By all means!

Right? Don't threaten me with a good time, MVG!

When the creators say this sort of thing.. I'm usually like.. is this a personal challenge?? Because if so, do it?!!

Who doesn't want MVG to take us directly in the heart of a z80 and show the finest games created for GB, with his smooth, cultured voice and spot on wisdom?

I'm up for a 2h anniversary retrospective of the og Gameboy 🙌

I’ll throw my hat into the ring stating that I’d love for MVG talk about the gameboy for two hours as well.

Yeah why not? I could handle eight hours of listening to the Gameboy.

We were ruining the environment with all those wasted batteries 😂 I remember putting almost dead batteries in the freezer hoping it got a charge 😂 I was an idiot as a child

You'd be surprised how long those AA batteries would last, considering the original Gameboy doesn't make use of a backlight (for better or for worse) and how low power the Z80 is. Plus, later batteries got much better in terms of capacity. I remember playing a couple hours a day and swapping them every 15 days or so. I've heard that other consoles would drain through batteries much faster due to big bright LCD displays and powerful CPUs, overall the Gameboy was pretty cost effective imo! Edit: you were comparing it with the cost of *full* consoles, aka home consoles. Well in that case yes, the Gameboy was probably not the most cost effective, but that'd be the Gameboy punching a little above its own weight if that was the case 😅

I had Nintendo’s external battery, but it was NiCad instead of modern lithium-ion. Better than batteries but, not by much.

my parents brought me rechargeable batteries. though i dont think they lasted as long. i don't remember it being a problem.

At least it was efficient with them. I got a Virtual Boy in 1995 and it chewed through six AAs in under five hours. I don’t think I even had it a week and my dad took me back to the store to buy the AC adapter.

Yep, Dylan Cuthbert is his name. He has worked on some of the most impressive games in that generation. Star Fox was his brainchild.

If you think about it, it isn't that hard. You logically organize tiles as if those were a traditional framebuffer and write into those tiles. It's just not an efficient way to use what GB has. And to be frank - it shows. While it is interesting (ab)use, it doesn't look as good as games that actually use the hardware the way it was intended.

​@@petrkubenaI think the tileset isn't big enough to cover even 70% of the screen

@@niko5008 that's probably why they are using only part of the screen for rendering vectors. rest are static tiles for the background. if you look at those bottom tiles on the right and you start filling them from top to bottom (11 tiles) and then columns from left to tight (16 tiles), you have the image in the viewport.

​@@petrkubena okay psycho 😂

Yep. Just replayed it again after like 25 years. Still an amazing game and made me tear up a bit... Again!

I remember spending so long playing that claw game to buy the bow super early lol

I've completed it 3 times, third time was on Japanese version. There were some difference, the snake boss had false head ehich exploded. The fisherman caught something other than fish. I lent the original version to friend he said it was chall and stuck on bird boss.

Amen. Can only agree.

My brother and I spent countless hours playing LA as kids. The Oracle of Ages and Seasons for GBC were pretty fun too

I had never heard it but it sounds so good

Heh, do a search for the title music on YT, there's a lot of love for it 👍 The other tracks were also great.

Ended up being licensed out to a washing machine ad (Ariston) that's been living rent-free in my head for 30 years.

And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on and Ariston! Such a great advert

The C64 version is also very good and that's what I grew up with, but the GB version I remember most as that's what Ariston used and the advert was very creative and on all the time

Free GB Studio software can even allow people with no experience of making video games to develop their own Gameboy games. It's quite amazing really.

Alberto Gonzalez made some fire tracks on the Game Boy 🤘

Big facts

The Link's Awakening theme and the Pallet Town theme from Pokemon are forever stuck in my head

​@@AriesFireTigerCame here to say this. He's the GameBoy soundtrack master imo

Trust me, as someone who knows more or less how the gameboy chip works, it is even crazier than you think, especially because back then they didn’t have the tools we have now.

Nice ☺️ All important machines in the grand history. I've still yet to play a Lynx game!

I got a original DMG with Tetris on my birthday, also brought a mega drive for myself and brought a N64 with my own money back then, good times 😊

The Game Boy was my first buy too. I didn't have a job, but I sold candy at school.

