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This along with the link cable (which came later) were the best things ever to me as a 90s kid
I know right being in a car without seat belts was something else
And god said there will be light.
Haha the dads eyes…he’s had enough of mums shit
Kids will not understand the struggle of trying to play using the lights on the highway flashing for a brief moment and you can move the character a little bit until you pass the next light
Waiting for the street lights to make the next move
Thank you Game Boy Advance SP.
Why do the parents look like they are from the 50s when the gameboy came out 1988?
The mom looks like she has been nagging the dad the entire trip and the dad is about to take it out on the older brother who doesn’t know that single pop from his gum is the catalyst.
You were still fucked. That thing took 4AAAs on top of the 4AAs. Desperately putting batteries in the freezer because your parents didn’t wanna buy them lol
the “Back Back”
Fake ad, we all know Dad would say it’s against the law for the light to be on.
The worm light is what I used on my gameboy color back in the day.
My kids found my gameboy and thought it was the first phone
Oh trust me i do. I used to play those shitty tiger consoles that where marketed towards annoying ass children (i was one) and those used to be shit on light and in the dark. Also the little keychain eggs with the pet inside.
The dad is annoyed as fuck by the glowing light reflecting into his eyes from the rearview mirror, and the mom is watching him so she can gently intervene before he snaps.
Source: I am that dad.
I love that an advertisement had the kid sitting in the trunk with no seatbelt. That’s how we did it. This ad real
You don’t know pain until you’ve played Pokémon by the light of the highway lamps with half of the bulbs burnt out, then you exit the freeway and enter a poorer area with no street lamps at all.
The 90’s. What a wild time to have been alive.
**Darkness, imprisoning me…**
Wormlight for the color
Meanwhile I had a Game Gear with 12v power supply cable. I loved traveling at night.
This is hilarious because I recently dug out my old gameboy OG, pocket and GB advance and it has been a pain in the fucking ass to play without the backlight.
You needed 4 batteries, which were ALWAYS empty, games were simple, short and all in green and couldn’t be played in the dark. It were miserable times, but I miss them.
Not only could you not play in the dark you couldn’t play in the sun outside cause it would just bleach out the image for some reason. There was only like 5 lumen range where there was any hope of seeing the screen
TFW you’re in the car after dark trying to pick your Pokémon’s moves during the .3 seconds of light shining through the window from the street lights
“TURN OUT THAT LIGHT! ONLY DRUG-DEALERS DRIVE AROUND WITH THEIR CAR’S INNER LIGHTS ON!” (an actual thing my biofather said)
“Back in my day, we didn’t have backlights!”
Now kids have iPads and switches.
Getting old lmao
What about a game boy light lol
I had the Mad Catz knock off, in clear purple. Later I also got one that was like a bendy straw and stuck out of the link cable port
I was blown away as a kid by how long it took to get a backlight in Nintendo handhelds. Couldn’t play in the dark and couldn’t play outside in direct sunlight. Only well-lit indoor areas, and even then, sometimes you had to angle and position it just right so you could actually see wtf you were doing.
I wanted a Gamegear so badly back then, simply because they were backlit, but I don’t think my parents would have been willing to pay for the amount of batteries required to play it for more than five minutes.
that dad is most certainly gonna start screaming “shut that damn light off! I can’t see the road!”
Playing GameBoy while sitting in the back with no seatbelts. If that car crashes that kid will definetively see the light.