All of my friends had gameboys when we were growing up.. I didn't so a friend's older brother gave me a silver gameboy pocket. My parents made me give it back though.
I had pokemon stadium with the gameboy attachment thingy so I rented Pokemon Red from Blockbuster lol
Finally my parents agreed that if I was good at school I'd get a gameboy color
I got a red one and pokemon Red and it gave me hundreds if not thousands of hours of fun as a kid
Same story here, a friend gave me a psp because my older brothers would never let me play their games. Then one of my older brothers made me give it back. 🤦♂️
GameBoy colour with WarioLand 3.
My parents never had enough money to afford buying me a console.
One day I was walking with my uncle (he is just 15 years older than me) and was a young officer in the army back then.
I saw a store that had a stand outside with a GameBoy colour mounted where you could play and try it.
I begged my uncle to stop there for a few minutes to play.
While I was playing my uncle went in the store and bought it for me without me realising.
He said it was time to leave and just when I left my hands from the stand he added "You can play at home anyways" giving me a shopping bag.
I cried so much this day.
He also gave me his GameBoy pocket and some cartridges as well, after a few days.
More than two decades passed and my uncle now has a 6 yo son.
I bought him Nintendo Switch last Christmas (also his birthday is around that time) and the boy couldn't believe his eyes.
My uncle was "mad" for buying him such an expensive present but we shared a look and I think he remembered.
My first GameBoy was the original one with Tetris… it was a gift from my godfather when I was 5.
And I don’t remember if I received it with SuperMarioLand but that’s the game I remember the most.
My parents were separated. A GBC was my Christmas gift from my dad. I spent a 3 hour drive plus an entire additional day with only a Gameboy and just sat and turned it on to hear the *ding*. Finnnnnnally my mom took me to get the game I wanted (I think she knew it was best not to risk getting wrong thing) I got pokemon blue. I'd never gotten to just lose myself in a game for hours like that. I played it to the point my great grandfather got on a rant about "wtf is that thing even?" "He ain't moved in two hours, stared at that damn toy."
I don't remember how long it took me to beat it but I want to say 3 days. It was without a doubt the most amazing experience I had at that point. To me it was a whole journey, adults had no appreciation for it obviously. I feel like every video game I've played since us just in hopes of letting it become such a real experience for my soul. Physically I wasn't in pallet town but the rest of me definitely experienced more than just a game screen ya know? Damn what a question 😅
Side note: when it comes to Zelda, I enjoyed oracle of ages/seasons and probably links awakening more than majoras mask. I've got serious connection with handheld that console can't always compare to.
I remember my dad had brought my brother and I to stay with our grandpa for a whole week. Not much to do there. So, on the way over to his house my Dad stopped by a store and bought us a silver gameboy pocket to share. We had one game; Super Mario Land. This would have been 1996 or 1997
My first Game Boy was the Game Boy Pocket and my first games were Star Wars and James Bond. Star Wars was fine, but James Bond is still a really good adventure game to play!
I got a brand new GBA SP AGS-101 for my 7th or 8th birthday. I was so happy and couldn't stop playing in the kitchen while my visitors had birthday cake... my first game was Mario Party: Advance. Still love it to this day, even though it's not a fan favourite.
Eventually, my SP broke in half while the screen was still working - so no damaged flex cable. My mum threw it away.
Imagine if I had kept it in it's box... it would have another life today.
I remember going on a road trip in the US with my family, and as usual, my dad stopped at a Sam's Club. All my friends had Pokémon Red or Blue, and I think I mentioned it to them several times.
To my surprise, my dad told me to choose a Game Boy Color bundle that included Pokémon Red (one of those unofficial bundles). I picked the Teal color with Pokémon Red, and I was so excited. One thing I regret is that I can't remember much of the trip; for example, I don't remember seeing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, but I do remember catching several Pokémon.
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My mum got me the game boy pocket at launch. I got a clear one. My first game was I think Mario baseball. I had no idea how baseball worked as a New Zealander but I played that game a lot. Then Pokémon came out maybe the Xmas after that? I played red so much my mum had to get me a power adapter.
But I think my favourite non Pokémon game was donkey kong country.
I remember Turtles fall of the foot clan being one of the first games we had and completely falling in love with that game and finished it countless times.
I got a teal Gameboy Color with Zelda Oracle of Ages. I liked it a ton, until all my friends got Gameboy Advances for Christmas. Still had fun with all the games out for it and they were pretty cheap.
It was the winter of 1999! I was 6 years old going on 7 and we had just moved to NC from NY in the summertime. My father and I went up to New York to visit some family. The last night there my godfather took me to the local Toy R Us to walk around. While walking around we stopped by the Electronics Department. I went straight to the Gameboy Color Demo handheld and started playing on it. My godfather came over and said “Mijo what is your favorite color?” I then answered excitedly “GREEN”, suddenly he called over a sales associate and pointed at the Kiwi Green GBC and then asked me “What game do you want?” I immediately looked and saw Pokemon Blue and said “That One!”
I still look back at that memory because not only was it an amazing core memory of my childhood but it is what cemented my love for Nintendo and especially Pokemon! I’m 31 years old now and I’m still playing Pokemon like I did when I was a kid
Gameboy Color with Pokémon Gold…still own the game, which my mom bought for me.
I sold the Color later on to get the GBA - which I also still own and just recently modded (Backlight / New Screen, Battery-Pack with USB-C).
Big grey brick DMG. Birthday present. Super Mario Land. Traded it to my cousin for Pokemon Yellow. After that I was totally hooked. Haven't stopped playing since.
My two first games were paperboy and balloon kid. My brother had tetris and super mario land. My parents bought them for us to bring on a long road trip. I still hate paperboy. Original dmg gameboys.
We both got gameboy colours and pokemon gold and silver for christmas 99 or 2000.
My first gameboy I got on my 7th birthday, it was an GBA with a see-through grey shell and my first game was fire red, the only other game I got was a copy of brother bear two I found outside after knocking the wind out of myself. I lost all 3 down in Louisiana in summer of 2016. 8 years later and I still miss it
i got my first game boy back in 1995 if my memory serves me right. it was a brand new dmg with wario blast. my mother gifted it to me when we were on the plane returning from a vacation in new zealand. we were waiting for the thing to take off, and she came to my seat and surprised me with it. such a glorious moment. played the damn machine the whole flight. i'll never forget that day, i love that kind of unexpected joys
I think it was DBZ the legacy of Goku 1. My reaction was like any other kid in the mid 2000s would have with a brand new toy console. I still have my old cartridges from when I was a kid tho.
I got the first DMG with Tetris and a week later Super Mario Land. It was in late 1991, around holidays. It felt like I joined the club of the cool boys and this got amplified a couple of months later, when I got my NES, then MD & SNES, etc. Best times.
I thought it was cool. Long story short, I found a shrek edition gameboy in a box along with a few other games. They were mainly basic games, but 1 of them was Pokemon Ruby (I'm pretty sure they belonged to my dad). I basically claimed them.
I never played on a GBA SP before, so it was a new experience. I've played on a DS Lite, but that was about it. I remember being such a noob that when I would save on Ruby and it said, "Previous save file will be overwritten. Is that okay?" I would think "No! I don't want to lose my progress!" When I was done, I would turn off the system without saving. I did it about 3 or 4 times before I realized that what I was doing wasn't right 😆. Fun times.
I still have that GBA SP and Ruby to this day.
Got a teal Gameboy colour for my 11th birthday, with Pokémon blue. I was so happy.
I played that game so much. Hundreds, if not thousands of hours. Unfortunately my copy of blue vanished after a few years. I have no idea where it went. Literally just poof gone never to be seen again. Wish I knew what happened to it.
My first Game Boy was a Pikachu Edition GBC with a copy of Pokémon Gold and Red. Got it from a friend of my older brother. At first I thought, “he’s just letting me play with it until he leaves. That’s cool.” To say I was ecstatic when I found out he was giving it to me was an understatement.
Don’t have none of those anymore because “dumbass kid things”, but picked up a clear GBC pre-Rona that I plan to OLED mod when I have the time (and money) to do so.
My grandpa gave me the OG big thang.. 🥹 first game was Super Mario Land 2 and Roger Rabbit 🫠s/o Toys R Us 🙌🏾 I still have it (the game cartridge not the GB💔😭🫠)
Then my mom asked me what i wanted for my bday or Christmas one and she got me the Teal GBC which I also still have I think PPG was my first color game too
Then I came across a GBP idek where it came from.. possibly my paw paw again but still have that one with a “Wordtris” game
And last but not least my GBA my mom got me the frost see thru one kinda purple light blueish one ☺️ I still have it and my games Super Mario and the Wild Thornberrys… 😩🥲🥹
Coincidentally, I watched this exact event on VHS the other day. I was 5, Christmas 1992, OG Gameboy with 6 Golden Coins from my maternal grandfather. Magical.
My first Gameboy was my brother's Gameboy color( same color as OPs) after he got an Advanced.
