>yellow gameboy color costs €100 now
>remember just having mine laying about in the garden back when i was 10
>no idea where it is now
it was fricking 2014 why did i not appreciate decade old tech
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because you were 10
my n3ds is worth like 3 times more than what I paid for it new
also
>being 10 in 2014
shiggydiggy
My shitty original silver Gameboy advance with the shitty non backlight screen is now worth around $60-70. People pay so much for these things because they use them to do ips screen mods.
Also if you used to be a pokegay and have a collection of old Gameboy or DS pokemon games, it may be worth hundreds of dollars.
Having the original box will make it worth even more money
>have a collection of old Gameboy or DS pokemon games, it may be worth hundreds of dollars.
this is a fricking scam wtf
are you manchild?
arent we all
is it the yellow one tho? probably not so whats the point
yellow gameboy is the only one that looks good
same
I got the SNES new3ds, morons are going insane to get one. I use it to play SEGA consoles games, ironically.
I really don't get how this shit works. Especially when it comes to sealed stuff.
Resellers out there making YouTube videos claiming they sold some limited edition sealed 3DS for like 2000 dollars and I'm just wondering here what kind of a fricking moron pays 2k for something they could've bought 6 years ago at a god damn Walmart or Gamestop for 200 bucks?
This was the first truly popular colour nintendo handheld though. It's a historic item really. A paradigm for tech at the time.
It's definitely going to become an appreciated object for that alone.
That and people did kinda just throw them away as a kid when the advance came out or when the ds came out. Kids didn't think about the importance to tech history with that console.
>playing with a GameBoy Color when you were 10 back in 2014
Something doesn't seem right.
my stepdad was a huge collector and whenever hed buy something he knew id like, hed buy two of it
I was an autistic 11 year old, so I would fixate on Game Boys. Grew up playing Sonic Battle.
>Something doesn't seem right.
NEWSFLASH moron, not everyone was on the gayMAN rape wagon in 2014
What the frick are you even talking about, schizo
I got my yellow Gameboy for 2euro like 10 years ago, crazy how disgusting resellers shape the market
Well also there are less working ones now as well tbf
I remember around 2005 everyone was throwing these out, I built up quite the collection of retro shit just from skipdiving. Now it's worth bank and I sell at inflated prices
This shit is the equivalent of antibiotic resistant bacteria for hoarding therapy.
How much does the original Gameboy go for? Pretty sure I've still got the box it came in as well.
>How much does the original Gameboy go for
too fricking much. Pic related even has a fricked up screen
There are better options nowadays.
if i wanted a better option id just be happy with my pc
i want a gameboy cause of nostalgia lol
seems cool tho!
It is an emulator machine.
would buy it if it wasnt as expensive as a gameboy
Why? You can’t put any rom there and emulate, nes, snes, genesis, gb, psx, etc. it seems like a bang for your buck.
cause €100 is a bit too much to spend on something i could very well just use my pc for
>soulless copies
dumb zoomoid
>LE SOVL
have a nice day homosexual, something being from your childhood does not make it automatically good
>something being from your childhood does not make it automatically good
yes it does
It does actually and you should be tarred and feathered for having such a dogshit opinion
Time only goes one way
You lie, it's like 70€ tops, most 50.
>Still got my atomic purple GBC
>Original copy of Kirby's Pinball Land saves are still working after all these years
i can get a gameboy color for $30 on any local trade site
really want an anberic now :/
Weird how we got those NES clone chips but never a gameboy clone chip.
In fact the only other clone I know of is the GBA chip that came out almost 10 years ago.
I buy them from Japan, repair them, mod them, and then sell them. It's pretty fun. I would post pictures but that would give me away.
interesting. would there be regional restrictions on japanese hardware with western games and vice-versa? if so, how do you get around those?
I'm actually not sure. I know English Pokemon games work with Japanese hardware.
ok nvm
who needs gameboys when u have overlays
God what a shitty overstretched overlay. That works for RPGs like Pokemon, but playing platformers with a smartphone is just stupid.
why would i play anything other than pokemon?
also i wouldn't say its overstretched, seems fine to me
pleb
You'll never know the incomparable bliss you were robbed of
>lets put a billion buttons on it
>cause why not
button bloat is the ugliest, most unnecessary thing in existence
Cope with your shitty glass screen "touch" interface. Ever hear of a keyboard?
bro why are u so mad about this?
You have insulted the autist by daring to use a phone.
From henceforth, your fate shall rest in the hands of the council of the 'tism.
Touch D-pads are cancer.
There's an artificial bubble shit being formed around retro gaming shit by literally one retroshit appreciator/auction house
But they're already under investigation, so the bubble will burst.
>empty coke can now worth 5 cents
>remember putting it in the city recycle bin for free
Why IQfy did I not cherish and preserve this valuable garbage to sell at the dump to meth addicts
I really don't understand people who treated their games/games consoles badly
i was 10 and had a little brother
During the time when your young you took things for granted and there really wasn't much value placed on games consoles once new ones came out.
Trust me ALOT of people wish they wouldn't have trashed/given away their old consoles/games.
Still wish I had all the parts to my first PC.
Found my original 3ds after like a decade, actually grateful I found it. Held some memories and reminded me of some too.
I still have all my old gbc/gba games and consoles
Never damaged anything I've ever owned
Maybe you guys had rich families growing up
>never damaged anything
you didnt have younger siblings did you?
No I had two younger siblings
2 and 5 years younger than me
My senpai wasn't really rich, if fact we struggled to really get a whole load of shit.
