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hey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with a review something a little bit different from what I usually do but this is a review of the original Gameboy but this is a little bit different this is a play it loud model this is actually one of my favorite I have a lot of you know older technology but this is one of my favorites it's really it's not extremely rare I wouldn't say but they did not make very many of them and you hardly ever see them of course you know they made these for years and years and years the original game boys but I would say just almost all of them were you know the standard sort of beige these play a lot of models were as you can see transparent plastic which really you know just kind of made them look extremely cool so go ahead and give you guys a walkthrough to explain it to you guys and I give you guys a little review about it and show you it shut off I'm pretty proud of it I like it a lot anyway let's get this one started this latest technology covering everything okay guys let's go I just jump right in so um if you have if you're not familiar with the normal game boy this is this is pretty similar to it if you look here it is it's got you know the standard a and B buttons you know start select d-pad you know very very similar stuff if you've ever played a game boy what you hope you have this is actually a perfect example is that that well that was the major downfall I will say just right with that the major downfall of these original game boys was this screen there terrible terrible screens I mean there I'll show you guys a demo of it in a minute but I mean that right there that's what it looks like I mean just for comparison's sake this is a gameboy pocket which they played the same game but basically this was just kind of like you know the slim version let me go ahead and just tilt it you can see that's the difference in the screens right there they're both black and white neither have color but well actually this one's black and white this is green and black I guess but I'll go ahead and show again comparisons in a minute but that's right the bad I just said I just do not like that screen whatsoever but yeah so I'm go ahead give you guys a quick run-through um you have your headphone jack you have you have your volume right here and you have right here if I take it off there's a small little uh a little plastic piece right here and as you can see at is what you hook up the link cable and of course you know game boys mostly in the Pokemon games I know but game boys could you know link up you could trade you could you know change high scores for different games is pretty cool we move over to the front this is where you put the game in and say there's slot for the game and there's also the power button which and had this little spot actually me go to a slot game and show you guys better you see the slaughter there camera wants to focus so that keeps it from pulling the game out which is you know kind of cool will they remove it later in games but uh over here you can actually hook up a power adapter if you don't want to be using the four double eyes it needs I mean there's the contrast which you can I'll show you guys when I actually do a Tron the thing everything on the back and see your own oh you're gonna steal my serial number you see here like I said you know you have the game slot which I one thing on those note it's really cool I love how that's clear you can see everything you got your four double A batteries um they actually last a good while can't set up the top my head how long it lasts I want to say you probably get you know eight maybe eight hours or so out of it um don't quote me on that though but it's not all that bad but uh yeah so um let me really quickly here just kinda give you guys like to show you again this is a gameboy pocket um now like I said they plug the exact same games just the original Game Boy games that game would color or anything and they have you know this was this came out about five or six years later I mean as you can see is quite a bit smaller but it's got a larger screen and you know we stack them on top of each other you can see I mean I can barely even get that of the Gameboy in the shot I'll have mostly all the same ports and everything and this is I'll be doing reviews you know I'm going to hopefully start doing or start reviewing a whole line of game boys but uh you see here the Gameboy pocket literally this thing if you've ever tried to put your pocket you know he does not fund you it's it's just giant I mean here's another thing it's an iPod Touch I mean it's just I mean it's just enormous yeah but that's okay it was really cool back in the day and you know you don't necessarily put everything in Bakke do you so let's go ahead and get this out of the way um so real quickly here one of the main differences between the normal Game Boy and the plight loud models well there's actually two main differences they both all like I said played the same games everything's the same except just a couple things you see this this Bluebell right here that goes around the screen this was a little bit darker in the play at lab models um you know it's a small thing but I just kind of mentioned that because these um the Dark One's literally um there I think that are all glued in down but literally guys if you lose this and game boys you know have a habit of that popping off and stuff if you lose that it will cost you an arm and like to find another one literally they're extremely rare to find I've never personally Rian's so definitely you know it's almost worth a lot of people buy they find a plate Lauda buy it just to take this to sell it I mean it's it's kind of ridiculous but the second thing I hope you notice by now is that it is transparent this one I'm really proud of it's in really good condition so I'm going to get a little close-up here you can see not a whole lot of scratches it's it's not the matte plastic is on the normal Gameboy it's uh but not not exactly you know you see there's lights kind of reflecting off of it it's uh it's not bad but it's really cool