I'm Still Buying The Game Boy Color In 2021...Here's Why

The Game Boy Color was released back in the late 90s and was a big seller next to Pokemon games at the time that were hitting the US. Now it's been passed over by many because of its stock screen, but the modding scene has come a long way making this handheld awesome even today.

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[Donald_Allan]

I remember getting a Gameboy Color for Christmas 23 years ago along with a copy of pokemon yellow. That was back when pokemon was really popular and was taking the world by storm. It was an awesome system for it's time and when you compare it to the Switch, it's amazing to see just how far hand held systems have come since 1998. The one thing I didn't like about the Game Boy Color was that it never had a built in backlight for the display so you were fairly limited as to when you could play it.

[speedwaynutt]

Nintendo needs to start releasing a line on Classic(Mini) Handhelds. It would be awesome to own a collection of games on a system with a back light screen actually made by Nintendo.

[bensouth]

This was my first actual project involving soldering. Did a little bit of practice work on an old 360 mother board. I had almost no issues and was extremely happy with how it turned out. I’d definitely recommend this as a first project.

[nightvisionnn]

That’s awesome, I was think about getting this. Now that I see how easy it is I’m definitely buying one

[k.k]

Strongly recommend using the original membranes.
They give the the gameboy that nice responsive feel.

[hoshmil]

Funny enough before this you released this video I bought a Gameboy color and all the parts couple of weeks ago. Great job covering this project, fun to see people getting into retro modding except for the prices for everything has shot up.

[SoraFan]

I miss my GBA so much. I remember playing that thing as a kid when my parents used to go on a lot of road trips.

[PSYCHOVNM]

I got a Gameboy Color because of Pokemon. It was my first Gameboy EVER.

Pokemon Yellow was my first Gameboy game that my cousin got me for Christmas. It was a fun memorable experience.

[echowolfgamer]

I bought the GBA to tv out mod it's coming next week, going to be my first mod. I actually was going to do this one until I found out about the GBA mod. Always a fan of the channel looks awesome tho.

[bogbupog]

29 years from now: I'm still buying the Nintendo Switch OLED in 2050...Here's why

[PatriiickMusic]

Modded my Gameboy advance sp during the height of the pandemic, was super fun reshelling it and adding a better screen. Was so good to do and a lovely project to kill some time, made my old SP feel brand new again.

[sithlorddarthbong]

I just asked myself "sith lord, what do you think about and I said to myself "well sith lord, this is cool, pretty damn kewl. John always makes great videos and yet again, this is another great video. I'm definitely glad we hit that notification bell.".

Well that was fun talking to myself after watching this video.
Fare thee well.

[mancavehobbies]

Jon please make more VIDEOS LIKE THIS...

[michaelkoltz]

I still have your video "The Game Boy Color NEEDED This" in my "liked" videos. I modified a second-hand case to fit the larger screen just as you did. The result was almost as good as the new video here. I used an atomic purple shell so the larger screen lights up beyond the borders of the intended screen. I like it because it shows the mod with a subtle feature not visible if I'd used a solid color shell.

[JohnnyMcKinney]

As someone who just installed this, I think you got the start and select pins reversed. The logo has 3 sections because it allows you to change 3 different settings, not change each word a different color. The first section is for verticle orientation which you can adjust left and right with select and start (This is now the opposite for me), the second is for horizontal, and the third is for the color of the words. Also if you touch and hold the touch sensor you can change the display to give it more of a retro look. Also, they just released a new 2.1 version where it has a touch antenna, not sure what it's for, but it does push the touch sensor against the wall of the console so you don't have to tape it, so that's nice. I could have gotten the wires mixed up somehow, but if you could check to see if your settings are opposite as well, then it might help someone else out.

[jorge_mttv]

It’s really nice for you! I never get to play Gameboy Color sadly.

[Jokerwolf]

I remember getting a gameboy color around the same time that pokemon gold and silver came out. I remember we got our copies of the game almost 3 weeks early but back then street dates didn't really matter and I remember we were the coolest kids in school for 3 weeks.

[roinmorgan]

When holding start and select you end up in the function menu: When in the function menu press the touch button shortly to change mode. When Game is selected you can shift the screen up and down with select and start, when Boy is selected you can shift the screen left and right, when Color is selected you can change the color of the logo. To shift between the screen effects you have to hold the touch button (look carefully because the effects are very subtile they are just scanlines varying in thickness). Just touching the touch button shortly changes the brightness.

[ashproof]

Me: (looks at the shelf next to me covered in all generations of Nintendo handhelds) HA! Cute.

[larshiggs]

I have a couple GBC’s with this particular mod, and favorite feature is that there is no gap or space between the screen and lens, giving it a premium look much like the iPhone.