I remember how my mind was blown when I got a Gameboy Advance SP which had the backlight. It was revolutionary
Some how brings to mind Grandpa Simpson. I read it in his voice too. And he had an onion on his belt… which was the style at the time…
I think it’s cool, makes me nostalgic of old tech
Yall remember the GameBoy Advance SP? The first models had awful spotlight front lighting (or none). The second model had an amazing screen that was bright as hell. Felt like a totally different system
Buying a OG game boy was the best drunken eBay purchase I have ever made
I thought that was an intentional design feature.
I ordered the LE today. I’m seriously hoping I don’t get any dead pixels on mine. Lots of anxiety regarding that.
omg i just remembered I had those light attachment thingys on my gameboy. good times
Now you have quite a few LEDs in your faces with the OLED screen.
Amen brother.
In a dark room, we had to use flashlight
In the back seat of a car, I would play for a few seconds and pause for a few seconds at night.
Could only play when passing under a street light.
Or,if you are lucky, a car behind you with their headlights on.
yesssss
Lol, the old days 🤣
Ah yes, until the days where you could plug in a flexible LED lamp that drained the batteries even quicker!
The worm lights! Those were the shit back then.
The only problem with wormlights was finding one that illuminated the whole screen instead of just spotlighting a few pixels of it. I had to return three or four of them before I got a good one.
Who cares. Those worm lights were technology from the future. You had that shit you felt like a boss.
Some cereal boxes had these glow in the dark cardboard cutouts that were designed to fit around the screen
Correction: you were a boss
I don’t understand why ppl is complaining about the led light. Why are they forgetting where we are coming from?
That’s a typical appeal to worse problems.
Worm light!
I grew up with a front lit gba sp
it is the flashlight
a surprising amount of light is projected up from the bottom of the screen
Highly relevant:
http://i.imgur.com/TNgyOmz.gif
The first mobile gaming device that had a screen I thought was decent was the original PSP many years later.
This is an excellent animation. I have a specific memory of playing this way with that exact game pictured (Zelda: Link’s Awakening).
PSP is still awesome!
Real men play under the sheets and use the red light as a lamp
I had this awesome magnifier attachment and also a light attachment that slid on the gameboy. still have it. All. It was so much fun back in the day.
I have a og dmg Gameboy and to play it I just use any sunlight coming in
What? The original GameBoy had an LCD screen, not LED. It emitted no light whatsoever. Have you even seen one before?
They’re posting about the red LED to the left of the screen.
Haters gonna hate but I like the led shining through the case! I think it looks cool and extenuates the light. Not distracting at all. But I also grew up with a Gameboy, Game Gear, and a DS Lite with LEDs blasting in my face
Yeah definitely looks cool to me, I’m floored people think this is an issue or a design flaw…
I agree 100% I really like it!
Personally I like the effect of the LED through the shell, it’s neat and reminiscent of my old atomic purple GBC.
