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hey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with a review of the Gameboy pocket the Gameboy pocket was the second in Nintendo's Game Boy line so I'm going to go ahead and give you guys a four of you on it some history as well as I'm going to compare it to the Game Boy as well as the Game Boy Color can give you guys a sense of how far it came anyway guys let's get this one started this the latest technology covering everything okay guys so let's go ahead just jump right on into this so the Gameboy pocket was a pretty cool Gameboy I gotta admit so the first thing you guys know about the Gameboy pocket is that it's less of a new Gameboy like a mountain is more of like a Game Boy light or a gameboy slam or whatever so I actually do have two of these I'll show you the black one again a minute but this was the green one and I liked it a lot so as you can see here it has a nice sized screen it's almost a two point six inch screen nowadays it's not that huge but it's pretty big especially taking into consideration the other two but of course I'll show you guys all that later as with all game boys or at least the original ones have a and B button start and select and your d-pad all more fine you know no problems um the sound actually was not too amazing on these Gameboy pockets um it was a little bit quieter but you know that's not a big deal because it of course did have a headphone jack as well as it also had you could plug it in and run off of AC power instead of you know your batteries so we turn over outside there's not a whole lot here except your volume which you know of course your volume and then your normal Gameboy link port so you know you could hook up to another Gameboy exchange high scores etc on the front you just have the power switch and something I thought it's kind of streaming to note when you flip that switch it used to be on the old game boys a little arm would come over and hold on that little notch but they cut it took that out for the Gameboy pocket I guess they realize that people aren't pulling the games out while they're playing them now on this side is the contrast I will show you guys the contrast in screen a minute safe to say the Gameboy pocket is much much better to play with than the original Gameboy just about in all categories and we flip it over on the back this is for these games you know no big deal just you know slide your games in and then this unlike the original one it uses two triple iton now the original Gameboy uses four double-a so using just a couple triple-a batteries is pretty good now it's kind of hard of course you know battery life is never an exact thing but generally with the Gameboy pocket you could get our around ten hours of battery life which is pretty good okay guys so as you can see here we have all three of them we have the original Gameboy the game with pocket and then the gameboy color so as you can see the Gameboy pocket and gameboy color very very similar I'll show you guys that in just a second but I mean as you can see the game would pocket was much smaller than both of these including the gameboy color I pick it up for you guys here you can see that it lacked that big bulge and of course this big boulder is because it uses two doublea's instead of two triple a's as you can see I mean it's quite a bit smaller than just about everywhere and the interesting thing is even though it still has that sort of black and white screen as opposed to a nice color screen on the Game Boy Color this screen right here was almost 2.6 inches whereas this one was only about 2.3 you kind of seated like that where you really see is when you're playing it I mean guys it's a big difference in its really nice I mean if this only had you know like the nice coloring of this I mean this would be perfect but unfortunately it's kind of a black springs but I'll show you guys that in a minute so what we're doing size comparisons I've just figure might as well show you guys something here's an iPod Touch mature you guys know about the size of this so we pick it up and you guys can see the screen is much larger it's actually pretty similar in size it's it's quite a bit thicker but it's actually about the right size footprint maybe just a little bit bigger but still guys I've got to say the Gameboy pocket wasn't is not a problem at all put in your pocket as the name suggests it's really comfortable I mean even this can kind of be a little bit bulky to put in your pocket but like I said guys that doesn't look like a huge difference but it is and it's it's pretty good ok guys let's just show you a little bit of gameplay on each so go ahead and fire all them up now they are all playing mostly the exact same game it's pokemon red blue and yellow version so they're all firing up and you won't be able to see so much from this angle you ball in a minute once they're loaded and everything but these three screens are very very different you can see a little bit this one is very very green it's it's just green and black of the colors so and it's not very good guys I mean this screen is literally the only reason I don't wouldn't like ever wanna play with this no offense but yeah this one is a lot better it's bigger than both of these screens and it's black and white um but this one I like this one the most even though it's a little bit smaller it has color and it also it has color because it's a gameboy color it also brings color to some of the older games such as you know the original Gameboy it's also a lot clearer let's go ahead and pull them all in for you guys and show you what I mean okay guys so this gives you a really good representation of what the screen looks like so as you can see I mean it's not perfect of course it is black and white but you can see I might take for example just look at anything on screen as soon as you move a guy gets a little blurry it's not all that bad really guys I mean I can understand how it can you know annoy some people but to be honest it's really not bad especially to play the original Gameboy like I said guys as you can see the Gameboy pocket screen is much better it this screen is extremely green it's really guys not fun to play on I mean your course you're gonna just contrast but really guys it's not good to play with it all huh while pop one fight now guys as you can see obviously you probably would guess but the game would call it has a much better screen it's not anywhere near as large and you can definitely tell that when you're playing it but those colors are much better I should want to get in a fight right now but I see the colors are much better now of course guys these are three separate games but they all have almost identical graphics and they do look almost just identical on all three so guys that should really give you a good sense of what the screens will look like so guys that's about it for my Gameboy pocket review as you can see guys it's a pretty cool system I'm not gonna lie it's lightweight it definitely does live up to its name it fits in your pocket perfectly it's not a big deal at all even in today's world where you know an iPhone's thick the screen is actually pretty good I got it make as I mean the screen is really good considering compared to the original Gameboy two point six inches might not sound like very large but it's plenty big enough if you've ever played gameboy it's a nice size um and I really like it guys I mean you know I don't like Triple A that much it a little bit harder to find but still guys it's not a big deal um you know guys there's not a whole lot to not like about the original Gameboy pocket you know it's thinner than the gameboy color I mean it's you know much much thinner in the original Gameboy there are nicely sized there's lots of them around guys I mean if you want one of these you can find them all over the place and for really quite cheap so guys I really don't see a whole lot of reason why you wouldn't want to go ahead and get a Gameboy pocket if you're interested in playing game boy games I mean they're they're great systems I really like them a lot and of course like I said guys they're very very cheap nowadays I mean that's this goes for most game boys but especially the Gameboy pocket and to some extent the original Gameboy but I think the Gameboy pockets are probably about the cheapest ones you can find and in my opinion they're some of the best now if you're interested in getting one of these I will do have a little bit of advice for you so as you can see here guys these two look pretty much identical right well there's one big difference you see here it says power and this one does not okay well guys the difference is this one on the right is one of the original models when they first shipped they did not have any sort of power indicator or battery indicator that's bad guys I mean I only bought this one really just to collect it's not anytime fallen play Gameboy pocket I play this one I mean this was just a just have just because I like collecting this kind of stuff and I got cheap but guys if you see look definitely if you're looking for them obviously look for the standard sort of abuse and everything of course this one is a little bit you know it's a little bit old but it's not too bad but look for the standard store reviews make sure it works make sure the contrast works and there's no dead scanlines but the one of the major things you definitely look for is to see if it has that power if it doesn't it's one of the original models and it's not going to be fun to play with for the main reason that of course you know you don't really need a light to show you this on but if the battery gets low basically it will just cut out the end it's not fun at all but anyway guys that's enough for about the Gameboy pocket I really really liked it you know it's one of the best game boards around in my opinion so if you see one guys don't hesitate to pick them up I mean usually that are very cheap and they're a lot of fun I mean hey who does it look any cooler than playing in 1990s gameboy I mean come on anyway guys thanks for watching