Do GBC's have a Backlight?

[adamshinoda]

The light of GBC's screen was SOOOO bad that the first time playing this, I was thinkin it had no color at all.
About the Gameboy Light, I heard of it a while ago and I was intended to ship one from Ebay, just for the nostalgia feeling, but it was so expensive Why does Japan always have good things??

 

[BORTZ]

Regardless i would have done just about anything to get my hands on one if i knew they existed back then.
I had a worm light at one point, it was the worst light ever. It "kinda" lit the screen lol. Kinda.

Omfg, I hated those worm lights.

For my GBC I had this light that looked like a... sludge monster (think Muk, almost), with a few different tendrils, and the main one was a bendy one with a light in it. Wrapped around the top of the GBC. It still kinda sucked, but it was awesome to look at.

Yeah i know that thing. It was just as bad as worm lite, but it did look cooler haha.

 

[thaddius]

How is the screen on the Light shitty?
Is it different from the one on the Gameboy Pocket? Because I thought the Pocket's screen was pretty nice.

I don't have the inclination or the AAA batteries to compare the GBP and GBL screens right now, but the Light's screen has a bit of a ghosting problem where the pixels trail when something moves. One could get used to it, and it's nowhere near as bad as the original, but it bothers me. I'll stick with using my GBC for GB games.

EDIT: Also, yes. That's a flashcart.

 

[BenRK]

Thaddius, you have the best toys...

 

[dilav]

Bolded the important part in that comparison. The light was an attachment that basically acted as a torch iirc. The second SP model was the first backlit gameboy

My bad, I thought the GB light was one of the light accessories like pictured below, not an actual console:

I'd never heard of the Gameboy Light though

Yeah, the Gameboy Light actually had a backlight, I remember people ranting about why the SP had a frontlight in the first place when the Gameboy Light were backlit.
The second revision GBA SP or GBA Micro came second, unless there was another super secret Japan release.

I have to agree those worm light did a poor job at lighting the screen up. I remember purchasing one, plugged it in and thought I needed new batteries.
I had a magnifying glass/light accessory for the GBA, can't recall how well the light was. But the magnification was pretty cool.

 

[kthnxshwn]

This entire thread makes me feel old.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Bolded the important part in that comparison. The light was an attachment that basically acted as a torch iirc. The second SP model was the first backlit gameboy

My bad, I thought the GB light was one of the light accessories like pictured below, not an actual console:

I'd never heard of the Gameboy Light though

Yeah, the Gameboy Light actually had a backlight, I remember people ranting about why the SP had a frontlight in the first place when the Gameboy Light were backlit.
The second revision GBA SP or GBA Micro came second, unless there was another super secret Japan release.

I have to agree those worm light did a poor job at lighting the screen up. I remember purchasing one, plugged it in and thought I needed new batteries.
I had a magnifying glass/light accessory for the GBA, can't recall how well the light was. But the magnification was pretty cool.

I had a MadCatz magnifying light attachment. It was better than any of the worm lights, though I wish I didn't always have to use the magnification to use the light.

 

[DanTheManMS]

Thaddius, you have the best toys...

Where does he get those wonderful toys?