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

Meme Nice to have common ground

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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.