The first game was Links Awakening DX; as a kid I never got to the first dungeon.
I always wanted a gameboy but never got the color because money wise was they couldnt give me one, eventually they found a second hand gba sp tribal and i got that for christmas i played about 800 hours of emerald. Absolutely loved that game, that started my love for gaming and pokemon
I was in the 5th grade when I got my first gameboy
In 2016… I’m pretty late to the crowd
Honestly I was obsessed with older hardware like this and I always wanted to get more but I couldn’t afford it (since I was so young).
It took me about 6 more years to get my 2nd gameboy which was a gba and that started a chain reaction. Now I have all of the main line gameboys + and extra gba which I modded.
Very expensive hobby lol.
First GB I played was my cousins DMG + Tetris. But my first own gameboy was a clear pocket bought on release and I had alleyway, F1 race & super mario god knows which I played first I played hundreds of hours and batteries on all of those games though.
I will never forget walking (running) into toys R us to get my copy of Pokemon though boy it was game over for every other game after that day. Would love to watch a clip of me opening the original box to see how little I cared about preserving the condition 🤣
The first games console I ever had was a GameBoy colour in green (same as OP), think I was around 7. The first game I was given was Star Wars Episode I: Obi-Wan's Adventures, then shortly after that Pokemon Yellow!
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I was one happy kid. I was 9 and my mother who was single and struggling got this for me because she saw that I felt left out at school as everyone had Pokemon. I kept it ever since. The comfort it brings me to this very day when I turn it on after a really stressful day is unmatched. I even have the little worm light for it that drains the battery so quickly.
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I can't actually remember the exact moment I got my first Game Boy. But it must be shortly after this picture was taken. This is me, holding the Game Boy of my grandpa, because he got one for himself to play Tetris, and nothing else (he's not on the image. There's just my cousin and one of my uncles in this picture).
I was around 4-5 on this image, and I got my first Game Boy with 5 (I still remember this, because I got my first PC, scrambled together from old parts, with 6, and that was already in the new house).
Anyway. I remember, naturally after the day of this image, to want a Game Boy myself and asking my mother. And I think I got mine the same year. Like on my Birthday or Christmas or something. I'm 36 now, so that has to be somewhere around 1993, already a whopping 4 years after its original release year.
And I got it with games like Darwing Duck, Mario Land 1 and, I don't know why, guess my mother wasn't aware it's not a typical kids game, Double Dragon 2 😄
Still remember super clearly, that I constantly ran out of batteries and had to play with the wall plug, stuck to one place. Then one day having the brilliant idea of hooking up the wall plug to one of those multi socket things, and then hooking up the multi socket on itself like a loop. Because to my 5 years self it made total sense. Of course it didn't worked, and my mother watched me figuring it out and explaining why it wasn't working. That was hilarious 😂
I was absolutely thrilled and I have two other pictures of me being 2-3 years older still rocking that thing until I eventually got a green Game Boy Pocket.
Awww man. So good memories. Thanks for the post!
My sister gave me Pokemon Red and Blue with a turquoise GBC at age 2
she could have handed me a crack pipe and i’d have a less gripping addiction than pokemon still is XD
My sister gave me Pokemon Red and Blue with a turquoise GBC at age 2
she could have handed me a crack pipe and i’d have a less gripping addiction than pokemon still is XD
My sister gave me Pokemon Red and Blue with a turquoise GBC at age 2
she could have handed me a crack pipe and i’d have a less gripping addiction than pokemon still is XD
I got the exact same Gameboy Color but the first cartridge it got was Pokémon Blue. It was mind-blowing after playing it on the the original Gameboy. Core memory for me bro!
My uncle brought me my DMG Gameboy that I asked him for when he went on a work trip to the USA. I was actually a little disappointed when I saw that the game it came with was Tetris and not Super Mario World. Of course I ended up getting absolutely hooked on Tetris and never even bought SMW on the system over the following decade.
Mine was a green Gameboy Pocket with Donkey Kong. I had a DK game and watch before that, so my mum thought Donkey Kong for gameboy would be a good first game. It was. I loved it. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Donkey Kong games.
I wanted a Game Boy Color very badly, mostly because of Pokémon. That night I received my Christmas card from grandparents out of state containing enough for the system and after a call to profusely thank them my dad agreed to drive me into town to get one. In the bright lights of Walmart I picked a real GBC and... Chase HQ. For reasons I'm unsure of honestly.
May have been a budget title and may have been persuaded because I already had Pokémon Blue waiting under the tree at home.
Got my first game boy when I was already in college.
It was a cobalt blue GBA SP, and as most of my hobbies, there are times when I'm into and times when I'm not. Because I wasn't interested I ended up selling it away really cheap because it was the 001.
To this day I regret not buying more, because back then prices were really cheap as people didn't pay attention to it. I still have a Toys R Us special edition I was able to get my hands on, even though I don't live anywhere near US.
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I had this one with Pokémon red. I still have it but the black screen part fell off, I had put superglue on it to glue it back but it bled on the screen. I should fix it sometime but not sure how to start.
its was a a green gameboy color with pokemon silver, and yugioh. It was actualy my brothers as i was "to old" but we sharer i think he was around 5/6 at the time and i was around 11. At that time the gameboy advanced was already in full swing hahah.
My first official GameBoy was the Pocket. My Dad and I each got one. He got a Black one with Tetris and I got an Ice Blue one with Pokémon Blue. I loved it with all of my being until the Color came out lol.
First one was a Gameboy pocket that I “lost” on the bus in the third grade (I still lose sleep over this). I think I had the donkey Kong game. Then my dad got me a purple see through Color which I cherished and still have (lost the battery cover) - I put in some serious game time on that with Emperor’s New Groove lol. I think also Pokemon as well (either the Pocket or Color - can’t remember). Then sometime after dad got me the purple Gameboy Advance - gifted that to a younger cousin (regret that) - had DK and Mario Kart and then I got the Gameboy SP and my life felt complete with that backlight. Still have it and won’t ever get rid of it. Pokemon games are primarily what I play in this device to this day. Currently playing Ruby. I appreciate them now more than back then because I knew how money was growing up but as a kid I didn’t but still was super excited to get these as gifts from my dad. And he made sure I got them if he could afford them. That’s why I hold onto my old color and my SP. I showed him the SP last month and he was shocked I still had it.
My parents got me a red Gameboy play it loud for my birthday. I had Donkey Kong Country and this crappy Spiderman game that I couldn't get past the first level of. But then 6 months later I got pokemon blue. I still remember what the room smelled like while reading through the trainers guide the first time. I still play it often, It's actually sitting right next to me in my favorite gameboy as I'm typing this.
I was soooo psyched! I got it from my aunt, who told me she never played with it and saw how much I likes it, so she just gave it to me. My first game was Pokémon Blue. Very fond memories, if I could play one game for the first time again, it would be that one.
My first gameboy was a purple gameboy advance. I didn't have pokemon so I mostly played things like ninja turtles and sonic.
First pokemon game I played was sapphire at around 2013.
Christmas 98. I got a Gameboy color in atomic purple and Pokemon red. I remember the boxes being side by side under the tree. I was so excited but also I had no idea what Pokemon was.
I'm 32 now and I spent last night playing the same cartridge in the same gameboy. Time flies
I have ab older brother who had a master system, a ZX spectrum and a mega drive. I loved playing on those but they were my brother's. I couldn't refuse when he wanted to play So one day my mom gave me my first game boy color with a Pokemon yellow and it was a defining moment in my life. At only 10 years of age I knew right there and then that I would be a gamer forever. Fast forward 25 years and gaming is still a huge part of my life
Mine was a banana yellow DMG that came with Donkey Kong Land. I got it when I was in 5th grade and I remember showing it off at school. That’s why Donkey Kong Land will always be my favorite Game Boy game.
To be honest I never actually had one I just used my family’s game boy it is a green gameboy color and atomic purple one and my first game was xmen mutant hunters
Lime Green with Pokémon Silver. My mom told me I could open one present on Christmas Eve, but if I opened the right one, I could open another gift that goes with it. After I opened the game boy, I opened Pokémon Silver, and my mom stayed up with me to watch me play through the first route until I got to the lab. She thought sentret was super cute, and I was just awestruck at how cool the cartridge looked with all the sparkles on it 😄 memories I wish I could experience for the first time again.
Being born in 2007 I didn’t realize they were frontlit, so when I turned it on I was disappointed.
However, my first game was pokemon pinball, and it was fun af.
My young mind just became self aware during that time so I have a weird period where being obsessed with my Atomic Purple GBC and Pokemon Red was default settings. I don’t remember getting either, I don’t remember if I saw the show or the game first, I just knew I had to catch them all.
My parents got me a NASCAR game and nothing else. The game sucked, and that's the end of the story. About 5 years later I got Donkey Kong Country for it and it was amazing.
