I still have my original Fat Boy somewhere; I wonder if it still works...

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I remember getting a Gameboy for Christmas one year. I knew beforehand, because I scraped the wrapping off. I blamed the vandalism on our cat, but Mom thought this was weird, since the cat had only scraped off the wrapping for my gifts.

Anyways, what an awesome system! I remember it came with Tetris. I later received Super Mario Land and the sequel, Six Golden Coins. I was huge into Megaman, and I spent the majority of my summers searching for the five Gameboy games, which I eventually did. I was so happy when I FINALLY found Megaman V. I had no issues tracking down Megaman 1 -3, but 4 and 5 must've been exceptionally low production runs. I never found them at retail, even when they were released, and had to settle for used when I finally did find them.

I was so addicted to the machine that even my NES was neglected for quite awhile. I remember getting Link's Awakening, and Mom was so frustrated because I would play it, like, non-stop. She would always ask for my gameboy before I went to bed so I wouldn't play it. At first, I would give her my carrying case, and for a little while, she would believe it was in there (I put Blaster in there. Remember him from Transformers? Autobot equivalent to Soundwave?).

I had this screen magnifier/light attachment for my gameboy, and during the nights when I smuggled it to bed with me, I would put my walkman headphones on, attach the AC cord to the wall, prop up my pillows, and lay under the blanket, with the only light coming from my Gameboy. I remember thinking hat headphones were preferable to the in-system speakers, because the sound felt clear, and I felt more absorbed.

I was stuck on the 2nd Dungeon of Link's Awakening for so long that I even wrote into Game Players for a solution. Don't even know if it was published in an issue, and they sent me a smarmy postcard. I had to borrow an issue of Nintendo Power from the Central Library to get through that bit.

And Pokemon! I was in 5th Grade when that hit! It was such a popular thing that Gameboys were banned at recess because they were getting stolen and stuff! But my little circle of friends would smuggle them out, and we would sneak off to a small corner of the playground and just trade and battle! We all bought into the Rare Candy trick, though, and battling just got boring when we all had, like, level 100 Charizards and Mewtwos and stuff, so we all resolved to restart our games and play legitimately out of some sense of schoolyard honour! I remember unorthodox trading going on. I'd trade a decidedly weak Pokemon for something considerably stronger, but I'd also give my trade partner a snack from my lunch, or I'd buy him a slurpee.

Man, the memories!

I still have my old white brick somewhere, I think it still works too.  I remember the long car trips playing Tetris against my brother and sneaking off with his copy of Super Mario Land cause he would always hog it.  Played the FF Legend games and FF Adventure to death.  Good times.  I also did the whole sneaking some night time Link's Awakening under the bed covers late at night with the night light attachment because I couldn't resist not playing it and actually sleeping.

I got a gameboy for my eight birthday, which may have been the year my birthday party was at Pizza Hut.

Anyway, my big old fat gameboy was stolen back in 2003 by some roomates I pissed off at school. Joke is on them, as if they went to sell it at a gamestore they probably got next to nothing. Thankfully, while they took everything (50+ PS1 games - some rare ones too!) they didn't take my SNES and games up in the closet.

Games I had:

Tetris
Ducktales
Dr. Mario (which was "controversal" because of "pills," I remember seeing the lame-ass Dateline program on it)
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land II: The Six Golden Coins
Kirby's Dream Land
Metroid II: The Return of Samus
Yoshi

As of now, I only re-purchased Metroid II and Tetris. Metroid II deserves some more props, I mean it's the game that started Samus' rounded shoulders and gave us the awesome spider ball!

I'll second the Mega Man games, there is some good music there: even Mega Man II has good tunes even though they are presented through some wretched synth. Mega Man: Dr.Wily's Revenge has a good soundtrack, as does Ducktales and Kirby.

Also had a game geine for it and a magnifier/light for it, the latter being a really lame product in the end. The gameboy pocket had a really crisp screen and I really liked it.

I have a bunch of scattershot memories concerning the old GB.

- I remember my aunt, whom I'd previously assumed didn't play at all, show me how to beat Mario Land on GB and Sonic on Game Gear in the same Christmas visit (and my mom utterly shaming my uncle at head-to-head Tetris).

- There was a girl on the bus who handed me a free game, Blades of Steel, because she was so completely pissed at the game she never wanted to see it again. Speaking of bus rides, the original Kirby game was always just short enough to play through while riding from school to home.

- I played through most of a borrowed copy of Mario Land 2 while I was locked out of the house on a murky afternoon.

- Playing Link's Awakening in bed with a magnifier/light attachment probably did more to turn me into a night owl than anything else. Once I realized I'd forgotten to grab a Secret Seashell with the rooster I re-started, because I'd assumed there was only exactly as many as I'd need in the game. No regrets though. (continued)

- I remember actually feeling a little sick when my classmate punched his screen in and purple ooze seeped out.

- Hanging out in back of the comic shop my mom worked at reading comics, listening to Bruins games and replaying GB Megaman 2.

Ultimately, I stopped playing the old system when I got a Super Game Boy, and stopped playing the old games altogether when Kirby's Dream Land 2 disappointed me. I'd considered getting back on the wagon with the GBC, but what I'd played wasn't impressive and the screen was harder to see than I'd remembered. It wasn't until DS that I felt getting my own portable system was important again, and I've started collecting oldies for my GB Player. So yeah, good stuff.

