Gadgetory

hey guys the Austin is this the ultimate game boys in 1989 Nintendo released the original Gameboy making this the 25th anniversary while everyone games on their smartphones today it's easy to forget just how awesome it was to be able to play games on the go back in 1989 I'll never forget the countless hours I spent playing Pokemon and sneaking my gameboy into school the Gameboy really was something special so while Nintendo made their last game void in 2005 I want to see how close I could get to making my own ultimate Gameboy so this is about as close as it gets to a modern-day game board this is the Nintendo 2ds and transparent crystal blue so when I was a kid Nintendo used to make a lot of transparent game boys there's the Gameboy pocket the Game Boy Advance they're really cool because they showed off a lot of the cool internals of the game boys well this 2d s is kind of throwback to that and in fact it came out in the same day as the new pokemon ruby and sapphire remakes which is why there's a red and blue one of these so inside the box you get a bunch of paperwork and the operations manual all right this actually seems a bit much I'm sorry how many pages of this 77 pages so if you need to spend 77 pages on talking about your 2d s good luck yes this is the same charger from the DSi 3d s3s XL and the 2d s now we get to the fun part there we go that totally didn't take three takes to do so this is the 2d s so first of all that blue looks awesome Wow you can see all the the SD card slot you see the battery wow that's actually really cool get the stylus which I just mentioned that one of the things I like about the 2-d is more than three DS the stylus is a normal spot right here and it's not some extendable thing on the top which is complete garbage so actually it comes with an SD card as well see what it what you have in here a four gigabyte SD card that's actually not bad I think the 3ds has a two gigabyte so one of the things I've always liked about the two DS is that actually feels more comfortable in the hands of the 3ds so even though it's the cheaper models - one for kids where it doesn't have the screens that you know fold in and get broken but the grip is actually a lot more comfortable you have normal adult sized hands it feels a little bit big definitely bigger than like an Xbox controller or something but it has that right kind of heft in that kind of feel to it where I all my fingers and all my fingers because I have a lot of them one major difference between this and the 3ds is the flat design so well yes it will kind of fit in your pocket you really don't want to be walking around with this thing in your pants all day even though this is the 2ds it still plays 3ds games so it's only really lacking the 3d capability which to be totally honest really isn't a major problem so the 3d screen on the 3ds really was never that great to begin with and most of the games that use 3d really didn't do it all that well so they all work just fine here on the 2d s games like smash or a perfect example of why it still makes sense to have a handheld console there's really no substitute for having decent physical controls and while yeah the circle pad on the 2d S is a little bit mushy it still miles ahead of anything you'd be able to get on a touchscreen on top of that the gameplay is awesome this feels just like brawler melee with a smooth 60 frames per second and surprisingly decent graphics considering that this is a well it's a 2 DS and with games like Pokemon alpha sapphire which originally launched in the Game Boy Advance it's easy to forget just how far we've come since the days of the Game Boy so back in the day we didn't have any kind of backlit screens so you're always walking around trying to find a little bit of light to be able to play the games and these things tour through batteries I remember having to go get another pack of double-a batteries like once a month for this thing and while is weird to still be using physical games in 2014 it's nice to have the option to share it with a friend or go trade in a Gamestop and you do have a digital download option so it's not really the best so it definitely doesn't match up with something like the App Store or the Google Play Store but it is an option if you want to go download only you can also play DS games on the 2d s so chamber ways of doing this first of all by default it will just play with them being slightly up scaled and everything works just fine however everything's just a little bit blurry so you can also start the game by holding start and select at the same time and that will run them in a slightly smaller window however will be pixel to pixel exactly like playing on a normal TS and of course it's not the ultimate Gameboy intel can play actual gameboy games inside the eShop you'll find quite a few retro games including a lot for the NES as well as some for the Game Boy and even the gang gear of course the 2d s has no problem playing a gameboy color game and while a lot of these you can't play with emulators there's definitely something to be said about having the physical controls plus you know that music just never gets old for $100 the 2d s is pretty impressive not only does it look the part but it'll play original Game Boy games as well as a lot of the newer stuff even better than the 3ds so what do you guys think is the 2d s worth it definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below as for me I think I'll stick with the real thing so let's take a look ahh two moons