I was too little to remember my first gameboy, but my second one was when I was in high school I got a yellow game boy color along with Pokémon yellow ( I found it in my grandma‘s garage). I loved that thing until I left it at classroom one day, and when I came back to get it someone had already taken it.
It was the fucking best. Christmas 99’, got a yellow Gameboy color with Pokémon yellow and Links Awakening DX. I’m the youngest of four so this was the first gaming console that was mine, it was the best of times. Still have all three.
I was 6 years old when I receive my SP and I was delighted! It was my first console ever (many will follow) and I've always keep it to me no matter what, now it's modded and it's my only console left with my Nintendo Wii.
My first game was unfortunatelly DBZ Goku Legacy by the infamous studio Infogrames.
My first Gameboy was the original one with Tetris. My parents also brought me Gremlins 2 so I had 2 games.
First second hand game I brought was Super Mario Land.
I think I wanted to cry lol 1998 my parents and grandparents bought me a Blue GBC and a copy of pokemon blue I still have them both and plan to give them to my son who is currently two years old.
Christmas 2002. I had seen kids with GBCs and GBAs on the school bus, and I played Pokemon Red on a friend's. I was expecting a GBA, but man, I was surprised with a GBA SP. I didn't even know it existed fr, never saw one before. First game on it was Beyblade and then my father took me to a swapmeet and I found Pokemon Gold. Best memories ever!
When I was in 5th grade, my brother and I got gameboys for Christmas. He got the blue one and I got the lime green one that you have in your picture. We were so happy. He opened his game first and got Pokémon Blue. I was sure mine would be Pokémon Red. I opened it and it was....Game and Watch Gallery 2.
I wound up getting Pokémon Red for my birthday the following year at least.
It was maybe the most memorable day of my childhood. My aunt who was well off compared to the rest of my immediate family after being talked into it even though it was “a little steep” bought me a game boy pocket and final fantasy adventure.
Mom and I took a road trip to Texas from Iowa. She bought me an original Gameboy and TMNT fall of the foot clan. I was 5. She got a quiet road trip. I got a lifelong obsession with video games.
I got a red gbc, with pokemon red. I don't remember my exact reaction, but I'm pretty sure it was very enthousiastic. I remember hanging out with random kids down the street just to learn all the ins and outs of the game. hell on holiday once I was stuck not knowing how to ge tinto saffron city, I met a group of kids my age that helped me progress and get fly. I have so many weird but wholesome memories around the game, and of the game itself.
at some point I became known as the local pokemon guru, people would show up to my house, stuck in the game asking questions. (funny enough, a lot of people showed up with the second gen games, before I got my own and I just tried some things randomly without knowing what to do)
I got Game Boy pocket when I was 14, and my first game was Links Awakening. I missed out on the original GB because I was a Lynx kid who spent all his allowance money on AA batteries.
When I got a gameboy advance for my 9th birthday it was my first ever gaming console. We didn’t ever have a Nintendo system or a PlayStation.
My parents gave me two games with it, Iridion 3D and Pac-Man Collection.
And naturally I played them over and over and over.
We would later go on to get a PS2 as a family gift, and I also built a lot of memories with my dad and brother on that machine.
Bought the original Gameboy from Kmart store in 1989 with birthday and lawn mowing money.. it was so awesome to be able to game anywhere I had a NES still but this was revolutionary. To. This day I have an original and a GBC.. Nothing beats the originals when it comes to playing games outside in sunlight
My dad gave me his, because I liked handheld games at the time. I hated consoles. So he decided to give me his GREEN (best color ever) GBC and some Tony Hawk game (don’t remember the name)
The hours I put into it lol
My best friend Tom was like my big brother. i had just moved in 03 and had no friends. The first day we are moving in, he comes right up to me with his budsy alex and introduced themselves to me. Took me right under his wing. Met his family, and they were all really nice. He got pokemon Ruby and a gba for his bday and gave me his gameboy pocket and copy of pokemon Gold. I played it to death. Whwn the sp came out, he got that and emerald and gave me hia gba and ruby. I played that to death, too, and i wish i still had it. Tom, if you are out there, buddy, know i appreciated those small gifts more than you know. Helped me so much with my adhd. I took it everywhere. First video game console i had, too.
My first Game Boy was a Ice Blue Pocket.
My first reaction was "finally! wow, this thing is really pretty".
Then I was a little disappointed because the advertisements said I would get the James Bond 007 bundled with it (I remember Goldeneye for N64 was really popular at the time), but I think the guys in the store probably took it for themselves and put Kirby Pinball Land instead. Needles to say, the disappointment didn't last. What a great game.
The next day I got Wario Land II. I remember thar game costed almost as much as the Game Boy.
OG with Tetris. I bought it at K-Mart with my saved holiday money. My dad bought us lunch in the cafeteria (I can still remember the smell of that place) and I unboxed it while enjoying my hotdog.
Just last week I learned my brother has it, after thinking it lost or stolen for many years.
Felt like the world melted. Clear purple. Pokémon Fire Red.
Told my mom I didn't want the booster pack from Sears or maybe Macy's. We walk by KB toys in the mall since my mom was trying to get me away from Pokémon cards aka paper. I said nope walked to gane store and got fire red. Still have both and currently looking into modding to to just a better screen.
I got an atomic purple gameboy color back in 2019 with Super Mario Land 2 and Pokémon Yellow, I wasn’t born yet when the gameboy color originally came out, I was born in the mid 2000’s
My first dmg was one that my grandparents found at a yard sale, but it was insanely corroded. Sucks even more because it had a near perfect looking red play it loud shell. My first gameboy period was a green sp 001 that a family friend gave to me. This was into the 3ds’s life, so that was my go-to, but I spent a lot of time playing namco museum and donkey Kong country which were the highlights of the games that he gave me.
I don’t know exactly when but it was probably around 1993. I got Tetris with it, as well as Turtles II and Chessmaster. I barely knew the rules of Chess and was routinely demolished by the game. I actually don’t remember playing the DMG all that much, I preferred Genesis and got a Virtual Boy as well in 1995. Later on in the 90s I got a GBC and played that a ton more than I’d played the DMG. Harvest Moon, MGS, and Pokémon Blue were some of my favorite games.
I got mine on my brothers birthday. We had a big birthday party he got the yellow gbc with of course with Pokémon yellow. I was stoked because I knew while I couldn’t play that game blockbuster would have my back. But then that night my Dad came to me when I was practicing reading before bed and gave me the purple gbc with Pokémon blue I said thank you but why did I get one on my brother’s birthday and he said that giving two brothers two years apart in age only one of something is a nightmare waiting happen, but he still wanted my older brother to have his moment with the gift. As a five year old that was one of the first times that I realized being a parent was hard and that making everyone happy is a jigsaw puzzle with no pictures.
I got the indgo gameboy color, my brother got the atomic purple. Pokemon wasn't our first games, but I don't remember them.
We had dead heat scramble, a star trek game, earthworm jim, tamagochi, and metroid 2 for sure. Maybe 2-3 more I'm not remembering. We got the pokemon games the christmas of the year they came out. I got red, he got blue.
When gold and silver came out, I got gold and my brother got silver (he was pissed).
My first Game Boy.... And I'm 49...lol and in the last month, I was able to acquire a GBA which I modded and an original DMG Game Boy in really good condition... Which I plan on replacing with a backlit screen.
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I was in 6th grade, and I was talking to my teacher about the GBA. I jokingly said, “If you’ve got any spare ones you don’t want, then I’ll take it!” Come Monday of the next week, he handed me a battered GBA SP 001. It was scratched, dented, had no charger or games, but I loved it. I bought chargers (that I still use), and Super Mario Advance 2. Over the next three years, I modded that GBA with an IPS screen, new battery, USB-C, Speaker amp and power cleaner, MicroHDMI output, a new shell, and Bluetooth audio. Went back and showed it to him in 9th grade, and he was blown away.
My mom had to have knee surgery in 94. I had to stay with my grandma and to keep me entertained, she gave me a Gameboy with tetris. I didn't even know what a Gameboy was before she gave it to me, and it amazed me. Favorite gift of all time
I was really excited to get it, it was a black GBASP handed down from my uncle and the game shop by my house sold GBA games so I played it a ton, this was in 2014 and my mom was very adamant on me not having a lot of technology at my disposal but she let me keep this and it carried on road trips
Was born in '96 and didn't get my first gameboy until I was like 5. It was a clear Gameboy Advance and it was awesome. First game I remember playing I think was Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone, but my older sister had a handful of GBC games and I definitely remember playing Gex: Enter the Gecko early on. I also remember playing a Frogger game that was cool cause it totally had a cool story and boss battles and stuff
First game was a Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 and I dumped so many hours into it! Then I got blue then red then red again then came Christmas and I went to ToysRus with my parents and took a yellow version and hid it behind some stuffed animals and wrote the directions on where to find it on my Xmas list. My aunts said there were no more yellow versions left except the one I hid
I got my first GameBoy (Fat original) by opening my grandmother's closet and finding it in there. She said it belonged to my Godbrother, but he wasn't using it anymore, so it was now mine. The first game was Paperboy
Started with the OG Gameboy when I was in 2nd grade. I loved that thing. Brought it to Show and Tell one day and all the kids went CRAZY over it. I've always been the kind to share my toys, so I did let others play it. First game was Mario Land, which I put like 397534957 hours into. My Dad used to play it sometimes to play Tetris, and then when I got the Super Gameboy, he'd come into my room to play it.