My GB Standard collection:
Alleyway
Blades of Steel
Cool Spot
Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Dream Land 2
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Megaman in Dr. Wily's Revenge
Megaman 2
Motocross Maniacs
Qix
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Tetris

Would this be a convenient time to rag on my asshole of a brother again?

It seems everyone had the original Game Boy before I got one on my own; my friends, my uncle..... I even remember one elementary school teacher who confiscated one from a fellow classmate, but kindly gave it back, claiming that even he owned the awesome device as well.

Hearkening back to this thread, I still often wonder what it would be like to travel back in time to the late 80s/early 90s and showcasing what the Game Boy had evolved into today?  As I said, if my mind is still blown today by the likes of the Game Boy SP and DS, I can just imagine how my nine year own self would react to something so gadget-sleek.

Never owned an original Game Boy, but I did trade in all my Game Gear stuff for a Game Boy Pocket and Pokemon Blue.  My friend got Pokemon Red, and we were set! 

... now that I think about it though, I really miss my Game Gear.   The damned thing ate batteries like crazy and was obscenely bulky, but it did have some great games (The 2-d Sonic's {apparently the Master System equivalents}, those two Donald Duck games {just look at the sprite work on the first one!}) and COLOR!

Hey, get that Sega crap outta this thread~!

Actually, I owned a GG myself, and was quite fond of it.  I only had a few games for it, including Castle of Illusion, which I loved, the two Sonic titles, Joe Montana Football (a product of my brother's) and Dragon Crystal.  Dragon Crystal was a pretty nifty RPG for its time, and was the main game I used to play all the time.

The thing was definitely a battery gulper, though.  I relied more on AC power than anything else.

..... So, did anyone own the Atari Lynx? :)

Funny thing about this game, Joe Montana actually sued Sega because he said the game damaged his reputation. I don't know what the outcome of the case was, or if it even went to trial, but I still think I have the GamePro article about it somewhere as it's pretty comical.

Turbo-Express was the shyte!

I must've played through that wacky Air Zonk shooter a billion times.  (a giant trash bag complete with stinky flies attacking you as a boss character? Genius!!)

The TV-Tuner was kinda lame, though.

*'GameBoy Kid' bashes self in the head with a rigormortis squirrel scattered amongst trash and litter strewn around the park bench*

*trippy Sitar music begins to play as LSD-style color patterns wash onto the screen, complete with wavey blurr effect*

SWEATY SUMMER KID: Uhhh.. cool... Color...

Angela, it's all gravy. I dabbled with the Game Gear, too.

Castle of Illusion was really awesome (the Genesis iteration was grand, as well), but I mostly played Power Rangers, the Sonic titles, and that was it. I have fond memories, but nowhere nearly as many as I do with my ol' Nintendo brick.

Did you know one of the Power Rangers is going to jail for murder?

No joke.

What? Looked and looked, but I found nothing like that. Did find out that the actress who played Trini (Yellow Ranger from original series) is dead, and has been for nearly ten yers. f---, imagine my surprise. That depresses me greatly.

An actor associated with the Power Rangers is going to jail, but he wasn't one of the actors that played a power ranger, he just guest starred in one episode. 

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There was an article done in a New Zealand paper that said the current series of Power Rangers RPM (based on Engine Sentai Go-onger) will be the last to be made down in New Zealand.  However a statement from Bandai on a toy website claims that the show will continue to be done.

I remember having to blow my entire savings of $90 to buy my Fat Boy for myself in early 1991.  At the time, my parents wouldn't let me own a console, so the compromise was that I could purchase a GB for myself.  In my first year, I got Tetris, Super Mario Land, TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan, Gargoyle's Quest, Final Fantasy Adventure, and Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge.

Since I had no money, I had to rely on gifts to get games, so I got very few games over the next few years, but I accumulated all of the Mega Man games as they came out.  I mostly had to rely on friends to play the Nintendo GB games like Metroid II, Link's Awakening, and Kirby, but I picked up my own copies of those eventually.  I think Metroid II was probably the most striking experience for me since, when I first borrowed that one, I had never played anything like it either on the GB or any console.  It definitely left an impression on me.

That child-actor shit can really fcuk up a kid's head. He got the death penalty actually, his wife got life in prison.

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I don't think it had anything to do with him being an actor, if that even qualifies. He was only in a few commercials here and there. He was the son of a convicted drug dealer, so I think that might've had at least a tiny part in it. In the end, who knows?

Edit: Talking about the whole murder thing, not just the, er, body modification taking place in the article. That's pretty messed up too, though.

'The universe tends to unfold as it should.'

Mei-Ling taught me that one.

She had the cutest accent.

I didn't expect a werld-class military system designer to be so...

Pity about Deleon.  He's actually a pretty handsome looking guy.

So, Shoe..... how about throwing in some MGS3/MGS4 quotes in there every once in a while?  (Maybe you haven't played 4 yet, but tell me you've at least played 3.)

Real heroes are never made public.  Not in our line of work, anyway.

The earth was blue, but there was no God. 

Kuwabara, Kuwabara.

Still haven't gotten to 4 yet, definitely gonna finally play it this year, though.

Any chances of you recording that METAL GEAR SOLID 2: COMPLETE TRACK album this summer?

*crosses fingers with baited baby's breath anticipation*

That struck me as one of the best lines in MGS3, and I don't know how to explain why.

Sensa-war Kawa-ta.

High-Techa doke' shi-do-dai, FOX-uh-HOUND.