r/Millennials • u/A-Helpful-Flamingo Elder Millennial • 12d ago

Meme Nice to have common ground

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u/Loampudl 12d ago

so wrong.

game boy needs 4 batteries

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u/history_is_my_crack 12d ago

That's nothing compared to Game Gear. That bastard was the devourer of batteries. 6 batteries need. Felt like they'd last an afternoon gaming session at most.

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u/OldSchoolAJ 1986 12d ago

And the Nomad was even worse. I don’t know why they thought a portable Genesis was a good idea, but they damn sure sold it.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 12d ago

Atari Lynx extra power pack. 6 D-cell batteries.

Ngl best handheld

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u/Free_For__Me 12d ago

I loved my Nomad and wish to heaven that I still had it.

That being said, I almost never used it on battery and had it plugged in 90% of the time, lol.

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u/lycoloco 12d ago

As someone who used a wall and car charger everywhere, I'm glad they made a portable Genesis. Doubled as a full console, too!

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u/Get_your_grape_juice Millennial 12d ago

I didn’t know batteries could explode until I had a Game Gear.

Thankfully I wasn’t using it at the time.

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u/gcko 12d ago edited 12d ago

You got a whole afternoon of play out of one set of batteries!? I remember having to bring a club pack just to make it til the end of the road trip and would have to swap them out every couple hours.

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u/PercentageNo3293 12d ago

I grew up in north florida, grandparents lived in south florida. My parents would buy a giant pack of batteries for the trip. I'd need to change them out halfway through the 6ish hour trip lol.

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u/TGordion 12d ago

A battery de-charger that came with some games

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u/xredgambitt 12d ago

I was going to say I had a game gear, it needed 6 batteries and it... Needs 6 more batteries and it... OK just 6 more and then I get home to plug it into the wall so it can mind it's own business.

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u/ShakeZoola72 12d ago

Yours lasted a whole afternoon? I went through 25 batteries the day I got that thing!

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u/colluphid42 12d ago

I had the big external rechargeable battery pack for it. Made it less portable, but I didn't have to beg my parents to buy batteries all the time.

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u/Top_Wheel6546 12d ago

Lol I was so jealous of our neighbor that got one until I realized how long the batteries lasted. His parents didn't like constantly buying batteries so he would always be sitting on the ground in his living room to play connected to a wall outlet.

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u/THECapedCaper Millennial 12d ago

AC and car adapters were necessary unless you liked gaming for 45 minutes on an 8 hour road trip.

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u/Orchuntsman 12d ago

We got a Game Gear at a yard sale with a bunch of games, a storage case, and a power cable. My mom bought batteries once, after they died in a day, we could only play it if it was plugged into the wall.

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u/Gulbasaur 12d ago

Later game boys (e.g the pocket) ran on two. The early ones (like I had) did not. 

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u/MamaOnica 12d ago

Or you were like me and your parents refused to buy batteries because you'd go through 4 per day, so you were stuck to the wall with the charging wire.

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u/Gulbasaur 12d ago

I am also in this picture. 

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u/Free_For__Me 12d ago

I was lucky, my grandparents got all 5 of us grandkids Gameboys one Christmas in like 1991. They got us the deluxe kit that came with a case AND the rechargeable battery pack.

It lasted longer than using AA batteries, but on a road trip it still didn't make it the whole way. It was also heavier than the Gameboy itself, lol. But at least it had a belt clip.

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u/densetsu23 12d ago

I'm so thankful my dad bought a boatload of the old blue/purple Radioshack rechargeable batteries. I'm surprised it wasn't a more popular option, when you have one kid with a Game Boy, another with a Walkman, a third with a boombox, the adults have a few AM/FM radios around the house, all the flashlights and lanterns ate through D batteries.

They were NiCd and had a mildly shorter life, but that's not a huge deal when you have eight more in your bag. Growing up, the battery charger was always full.

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u/miniangelgirl Zillennial 12d ago

Game boy colour?

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u/Biduleman 12d ago

The Game Boy Pocket, Color, Light and Advance all ran off 2 batteries.

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u/FrostyD7 12d ago

The pocket used AAA's which was kind of a nightmare. Rarely did that benefit me and AA's last quite a bit longer.

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u/Edexote 12d ago

The Game Boy Pocket and Color needed only 2.

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u/Imrtltrtl 12d ago

Gameboy Advance was also just 2. The Advance SP was the first to have a rechargeable built into the handheld.

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u/Edexote 12d ago

The Game Boy line was fucking awesome.

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u/KindBass 12d ago

Kind of wish they just stuck with batteries. I have a Game Boy Micro that hasn't worked in years because the internal battery needs to be replaced.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 12d ago

The battery for that is like ten bucks and pretty essy to replace.

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u/FrostyD7 12d ago

Or sell it for a couple hundred. Unless you collect or it has sentimental value... The gba micro is just really neat, that's about it.

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u/redditydothis 12d ago

Thank you! I was thinking they might have updated it or something because when I was a kid the gameboy used 4 batteries and if you have the light attachment that used even more batteries.

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u/ConstableBlimeyChips 12d ago

Four batteries and doubled as a goddamn home defense tool. I could be playing Pokemon Red, pause to use it to give a home intruder a severe concussion, and go straight back to battling fools outside Cerulean City.

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u/survivalist_guy 12d ago

Thank you! I was tripping like "I'm pretty sure it was four...."

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u/makemeking706 12d ago

They're young, their Gameboy was a Pocket. 

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u/Not-An-FBI 12d ago

I feel like the color and advance which took 2 sold a lot more units, but maybe I'm wrong.

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u/Active-Cookie-774 12d ago

Laughs in gameboy pocket

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u/MrTerribleArtist Millennial 12d ago

I still have my old original red gameboy, can confirm it took 4xAA

I dropped mine in the dog's water bowl and that little fighter just kept on going (after a lengthy drying period)

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u/Shivalah 12d ago

GBA and Color only needed 2 AA. Gameboy Pocket needed 2 AAA.

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u/kronkarp 12d ago

and it had data link communication capabilities. You kinda had your own world wide web with the 4 way connector

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u/Free_For__Me 12d ago

You kinda had your own world wide web with the 4 way connector

Yeah, but it was more like a room-wide-web.

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u/kronkarp 12d ago

It was even a social network! Connect with your friends

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u/Fuckthegopers 12d ago

Or they never played the OG