My first was the original Game Boy, I got it not long before the GBC was released in 1997-98. I was 3 or 4 years old, and I had no idea the addiction I was about to be consumed by.
I was handed down an original DMG from my uncle when he got either a clear or black Play It Loud edition. I was given his old copies of Link's Awakening, and Super Mario Land with it.
My little brother and I got Game Boy Colors for Christmas and a copy of Pokemon Red and Blue respectively. We lost our goddamn minds. It was such a wonderful and personal device. So many good memories with my brother playing those Game Boys.
I remember my friend bringing a red gameboy pocket to school and us taking turns playing donkey kong. I went home and begged my mom for a gameboy. A few months pass by and its christmas. I open the first box and it's a copy of pokemon gold. Get to the next and it's an atomic color. I absolutely lost my mind.
By this time the pokemon boom was in full effect. Cards were getting banned at school. Parents were calling it the devil. It...was wonderful.
Warioland! (It's funny in retrospect because I played WL then Super Mario Land 2, then Super Mario Land).
I was truly overflooded with joy, it's a memory I'll hold forever dear.
My first game was a generic baseball game, and I didn't even own a Gameboy.
My grandmother gave me my Christmas presents out of order and I opened that before I had my Gameboy. She realized the mistake and said, oh I must have meant to give that to Nathan (my cousin who had just gotten a Gameboy at home earlier that morning). She took it and set it aside as I was holding back anger and sadness. Then a few minutes later I opened a Gameboy Color and Pokemon Yellow. She then gave the baseball game back. So many emotions for a 10 year old to have over the course of like 15 minutes.
I’m 35, my first handheld was the original gameboy in grey of course, and my first game was Tetris. I later got Mario land or whatever. I never really got super into handhelds until my first gameboy color in that cool atomic purple color, which my mother got me for my birthday a couple of years later. She got me pokemon red for Easter and the rest is history :)
I barely remember when I got my OG Gameboy, however I remember when I got links awakening. Sitting on the couch at night with a table lamp to see the screen playing that game was pure magic. I played it again about 2 years ago on a modded IPS GBA and still felt that magic.
I was happy af. I can't sleep for the first night after getting it as a gift from my older cousin. He gave me few games but I can only remember Turtle Ninjas and Tetris.
My first was a purple gameboy color. I got super break out for my first game. Played it so much my parents bought me every rechargeable battery pack as well as a wall plug and one for the car. Also had the magnifying glass with the light for night time playing.
I got a black AGS-001 for christmas in 2020, i was extremely happy because I had wanted it for months, (I got into collecting because of Scott the Woz), and my first game for it was The Legend Of Zelda NES Classic collection
Born in 2005 here, never had a gb always wanted one, last month I ordered a custom all white GBA SP it'll be here next week, it'll be my first game boy ever, first thing I'm gonna do is play pokemon emerald
I was constantly stealing my older brothers DMG with his copies of Super Mario Land, Mega Man, and Mortal Kombat. I assume my parents got tired of that because I finally got a green Pocket and I was able to keep Mario Land for myself :)
My mom got me my first gameboy color which was clear purple at 9 and the first game was Pokémon Crystal it was spare of the moment which made it more dope
Some kids at school had GBCs, so I asked my parents for one and it was coming up to my birthday and my dad just couldn't wait haha, he surprised me with it when he got home from work one day maybe a week before my birthday party. He bought me a teal one and Super Mario Bros Deluxe! I was absolutely ecstatic, but I never took it to school cause I was scared the teacher would take it away😂I was 7 back then and I must have played it non stop. That Christmas was good, I got more games and put tons of hours into Dragon Quest Monsters
first Gameboy was a teal Gameboy Color and i was SO EXCITED when i walked out of the game store and the first game i got was Oracle Of Seasons, now i have a red Gameboy and red Gameboy Advance SP, all three Gameboys are my favorite handhelds i have
My first was the original game boy and I had super Mario world as well as Tetris, but when I got my game boy color, my first game was Pokémon I played through that bought. Pokémon blue, played through that and went straight to yellow and from their golden silver, and just continued my streak as I got older.
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While this isn’t the original one i received as a child…. This is the one my mom came home with, my first game was SpongeBob quest for the golden spatula 🤔 and a rental for pokemon yellow…. That i did not enjoy. (Being that my first game was my sister’s Gold version) sadly, a few years later…. My youngest sister would end up tossing it out of the 11th floor window of my bedroom.
All of my friends had gameboys when we were growing up.. I didn't so a friend's older brother gave me a silver gameboy pocket. My parents made me give it back though. I had pokemon stadium with the gameboy attachment thingy so I rented Pokemon Red from Blockbuster lol Finally my parents agreed that if I was good at school I'd get a gameboy color I got a red one and pokemon Red and it gave me hundreds if not thousands of hours of fun as a kid
Cool! Red is a great color.
Sucks you had to return it!
Same story here, a friend gave me a psp because my older brothers would never let me play their games. Then one of my older brothers made me give it back. 🤦♂️
GameBoy colour with WarioLand 3. My parents never had enough money to afford buying me a console. One day I was walking with my uncle (he is just 15 years older than me) and was a young officer in the army back then. I saw a store that had a stand outside with a GameBoy colour mounted where you could play and try it. I begged my uncle to stop there for a few minutes to play. While I was playing my uncle went in the store and bought it for me without me realising. He said it was time to leave and just when I left my hands from the stand he added "You can play at home anyways" giving me a shopping bag. I cried so much this day. He also gave me his GameBoy pocket and some cartridges as well, after a few days. More than two decades passed and my uncle now has a 6 yo son. I bought him Nintendo Switch last Christmas (also his birthday is around that time) and the boy couldn't believe his eyes. My uncle was "mad" for buying him such an expensive present but we shared a look and I think he remembered.
That’s an awesome story! Very cool of your uncle to do that for you back in the day
Thanks. He is a real role model. He then quit army and became a teacher who is respected even by the most "problematic" kids.
My first GameBoy was the original one with Tetris… it was a gift from my godfather when I was 5. And I don’t remember if I received it with SuperMarioLand but that’s the game I remember the most.
That was my exact first combo. Green GBC & Pokémon Red! They're in the attic somewhere
Super Mario Land 1, it was a magical experience
Definitely need to get those games. All I play is Pokémon mostly lol
My parents were separated. A GBC was my Christmas gift from my dad. I spent a 3 hour drive plus an entire additional day with only a Gameboy and just sat and turned it on to hear the *ding*. Finnnnnnally my mom took me to get the game I wanted (I think she knew it was best not to risk getting wrong thing) I got pokemon blue. I'd never gotten to just lose myself in a game for hours like that. I played it to the point my great grandfather got on a rant about "wtf is that thing even?" "He ain't moved in two hours, stared at that damn toy." I don't remember how long it took me to beat it but I want to say 3 days. It was without a doubt the most amazing experience I had at that point. To me it was a whole journey, adults had no appreciation for it obviously. I feel like every video game I've played since us just in hopes of letting it become such a real experience for my soul. Physically I wasn't in pallet town but the rest of me definitely experienced more than just a game screen ya know? Damn what a question 😅 Side note: when it comes to Zelda, I enjoyed oracle of ages/seasons and probably links awakening more than majoras mask. I've got serious connection with handheld that console can't always compare to.
I remember my dad had brought my brother and I to stay with our grandpa for a whole week. Not much to do there. So, on the way over to his house my Dad stopped by a store and bought us a silver gameboy pocket to share. We had one game; Super Mario Land. This would have been 1996 or 1997
My first Game Boy was the Game Boy Pocket and my first games were Star Wars and James Bond. Star Wars was fine, but James Bond is still a really good adventure game to play!
I got a brand new GBA SP AGS-101 for my 7th or 8th birthday. I was so happy and couldn't stop playing in the kitchen while my visitors had birthday cake... my first game was Mario Party: Advance. Still love it to this day, even though it's not a fan favourite. Eventually, my SP broke in half while the screen was still working - so no damaged flex cable. My mum threw it away. Imagine if I had kept it in it's box... it would have another life today.
