Game Boy Accessories - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)

[Music] [Music] he's gonna take you back to the man [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Atari Sega nerd the angry video game nerd [Music] here's a story of a little thing that went a long way it's the Nintendo Gameboy while not the first portable game console it was the first to make such a big impact it was hugely successful there was some amazing exclusive games like Link's Awakening which alone made it worth it but lots of the games were just poor versions of NES titles and shameful watered-down arcade games it didn't matter how compromised they were as long as they could fit on a Game Boy cartridge why not the only reason to own Street Fighter 2 on Gameboy would be to play it on a trip or something but what about when you're at home you better own the console version too because if all you had was this oh man none of these inferiorities hampered the game boy's success nor did the monochrome graphics a lot of people say the game boys in black and white but really it's more like for ugly shades of green the screen has no light so if you try to play it in the dark you'll see nothing you'd think it made a big sensation only because of the novelty of it being portable and that it would soon fade away once the next thing would come along but no that didn't happen and the competition was fierce there was the Sega Game Gear the atari lynx amongst others they all had color and lighted screens but that scrappy little Gameboy kicked all their asses it came out in 89 and wasn't discontinued until 2003 during its lifespan there was Super Nintendo Nintendo 64 and even GameCube hit the scene before this gray brick with puke color graphics finally died out also as famously shown in Nintendo Power a soldier in the Gulf War had a gameboy that survived a bomb blast even though it was burnt black it's still powered on you can't stop the Gameboy they were released in different colors like black red and yellow they even made one transparent Nintendo Power made stickers which are still on my only working Gameboy and there's the carrying case which looked like a giant Gameboy a whole lineage was started including the Game Boy Color the Game Boy Advance game Boy Advance SP which evolved into the D s and 3ds but it's impressive how long the original Game Boy stuck around and naturally during that time lots of add-ons were made for it mostly by third parties these range from practical to flat-out ridiculous and that's what I want to focus on here the point is the Game Boy was a long-lived success and here's the accessories that probably had nothing to do with it the super Gameboy was perhaps the most useful though it's technically a Super Nintendo add-on an adapter to play gameboy games on your TV colorized with lots of color presets and the option to mix your own color combinations there's border graphics and the ability to draw all over it a total time waster but how could you resist certain games were specifically made for the super Gameboy with their own color design and borders but onto the Gameboy the first thing that comes to mind is the link cable it's just a simple way to connect to Game Boys so two players could compete in Tetris for example but then there's the four player adapter it sounds cool but you need four people four copies of the same game and the game had to be four player compatible that's a rare situation it will be easier to get the band which finder general back together then getting four people to play this thing then there's the game genie so you can enter cheat codes you'd think maybe just maybe with this being a portable console there would be a possibility that it would be the only console to not have game genie but nope what next is there a game genie for a tiger game so when you're playing in public everybody will notice this big contraption mounted on the top just a big flag to say hey everybody I'm cheating I do have to say it's really cool that it has a spot that holds the code book now you have no excuse to misplace it with all portable consoles there is always that issue that when you're going on a trip you always had to make sure to pack extra batteries you know there's a battery called god camel and diehard yippie double-a mother but you didn't need any of that because the Gameboy had its own rechargeable battery pack sure you had to buy it separately but you had the option but then comes all the weird third-party stuff like the Gameboy solar charger no come on you can charge a gameboy with sunlight so I tried it you're supposed to lay it out in the Sun for up to eight hours for a full charge then you slip your Gameboy in it you plug the solar unit into the DC input on the side of the Gameboy and it works I have no idea how long it lasts but it works well this is an eco-friendly solution right here I'm impressed so when it comes to charging a Game Boy there's many options is there anything else I don't know about is there a Game Boy wins charger out there no matter how you charge the Game Boy the screen still looks like [ __ ] and you can't play it in the dark well here comes the newbie light so apparently it sticks to the top of the Game Boy so you just clip it on how's that good it works you turn it on you dim in the room lights or even play in total darkness and it does the job but it takes the same amount of batteries as the Game Boy so in total you'd need eight double-a batteries damn then there's the light boy it's the same concept except this one has a magnifying glass to make the screen appear larger this one is hard to fit on you really got to shove it on there this time it only uses two batteries but the light isn't working probably broken then there's the light magic there must be hundreds of these things it's the same exact thing as the light Boy but it attaches to the Game Boy much easier other than that nothing's different the light works so here you can see it in action it's a nice way to boost the visual appeal but why not just make a new gameboy model with a normal screen like everything else every version of these magnification light things seem to try to top the other this one called the handy boy was released by STD STD who in their right mind would name their game company STD got the light there oh oh [ __ ] wow that just flew across the room okay Wow oh well that really sucks that really sucks I broke that it was fresh out of the box and it broke sure it was old but it seemed like it was hardly used so I had to rush order a second one on eBay this one I'm treating as delicately as possible this one's actually in