I am not sure when I got my original DMG Gameboy but man did I want it badly! Even though I only really had Tetris on it and occasionally rented a new game I loved the thing! But somehow I have never bought the Gameboy color...but also never got a Gameboy advance when it came out. I was saving for my very first PC as I remember and being young I did not have that much money to spare I guess. When I had a job though in 2004 I did buy a Gameboy Advance SP NES Edition and a few games but not that many. And most of them came from e-bay and turned out to be clones/fakes without me ever noticing!
And in ALL the years since then I never got around to actually buying one. Probably because I had moved on to the DS and 3DS by then and if I wanted my SP could play GBC games perfectly fine. Not that I actually had any besides maybe on emulators. Either way I have finally jumped on completing my console collection with....a block of cheese...ehm...I mean a yellow Gameboy Color!
I have no idea what kind of games I should be looking for that are worth playing. I did buy the two Zelda games already a few years ago and also an EZ Flash Jr. Together with the GBC I also got a few games that looked sort of fun: super mario bros deluxe, rayman and conckers pocket tales.
So why yellow? Quite simply because it was the cheapest option and I am very likely going to upgrade to an IPS and new case in the future anyway. Why spend 30 euro's more on a "perfect" unit when I can have one for just 50 euro's with a scratch or two. And to be honest...I don't even notice the scratches on the lens since the screen is basically impossible to see anyway without two sun's going super nova! OK... I might be overreacting a little here but it hard to see in a low light environment but I don't think it's worse than the original GBA. But I do not like the very bright and blinding battery LED...might do something about that later.
Either way it's nice to finally have one for a good price.
And in ALL the years since then I never got around to actually buying one. Probably because I had moved on to the DS and 3DS by then and if I wanted my SP could play GBC games perfectly fine. Not that I actually had any besides maybe on emulators. Either way I have finally jumped on completing my console collection with....a block of cheese...ehm...I mean a yellow Gameboy Color!
I have no idea what kind of games I should be looking for that are worth playing. I did buy the two Zelda games already a few years ago and also an EZ Flash Jr. Together with the GBC I also got a few games that looked sort of fun: super mario bros deluxe, rayman and conckers pocket tales.
So why yellow? Quite simply because it was the cheapest option and I am very likely going to upgrade to an IPS and new case in the future anyway. Why spend 30 euro's more on a "perfect" unit when I can have one for just 50 euro's with a scratch or two. And to be honest...I don't even notice the scratches on the lens since the screen is basically impossible to see anyway without two sun's going super nova! OK... I might be overreacting a little here but it hard to see in a low light environment but I don't think it's worse than the original GBA. But I do not like the very bright and blinding battery LED...might do something about that later.
Either way it's nice to finally have one for a good price.