply to any other medium. If you enjoy classic literature, no-one calls you a nostalgiafag. Or movies, or music. At worst, you get called a hipster or pretentious, but that's about it. I don't get why the mentality here is that older games can't be enjoyed at face value, and it's always just nostalgia, or "fantasy nostalgia". I think maybe it comes from a fear of being called out, or getting called a nostalgiafag yourself. So it's like you pre-emptively display self-awareness, so you don't look like the "wrong generation" type. "Can't shit on me if I'm shitting on myself". It's really weird that on a board about retro games, so few people can admit to liking retro games just because.

[Anonymous No.6346221]

>>6346184
I want to thank my mom, and I also want to thank God.

[Anonymous No.6346226]

>>6346208
The eternal millennial mentality.

[Anonymous No.6346260]

>>6345950
Not retro. Please go kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.6346386]

>>6346187
Mr. Simon Reynolds, is that you?

[Anonymous No.6346387]

>>6346046
And for good reason
Now shut the fuck up and lurk moar

[Anonymous No.6346394]

>>6346046
>Every single time
That's 4chan for you. You new here? Lurk moar faggot.

[Anonymous No.6346415]

>>6345950
Pokémon made it massively popular again like 10 years after it launched

Still a good console though, you're stupid if you think otherwise

[Anonymous No.6346423]

>>6345950
It’s great. I really want the pokemon GBC. You can always use a backlight kit.

[Anonymous No.6346498]

>>6346423
Absolutely cute GBC, anon. I hope you play it in public like a real chad

[Anonymous No.6346510]

>>6346183
I need to give this a replay. It was the very first video game I ever beat and I don't think I've played it since the 90s.

I played the 3d remake last year, and enjoyed it, but the change in style removed all of the more sinister overtones.

Gameboy is a system that I played the hell out of as a kid, but always knew I wasn't getting the full "real game" experience. In retrospect, though, the gameboy marios and zelda were better than the SNES'.

[Anonymous No.6346515]

>>6346046
No, not every single time. Only when the root of the OP's confusion is him being a faggot zoomer.

[Anonymous No.6346540]

>>6345950

[Anonymous No.6346553]

>>6346423
>HELL KITTY

[Anonymous No.6346597]

>>6345950
That's entirely subjective. This is a question you should be asking yourself.

[Anonymous No.6346605]

>>6345950
It's an 18+ thing. You wouldn't understand.

[Anonymous No.6346609]

>>6345950
>comes to retro gaming board
>sees anons talk about a retro handheld
What don't you understand? You stupid or something?

[Anonymous No.6346647]

>>6346423
>screen is smaller than the native screen
I'm sticking with the wormlight.

[Anonymous No.6346669]

>>6345950
The original gameboy demanded simplicity and for graphics to be compact but legible, and developers who had been making games on NES for a decade knew exactly how to take advantage of that kind of platform.

and it makes puzzles games especially great because they get those maps as DENSE as possible. Link's awakening is scary efficient with it's map designs.

With Gameboy advance, it was too easy to just port over 10 year old 16 bit games with worse sound, and that wasn't bad, and there were some good actual remakes among them, but it wasn't that impressive a library compared to what they could do with the gameboy.

DS had some especially bad games. It was capable of doing some great things, especially with how good compression technology had gotten, but so many of the games had little to no content in them at all.

It felt like an awkward puberty for handhelds, honestly.

[Anonymous No.6346674]

If I gave you people an OG gameboy you wouldn't last 20 minutes with that god-awful screen.

[Anonymous No.6346679]

>>6346669
>but so many of the games had little to no content in them at all.
The three Castlevania games, World Ends With You, Radiant Historia, Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey et-al., Etrian Odyssey, Solatorobo, Pokemon, plenty of games you can clock a lot of hours on on the DS.

[Anonymous No.6346685]

>>6345950
It's aesthetic and nostalgic ya dumb dumb. Get with it.

[Anonymous No.6346719]

>>6346605
>18+
Honestly it's not, I'm 21 and grew up with a GBA that I got when I was 3 or 4. My first console was a Genesis and it was the only non-handheld I had for a good while so I guess I "fit in" here but it's just a matter of time before someone screams "zoomer" at me for not being 30+

[Anonymous No.6346723]

>>6346719
Oh my god, who the fuck cares?

[Anonymous No.6346726]

>>6346723
Everyone on this board the moment age gets brought up

[Anonymous No.6346738]

>>6345950
>What's with the over-fascination for the Game Boy?
Simplicity is best. If I hand my backlit GBC with Mr. Driller to some rando, they're gonna have a good time.

[Anonymous No.6346753]

>>6346679
And the very first game released on it was a full remake of mario 64 with a ridiculous amount of extra content.

You know what we mostly got, especially during the first 2 years?
Arcade games with less than 20 minutes worth of content. Yoshi's Touch and Go, Pac Pix, Feel the Magic.
Even Sonic rush was simpler shorter and emptier than the sonic GBA sonic games.

