Today is the 28th Anniversary of the Game Boy Color! 🎨

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[u/SnooDoggos4029]

Oh cool! I just bought these a few days ago!

[u/flood_watch → u/SnooDoggos4029]

My exact setup from 99-2000 🥹

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/flood_watch]

I also had the lime green one🥹

[u/Harlockarcadia → u/NoFaithlessness7508]

Costco Game Boy Color pack with game and guide!

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/Harlockarcadia]

We weren’t members yet. I think we joined mid-2000s. If I knew they did bundles back then I would’ve gotten the x360 bundle when I was a teen. I also had to wait until January ‘08 to find that mofo in stock😠

[u/Pad43 → u/SnooDoggos4029]

Lime green reporting

[u/BlueCrazy → u/SnooDoggos4029]

See lots of blasphemy here. This here is Kiwi Green. Smh

[u/PutErInTheKetchup → u/SnooDoggos4029]

I still have my lime green one that I got the Christmas it came out. Also have my Pokémon blue and silver and my brothers Pokémon red and gold.

[u/ryanleebmw → u/SnooDoggos4029]

That’s so awesome! Where did you end up buying them if you don’t mind me asking? I really want to buy an old GBC or Nintendo DS but don’t want to pay an insane amount. I feel the price variation from game shops, FB marketplace and EBay can vary so much. I never know what’s the right price to pay

[u/SnooDoggos4029 → u/ryanleebmw]

Local game Store. Not cheap. Paid $90 for the Game Boy and $80 apiece for the Pokemon games. (I actually paid about $210 total because the place has a rewards program)

[u/HerpDerp152 → u/SnooDoggos4029]

[u/DudeAbides29]

So many great memories playing that as a kid on road trips. Pokemon red was the game of choice...

[u/Spiffy-Kujira → u/DudeAbides29]

My family didn't have enough money to get me the light, so I had to hold it up to the window so the lights from the interstate would illuminate the screen 🥲 good times.

[u/chasingeudaimonia]

Gotta replay 'em all!

[u/Brzrkrtwrkr]

One of the goats.

[u/HelpfulSeaMammal]

The GBC I got for my birthday in October 99 came with Pokemon Blue.

That's a core memory of mine.

I didn't know how to read. I couldn't get past the old guy who was blocking the road to Viridian.

I didn't know what a save was and started fresh each time.

I thought that was the whole game. It was the best thing ever. Played it nonstop and fucking loved it.

Then the neighbor kids taught me what a save was and how to get Oaks Parcel to return and how to progress further on to Viridian.

Pokemon is me. I am Blue. That's me. It's me. That's why the OG Pokemon is so important in my life.

[u/NoFaithlessness7508]

I got one for Christmas 1998 but had to wait until well into January to get one because they were sold out everywhere. I got it with Pokémon Yellow and it’s one of the best consoles I ever had.

Unfortunately mine fell on concrete and the screen cracked. Ink everywhere. Getting the GBC was a positive core memory. Destroying it was a negative one but still a core memory😭

[u/BlueBomR]

My grandma got me the transparent purple one with Red and Blue for Xmas in 98 and I will never ever forget that moment....I played the SHIT out of Red/Blue

[u/CheezWong]

Still salty about the red one I bought turning out to be magenta. Still have it.

[u/cryingstlfan]

My oldest nephew is older than the Gameboy Color? He'll be 30 in January 😭

[u/Vivid_Nail8691]

Damnnnn girl you don't look a day over 20

[u/Dead4eva69]

I’ll be playing Pokemon gold today to celebrate this

[u/TimeisaLie]

I got mine and Oracle of Ages at the same time, few months later Pokemon Gold.

[u/Typical_Asparagus293]

I still have my pink one and my pokemon games. A trusty friend through and through.

[u/Friendly-Tension2780]

dam I must be fuckin old if im older than the Gameboy color

[u/TabibitoNoRoorensu]

This picture activated big nostalgia for me

[u/HarlandJames]

The GOAT

Christmas 1999, I feel like everyone I went to school with got Game Boy Colors for Christmas

It’s still my favorite system

[u/usaemporiumsocial]

I got a purple one :)

[u/rydan]

One month later we got OoT.

[u/ShawnTomahawk]

Damn. Got then yellow picachu edition, Pokémon pinball & yellow for my 10th birthday. It was the first day of school and I knew what was wrapped on the fireplace mantle, couldn’t wait to get home. Simpler times

[u/Sean_Gin_Jee]

Ahh simpler times. I remember I was always taking batteries out of everything for mine. Much to the chagrin of my parents.

[u/faemomma]

I tried trading a Scyther at recess once. The link cable kept disconnecting and I was terrified the glitch would eat my rare monster. My friend looked at me like I had two heads when I started crying over a pixelated bug. It was such an awkward, high-stakes moment for a ten-year-old.

[u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker]

I still have two! Raspberry pink (my original) and clear purple.

[u/MattofCatbell]

Still remember my mom randomly bringing one home with a copy of Pokemon Puzzle Challenge my brothers and I spent hours taking turns playing

[u/Early_Power_5366]

The only aesthetically pleasing game boy out of every one of them for some reason to me

[u/SwampCastleGuards]

Gameboy color and my Gameboy pocket were both used a ton. I had a purple gbc

A lot of pokemon and those early GB Mario games.

[u/BruceIsMyDog]

my beautiful pokémon silver the best game ever

[u/Crescent5343]

My units :) Purple is my og unit, right one I modified from a unit i bought 10+ years ago for cheap that didn't work right

[u/UraniumRocker]

I remember saving up my money to buy one. Went to K mart and they only had one. It looked red on the box but it was a hot pink color irl.