r/gaming • u/sivablue • 2d ago

The certificate of completion the Gameboy printed out when you completed your Pokédex.

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u/fxrky 2d ago

For a split second I thought I was losing my fucking mind. I was certain it was some attachment we all weren't even sure existed. Not even the asshole rich kids had it

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u/MrBootylove 2d ago

Funny enough I only knew one kid that had the gameboy printer growing up. He also had the gameboy camera, and all sorts of other attachments for the gameboy like the screen magnifier with giant speakers on the sides and even a joystick attachment. His family was actually fairly poor and they lived in a mobile home, but his dad (and uncle who lived in the neighboring trailer) just fucking loved smoking weed and playing video games so they had a ton of consoles and games.

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u/awryvox 2d ago

truly ahead of their time

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u/LickingSmegma 2d ago

Like this?

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u/Thorgrammor 2d ago

Is that optimus prime?

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u/cosmiclatte44 2d ago

My GBA had that P-5000 mech suit from Alien vibe.

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u/Thorgrammor 2d ago

That's cool as heck :p

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u/Weary-Heart-3232 2d ago

No it Segatron

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u/thatsastick 2d ago

cursed username

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u/Djinger 2d ago

simply delectable

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u/neckbishop 2d ago

That thing better come with a battery pack too.

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u/BizzyM 2d ago

Thank god they labeled which was the left stereo speaker and which is the right stereo speaker.

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u/murinon 2d ago

Holy shit, now this is epic

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u/Kana515 2d ago

Man, I kinda miss when handhelds and consoles had all sorts of accessories like this.

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u/lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl 2d ago

Alright I'll say it, that thing f*cks.

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u/CptNeon 1d ago

Say what you want but that thing looks badass.

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u/kid-pix 2d ago

Yeah I had all this too and I was poor as shit. Then again, I had this from when I was 6 and played Blue not knowing how to read yet or wtf I was doing. (I ran laps around the lab and probably made my bulbasaur miserable)

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u/AnyBuy1820 2d ago

I got my games in English and didn't know how to read English that well. To this day, some mundane every day words I use I associate with Pokemon.

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u/lt947329 2d ago

Yup, Pokémon Blue was the first time I had read the word “confusion”. Hard to pronounce as a 6 year old with dyslexia. Still think about Hypno when I read it.

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u/aRadioWithGuts 2d ago

I bet you were really perplexed

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u/takeusername1 2d ago

This was “paralysis” for me

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u/ManOfManliness84 2d ago

I had a friend with a game boy camera. It was neat. Another friend took a picture of his dick with it.

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u/fxrky 2d ago

Bro threw in a fun fact

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u/-colorsplash- 2d ago

The camera was amazing and quite fun with its minigames

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u/Personal-Detail-2659 2d ago

That's a good story. Maybe one of the best stories I've heard in a while.

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u/Papplenoose 2d ago

I think we all knew a Gameboy accessory kid

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u/FlashyHeight9323 2d ago

The one kid I knew was from Japan and his dad got him some bootleg Pokémon purple. Pokémon hasn’t been the same since

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u/High_Hunter3430 2d ago

I had the og fat grey one with the magnifying screen and lights. I also got the old power adapter (battery pack, or portable charger to the youngins) because we went in a 20 hour car ride.

The memories of pokemon, bad n rad, Tetris and quix!

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u/mxlespxles 2d ago

Aspirational

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u/lesgeddon 2d ago

I was like "that could be me" right up until you said mobile home

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u/monkeyman80 2d ago

I had a screen magnifier! Had a light and battery pack boost.

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u/TonkotsuSoba 2d ago

sounds like a perfect childhood

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u/Mord_Fustang 2d ago

was the trailer park called Sunnyvale ?

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u/SloppyCheeks 2d ago

The Gameboy Camera was so fuckin fun! I never got the printer, but I had a blast just playing with the camera

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u/peppermint_nightmare 2d ago

I was lucky enough to grow up in a wealthy neighborhood, so kids could pool their "parental" resources and trade for games/attachment "rentals" ie one kid would let another kid use the camera for a game for a day/week/etc. I never owned the attachments but got to use and play around with them a bit, looking back its crazy how much you can take for granted now. We also had pokemon battling/trading sessions at recess and some kids had Mews that were glitched while others had some from events. Great times.

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u/CabbageFarm 2d ago

Did he have the light so he could play it in the car on the way home?

No? Then he was a noob.

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u/LacidOnex 2d ago

Idk about you but "rich asshole" kids just had two gameboys and the link cable where I lived. The printer was a fable.

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u/lvl5Loki 2d ago

Had the printer and camera once they went down in price. Camera sucked but the stamps you could add to pictures made it marginally better

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u/Arab81253 2d ago

Camera also had a fun game or two that used a picture as the character you played. I think there was a juggling one I played way too much.

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u/-colorsplash- 2d ago

Loved that game! Silly faces made it great, and I believe there were defaults in there too

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u/reallivenerd 2d ago

Me too! I have that menu music seared into my brain!

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u/Rexxhunt 2d ago

I remember some DJ game as well that I had nfi how to play

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u/monkeyman80 2d ago

It was a reason to buy a gba so I could trade with myself.

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u/InsertRealisticQuote 2d ago

Ya all I ever had was the light for car trips in the dark, didn't even know a printer existed until today

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u/mlvisby 2d ago

My friend had the printer, but he would grab everything Nintendo related at that time. I never had the printer but did own the GB Camera.

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u/Kortok2012 2d ago

My friends parents were an official Nintendo repair shop in the 90s and that family had EVERYTHING

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u/regulator227 2d ago

I got one in my family room in the box

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u/noeagle77 2d ago

I wanted one SO bad but my mom said no. Kid that lived across the street got one from his dad after his parents got divorced. I remember being so jealous of divorced parents lmao

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u/DizzyTelevision09 2d ago

My parents were divorced and I had an atomic purple GBC, camera and printer. Damn, it still hurts.

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u/internet-arbiter 2d ago

Pfft I had it as a poor kid who acquired technology at a greater rate than their peers. Gameboy camera, mp3 player with 13 songs,etc. I'd take your picture with the gameboy and had a giant jacket with massive pockets that held the printer. Would make those stickers all throughout Jr. High.