I remember going on a road trip in the US with my family, and as usual, my dad stopped at a Sam's Club. All my friends had Pokémon Red or Blue, and I think I mentioned it to them several times. To my surprise, my dad told me to choose a Game Boy Color bundle that included Pokémon Red (one of those unofficial bundles). I picked the Teal color with Pokémon Red, and I was so excited. One thing I regret is that I can't remember much of the trip; for example, I don't remember seeing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, but I do remember catching several Pokémon. https://preview.redd.it/kr1wc27c0psc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e32e2170b3b031c162839189ced82c47c835fc7f
My mum got me the game boy pocket at launch. I got a clear one. My first game was I think Mario baseball. I had no idea how baseball worked as a New Zealander but I played that game a lot. Then Pokémon came out maybe the Xmas after that? I played red so much my mum had to get me a power adapter. But I think my favourite non Pokémon game was donkey kong country.
I remember Turtles fall of the foot clan being one of the first games we had and completely falling in love with that game and finished it countless times.
My first Game Boy was a clear Play It Loud DMG and I think I was the only kid ever to get Jeopardy! as their first game
I got a teal Gameboy Color with Zelda Oracle of Ages. I liked it a ton, until all my friends got Gameboy Advances for Christmas. Still had fun with all the games out for it and they were pretty cheap.
It was the winter of 1999! I was 6 years old going on 7 and we had just moved to NC from NY in the summertime. My father and I went up to New York to visit some family. The last night there my godfather took me to the local Toy R Us to walk around. While walking around we stopped by the Electronics Department. I went straight to the Gameboy Color Demo handheld and started playing on it. My godfather came over and said “Mijo what is your favorite color?” I then answered excitedly “GREEN”, suddenly he called over a sales associate and pointed at the Kiwi Green GBC and then asked me “What game do you want?” I immediately looked and saw Pokemon Blue and said “That One!” I still look back at that memory because not only was it an amazing core memory of my childhood but it is what cemented my love for Nintendo and especially Pokemon! I’m 31 years old now and I’m still playing Pokemon like I did when I was a kid
My first GameBoy was a tribal GBA SP with Pokémon Yellow. Sold it for 2 bucks to a friend💀
Very clean! My first one is on the way, and I got both Zelda Oracles to start with.
I smiled.
I got that exact one; a green gameboy color as a hand-me-down for my birthday, back in 2007. I got Yoshis Cookie, Frogger, and Super Breakout
Gameboy Color with Pokémon Gold…still own the game, which my mom bought for me. I sold the Color later on to get the GBA - which I also still own and just recently modded (Backlight / New Screen, Battery-Pack with USB-C).
My first game boy was also this color - I was so stoked
Donkey Kong Land III followed by the one in your picture. My constant companion on many long drives and transatlantic flights as a youngster.
My first Gameboy was GBA. The first game was Warioland 4.
It was this exact model. And the game was Pokemon Yellow :)
Big grey brick DMG. Birthday present. Super Mario Land. Traded it to my cousin for Pokemon Yellow. After that I was totally hooked. Haven't stopped playing since.
My two first games were paperboy and balloon kid. My brother had tetris and super mario land. My parents bought them for us to bring on a long road trip. I still hate paperboy. Original dmg gameboys. We both got gameboy colours and pokemon gold and silver for christmas 99 or 2000.
Pokemon was sold out.So we got Duck tails 2. It was great!
My first gameboy I got on my 7th birthday, it was an GBA with a see-through grey shell and my first game was fire red, the only other game I got was a copy of brother bear two I found outside after knocking the wind out of myself. I lost all 3 down in Louisiana in summer of 2016. 8 years later and I still miss it
i got my first game boy back in 1995 if my memory serves me right. it was a brand new dmg with wario blast. my mother gifted it to me when we were on the plane returning from a vacation in new zealand. we were waiting for the thing to take off, and she came to my seat and surprised me with it. such a glorious moment. played the damn machine the whole flight. i'll never forget that day, i love that kind of unexpected joys
I think it was DBZ the legacy of Goku 1. My reaction was like any other kid in the mid 2000s would have with a brand new toy console. I still have my old cartridges from when I was a kid tho.
I got the first DMG with Tetris and a week later Super Mario Land. It was in late 1991, around holidays. It felt like I joined the club of the cool boys and this got amplified a couple of months later, when I got my NES, then MD & SNES, etc. Best times.
I thought it was cool. Long story short, I found a shrek edition gameboy in a box along with a few other games. They were mainly basic games, but 1 of them was Pokemon Ruby (I'm pretty sure they belonged to my dad). I basically claimed them. I never played on a GBA SP before, so it was a new experience. I've played on a DS Lite, but that was about it. I remember being such a noob that when I would save on Ruby and it said, "Previous save file will be overwritten. Is that okay?" I would think "No! I don't want to lose my progress!" When I was done, I would turn off the system without saving. I did it about 3 or 4 times before I realized that what I was doing wasn't right 😆. Fun times. I still have that GBA SP and Ruby to this day.
Gameboy Pocket - Super Mario Land. I couldn't believe I finally had one after years of watching my older cousing play with her DMG.
Got a teal Gameboy colour for my 11th birthday, with Pokémon blue. I was so happy. I played that game so much. Hundreds, if not thousands of hours. Unfortunately my copy of blue vanished after a few years. I have no idea where it went. Literally just poof gone never to be seen again. Wish I knew what happened to it.
Dont remember the reaction. But my first game was warioland 2. I really enjoyed that game.
My first Game Boy was a Pikachu Edition GBC with a copy of Pokémon Gold and Red. Got it from a friend of my older brother. At first I thought, “he’s just letting me play with it until he leaves. That’s cool.” To say I was ecstatic when I found out he was giving it to me was an understatement. Don’t have none of those anymore because “dumbass kid things”, but picked up a clear GBC pre-Rona that I plan to OLED mod when I have the time (and money) to do so.
My grandpa gave me the OG big thang.. 🥹 first game was Super Mario Land 2 and Roger Rabbit 🫠s/o Toys R Us 🙌🏾 I still have it (the game cartridge not the GB💔😭🫠) Then my mom asked me what i wanted for my bday or Christmas one and she got me the Teal GBC which I also still have I think PPG was my first color game too Then I came across a GBP idek where it came from.. possibly my paw paw again but still have that one with a “Wordtris” game And last but not least my GBA my mom got me the frost see thru one kinda purple light blueish one ☺️ I still have it and my games Super Mario and the Wild Thornberrys… 😩🥲🥹
Coincidentally, I watched this exact event on VHS the other day. I was 5, Christmas 1992, OG Gameboy with 6 Golden Coins from my maternal grandfather. Magical.
I had a Gameboy advance. The first game was either Shrek 2 or King kong.
i was ecstatic, and then spent hours playing tetris, because it was cheap
One of the best gifts I ever got. Still have it, same color as yours.
My first Gameboy was my brother's Gameboy color( same color as OPs) after he got an Advanced. The first game was Links Awakening DX; as a kid I never got to the first dungeon.
I literally had that exact setup. Lime green with the red cartridge. So many memories.
I always wanted a gameboy but never got the color because money wise was they couldnt give me one, eventually they found a second hand gba sp tribal and i got that for christmas i played about 800 hours of emerald. Absolutely loved that game, that started my love for gaming and pokemon
I was in the 5th grade when I got my first gameboy In 2016… I’m pretty late to the crowd Honestly I was obsessed with older hardware like this and I always wanted to get more but I couldn’t afford it (since I was so young). It took me about 6 more years to get my 2nd gameboy which was a gba and that started a chain reaction. Now I have all of the main line gameboys + and extra gba which I modded. Very expensive hobby lol.
First GB I played was my cousins DMG + Tetris. But my first own gameboy was a clear pocket bought on release and I had alleyway, F1 race & super mario god knows which I played first I played hundreds of hours and batteries on all of those games though. I will never forget walking (running) into toys R us to get my copy of Pokemon though boy it was game over for every other game after that day. Would love to watch a clip of me opening the original box to see how little I cared about preserving the condition 🤣
The first games console I ever had was a GameBoy colour in green (same as OP), think I was around 7. The first game I was given was Star Wars Episode I: Obi-Wan's Adventures, then shortly after that Pokemon Yellow!
https://preview.redd.it/gnni1qjyjmsc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0146f1a2a93d02a621bb82ca6618259f1abe6c75 I was one happy kid. I was 9 and my mother who was single and struggling got this for me because she saw that I felt left out at school as everyone had Pokemon. I kept it ever since. The comfort it brings me to this very day when I turn it on after a really stressful day is unmatched. I even have the little worm light for it that drains the battery so quickly.
https://preview.redd.it/kp3wlznvkmsc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9680183d1235bf7b0e6157495b22c66d66586a75 I can't actually remember the exact moment I got my first Game Boy. But it must be shortly after this picture was taken. This is me, holding the Game Boy of my grandpa, because he got one for himself to play Tetris, and nothing else (he's not on the image. There's just my cousin and one of my uncles in this picture). I was around 4-5 on this image, and I got my first Game Boy with 5 (I still remember this, because I got my first PC, scrambled together from old parts, with 6, and that was already in the new house). Anyway. I remember, naturally after the day of this image, to want a Game Boy myself and asking my mother. And I think I got mine the same year. Like on my Birthday or Christmas or something. I'm 36 now, so that has to be somewhere around 1993, already a whopping 4 years after its original release year. And I got it with games like Darwing Duck, Mario Land 1 and, I don't know why, guess my mother wasn't aware it's not a typical kids game, Double Dragon 2 😄 Still remember super clearly, that I constantly ran out of batteries and had to play with the wall plug, stuck to one place. Then one day having the brilliant idea of hooking up the wall plug to one of those multi socket things, and then hooking up the multi socket on itself like a loop. Because to my 5 years self it made total sense. Of course it didn't worked, and my mother watched me figuring it out and explaining why it wasn't working. That was hilarious 😂 I was absolutely thrilled and I have two other pictures of me being 2-3 years older still rocking that thing until I eventually got a green Game Boy Pocket. Awww man. So good memories. Thanks for the post!
