Game Boy Help

[MeechShrykull1029]

Is there any place (other than online stores) Where I can still get the original Game Boy?

[Wings of Fire]

The brick? High street stores may have them if you're very lucky.

I have no idea why you'd want one though.

[OddjobAbe]

If you can't find them, you might jsut want to go to an online store anyway. Trust me, you may not want to, but some are really reliable. Especially Amazon.

[Havoc]

Original Game Boy had some entertaining games, if you can get one for a few bux then it's cool to just have one I guess. I bought an old SNES a while ago to relive some of those classic games.

[Wings of Fire]

You can play Game Boy Classic games on a Game Boy Colour which is a lot easier to get hold of and is not shaped like a brick.

[OddjobAbe]

Or on Gameboy Advance which is even easier to get hold of and not shaped like a brick.

[MeechShrykull1029]

Yes, but I want to play Game Boy games with the original graphics.

[OddjobAbe]

They have the original graphics. The graphics aren't coded into the system, but into the cartridge.

[Fuzzle Guy]

Why are you so reluctant to use the internet? What do you expect us to say? "They sell some at my local HMV if you're willing to pay for the flight over here"

Ebay is your friend. Try to trust it. Very rarely is it a problem.

[Mojo]

I had a black brick once. Then I dropped it, from like, really high. After that I had 2 half bricks...

[MeechShrykull1029]

They have the original graphics. The graphics aren't coded into the system, but into the cartridge.

I've read that Game Boy games are in color if you play them on a GBC.

[Wings of Fire]

To a given extent of 'colour'.....

[MeechShrykull1029]

I want to play them in the original black and white.

[Hobo]

Why on earth would you want that?

[MeechShrykull1029]

Because then I would play them just like people played them when they first came out. That would be coll.

[Wings of Fire]

Endless fiddling with the contrast button and trying to find a source of light that wont glare is NOT cool.

Trust me on this I had a brick for three years.

[Leto]

I had a brick for a long time. Bought several third party lights that clipped onto the screen, before the invention of gameboy backlights. I enjoyed my origonal gameboy.

Go on ebay. Get one for like $3. I bought one off of NZ's ebay for $5NZD.

[Fuzzle King]

i still have one,for some reason.the only place i can think of to get one now is erm...ebay.

[Fuzzle Guy]

I've read that Game Boy games are in color if you play them on a GBC.

That is impossible. The colour was not given to Gameboy games, because there was no need for them, and the only way to change the colours would be through the console, and technology like that didn't exist then (and it would not have been worth investing in even if it did.)

And you can only get Gameboy's on Ebay, or if you're very lucky a second hand store. The Gameboy is almost exactly the same as a Gameboy Color minus the colour part. You will be experiencing the same experience as people who had brick would have years ago.

[Wings of Fire]

Actually, I distinctly remember Pokemon Red on GBC being well......red.

[Bullet Magnet]

GB games are rendered in four colours on a GBC. After all, they have four shades on the GB.

[Zerox]

Pokemon Red was a GameBoy Colour game, as it says "GameBoy Colour" on the cartridge. It is in colour on GBC because it was intended to have colour, it just remains compatible with the original GameBoy. The original GameBoy games released before GBC will remain black and white on GBC, GBA or whatever, as colours were not programmed into them, it is an impossiblity for the colours to change on a different console, other than playing GBC games on the original GameBoy, which cannot play colours, and so it's converted into shades of black and white instead.

The only GameBoy games in colour on the GBC are the actual GBC games, with "Colour" clearly denoted on the game cartridge.

Considering the age of the device, if it's purely for the games, I would suggest an emulator perhaps (that's bad here, though), it's more likely an item that will be bought for nostalgia value, and the fact that it will likely be worth alot more in years to come.

[mudling]

I got one for free by a Japanese girl, I mean, they are several generations ahead of us in terms of gaming.
Hell, I'd give you mine, but I can't find it, and it's probably brocken anyway.
But why the hell would you want one? Can't you play them with your Nintendo DS anyway?
Oh, and red and blue were not colour games, but they were compatible with the gameboy colour, as it was backwards compatible.
I know this because it had no real colour scheme, but with all old gameboy games, you could switch the pallet around so it did have colour. Games like silver, gold and crystal and a much more variation of colour, because they were Gameboy colour games.

[Leto]

Pokemon Red was a GameBoy Colour game, as it says "GameBoy Colour" on the cartridge.

No it didn't. If it did, not everything in the game would be red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokemon_Red

GBC does not make origonal GB games fully and properly coloured, as previously said it just changes the four shades of b/w from the origonal game. I'm pretty sure when the NINTENDO GAMEBOY logo that played when you first turned a gameboy on, that you could press a direction on the dpad and it would change the colour scheme if it was a GB game on a GBC/GBA.

[MeechShrykull1029]

I'll just buy a GBA.

[Strike Witch]

Or a Micro or SP.

[Fuzzle King]

if he says hes gunna by a GBA,hes gunna buy a GBA.

[MeechShrykull1029]

GB and GBC games are not compatible with Game Boy Micro.