Want to know how to acquire the ultimate Game Boy or Game Boy Color? Well, you just need some spare cash and all of the accessories!
In ye olden days, handheld consoles came with a plethora of add-ons and peripherals that would help enhance your gaming experience. Remember, the backlight didn't always exist. - you had to buy an external light to attach to the console. And heavens forbid you try and play out in the daylight.
There are accessories we have fond memories of, like Game Genie helping us get through those tricky stages, or gifting us the best power-ups, and the Game Boy Camera and Printer for being, well, just their novel little selves.
So, what happens if you put a bunch of these add-ons together? Twitter user @yoshinokentarou shared a video that shows just what you can achieve with a Game Boy Color, and - to be honest with you - we're pretty jealous of this rig!
It appears that with video in the Tweet comes from UnPacked on TikTok, who got in touch with us.
It looks like the handheld is going to turn into a car with all of that attached to it!
We often complained about just how clunky some of these accessories made our Game Boys as kids, but looking at this Frankenstein's monster of plastic and peripherals, we can't help but be amused and in awe.
Translating the tweet through Google, Yoshino is also making a similar joke to our little Power Rangers nod in the title:
For the first time, I saw a video of the process of transforming into a full armor Game Boy.
It could be a Transformer or it could indeed be a Gundam! But whatever it is, it's a cool way to see many of these accessories all together.
We love our little peripherals here, but do you have a favourite? And could you make a full armour Game Boy? Let us know in the comments.
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[source twitter.com]
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Now you're playing with power!
Probably too much power.
oh god turn the power off it's going to explode
What the heck is this! Next thing we know my 3DS is a flip phone
I remember with my Gameboy Color having the little torch like attachment for playing in the evening. Before that on my original Gameboy for light I would sit on my bedside cabinet and use my bedside lamp, it was so awkward. Oh how far things have come since then.
@Diogmites Power Rangers
Oh man the gameboy lights take me back!!
I had a similar flip-up illuminated magnifier accessory when I owned a Gameboy back in the early 90s.
I need pretty serious magnification to see such a tiny screen nowadays - I'm squinting through my reading glasses to see the Game & Watch screens! ^_^;;
I had one of those stupid squiggly lights for the GBC. Such great fun having a tiny spot on your screen lit up so much you can't see what's there and the rest of the screen so dark you can't see that either.
I got a much better light for the GBA. It was like a floodlight that lit up the whole screen. Sadly I broke it when I was trying to clean battery acid out of it a couple years ago.
Reminds me of the AVGN's Game Boy Accessories episode.
@ralphdibny I had one of those too! 😂 I didn't hate it, but I was definitely glad to move on...
@Leuke haha me neither really, I was just exaggerating for comic effect. I think I played more with it off than on though if I remember correctly
https://images.lukiegames.com/t_full/assets/images/psp4.jpg
Dark Lord PlayStation is unamused by these turn of events and will send a monster down from the moon to take care of this.
I loved the light up magnifying glass attachment. So many hours of Metroid and Kirby under the sheets as a kid
@AW1Long A button embiggener, a controller grip, a screen magnifier, a speaker, a cheat device, and a light.
I had the magnifying glass and worm light. The magnifying glass was a tad unwieldy, though, so mainly the worm light was the thing that got use
What is the blue unit that gets attached to the bottom of the GameBoy? (I have everything but that and the winged-grips).
And this won't short the device out?
I had the worm light. It's amazing how many things had to be purchased to make yesteryear's handhelds into a fraction of what they are today...
@Diogmites Me and some friends used it to defend the Earth many years ago.
@Diogmites basically combining robots, like transformer constructions.
@AW1Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4DqEOAUJg4 It's imitating a DS in this video, but I can say with certainty that the same would be possible with a 3- or maybe rather 2DS
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