worse condition but the amount of use of God probably made it less stiff this whole thing is ridiculous Game Gear never did anything oh never mind the good thing about this contraption is that it requires no extra batteries but there's a light on it so how does it power on well somehow it taps into the game boy's own battery power the back of the box shows it connecting to the DC port on the side of the Game Boy but that's a DC input right not an output is it both I tried it and as expected it does not work not only that but the moment I plug it in it shuts the game boy down so this can't be right who knows maybe somebody out there has tried it this way and it actually does work but mine doesn't however there is another way to power this thing yeah they gave you a second option as if they knew it sucked well I wish I didn't have to do this but yeah look at that you're supposed to stick it in the battery slot and lay the batteries over it so the contact points and the batter is sandwich it in place and guess what it works like [ __ ] the light comes on and off at random I have to constantly jiggle it around to get the light back on but it keeps going off again the screen magnification is alright but as you can see my glass really needs cleaning then there's the controller add-on what's the point of this in case you didn't like the controller that was already there it was fine enough why do you need this does it add anything to the game is it any better no it's [ __ ] horrible it's all stiff and awkward who'd want to play it like this the speakers are meant to amplify the sound in case you didn't think the game boys speakers were loud enough because that's what you want if you're in public right like if you're on a bus you want everybody to hear what you're playing but the speakers on this thing are actually less loud than the Gameboy speakers maybe they're full of dust there is also the amplifier by newbie so the idea of making the Gameboy louder became its own line of experiments but then came the ultimate project if you want to get serious about your Gameboy then let me introduce the booster this big ass [ __ ] is like the mecca combiner robot of the Gameboy family it will be cool to see it fight a Game Gear but that would take me extra weeks it takes C batteries but the Game Boy gets to tap into the boosters power by plugging the booster into its DC input the way it should so at least they got the power situation worked out it magnifies and lights the screen just like the others it has a cover for the front with new controllers but again the game boyse controls were perfectly fine so why would you need this just get rid of it as for the speaker volume what would you ever want it that loud you only play it like a foot away from your face there's a cartridge compartment on the back just for convenience it can hold four games three games - it holds only two games overall if you didn't like how lightweight and convenient the Game Boy was and the portability is not something you find appealing and you wanted something more bulky and awkward then this is for you then there's the Game Boy camera that's right a camera for the Game Boy and there's no complicated installation you just pop it in like any game cartridge and snap a picture yourself there's no way this would work let me try this it works Wow this is selfies before selfies you can save your pictures to albums you can mess around with them you can even play built-in games like this space invaders clone yeah it's the most basic game you could possibly play but hey why not for some reason it has a suicide button that blows yourself up then there's all kinds of weird random games ah what the hell is that the more you play around with this the more strange things happen but basically it's a camera that's a Game Boy cartridge oh I wonder if it works on super Gameboy it does holy [ __ ] but the camera can't work can it oh my it actually works but if you want to take a picture of yourself you have to turn the Super Nintendo around the bottom line it could be done but hey look here I can decorate my face now this is too much fun also there is the gameboy printer so if you want to print the pictures yeah that can happen [Music] wah-ha-ha-ha lots of these Gameboy accessories are rare some of the ones that I couldn't get my hands on are the Game Boy FM radio the work boy where you can plug in a keyboard and turn the gameboy into a personal computer just in case you didn't like using a monitor then there is the Hudson soft kiss link which allowed you to connect the gameboy to the Internet and download exclusive gaming content from Hudson's website there was the barcode boy which was a barcode scanner with games included where you unlocked certain features by scanning barcodes found on cards and merchandise there was the Gameboy pocket sonar so if you bring a gameboy on a fishing trip you can detect fish up to 65 feet underwater the Game Boy Color had a mobile phone adapter and a sewing machine I repeat a sewing machine that came with a game cart where you choose a sewing pattern and then the machine shows the pattern there were also game boy shoes big platform shoes with spaces to fit your game boy color yeah you look so [ __ ] awesome but then to top it off the grand finale I'm not even emotionally ready to tell you about this so just sit back here it is the pet ISA day this thing was intended for hospitals to help children relax when they're about to be put under for surgery or medical procedure essentially it's a pair of headphones that you plug into the game boy you could probably plug it into any portable gaming console but more importantly it has a cup that goes over the child's mouth and releases the sleep gas or laughing gas or whatever it is they need so it's the only gaming peripheral I know of that gas is you imagine being sedated while playing [ __ ] dr. Mario what would that be like oh my god I was gonna make up a bunch of fake [ __ ] at the end like the game boy dog turd collector but nothing I can make up can top this and this thing was real and they didn't get released but it was invented and patented the game boy must have been the most multi-purpose thing in existence astronauts actually took it into space they could withstand bomb blasts you could take photos print so find fish get sedated I want to be sedated with the Gameboy I want to be sedated with the Gameboy bam-bam-bam-bam-bam-bam but i want to be sedated with the Gameboy

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Id: EEzJH90h3aA

Length: 16min 15sec (975 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 15 2017