Weirdness: A Young Boy's Paper Game Boy Shows the Power of Imagination

Awesome. I love how imaginative and resourceful some children are.

That's cool I made something like that myself in the day - a wooden GameBoy (even had colours on the screen!) with just a still picture of a tank and some planes - It wasn't difficult to imagine playing it

This brings back memories. Remembering how I used to make a wooden GameBoy Color.

why hadn't i ever thought of that!

Oh man. That reminds of when I was a child. I would draw levels on notepads all the time when my Game Boy was hidden away from me. Ah, that brings back memories. Heck, I still have some of that imaginative kid in me now.
_{I've recently been typing bios for Advance Wars COs I made.}

This certainly brings back memories! Before I got a Wii (my first system), I would occasionally sit in bed, close my eyes, and pretend I was playing a video game. I remember all of them were about a living red pickle, and he would try to get through traffic jams in order to reach a space shuttle launch.

Pfff, I once made a DS in which sliding the "touch" screen moved a character in the top one. It also had a paper cardtridge slot.

I use to have a imagination like this, than I went to school and the teachers said I was too imaginative ¬¬ I remember when I was a kid, I played Super Mario Bros 3 sooo much that I would imagine and draw more worlds and levels for Mario and Luigi to travel in. Awesome article, great read

That's actually F*CKING awesome. I relate. Good solid head nod to that guy and kids like him.

This is adorable and oddly touching.

Pfft! His art sucks! He kept using the same snake over and over again! Take an art class kid!!!

Just kidding. That reminds me of mazes I would make on graph paper. It would lead to one of four exits on the edge of the page. You pick one and flip the page over to find out if you made it out or fell into a trap. Good times.

Wow that is nifty. It is awesome to see kids' imaginations come to life. Especially with this. I mean that is just creative and amazing. I would like to make one of those one day. I really appreciate what the guy did. It is amazing and is quite touching.

I once made something like that, for whenever I was temporarily banned from video games. It was like a Top-down Final Fantasy game. Instead of using my finger, I used a tiny piece of paper with a drawing of a guy. I used small pieces like that to make a health bar and weapons and stuff. Good times.

@MrMario02: Hey that sounds pretty nifty, man. You have my appreciation.

Wow, that's adorable! So cool! hah, that reminds me of when I was a kid. i made a laptop out of paprr and pretended it worked. i also drew and cut out Pokemon and megaman characters and pretended they were toys.

Designing characters and levels. I'm not sure if there were many things quite as fun when I was a kid.

I remember making a paper and duct-tape 3DS. It was so awesome

I never had any consoles growing up, so I did stuff like this all the time as a kid. I once created a GameBoy using an envelope and then made little "cartridges" out of paper that could fit inside it with drawings of games I liked on them. Since I had a little window cut out where the screen would be, you could see the drawings when the carts were inside, so I'd pretend I was playing games that way.

That's nice. As a kid I tried designing board games and a card game.
You know...analog stuff.

I use to make paper transformers.

I can totally see one of the Robot Masters from the original Mega Man at the end of each level.

Saw this on reddit yesterday. I feel like someone should make this into a game, it looks like it would work well.

Good for you Kiddo!! You are a budding artist and have a grand ability ...NOW ADULTS, don't swash this kids imagination...out of him!!!! Don't tell him not to Waste time .. ADULTS get over it...this kid is going to be a great thinker and even better person for his neat ability to ... MAKE FUN.

come on... we all did this!!!! dont try to say you didnt.... WE ALL DID! :3

someone draw me a rack of pork ribs covered in barbecue sauce im starving

Oh, childhood, lovely childhood.

I love you childhood. I used to make levels on my notebook. Old times.

wow, i used to make systems i wanted out of paper as well! I also made my own "games" by drawing a bunch of levels, stapling them together, and creating and cutting out characters to go through the levels Me and my brother always played the games i made together.

Awesome! I used to make Mario levels all the time myself... Also maps and maps and MAPS for AoE and Warcraft. I must have made five notebooks worth of maps for those two games.

When my best friend and I were in 4th grade we made a paper Pokedex book with our favorite pokemon and some made up ones as well that had a little information under each drawing

I love it.

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