The Best Game Boy Nintendo Ever Made: Game Boy Light

So i lived in nyc at the time and in the mom and pop game stores alll had the gameboy light .. i had one when i was a kid ! It was also region free cause i remembered renting gameboy games from blockbuster and i was able to play .

Import shops in LA and New York sold these in their games section back in the 90s also I remember seeing them sold in international airport gaming stores so definitely some people outside of Japan had access buy them

SP is the best gameboy

What’s weird is that I knew a kid who had one of these when I was in 1st-3rd grade before both the gbc came out and he switched schools. He said his dad got it on a business trip to Japan though. What a cool GameBoy.

Thank you for making a video on this obscure device! It’s my favorite handheld I own, and every other documentary or handheld history video glances directly over it, quoting obscure brands and competitors, but never the light.

i remember gameboy colour screen was easy to see the advance near impossible

I never liked Game Boy. Small screen. Black and white. No backlight. Game Gear was amazing and had a TV adapter.

In 1989, Nick saw a trailer for a game boy. He loved the concept of playing NES games wherever he’d like. He begged his parents day and night for one. Finally, in Christmas of 1990, he got a present that his parents said, was video game related. Excitedly, knowing what it was, he ripped open the present. 100 likes for part 2.

These gameboys were available in Europe. Not sure if Nintendo sold them in those regions or people brought them back from Japan on vacation, but I remember my cousin had one when I visited Germany in the 90s, a silver one

Having ONLY a minimal Japan only release , proves Nintendo never had brain one in their heads , , , ,the gamepad for the "N64" reaffirms they are still brainless , , , , GB light is great , , , but look at how they handled it , , , , missed opportunity proof of Stupidity , , , , , Japan only , spit on em , , , 😡🤬😡

My Gameboy is a DS lite I still pick heart gold and gold on my DS right now

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have this when I still a kid.
This with the sega mega drive 2.

if you played osd and laminate version of gameboy then you will feel uncomfortable playing gameboy light

I have one but the screen docent work

the color has an active matrix screen so it's not as blurry

but can you play ntsc games on it?

This one is based off the Pocket?

Actually one of my friends had that... until now i thought my memory was messing with me... (his dad was working overseas) It was like 2007 and im from germany. Im really glad to see that my childhood memories aren't fading. I also exactly remember my aunt gifting me my red gameboy pocket with Pokemon Yellow ❤️❤️❤️

me as a kid who envied my cousins who got the color one while i got the light lmao 👁👄👁

The gameboy Micro was the best Gameboy

In manhattan in the lower 90s (west side) we had a place called "cyber games" where they always had some import gameboys from japan. I remember owning an pink advance before they got big in the states and i deff saw some gameboy lights on the shelves as a kid. what a great video! now i need to try and grab one of these!

Wow

Gameboy Light and modded Gameboys/Pockets/Colors/Advances is SO good for stuff like Kirby Tilt n' Tumble and Gameboy Camera. Don't have to deal with turning your GBAsp upside down when taking pictures, nor worry about reverse controls in Tilt n' Tumble

I finally got my Game Boy light in the mail today that is the jewel of my collection. The speakers a little bit low for my liking but nobody outside of a brain surgeon is going to be opening that device up. It is an original Game Boy light with the battery cover and I love it like it's my third child

I won't outbid you if you don't outbid me K?

Rare and cool but definitely not the best😂

Is the speaker significantly quieter than the DMG? I just bought one and it seems too quiet. My headphone also only work in one ear

Hey wulff den would you do a video of using the Gameboy camera with the Gameboy light? I think that'd be a good video idea. Doubt you would even see this comment though. 😣

I've always said, I would have preferred to have a gameboy light over the gameboy color I think. I did have a worm light when I was a kid. But it still just boggles my mind that one of the best selling consoles of all time had a screen that you can't even see. I mean try playing one today, it's just terrible. How much more would it have really cost for them to put a back light or hell, even a damn front light in the gbc though? The gbl literally used he same type of light as a watch so it could not have cost much.

but does ANYONE remember the aluminum gameboy light!? They do exist, buuuut I can’t find em :/

Imagine A game boy color ligth

Yeah I had a Gameboy Light, but you wouldn't know about it because it goes to another school.

Modding a Game Boy Color with a backlight is easy. I just did it in 10 minutes.

Is there varying levels of brightness with used consoles because of use and time or are they all pretty uniform? In the market for a used one and want to know if this is something I have to consider. Some seller don't even include pictures with the light mode on!

I had one n never been to Japan we had a lil Japanese run shop in Yonkers ny... no toys r us

I started looking at the Gameboy and I started wanting it. Sad thing, I’m skeptical that the sellers will rip me off, and I’m broke.

i have a gba sp, i can turn the brightness down.. i did and OH LORDY ITS BAD

My aunt in the US bought me a game boy light and shipped it here in the Philippines. So no, they’re not exclusive to Japan.

just mod the original DMG01 with a backlit its the best ever :D

the best current option before the release of Game Boy Classic, is to manually mod Game Boy Pocket or Color by adding a backlight

I actually owned a GB Lite back in the days.

I used to have a gameboy light that my Aunt brought back from Japan for my birthday one year but i have since lost it and never found out what happened to it

ITS SO FREAKING WEIRD THAT THEY REMOVIED THE BACKLIGHT FOR THE GB COLOR AND EVEN THE ADVANCED

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I thought they had the Game Boy Light in the UK for a little while

Yes — that was Drake Bell O.o

there is a gameboy color light

I'm craving for one of those! even though' I have a Color and an AGS101