Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

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[–] 99 points 1 year ago (11 children)

You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That Gameboy watch really sells it.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Gaming in the 90's was so glorious.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    How many minutes do the batteries last?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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:

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Same but I was 12 at the time so I didn't think much about the bulb tech nor it's color temperature. I was just like "wow that's a bright bulb".

    Later on around 2005 I got my first piece of tech with an OLED screen: a Kenwood car stereo. It wouldn't be for nearly another 20 years when I finally got my first OLED TV.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    @The_Picard_Maneuver I had most of this monstrosity! No Action Replay because the Game Genie was enough, and no bottom set of speakers because the side speakers were enough. Not visible was the big heavy rechargable nicad battery that clipped onto the back. I also had a backup device, that only backed up the battery backed save data not the whole ROM. But it was useful for overwriting the save data from Pokemon Red over Blue, catching some Blue-exclusive mons, then writing the save data back onto Red. It had the same form factor as the AR shown.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    @The_Picard_Maneuver Oh and I remember those two little tabs on the top of the magnifying glass part were for a neck strap, as all these attachments nearly doubled the machine's weight and made it really top-heavy. The strap was to help you hold its overall weight.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I also have most of this, sans the bottom speakers! I also have a GameShark. I do not have the watch.

    You can’t use the bottom speakers with the side speakers anyway, since both use the aux jack. If you plug in an aux splitter, the bottom speakers don’t fit on.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago
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    WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    [EDIT]

    Based on further research (read: exactly one DDG query) It appears the Action Replay is actually significantly more complex than I had guessed and functions differently enough from the Game Genie that they quite often simply cannot operate in tandem like this and can cause serious issues.

    Read on if you'd like a cool story that has little to do with reality, or would like to imagine how chaining game genies might work if that was feasible :3

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    Based on my (admittedly not incredible) knowledge of how those devices both work, they intercept reads for specific memory addresses from the CPU and insert their own values. As long as they both weren't set up with codes to modify the same address very little would happen, it would behave as you might expect.

    If the two both had codes that modified the same address the Game Genie would "win" here since it is physically closer to CPU in the chain. It would see the address matching one of its codes and spit back its value, neither the cartridge nor the Action Replay would see the memory read occur.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for that. Do you know would the serious issue be like hardware damage or just like corrupted gameplay? I've seen some videos of game corruption and I'm wondering if that's something people could use or would it just fry the game or console.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's always a chance for hardware damage chaining devices together that were not designed to be used as such. To keep your hardware safe don't use it in ways that violate the manufacturer's guides and recommendations.

    In this case? Probably just wouldn't really work, might corrupt save game data.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Cool watch.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Imagine the shits you could take with that thing

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Batteries drained in 5 minutes

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Can confirm. So far I've gotten an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, docking station and a stand for it so it can be used as a laptop as well while traveling.

    It certainly has issues but it's an impressive device.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Transformers.. Robots in disguise

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's glorious

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I tried to find a photo of this janky Game Gear peripheral I had, but came across this angelfire website instead: https://www.angelfire.com/games4/icecoldatari/Gamegear.html

    I feel like this website may actually be from the 90s... It's literally just a person talking about the cool shit they have for their Game Gear, and the only email address is @aol.com. Made me very nostalgic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Where’s the camera?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Good game choice, too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • I like this

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I actually got that kit from a friend as a kid, I used it all the time when playing at home, the fake analog was legit, and I think there's a light on the magnifier too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You're probably thinking ew! Who would ever want that? They must have worked hard on the marketing side!

    Well there was nothing better and everyone had a TV. So they had normal TV commercials for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    My gba was like this lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    AVGN is about to meet his match

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Cassette Dystopianism

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    this guys dad works for nintendo

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could someone explain? Can one do this? What evil spells have to be cast for this to work?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Back then? Money. Now? Lots and lots of money.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    All this and no Nyko shock and rock?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Neither the gamegenie nor the action replay look like the are in use, this is probably why it is not powered on.

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