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hey guys so today I'm here with a video reviewing the Gameboy light so actually this is probably the rarest of all game boys as it was only made japan for about a year a little bit less than that and it only ended up making about 11,000 of them so at first glance you look at it it looks very much like another Gameboy the Gameboy pocket as you can see here there is a pretty big difference between them the Gameboy liest image what I pulled up pull this back a little bit the Gameboy light it's actually quite a bit larger set them on top of each other as you can see here Gameboy that's quite a bit larger and also is a good bit thicker due to the fact that instead of using triple a batteries it uses two double-a batteries um so the Gameboy light though was those one major thing that will obviously by the name the major thing about the Gameboy light was that it not only had you know just a standard Gameboy play but also did have a backlight now I'll show you guys that in a second now this was actually like I said a really rare model and it was actually for a good reason so the Gameboy light came out right about the time the gameboy color came out and obviously the gameboy color was a successor it had a lot of additional features at color screen better graphics all that kind of stuff and so the Gameboy like really never took off so basically they went ahead they designed it and they did launch in Japan and it did it didn't really just didn't do that well because obviously who would buy you know spend this on a Gameboy that's been out for you know this plays the standard gameboy games which had been out for almost 10 years by then or you could buy you know obviously by the brand-new Game Boy Color however these are still pretty cool little uh pretty cool game boys and obviously the backlight which is a pretty nice feature because obviously no game boys actually had a backlight until the Gameboy Advance SP which was back in 2003 so they just gave you guys a quick tour of it and of course this one is not in perfect condition but like I said these are pretty hard to come by so if you can get one brand new in the box they will cost you a ridiculous amount so up at the top you guys should see one of the first things is that the switch is actually a little bit different so you turn it off you can turn it on and then you flip it all the way over to the right you actually turn on with the backlight on so I'll show you guys how I flight and show you guys that in just a second I'm not the standard same size screen as the Gameboy pocket and of course the same buttons and plastic over here we do have the Gameboy link port as well as the volume and we have just the standard contrast of any standard sort of Gameboy and of course the power switch I know it slipping over on the back and actually I do have a chapter knees Yoshi game in here which I'll show you guys in a second but uh we do have just all the standard sort of stuff talking about it and it does actually does take two double-a rather than two triple A batteries so you know that was obviously it had to power the backlit screen so you know that's not bad well it did kind of protrude a little bit um and although actually a lot of people you know if you look at just pictures of it Game Boy light looks pretty much identical to the Gameboy pocket but actually is it it is different it is bigger and pretty much all dimensions you know it's a little bit thicker a little bit longer a little bit wider and everything so it's pretty interesting so I did shut the light and show you guys what the backlight looks like so one major thing about game boys was obviously in the dark you really couldn't see so this is just without the light off this is just what any game would look like and you can't see anything like we're go ahead and turn the backlight voila we actually do have a pretty decent light on here um so the camera like she's not quite picking up it's a little bit greener than this but it's absolutely playable on this nowhere near as bright as oh say the Gameboy Advance SP for example but it is absolutely playable you know you actually go ahead and see it really nicely and it actually works now the battery life on the Gameboy light was actually not too bad of course because it was instead of using trip lights to use double A's it had about the same battery life even with the light on and with the light off it actually lasted I believe about three or four hours longer I'm saying you guys can see I mean the screens pretty nice of course you do have the contrast so just like on any standard Gameboy you go ahead and just contrast however you like you know it's just a really solid package I like it now obviously the major reason you would you know you want a Game Boy light these days is just for your for collecting purposes obviously like I said the Gameboy Advance SP does have a far superior backlight but these are really cool a little game boys to kind of have like I said that are really rare and so for you know nerds like me who like to collect key boys you know I was just something I wanted to have there you go guys that is my review of the game boy light now that actually did come in two different colors it did come in as gold as well as it came in a silver color now if you're interested in getting one of these ebay is probably going to be your best bet you really don't find them pretty much anywhere outside of Japan unless you know if you do find one outside Japan they're probably marked up quite a bit more but in general these are not cheap at all you're going to have to probably spend a decent amount of money to go ahead and get one this one's not in great condition but obviously it does work one thing that you that you do definitely want to look out for when buying one of these especially spend a bunch of money and make sure that the back of the screen the backlit screen does work that is a huge thing obviously it's not a Game Boy light unless the screen actually lights up anyway guys that's my review of the Game Boy light it's pretty cool Game Boy really one of those rare ones that you know you'd never see these days and most people never even heard of but anyway guys thanks for watching