Only shit I had was either used or very discounted because it has already been out for awhile. Games where mostly rented and the games I did have where sold to get other games like all my OG Xbox stuff.
I can't even remember owning a single DS cart, it was always flashcarts, even my 3DS was only purchased because I traded in my DSI.
I grew up with the DS and I felt like those were made defective. It's like the hinges on the DS were made to eventually break.
I was a kid and didn't know what I had at the time.
$100 is not really a fortune
€100 for nostalgia bait is
>10 yrs old in 2014
I was in jail in 2014 thanks for making me feel old
for that price just get a https://retroflag.com/gpi_case_2.html and pirate roms
The best advance by a long way. I remember seeing my cousins orig advance and another friends micro advance (is that the name?) and thought "thank god my parents bought one with a big screen, a backlight and a flip so I could store it in my pocket and play it in the school bathroom".
SP was so good.
That said, DS Lite was superior still because it could play gc advance and gc games (unlike later DSes) and DS games.
>Last Nintendo I had was a 3DS Zelda edition and still have it.
Surprised it still has value. Brought it back in the day as I liked the design and tend to prefer stock black prior to that.
My moron parents made me sell all my old shit for literally a handful of bucks, while I basically would have hoarded all my childhood crap, including my mtg and pokemon cards and toys, which would make me enough money to buy a house now. Thanks for ruining my future, mom and dad!
parents are the worst with that kind of stuff
mine sold all my ps2 games and the console itself all for 2 euro per game — i had enough games to fill 3 trash bags
Still got my blue boy.
It's about as good as this pic, plus has a pikachu sticker on it that I got circa 2000ish. Just checked on it and it's all still there and still works and apparently can fetch 150AUD according to ebay.
So it's probably appreciated and I've kept it stored safe in a little case for nearly 19 years because the SP (which I also have still) replaced it's use. The SP has problems for sale worth because the battery in it probably needs replacing and good luck getting a new official working battery for the SP.
I guess the GC were the last line of disposable battery powered handheld consoles to exist 2bh, which makes them rather valuable if you have the cover and it still works.
Btw that GC color has had a peanut crumb in it for fricking 20 years now... christ.
>good luck getting a new official working battery for the SP.
There are quality ones out there sold by modding enthusiasts, even with higher capacity than the stock ones. (In other words someone bought a bunch of chinky batteries that fit it and found a supplier that doesn't make shit ones and doesn't lie about capacity, and is reselling those.) Even sans battery, the newer "brighter screen" AGS-101 model goes for pretty much on ebay.
Also the original GBA took standard AAs too.
>Also the original GBA took standard AAs too.
Yeah I was just thinking that they might have taken those.
Also apparently the ds never played gb or gbc games and I think that's coming back to me too given I used to lend them to a younger sister (and her saying that the DS was "shit" because it couldn't play my games, kek).
I still remember the original pokemon movie cd I got as a kid and a bootleg shirt I had for it that mom got from singapore or something.
God dammit, right in the nostalgia.
From a time when I actually enjoyed things and life.
Video games are a scam and deserve piracy. Notice how it isn’t a problem with books, music and movies. Stuff like bargain bins and little libraries can exist because they have been allowed to proliferate well beyond the threshold of artificial scarcity. You never see any of them cost 100+ unless they were first editions.
Video games are a cult, not a scam.
Learn the difference.
A cult does not necessarily mean that is a scam, though they can be exploited for scams.
Nintendo were very very good in the late 90s and early 00s in developing the "cult of the nintendo game" because those games were more than just games to me, they were moments I cherished as a child.
It's dumb shit like that that makes this society something we want to be a part of.
But nowadays the cult of the product has turned into the scam of the product because of some leeches that get too angry when people like and cherish a mount around a dumb inanimate product. What is the point of living in a society full stop without such dumb trivial moments to cherish and enjoy?
That being said, the cult of the product terrifies me because of how much we obsess over it and how much it can control us, kek. Fortunately, nintendo still understands to a degree how to avoid mutating that into something properly subversive to people. That's why they focus on family things without going too ridiculous or going too "boring" with it.
This is something American product makers and now Chinese product makers fail to understand - the art of the consumer product. The art of enjoying a product and enjoying the joy it brings to some of us. The art of eating cake and enjoying it.
there's plenty of limited print run books. i can't find a copy of Life An Enigma online for less than like 90 bucks, and that's just a random example. art books are also a very common offender; see for yourself how much you'd have to shell out for the moronic Apple picture book.
books stay in the market because people often unload their box of "oh i read this, and never will again" dead trees at depositories, libraries or thrift stores.
h*ck, ebay expects you to pay 50 bucks for a nexus one, which is almost completely useless in 2022.
bro 100 is nothing, you talking like it's life changing money. get a job.
bro im in hs and if i can choose between paying €100 for some nice clothes or nostalgia bait, im choosing the clothes
What OP is trying to say is that GBCs will appreciate from now on. You also see it with n64s and even gamecubes.
Wiis are still way off though because there are so many.
And everyone probably still has their DS.
But gbc? people chucked those away when the advance came out. For some reason I decided not to as a child (though definitely thought about it).
It's like original pokemon cards. Back then we considered it less a collection and more of a game. So I just chucked them away because I got bored with them.
My gbc survived merely because it felt more special to me and because it could run on batteries (handy when you had nowhere to charge stuff).
I also have mine, but I still think it's not going to be life changing money, nothing to feel fomo about
reminder third world shitters and trannies who auction e-waste garbage on eBay regularly make threads on IQfy when nobody pays their moronic extortionate prices.