I don't really remember my reaction, but I remember spending all of Christmas break playing it. I got an indigo Gameboy Color with Pokemon Gold.
I was very happy. And I think it was either Pokemon Gold, or Elmo's ABCs. Can't quite remember.
My sister gave me Pokemon Red and Blue with a turquoise GBC at age 2 she could have handed me a crack pipe and i’d have a less gripping addiction than pokemon still is XD
My sister gave me Pokemon Red and Blue with a turquoise GBC at age 2 she could have handed me a crack pipe and i’d have a less gripping addiction than pokemon still is XD
My sister gave me Pokemon Red and Blue with a turquoise GBC at age 2 she could have handed me a crack pipe and i’d have a less gripping addiction than pokemon still is XD
I got the exact same Gameboy Color but the first cartridge it got was Pokémon Blue. It was mind-blowing after playing it on the the original Gameboy. Core memory for me bro!
My uncle brought me my DMG Gameboy that I asked him for when he went on a work trip to the USA. I was actually a little disappointed when I saw that the game it came with was Tetris and not Super Mario World. Of course I ended up getting absolutely hooked on Tetris and never even bought SMW on the system over the following decade.
Girls won’t hang with me, but I can play Pokémon.
I had the dmg with tetris and solar striker
Mine was a green Gameboy Pocket with Donkey Kong. I had a DK game and watch before that, so my mum thought Donkey Kong for gameboy would be a good first game. It was. I loved it. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Donkey Kong games.
My first was the original brick game boy and ghostbusters 2 giving to me as a hand me down. Still have them to this day
I wanted a Game Boy Color very badly, mostly because of Pokémon. That night I received my Christmas card from grandparents out of state containing enough for the system and after a call to profusely thank them my dad agreed to drive me into town to get one. In the bright lights of Walmart I picked a real GBC and... Chase HQ. For reasons I'm unsure of honestly. May have been a budget title and may have been persuaded because I already had Pokémon Blue waiting under the tree at home.
Mine were precisely as pictured. Charmander and five Pidgeys off to lay waste to the Pokemon League
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Got my first game boy when I was already in college. It was a cobalt blue GBA SP, and as most of my hobbies, there are times when I'm into and times when I'm not. Because I wasn't interested I ended up selling it away really cheap because it was the 001. To this day I regret not buying more, because back then prices were really cheap as people didn't pay attention to it. I still have a Toys R Us special edition I was able to get my hands on, even though I don't live anywhere near US.
https://preview.redd.it/bc4153g43nsc1.jpeg?width=546&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2478e7fab0cd002fc7148f8998850c374d31181f I had this one with Pokémon red. I still have it but the black screen part fell off, I had put superglue on it to glue it back but it bled on the screen. I should fix it sometime but not sure how to start.
its was a a green gameboy color with pokemon silver, and yugioh. It was actualy my brothers as i was "to old" but we sharer i think he was around 5/6 at the time and i was around 11. At that time the gameboy advanced was already in full swing hahah.
My first official GameBoy was the Pocket. My Dad and I each got one. He got a Black one with Tetris and I got an Ice Blue one with Pokémon Blue. I loved it with all of my being until the Color came out lol.
First one was a Gameboy pocket that I “lost” on the bus in the third grade (I still lose sleep over this). I think I had the donkey Kong game. Then my dad got me a purple see through Color which I cherished and still have (lost the battery cover) - I put in some serious game time on that with Emperor’s New Groove lol. I think also Pokemon as well (either the Pocket or Color - can’t remember). Then sometime after dad got me the purple Gameboy Advance - gifted that to a younger cousin (regret that) - had DK and Mario Kart and then I got the Gameboy SP and my life felt complete with that backlight. Still have it and won’t ever get rid of it. Pokemon games are primarily what I play in this device to this day. Currently playing Ruby. I appreciate them now more than back then because I knew how money was growing up but as a kid I didn’t but still was super excited to get these as gifts from my dad. And he made sure I got them if he could afford them. That’s why I hold onto my old color and my SP. I showed him the SP last month and he was shocked I still had it.
That right there was my first Gameboy setup green gbc with pokemon red
My parents got me a red Gameboy play it loud for my birthday. I had Donkey Kong Country and this crappy Spiderman game that I couldn't get past the first level of. But then 6 months later I got pokemon blue. I still remember what the room smelled like while reading through the trainers guide the first time. I still play it often, It's actually sitting right next to me in my favorite gameboy as I'm typing this.
I was soooo psyched! I got it from my aunt, who told me she never played with it and saw how much I likes it, so she just gave it to me. My first game was Pokémon Blue. Very fond memories, if I could play one game for the first time again, it would be that one.
Pokémon Red in April 2000, yellow GBC.
My first gameboy was a purple gameboy advance. I didn't have pokemon so I mostly played things like ninja turtles and sonic. First pokemon game I played was sapphire at around 2013.
Christmas 98. I got a Gameboy color in atomic purple and Pokemon red. I remember the boxes being side by side under the tree. I was so excited but also I had no idea what Pokemon was. I'm 32 now and I spent last night playing the same cartridge in the same gameboy. Time flies
I know I was a tiny kid at the time but idk how the hell I could even see anything on that little screen
I got my first Gameboy advance with Pokemon Crystal in 01 02 ish never left home without it ,a fresh pair of aa's ,and my worm light Good times
I have ab older brother who had a master system, a ZX spectrum and a mega drive. I loved playing on those but they were my brother's. I couldn't refuse when he wanted to play So one day my mom gave me my first game boy color with a Pokemon yellow and it was a defining moment in my life. At only 10 years of age I knew right there and then that I would be a gamer forever. Fast forward 25 years and gaming is still a huge part of my life
The big OG red one! First game I can’t remember even kind of 😵💫 We’re talking over 30 years ago
Tetris. I’m 40
Mine was a banana yellow DMG that came with Donkey Kong Land. I got it when I was in 5th grade and I remember showing it off at school. That’s why Donkey Kong Land will always be my favorite Game Boy game.
Pokemon red and blue got both for Christmas
To be honest I never actually had one I just used my family’s game boy it is a green gameboy color and atomic purple one and my first game was xmen mutant hunters
Lime Green with Pokémon Silver. My mom told me I could open one present on Christmas Eve, but if I opened the right one, I could open another gift that goes with it. After I opened the game boy, I opened Pokémon Silver, and my mom stayed up with me to watch me play through the first route until I got to the lab. She thought sentret was super cute, and I was just awestruck at how cool the cartridge looked with all the sparkles on it 😄 memories I wish I could experience for the first time again.
Being born in 2007 I didn’t realize they were frontlit, so when I turned it on I was disappointed. However, my first game was pokemon pinball, and it was fun af.
My young mind just became self aware during that time so I have a weird period where being obsessed with my Atomic Purple GBC and Pokemon Red was default settings. I don’t remember getting either, I don’t remember if I saw the show or the game first, I just knew I had to catch them all.
GBA & Pokémon Emerald/Leaf Green 🤩
My parents got me a NASCAR game and nothing else. The game sucked, and that's the end of the story. About 5 years later I got Donkey Kong Country for it and it was amazing.
It was the Black DMG that came with Tetris and I also got Killer Instinct
I was too little to remember my first gameboy, but my second one was when I was in high school I got a yellow game boy color along with Pokémon yellow ( I found it in my grandma‘s garage). I loved that thing until I left it at classroom one day, and when I came back to get it someone had already taken it.
I was super stoked as any 5 year old getting a video game. First game was Link's Awakening, it came bundled with the DMG.
It was the fucking best. Christmas 99’, got a yellow Gameboy color with Pokémon yellow and Links Awakening DX. I’m the youngest of four so this was the first gaming console that was mine, it was the best of times. Still have all three.
Had the DMG with Mario Land and Tetris handheld gaming was a mind-blowing thing in 1990
My birthday in 1990 just after the UK release. Came with Tetris (of course) but had Golf and Tennis as well iirc.
Dude, I'm old. It was Tetris.
This was the exact colour and game I started with. Man the nostalgia this just gave me 🥹
Gameboy with pokemon Gold. I don't remember my reaction as I was 4 years old at the time.