30 as well here I had a Gameboy color for 1 year then got the GBA near it's release. Missed out on most of the OG Gameboy games. We prefer GBA games but I recommend gameboy color for you, and a cheap DS lite as well that was a bit after our time. GBC GBA and DS are the sweet spot

Iirc most of the good Gameboy games got colorized for the super Gameboy so u can enjoy them on Gameboy color

My first Gameboy was a dandelion yellow gbc, but I'm only a few months younger than the original

Which is found in many TI graphing calculators.

I think the aspects that you say are "borrowed" from the 8086 were things the Z80 supported. The SM83 was more a middle ground between the 8080 and the more capable Z80 since it supported most of the 8080's instructions and some of the Z80's.

@@soli-ethd yep, and some homebrewers back in the days even felt for that. I remember the story of the dude who wrote a Yars Revenge homebrew port and he tested in against an emulator. He was devastated when his game didn't run on real hardware.

It's an enhanced 8080 but uses Z80 bit-twiddling instructions and Z80 assembly syntax probably because Intel assembly syntax is fairly ugly and unintuitive to people used to assembly language on other CPUs and the fact that the Z80 itself is also an enhanced 8080 and was widely used in early classic arcade boards. The SM83 lacks most of the Z80 extensions to the 8080 and some which it did borrow it put in different opcodes to the Z80. It even ditched some features both the 8080 and Z80 had since they were general computing devices where the SM83 was designed specifically for games. SM83 doesn't have the Z80 index registers or the alternate register set or the DD/ED/FD-prefixed instructions. For games programming, the bit-twiddling instructions are the most useful that the 8080 lacked and lots of the extra Z80 instructions were handy but too slow for use in games.

Came here to say that 😂

Junichi Masuda composed the soundtrack for Gen I, but Go Ichinose composed the soundtrack for Gen II minus the Gen I tracks he rearranged. Nevertheless, both did a great job composing for the Game Boy.

@@reillywalker195 Really? I did not know that. Thanks!

dude i dont care bro please delete your comment

broooo after reading this gargoyles quest soundtrack just popped in my head...! haha i miss that

Yeah, it's rather unfortunate that although technology has improved and it's generally advanced gaming in many ways, it's also allowed for good development practices like polishing and optimizing to fall by the wayside. Most devs today would be completely unable to produce 'impossible' games like the ones shown in this video because in their world, they don't have to worry about hardware limitations.

It's a mono speaker.

@@ebridgewaterthe Game Boy produced stereo sound from it's headphone jack. The original version came with ear buds, which is how I first heard it. So yes. I was hearing stereo sound.

​@@ebridgewaterBurned!

@@InfectiousGroovePodcast Ah, you did not mention the earphones in your original comment.

@@French_Canadian_Pea_Soup Not really. He did not mention the earphones in his original comment; only that he bought the console, turned it on in the car and 'heard the stereo sound'.

I had a Sega Master and a Game Boy! Traded 2 games for it, I had Metroid 2 included in the deal. It was the perfect portable system since it was unbreakable!

Why do kids feel the need to announce when they watch a yt video 😂

On the other hand, I can scarcely believe that the Game Boy is actually older than me (only by a few months, although it didn't launch in Europe until I was a year old), when it was such a big part of my childhood. I guess part of that is how long it stuck around for, nearly 12 years (if we include the GBC), which would be unthinkable for a console "generation" these days.

The Witcher 3

Doom eternal, Hellblade

I was born in 95 and grew up with a super nintendo, game boy color, and 64, and tons of classic games. I never understood tetris. I mean I understand how to play. But I don't get why people think it's so fun. To me, it's one of the most boring games of all time. Maybe because I grew up playing things like ocarina of time, but I do like puzzle games like Mario's picross picross. I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy tetris, but I can't ever play that game for more than two or three minutes

Some GameBoy consoles in AU never had tetris with it. I still have my console but my title was Super Mario Land as an additional charge. Would have like to get tetris with it like everyone seems to claim.

@@danielburleson563it was the best when there weren’t as much choices as a poor kid. We played Tetris on our electronic dictionary devices, and that was the best thing ever. For now though, Tetris is really just a mini game.

@@user-yk1cw8im4h yeah true, that's why I think the bigger games and stuff kinda spoiled me. I can imagine that never having a handheld game would make Tetris seem really cool at the time

Oh didnt watch till u covered the audio part. Another fantastic soundtrack not many know about is Phantom Zona.