sell it for more than $5, you can get alot more

Indeed, especially if it still has the battery cover.

yep everything is there, just needs to be cleaned.

You, clearly, are not now, nor have ever been, a gamer. To hold an original, working Game Boy, is joy. As is blowing futilely on an NES cartridge or singing "Seeeegaaa" as the console boots up.

As I write this, my wife says, "That's not fair." And no, I suppose it isn't. But we're talking about having the opportunity to enjoy a piece of video game history... and an important piece, at that. More than 118 million Game Boys were sold—almost 3 times the number of Xbox 360s in households today. And maybe you, like this fellow, never held, never played, a Game Boy. But to acquire one, only to turn around and sell it again, is a crass disregard for true value and excellence. This Game Boy is worth more than money and it should be cherished and enjoyed.

thank you. my first game boy was a colour, and always wanted a brick.
I love retro things, my mind was blown when I saw the thing, I knew I had to have it. thing was a guy came by and bought a case that looked like one of these. I wonder how many are left now. considerer there were so many, ones that died, the mod ones now, how many actually work. I was happy that it did work. I found a mod card for it that lets me put one rom on it at a time so I mite get that so I can use it for more then just Pokemon red.

its fairly dificult to insult me, I'be been called lots of things and I just ignore it, but you have hit me hard. I don't know you but fuck you for that

Are you insane?
I was using one of these things back when I thought the only place humans had hair was on their head.

Played Tetris and Mario until the batteries died, then spent my allowance on new batteries (which left no money to buy new games with)

You'd be insane to sell it.

wow people got heated up for me saying you could sell it for more, its just what I would have done because I love the new games and consoles. I keep things like that for the hopes that one day i can sell it to get something. I used to have one of those too, but i upgraded to color, then to advanced, and then to DS. I'm not saying its a shit product and that it is only good for selling but that the games on it just don't enterain me like they use to. I'm not so angry at you for this because I consider myself a hardcore gamer, and just because I dont want ot keep an old game system does not make me not one. wow I went on a little rant there

hell no gonna keep it always wanted one of these
they had a colour for 6 bucks but I have one of those already.

thanks when I hold it I get so happy just hearing the ding.

I remember the Christmas I recieved one of those glorious bricks. I was using it up until a few months ago when I finally upgraded to a DS.

I have a xl ds, and light, this thing the colour the advanced and the sp. for hand helds. the xl is due to vision and is a dream to play on I can actually see the screen.
I think brick is gonna be my best friend.

If only the brick had a backlight back in the day! I used to have to use this to play under my bedcovers: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/.....6/lightboy.jpg

I used to have something like that for my colour, I mite make something like that for the thing, or just mod it if it proves to be too hard. or if those little like book light things that the colour used to have work for the brick I will try to find one of them.

wow, i remember having one of those old bricks and hours upon hours lost in playing mario and tetris. Ah good times

ahh,nostalgia! ^^

Ah gotta love the classics

omy! this is the good ol' times that come back. so many memories
for $5, only? it's like if one gave it to you.

ya there is a game store near me called toy box that sells them for 45 but the guy knows how to fix all the old retro concles and hand helds , so if you get one or a game or something he can fix it for a small fee. he also sells games.

man i used to have one of those their almost indestructible lol

ya I like how you can put them thru a house fire and they will still work. or if you beat some one with one.

you could kill a small child....with one

Its as old as me :)

mines older then me sadly

i still have mine hehe

i love it... i remember those old bricks... 4 AA batterys damnit

thats what the beauty of rechargeable are.

I still have my purple GBC (and still using it!) <3.

mine was green, the clear one and the n64 controller used to scare me. now I want one.

ahh missle command! the horror! that game still haunts me, its so intense

lol totally

I still <3 my brick-o-awesome. Lets me relive my child hood, one line piece at a time.

mine reminds me of when I was at my aunts house and I got to play my cousins when I was little. I can even smell the basement smell, when I touch it. good times.

I feel bad for never having one of these. My first Nintendo Handheld was a Gameboy Advanced, however I did once play my friend's GameBoy Color... after the Advance, I upgraded to an SP, then to a DS Lite, and now a DSi. So that means I skipped GB, GBC, and GBAMicro.

oh, and the original DS

I got to play one of these at my aunts, it was nice, then my dad got me a gameboy colour cause well all my friends had one and would come over and all play theirs together, and I would be left out so he got me one. then I got a gba for xmas, and from then on out I bought my own sp, ds and dsxl, my parents don't support video games so I had to also buy my own n64 at the age of 9. how I did I will never know

Dang... I wanna get a DSiXL but they are so big... and since the only thing that's good about them is a bigger screen, I am thinking I'll wait for the 3DS

its good for me. I can't see the lights screen so the bigger pixels mean my eyes have to strain less making them last longer, and also not have to work as hard. if you have a hard time seeing the screen on your current ds then I would say its a good investment. if not its the same thing as your current, dsi. also the 3ds still has about two year till it comes out 1.5 at the least. so not a bad idea.

I thought the 3DS would be out by like summer of next year or something... TOO MUCH TO WAIT FOR! I got Pokemon Black/White, the 3DS, my birthday. TOO MUCH

its not out in japan yet, and will take like 6 months to 9 months till we get it here. so, ya sadness.

I sadly have like, everything. D:

Don't mod it! Take the chance to leap back and play the games the way they were in the day. You'll gain two things: an appreciation for classics and the ability for games to be amazing without modern accouterments, and a greater appreciation for those accouterments today.

If you want to play classic gameboy games with a backlit screen, rather than mod (and thus cheapen) this device, pick up a Game Boy Advance SP. They have backlighting and can play the original games as well. And they'll cost a fair chunk less than potentially damaging a perfectly good piece of hardware.

I have an sp. sadly my vision is so bad I can't see any thing on the screen, also being red green colour blind made it so when I tested it on red version today I was unable to see anything it was just a cloudy mess of green and black. my friend tho was able to see it fine. it I shine a flash light on it I can see it. also I was around when this came out my parents just don't support video games. my first was a colour. I'm not keen on editing it, but that one mod needs to be done I think. most likely I will get to lazy and mod my old gbc light thing to fit this, won't be too hard to do. or get one of the old stick ones from a store by my house that sells retro games. I love just holding it. also the mod cart is a need due to getting game for it is hard.

i think i still have mine o.o

well I finally got mine

1980's: Bon Jovi, Scarface, and This.

lol too bad I'm not an 90's kid, I'm a 90's, right from the start of em too.

Ah the 80s. Good times.

end of the 80's

I lived through the 80s and I miss it dearly.