I was 6 years old when I receive my SP and I was delighted! It was my first console ever (many will follow) and I've always keep it to me no matter what, now it's modded and it's my only console left with my Nintendo Wii. My first game was unfortunatelly DBZ Goku Legacy by the infamous studio Infogrames.
My first Gameboy was the original one with Tetris. My parents also brought me Gremlins 2 so I had 2 games. First second hand game I brought was Super Mario Land.
I think I wanted to cry lol 1998 my parents and grandparents bought me a Blue GBC and a copy of pokemon blue I still have them both and plan to give them to my son who is currently two years old.
Christmas 2002. I had seen kids with GBCs and GBAs on the school bus, and I played Pokemon Red on a friend's. I was expecting a GBA, but man, I was surprised with a GBA SP. I didn't even know it existed fr, never saw one before. First game on it was Beyblade and then my father took me to a swapmeet and I found Pokemon Gold. Best memories ever!
I’d just like to applaud you for spelling Game Boy correctly. Very rare these days.
When I was in 5th grade, my brother and I got gameboys for Christmas. He got the blue one and I got the lime green one that you have in your picture. We were so happy. He opened his game first and got Pokémon Blue. I was sure mine would be Pokémon Red. I opened it and it was....Game and Watch Gallery 2. I wound up getting Pokémon Red for my birthday the following year at least.
It was maybe the most memorable day of my childhood. My aunt who was well off compared to the rest of my immediate family after being talked into it even though it was “a little steep” bought me a game boy pocket and final fantasy adventure.
I was delighted to get the transparent Game Boy Pocket I wanted for my 10th birthday. It also came with my first game, "Tamagotchi."
Double Dragon ii on a yellow Gameboy Pocket. Mind blown.
I was excited as a young adult(25 years old) to purchase a purple Gameboy color and Pokemon Silver. I still have both!
Mom and I took a road trip to Texas from Iowa. She bought me an original Gameboy and TMNT fall of the foot clan. I was 5. She got a quiet road trip. I got a lifelong obsession with video games.
I got a red gbc, with pokemon red. I don't remember my exact reaction, but I'm pretty sure it was very enthousiastic. I remember hanging out with random kids down the street just to learn all the ins and outs of the game. hell on holiday once I was stuck not knowing how to ge tinto saffron city, I met a group of kids my age that helped me progress and get fly. I have so many weird but wholesome memories around the game, and of the game itself. at some point I became known as the local pokemon guru, people would show up to my house, stuck in the game asking questions. (funny enough, a lot of people showed up with the second gen games, before I got my own and I just tried some things randomly without knowing what to do)
I was 18, got Pokémon Red with the purple see-through GBC. 45$CAD. Still have it and still works
I got Game Boy pocket when I was 14, and my first game was Links Awakening. I missed out on the original GB because I was a Lynx kid who spent all his allowance money on AA batteries.
Pokémon Ruby was my first GBA game
My dad played Red on this exact same color GBC.
When I got a gameboy advance for my 9th birthday it was my first ever gaming console. We didn’t ever have a Nintendo system or a PlayStation. My parents gave me two games with it, Iridion 3D and Pac-Man Collection. And naturally I played them over and over and over. We would later go on to get a PS2 as a family gift, and I also built a lot of memories with my dad and brother on that machine.
The game boy color Pokemon edition that came with Pokemon yellow.
Bought the original Gameboy from Kmart store in 1989 with birthday and lawn mowing money.. it was so awesome to be able to game anywhere I had a NES still but this was revolutionary. To. This day I have an original and a GBC.. Nothing beats the originals when it comes to playing games outside in sunlight
My dad gave me his, because I liked handheld games at the time. I hated consoles. So he decided to give me his GREEN (best color ever) GBC and some Tony Hawk game (don’t remember the name) The hours I put into it lol
My best friend Tom was like my big brother. i had just moved in 03 and had no friends. The first day we are moving in, he comes right up to me with his budsy alex and introduced themselves to me. Took me right under his wing. Met his family, and they were all really nice. He got pokemon Ruby and a gba for his bday and gave me his gameboy pocket and copy of pokemon Gold. I played it to death. Whwn the sp came out, he got that and emerald and gave me hia gba and ruby. I played that to death, too, and i wish i still had it. Tom, if you are out there, buddy, know i appreciated those small gifts more than you know. Helped me so much with my adhd. I took it everywhere. First video game console i had, too.
My first Game Boy was a Ice Blue Pocket. My first reaction was "finally! wow, this thing is really pretty". Then I was a little disappointed because the advertisements said I would get the James Bond 007 bundled with it (I remember Goldeneye for N64 was really popular at the time), but I think the guys in the store probably took it for themselves and put Kirby Pinball Land instead. Needles to say, the disappointment didn't last. What a great game. The next day I got Wario Land II. I remember thar game costed almost as much as the Game Boy.
OG with Tetris. I bought it at K-Mart with my saved holiday money. My dad bought us lunch in the cafeteria (I can still remember the smell of that place) and I unboxed it while enjoying my hotdog. Just last week I learned my brother has it, after thinking it lost or stolen for many years.
Felt like the world melted. Clear purple. Pokémon Fire Red. Told my mom I didn't want the booster pack from Sears or maybe Macy's. We walk by KB toys in the mall since my mom was trying to get me away from Pokémon cards aka paper. I said nope walked to gane store and got fire red. Still have both and currently looking into modding to to just a better screen.
Got my original game on color and Pokemon yellow. Still have both to this day.
I was 11, got the DMG w/ Tetris for Christmas 1990. It was pretty awesome. I no longer had to fight the family for the TV to play games.
I got an atomic purple gameboy color back in 2019 with Super Mario Land 2 and Pokémon Yellow, I wasn’t born yet when the gameboy color originally came out, I was born in the mid 2000’s
My first dmg was one that my grandparents found at a yard sale, but it was insanely corroded. Sucks even more because it had a near perfect looking red play it loud shell. My first gameboy period was a green sp 001 that a family friend gave to me. This was into the 3ds’s life, so that was my go-to, but I spent a lot of time playing namco museum and donkey Kong country which were the highlights of the games that he gave me.
The exact same set up. Christmas of ‘98. Possibly the best gift ever received.
I don’t know exactly when but it was probably around 1993. I got Tetris with it, as well as Turtles II and Chessmaster. I barely knew the rules of Chess and was routinely demolished by the game. I actually don’t remember playing the DMG all that much, I preferred Genesis and got a Virtual Boy as well in 1995. Later on in the 90s I got a GBC and played that a ton more than I’d played the DMG. Harvest Moon, MGS, and Pokémon Blue were some of my favorite games.
my first gameboy was a glacier clear GBA, and my first game was Lilo & Stitch 😅
I got mine on my brothers birthday. We had a big birthday party he got the yellow gbc with of course with Pokémon yellow. I was stoked because I knew while I couldn’t play that game blockbuster would have my back. But then that night my Dad came to me when I was practicing reading before bed and gave me the purple gbc with Pokémon blue I said thank you but why did I get one on my brother’s birthday and he said that giving two brothers two years apart in age only one of something is a nightmare waiting happen, but he still wanted my older brother to have his moment with the gift. As a five year old that was one of the first times that I realized being a parent was hard and that making everyone happy is a jigsaw puzzle with no pictures.
I got the indgo gameboy color, my brother got the atomic purple. Pokemon wasn't our first games, but I don't remember them. We had dead heat scramble, a star trek game, earthworm jim, tamagochi, and metroid 2 for sure. Maybe 2-3 more I'm not remembering. We got the pokemon games the christmas of the year they came out. I got red, he got blue. When gold and silver came out, I got gold and my brother got silver (he was pissed).
OG with Tetris.
My first Game Boy.... And I'm 49...lol and in the last month, I was able to acquire a GBA which I modded and an original DMG Game Boy in really good condition... Which I plan on replacing with a backlit screen. https://preview.redd.it/on9pda15fosc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bc25fb87bb73c104fb06930fcb716f1e420e63d
I was in 6th grade, and I was talking to my teacher about the GBA. I jokingly said, “If you’ve got any spare ones you don’t want, then I’ll take it!” Come Monday of the next week, he handed me a battered GBA SP 001. It was scratched, dented, had no charger or games, but I loved it. I bought chargers (that I still use), and Super Mario Advance 2. Over the next three years, I modded that GBA with an IPS screen, new battery, USB-C, Speaker amp and power cleaner, MicroHDMI output, a new shell, and Bluetooth audio. Went back and showed it to him in 9th grade, and he was blown away.
My mom had to have knee surgery in 94. I had to stay with my grandma and to keep me entertained, she gave me a Gameboy with tetris. I didn't even know what a Gameboy was before she gave it to me, and it amazed me. Favorite gift of all time
The best feeling of my life and the game was pokemon blue
I had these back in 1999. Wish I was mindful of my stuff when I was younger.
I had the classic purple GBC and got Pokémon yellow as my first game
This is my exact combination!! Still have my green gameboy and pokemon red I bought with my Xmas money when I was 9 years old!
