A Story of Two Gameboys

My awfully nice cousin decided that he had the need and the ability to further my slight video game collecting disease by sending me his Gameboy that he's had since he was a little kid. Normally I don't want things that I also didn't have as a kid, but I do make exceptions for retro-geeky things. And, since my wife had a Gameboy and a few games but can't actually find the console, I was happy to oblige.

But sadly, the Gameboy didn't have a fully working screen. I'm not so much a completist for collecting as I am, what a t-shirt I own says, a prefectionist. So I had to start hunting down a working display for the Gameboy and see if I could 1) actually find one and 2) repair it myself. This proves much harder to Google than I had thought. I'm still working on that one.

In the mean time, I figured why not look up what Gameboys are going for and maybe buy another one. Then I thought, why not get a better one. The first Gameboy I owned was a Gameboy Advance in college. It was a little too new for this retro bug my cousin had forced upon me and I wanted to play original Gameboy games. On the other hand, I just couldn't force myself to buy another green-screen-mess that those consoles ended up being to anyone but the eyes of a 7 year old boy. So after a little research I found the Gameboy Pocket, Nintendo's "second generation" of Gameboy. They were smaller and sleeker, ran on two fewer batteries and had a new black and white lcd display. I found one on eBay for $10 in new perfect condition and now it's sitting on my desk along with a rechargeable battery back that came with it.

Now I plan on playing Pokemon Red, Super Mario Land and Tetris all before realizing that old video games suck and go back to playing Legend of Zelda on my DS.