Shovelware on a system is expected, but all of that was from major publishers, including Nintendo. There was still a prevailing mindset that people where only playing these game for long car rides and airplanes and they could just make gameboy games with polygons instead of sprites.

[Anonymous No.6346785]

The original game boy line just had a certain appeal that is hard to replicate, you had to be there at that time, it really was a revolutionary system that perhaps the DS and maybe the Switch will be able to replicate for new generations. The GBA not so much despite having an awesome library.
https://miscrave.com/articles/game-boy/
https://miscrave.com/articles/game-boy-pocket/
https://miscrave.com/articles/game-boy-color/

[Anonymous No.6346994]

>>6346723
Trust me, if the mods came in and banned anyone who unironically used "zoomer" it would be the greatest thing to happen to this shithole website.

[ !Codeine.pA No.6347021]

>>6346498
people going out in public without Hello Kitty or other Sanrio merchandise? absolutely pathetic

[Anonymous No.6347027]

>>6346208
>I don't get why the mentality here is that older games can't be enjoyed at face value
Because that's almost never what's happening here. It's either the video game version of a "born in the wrong generation" yt music comment or it's someone who obviously wasn't even alive at the time, desperately trying to convince a bunch of people who were, that not only is he one of them but that their actual recollections of the time period they actually lived through are somehow invalid or incorrect because it doesn't line up with his preconceived cyan and magenta "aesthetic" fantasy narrative.

Shit gets old.

[Anonymous No.6347872]

>>6347027
What actually happens 99% of the time is one forty year old man calling another forty year old man a 'zoomer' because they are mad about different opinions or not knowing some piece of video game trivia

>>6345950
>To me, the GBA and even the DS have a more appealing library.
legit baffling opinion regardless of age or childhood experiences

[Anonymous No.6347892]

>>6346054
Fantasy nostalgia is a real thing, that said I won't lie about my age and admit that my first handheld was the GBA SP (the frontlit model). My first game was a multicart for the DMG Game Boy (had Mario Land, Motocross Maniacs, Rare's Spider-Man game) but I played those games with the benefit of a frontlight. Unless you're truly nostalgic then I can't understand the appeal of any prior models above the GBA SP. I also think the modding community for the older models has factored in to the surge in popularity for them though I don't condone people tearing apart older consoles to haphazardly solder in a new screen.
From a late millennial opinion I have fond memories of the very first DMG and the lack of colour or backlight options does not make them any less fun to play on, but what came afterwards was objectively superior.

[Anonymous No.6347893]

>>6347872
I don't think it's baffling, the original DS unironically has a great selection of JRPGs in particular, and the GBA has a fair few too. I would recommend the GBA to people who truly can't live without portability and want to play SNES rereleases, though you could just hack a 3DS or get a Switch for that purpose.

[Anonymous No.6347895]

>>6346046
Uh oh, looks like you triggered some NPCs.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6347917]

>>6346208
>If you enjoy classic literature, no-one calls you a nostalgiafag. Or movies, or music
If you only read first editions or exclusively screen 35mm cellulose or only listen to reel-to-reel studio masters then it would be very obvious that you are more focused on the media than on the material. With retro gaming its just not yet so prohibitively expensive to do it that the majority of hobbyists have that perspective.

>>6346994
I'm sorry to break it to you, Anon but Generation Z is a thing and it's only going to become more and more and more of a thing.

[Anonymous No.6347918]

>>6346498
Thanks anon, absolutely I do. I never travel without it.

[Anonymous No.6347920]

>>6347892
>what came afterwards was objectively superior
When judged from a technical/hardware-only perspective, sure. But that objectivity doesn't translate into felt experience, which is always subjective. There are many pieces of music that are technically more complex and impressive than generic pop song #999, but plenty of people still prefer generic pop song #999. Similarly, even when the DMG was current, there were better options on the market, from a hardware standpoint. But many still preferred the DMG. Just because consoles and technology in general have objective criteria to measure their relative advancement compared to one another, does not mean that the end products will necessarily be enjoyed any more.

[Anonymous No.6347928]

>>6347920
Can confirm, playing a GB/GBC game on anything other than a gameboy color or DMG feels different, and the DMG feels different to the color. It's the tactile difference, color palettes, and (yes) the nostalgia of the thing. There's nothing wrong with enjoying something nostalgic to you.

[Anonymous No.6347951]

>>6347895
Shut up bitch.

[Anonymous No.6347954]

>>6347951
You’re such a big man

[Anonymous No.6347972]

>>6347954
Thank you.

[Anonymous No.6348049]

>>6347917
No it isn't, just like how there is no millennials and there is no avocado toast. I'm thirty and I've never seen this fabled dish of "Shitty fruit with no taste on a piece of bread".