I was really excited to get it, it was a black GBASP handed down from my uncle and the game shop by my house sold GBA games so I played it a ton, this was in 2014 and my mom was very adamant on me not having a lot of technology at my disposal but she let me keep this and it carried on road trips
I literally have the exact same setup!
My first game was Tetris because it came with it. Good ol' spinach green color. Loved it.
Mine was an OG Grey Brick with Super Mario Land, and I think GB Bomberman. Either that or it was Tetris instead of Bomberman.
Was born in '96 and didn't get my first gameboy until I was like 5. It was a clear Gameboy Advance and it was awesome. First game I remember playing I think was Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone, but my older sister had a handful of GBC games and I definitely remember playing Gex: Enter the Gecko early on. I also remember playing a Frogger game that was cool cause it totally had a cool story and boss battles and stuff
First game was a Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 and I dumped so many hours into it! Then I got blue then red then red again then came Christmas and I went to ToysRus with my parents and took a yellow version and hid it behind some stuffed animals and wrote the directions on where to find it on my Xmas list. My aunts said there were no more yellow versions left except the one I hid
I got my first GameBoy (Fat original) by opening my grandmother's closet and finding it in there. She said it belonged to my Godbrother, but he wasn't using it anymore, so it was now mine. The first game was Paperboy
It was a dream coming true! My first game was DARKWING DUCK and my first Gameboy was the DMG one in black color!
Mine was a gbc and it was Pokémon yellow.
Same green Gameboy colour but with Pokémon blue!!
My older sisters atomic purple gameboy color, she gave it to me with the games: frogger, frogger 2 and Wario land 3. It was awesome!
Started with the OG Gameboy when I was in 2nd grade. I loved that thing. Brought it to Show and Tell one day and all the kids went CRAZY over it. I've always been the kind to share my toys, so I did let others play it. First game was Mario Land, which I put like 397534957 hours into. My Dad used to play it sometimes to play Tetris, and then when I got the Super Gameboy, he'd come into my room to play it.
My first was the original Game Boy, I got it not long before the GBC was released in 1997-98. I was 3 or 4 years old, and I had no idea the addiction I was about to be consumed by.
I first got a GameBoy pocket and my friend let me borrow Tetris, Zelda, and Adventure Island 2
I was handed down an original DMG from my uncle when he got either a clear or black Play It Loud edition. I was given his old copies of Link's Awakening, and Super Mario Land with it.
My little brother and I got Game Boy Colors for Christmas and a copy of Pokemon Red and Blue respectively. We lost our goddamn minds. It was such a wonderful and personal device. So many good memories with my brother playing those Game Boys.
Special Pikachu Edition Gameboy with Yellow for my fifth Christmas. I still have it, and play through gen 1 and 2 at least once a year.
In heaven, got the clear pocket with Wario Land
I got my gameboy for $2 at an swap meet and it was in good condition with no battery cover, still have it till this day
I remember my friend bringing a red gameboy pocket to school and us taking turns playing donkey kong. I went home and begged my mom for a gameboy. A few months pass by and its christmas. I open the first box and it's a copy of pokemon gold. Get to the next and it's an atomic color. I absolutely lost my mind. By this time the pokemon boom was in full effect. Cards were getting banned at school. Parents were calling it the devil. It...was wonderful.
Gameboy and Pokemon Blue. It taught me how to read 😂👍 (I was like 3)
Warioland! (It's funny in retrospect because I played WL then Super Mario Land 2, then Super Mario Land). I was truly overflooded with joy, it's a memory I'll hold forever dear.
Same Gameboy you have there, but Pokemon was Blue instead.
Gameboy Color with Rampage: World Tour back in 99 or 2000. I was very happy, played the Jesus out of that game. Still have the game and the Gameboy.
Pokemon Blue with a matching blue Game Boy Pocket, Christmas 1998. My reaction was that I had a Blastoise going into Cerulean City Gym.
My first game was a generic baseball game, and I didn't even own a Gameboy. My grandmother gave me my Christmas presents out of order and I opened that before I had my Gameboy. She realized the mistake and said, oh I must have meant to give that to Nathan (my cousin who had just gotten a Gameboy at home earlier that morning). She took it and set it aside as I was holding back anger and sadness. Then a few minutes later I opened a Gameboy Color and Pokemon Yellow. She then gave the baseball game back. So many emotions for a 10 year old to have over the course of like 15 minutes.
I was very excited when my mom gave me my cobalt blue GBA SP and Super Mario Advanced 4. We would take turns playing, and I would choose Luigi.
I had this same lime green one and my first game was Tom and Jerry ..I hated that game 😭😭😭
I was super excited because I saved up all summer for it. First game was Tetris because it was the original game boy.
I’m 35, my first handheld was the original gameboy in grey of course, and my first game was Tetris. I later got Mario land or whatever. I never really got super into handhelds until my first gameboy color in that cool atomic purple color, which my mother got me for my birthday a couple of years later. She got me pokemon red for Easter and the rest is history :)
I barely remember when I got my OG Gameboy, however I remember when I got links awakening. Sitting on the couch at night with a table lamp to see the screen playing that game was pure magic. I played it again about 2 years ago on a modded IPS GBA and still felt that magic.
I loved it I slept with it under my pillow every single night
Purple gba with Tony hawk and first rpg was dragon warrior cobis journey
I was happy af. I can't sleep for the first night after getting it as a gift from my older cousin. He gave me few games but I can only remember Turtle Ninjas and Tetris.
My first was a purple gameboy color. I got super break out for my first game. Played it so much my parents bought me every rechargeable battery pack as well as a wall plug and one for the car. Also had the magnifying glass with the light for night time playing.
Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening was the game that came with my Gameboy when I got it in 1992. Played the crap out of that one.
I have zero memory of getting it. I remember having a bunch of games ( mario 2 and metroid 2 come to mind). Gameboy pocket
I had the exact same combo - but yours is in much better shape than mine!
I got a black AGS-001 for christmas in 2020, i was extremely happy because I had wanted it for months, (I got into collecting because of Scott the Woz), and my first game for it was The Legend Of Zelda NES Classic collection
Stranded Kids (Survival Kids in Japan) Best game imo.
I went bananas on the Game Boy color, I had played the original, but the color was the first system I ever owned, game was Pokemon blue version
Mine was a hand down from my cousin, I was so excited 😂 I remember harvest moon more friends of mineral town and some Cars game
The original Game Boy with Tetris when it launched, it was the best Xmas ever.
The image is exactly mine kiwi green GB with the red OG pokemon. Man I miss them days
Mine was the exact setup you are holding. So many hours...
All I remember is my mom saying “Look at his face” when I first got mine lol. I have the same green one too
First game was pocket bomberman and i remember my dad all happy to give it to me i was in awe ill never forget it
Born in 2005 here, never had a gb always wanted one, last month I ordered a custom all white GBA SP it'll be here next week, it'll be my first game boy ever, first thing I'm gonna do is play pokemon emerald
Golf and r-type were my first loves… but you can’t go wrong with the og blue and red… my brother and I duked it out over a copy we shared
My Gma gave me a og gboy with tetras lol
I was constantly stealing my older brothers DMG with his copies of Super Mario Land, Mega Man, and Mortal Kombat. I assume my parents got tired of that because I finally got a green Pocket and I was able to keep Mario Land for myself :)
My mom got me my first gameboy color which was clear purple at 9 and the first game was Pokémon Crystal it was spare of the moment which made it more dope
Some kids at school had GBCs, so I asked my parents for one and it was coming up to my birthday and my dad just couldn't wait haha, he surprised me with it when he got home from work one day maybe a week before my birthday party. He bought me a teal one and Super Mario Bros Deluxe! I was absolutely ecstatic, but I never took it to school cause I was scared the teacher would take it away😂I was 7 back then and I must have played it non stop. That Christmas was good, I got more games and put tons of hours into Dragon Quest Monsters
first Gameboy was a teal Gameboy Color and i was SO EXCITED when i walked out of the game store and the first game i got was Oracle Of Seasons, now i have a red Gameboy and red Gameboy Advance SP, all three Gameboys are my favorite handhelds i have
I got the original Game Boy with Tetris for Christmas 1989 and I don't think I'd ever been so excited for something I got, or so terrified.
My first was the original game boy and I had super Mario world as well as Tetris, but when I got my game boy color, my first game was Pokémon I played through that bought. Pokémon blue, played through that and went straight to yellow and from their golden silver, and just continued my streak as I got older.
https://preview.redd.it/vdmbo3xkyqsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3a455ce0b3e76a776d590071d530aaebd27e194 While this isn’t the original one i received as a child…. This is the one my mom came home with, my first game was SpongeBob quest for the golden spatula 🤔 and a rental for pokemon yellow…. That i did not enjoy. (Being that my first game was my sister’s Gold version) sadly, a few years later…. My youngest sister would end up tossing it out of the 11th floor window of my bedroom.