I just love this because it shows you how much how much stuff is packed into this you know I mean I'm not Chanel don't quote me on this guys I don't know what's what but I'm fairly sure that's the CPU maybe I don't know see here there's the board hooks up to the speaker and you see the batteries and of course it uses four double A batteries that's what that shows you how big the battery thing is just that alone um yeah there's few more things but you really can't see go ahead just take the day now see if you guys can see of course my camera want not wanting to focus with this clear plastic but uh yeah it's very very cool um I really really like it um to be honest with you guys I don't like to play it I mean you know I've got a no Gameboy Color or you know I recently played some of the Gameboy pocket just because it's got a much better screen and a lot of larger Street as well so these really aren't I mean you can of course they still work and everything but they're really not that great for playing the screens just too awful but uh while we're speaking the screen let's go ahead and show you guys um so let me just pull the camera in a little bit um so go ahead turn it on okay so while it's you know doing this thing of course you know you can do the volume just going to turn down just a little bit for you guys I just turn it all the way down actually and on the left here is contrast okay contrast is a really important thing I know several people who thought that they actually bought these game boys cat sounds funny but people who thought that they actually bought these game boys and that are not working both guys watch this if you turn the contrast all the way that screen looks like it's totally dead and a lot of people who have bought these game boys go oh no the screens dead and you know like got rid of them or whatever no no no no always check the contrast as kinda seems like a simple thing but you'd be surprised so the contrast is just a little dial you pull it and basically it goes from green and you see the kind of comes in and then you keep going and it'll go all the way to black now the reason that they do this was that some games can you know be maybe a little lighter a little darker and you can kind of customize it kinda seems weird nowadays you don't really see anything like this but uh back then is kind of necessary let's go ahead and get something hmm about that like that I guess um so now I'm going to go ahead and show you guys a little bit of gameplay this is of course a pokemon red version sitting here a little safe out here um so I'm not so sure exhuming just a little bit more let's see here if I'm sure if you guys can tell with the camera that's not me that's not in focus okay well um unsee here if you guys can tell the screen gets a little bit blurry when there's movement you know like for example like look it like that and watch it kind of gets a little blurry when you walk this is a problem with the original screens um you know it's not awful um and of course this game work pocket had that same problem as well um but you know it's not terrible I guess but what is terrible is the screen I mean to look at it and especially it's blurry and stuff like you know walking around especially with any kind of games that are like you see this I mean this is a well for game boys was pretty decent graphics so you can see I mean it kind of taxes the screen a little bit so it's not the greatest so of course you can walk around everything and I'm not sure why I'm showing you guys this and just kind of give you a good representation of what the springs like for playing it for a lot extended periods of time it's not a ton of fun but show you guys that is just about it um go ahead and pull the camera a little bit um see you guys that is the gameboy original Gameboy play it loud model um these are actually um okay I don't like to it's kind of hard to say that's not rare rare but they're pretty uncommon it's it's it's not you're not going to find these all over the place now as far as you know if you were wanting to get one yourself um like I said it's kind of hard to say um no obviously actually some places a clear one like this in good condition I've seen them say you know wanting like a lot of money like seventy eighty dollars or whatever I don't think it's quite worth that much but if you are wanting one and there's a couple of things that you should probably look out for first of all go ahead and turn the screen one more time look carefully at the screen these game boys were notorious well most game boys were but uh for getting line scan lines broken and when that happens there's no fixing it really so to tell a scan lines broken basically all you to look for it be really simple to tell that there basically be a line of dead pixels whether they might be lighter or darker whatever usually they just kind of just blank if you see that there's no real fixing it besides just taking out the screen now will say that it's not impossible if you would like you wanting to do that it's not impossible to get another string for it I can't tell you off the top of my head how much they cost but it's Emmy it's not a deal-breaker but if you're buying one of these definitely keep that in mind because you know it could cost you a decent amount of money to you know get it fixed besides that you know it's the standard stuff you know don't put lots of scratches one kind of thing is that you see here where you stick the game cards in you can tell that those connectors down they if they look a little bit bad or whatever I'm definitely want to watch out this one is in really good condition for being really quite old you see even the stickers look pretty much brand new which I just love this thing but Dad so that's pretty much it this is the Gameboy play it loud model I really like it a lot screen makes it almost unplayable these days you know if compared to these really nice looking screens we have these days but you know it's not a bad game boy and you know if you like to collect that kind of stuff like me I mean I kind of remember you right to your childhood this is a great way to go anyway guys thanks for watching