The only named generation is "boomer", and that's because the day of the rope is coming.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6348081]

>>6348049
Typical millennial self absorbed to the point of wilful ignorance

[Father Electronics Couture No.6348093]

Hrmf hrmf hrmf, just play games on your phone.
Millennial entitled scum! Nobody likes what you like, stop playing on vintage hardware you fool.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6348108]

>>6348093
There's nothing inherently wrong with nostalgia, Anon. There is a certain texture to be experienced from a completely authentic gaming experience. Game Boys are simply cheap and common and guarantee it in one piece that can be flexed in public, stuck in a pocket or thrown in a drawer. That's why there's an "over-fascination" with them.

[Anonymous No.6348228]

>>6347021
One /vr/ user possesses a Cardcaptor Sakura gameboy color. I envy that anon.

[Anonymous No.6348253]

>>6346719
It is. And you're either LARPing or a retarded 3rd worlder. Either way you have the mental age of a toddler.

>>6346994
That's just the kind of thing a zoomer would say

>>6348049
>im 30 and not just blissfully ignorant but totally convinced im right about everything
Yup. That'd be a millennial alright.

[Anonymous No.6348327]

>>6348228
This variant of the hello kitty gbc is actually rarer than the cardcaptors one https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/game-boy-color-card-captor-sakura https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/gameboy-color-hello-kitty-special-edition

[Anonymous No.6349323]

>>6348049
>there's no millennials
Millennial here, how dare you?

>>6348093
But seriously though, playing on phones is the worst, I don't get how people play games with just a touch screen.

[Anonymous No.6349335]

Finally I can share all gba games .

https://mega.nz/folder/v9chTIQS#xccgUuYBeXxwNxXo4bDGLQ

Fuck jannies for deleting sharing a gb gbc mega

[Anonymous No.6349343]

>>6349335
not retro

[Anonymous No.6349350]

>>6349343
Gameboy and gameboy color is retro you retarted piece of shit . Read the FUCKING STICKY .

>1999 and earlier

[Anonymous No.6349359]

>>6347954
(for you)

[Anonymous No.6349879]

>>6347872
>What actually happens 99% of the time is one larping zoomer calling another larping zoomer a 'zoomer' because they are mad about different opinions or not knowing some piece of video game trivia while the handful of people on the board actually old enough to remember just wince as they watch the embarrassing shitposting fuckshow unfold

ftfy

[Anonymous No.6350148]

>>6348081
>>6348093
>>6348108
the babbage-pandemic is spreading

[Anonymous No.6350271]

>>6350148
>see! this is why i absolutely HAVE to have a trip! impersonating shitposters are ruining threads!
inb4

[Anonymous No.6350381]

>>6346054
It's just a failing of language, not emotion. The japanese have a word for this emotion. Natsukashii. We speak English, so we can just take whatever word we want. Check it out. Use it.

[Anonymous No.6350454]

>>6349879
The Japanese have a word for this emotion too.

[Anonymous No.6350813]

>>6346046
OP is talking as if every past version of the Gameboy was always available simultaneously, because he is a borderline retarded zoomer. No one is choosing between them, this argument is made-up nonsense.

[Anonymous No.6351386]

>>6350454
Wat?

[Anonymous No.6351904]

>>6347892
>My first game was a multicart for the DMG Game Boy (had Mario Land, Motocross Maniacs...
Dude same, I still have mine. The games it had was: Sonic 3D Blast, KOF 96, Jurassic Park 2, Vs Captain Tsubasa, Track & Field, TMNT3 Radical Rescue, Mario Land, Malibu Beach Volleyball, Tetris (List twice, only repeat), Alleyway, Tennis, Boxxle 2, Battle City, Motocross Maniacs, Yakuman, Q Billion, World Bowling, Karateka, Dr. Mario and Space Invaders.
This cartridge is one of the reasons why I love arcade retro games. Other reasons is from the SNES ports on Game Boy Advance e.g. DKC, some friend had a famiclone, and Sonic Mega Collection Plus on PS2.

[Anonymous No.6352479]

>>6351904
When I was a kid my cousin showed me his bootleg multicart he got at a flea market that had a whole bunch of games including both Oracle games and I was super jealous. I still am, even though I have my own flashcart now.

[Anonymous No.6352542]

>>6346046
good.

[Anonymous No.6353257]

>>6352479
Multicarts were pure soul. All the games I had did not have save files and were all pre-GBC but it had a nice variety of games. The funniest thing is I found it in public, I didn't even buy it

[Anonymous No.6353349]

>>6349879
ok zoomer

[Father Electronics Couture No.6353365]

>>6350148
>>6350271
Two of those posts were actually me

>>6346187
>Hauntology
>>6350381
>Natsukashii
These are neat words

[Anonymous No.6353428]

>>6346010
I am of the opinion that people who only like older games because of "nostalgia" and can't conceive of anyone actually just liking older games for their own merits don't actually like videogames very much. There are some games I'm absolutely nostalgic about, but that doesn't limit my interest in playing almost exclusively retro games that I've never beaten before.

[Anonymous No.6355408]

>>6353428
This. I’m nostalgic about fucking Bubsy 3D but that doesn’t mean l can’t discern its quality compared to better games.