the letters in color are each of the colors the unit was sold in. the transparent one is the u.

I remember that exact Harry Potter game. I have a cute story about it as well. I was like 7 at the time when I won my Gameboy from a chip packet competition. Got Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for Christmas later. There was a part of the game - Charms Class - where you had to remember Professor Flitwick's movements as he levitated a variety of objects. According to Dad after I asked him for help, it was impossible to remember the number of moves you were expected to remember to progress. As a youngling, it was upsetting for me that I couldn't get past this seemingly simple puzzle. So, my parents decided to help. Mum sat down with a notepad, while Dad watched the screen and helped me remember all the movements. Together, the three of us overcame charms class; Dad would call out the motions, Mum would transcribe them, then she'd read them back to us as I input the movements. My parents were never a big fan of video games at all, so to this day it's a fond memory because they went to that trouble. Thanks Mum and Dad. For anyone curious, the actual fight with Voldemort was easier than bloody charms class.

"This does suffer from difficult to see the fucking screen syndrome" Why is this such an underrated Ashens quote?

Never actually noticed "colour" is spelled the US way on them XD Looked it up and apparently it was actually a way to spot fakes, as fakes made for the UK market had it spelled the UK way.

Nowadays backwards compatability just means "buy it again on the digital store or get the HD rereleased edition". (Also I remember someone bringing to school a "non legit" copy of pokemon yellow long before it was meant to be out here, my mind was blown)

I always liked the clear ones, you can see the guts and as an engineer that pleases me.

I knew an old man down our street that really loved minor willy... Never peg'd him as a game boy fan but you know. Guess he must have been pirating cuz the police came to take him away.

They didn't change the spelling of colour because each letter of 'color' was supposed to represent a colour the system came in.

Ashens, you make me feel so old by reviewing the game boy as if people have never seen one before e_e;

god I miss translucent controllers. The only ones that exist now are dodgy third party controllers, for the most part.

Anybody else want to see a ds extravaganza?

2:29 WHY DOES ASHENS HAVE AN EXTRA THUMB???

Oh Lord, I have fond memories of Harry Potter on the GB color. The game wasn't that great and I got stuck a lot, but I used to play it all the time when I was a kid.

I still have and use that exact slime monster light.

I loved the translucent colors. Kind of the unofficial colors of the N64 and GBC era. I notice the translucent purple has different buttons.

Hey that gameboy is more advanced than my phone because. It has a headphone jack

Shantae is cool. I have Risky's Revenge. I'm really bad at it, but it's a really nice game. Also I'm pretty sure those modding places also do backlight mods for Game Boys too. You don't need to go for a Chinese rip-off with an awful D-pad.

"Recording from the radio is a really good way to get your channel kicked straight in the knackers" 😂 I don't know why but I found that sentence funny AF

The thumbnail looks like an eldritch hand-shaped sludge creature’s about to consume your Game Boy Colour from top to bottom.

0:50 Did he just say "Whatever throats your boat?"

Oh my god I never new that I started watching Ashens so early in his KZfaq career. I've been subed since about 10,000 and now he is at one million. Wow I'm so happy for him and I I'm also happy that his work paid off 😀

Ok i have to ask WHO THE FUCK is that guy that keeps flashing on screen?I see him on EVERY VIDEO!Who is this mysterious man?

"difficult to see the fucking screen syndrome" -Ashens 2015

I remember the blob, even had a hard case accessory for my gbc and a 6volt translucent plug for play without batteries. I really miss those days, thank you for reviewing this stuff.

Somehow, every single video of yours makes me laugh pretty damn hard. I've got no explanation except the fact that I love the way you speak.

Difficult To See The Fucking Screen Syndrome (DTSTFSS) Didn't know a Gameboy could get that

The light I remember everyone having looked more like one of those little reading lights, but rather than a battery tube with a blue on it, it plugged into the socket on the device. I guess it was called a Worm light.

Thanks for showing that stuff off, I think I want to play Shantae now at some point! I used to have a fun little attachment for my GBC, it was a big magnifying glass with lights on both sides. It did a reasonable job lighting up the screen, but basically you still couldn't play Game Boy in the dark or in the bright sunlight. My first game on the GBC was a Pokemon Gold & Silver 2-in-1 cartridge from Thailand. The translation was best described as "So Bad It's Good" and it's a miracle that kid me managed to beat it, too. (Or Gold at least).

The Harry Potter RPG series, while short lived, is an amazing one. The first is okay, but the second and third games, Chamber of Secrets for Game Boy Color, and Prisoner of Azkaban for GBA, are absolutely amazing.

Wow, I remember my days in elementary school when all the rich kids got a Game Boy Color. So beautiful, so futuristic... it was my dream to have one. A dream that never came true. Well, at least I've got a (currently broken) Nintendo DS now :D

I remember have like a magnifying glass with lights on the sides which worked perfectly fine at late car trips

"is mixed" presuming the meant to say that it uses dithering to simulate more colours.

I can remember sitting in the car using my iPod touch to light up my Gameboy Color

The power base converter actually didn't have any master system hardware in it at all. It was simply a cartridge form factor and pinout conversion. The Genesis actually was backwards compatible with the master system, and contained all the hardware needed to run the master system games other than the cartridge slot.

So glad you're continuing this!

I imagine the reason why it's the "Game Boy Color" is due to trademark. That's literally the trademark name, with that spelling. Guess they didn't want to bother with an additional trademark when it was such a minor difference to the spelling. Someone else almost certainly would have said this before (I'm slow to get to YT videos, way too many subscribed channels).

B and Left gives you the black and white style

The transparent purple model at the beginning doesn"t have its original buttons (unless there is a special model in the UK or somewhere else having these, but the original are black).

13:16 WTF was that?!

Wario Land 3 was a pretty good gbc game

that GBC display is so crisp it makes me moist

Funnily enough, the Mega Drive's Master System converter had little to NO guts in it. The MD's chipset was 100% compatible with the SMS and the converter was nothing more than a passthru adaptor and a pause button.

Its funny, one of these Gameboy videos you did got me into your channel and now I'm watching your friend Elliot, TheRetroFutures channel and am into modding and collecting gameboys myself

Wow Shantae looked a lot different back in the day.

Man, the aspect ratio is completely off on the GB Boy Colour. It's correct on the box image but the actual device itself seems to be 4:3 while a Gameboy is 10:9

No, the best way to play gbc games would be the GBA SP AGS-101.

So many memories of that Harry Potter game came flooding back to me when that menu music started playing.

I had serious nostalgia watching this, the clicks of putting in the cartridge and turning it on and the little jingle, brought be back. Anyway, that cartridge with the SD card was so weird.

Shantae on GBC. Amazing game. Amazing and fluid animation. It almost rivals an early gba game, ironically.

Duke Nukem, Spiderman 2 and Perfect Dark were some of my favorites on the Game Boy Color as a kid. Never heard anyone talk about any of these games lol

I love you Stuart, both of your channels are awesome, This one and Barshens. Your videos are always enjoyable and interesting and I know no matter what it's about any video uploaded by you is worth a watch. Keep it up man! Also who's face is it at 4:20 and 13:18? I hate to admit but it actually made me flinch.

Thats awesome and to think at the time I missed all this because I was too younge thanks you ashens. :)

Wait what? That was a year ago already?!

+ashens Something to keep in mind on the Kongfeng GB Boy Colour is that even if the screen is nice and all with backlight and good contrast; it's still in the wrong resolution and aspect ratio. So you get mushy pixels and bit squished image.

"Around this time last year, we had a similar video..." Up next in the KZfaq list, that exact video. Nice.

Finishing this video is like finishing a hot pocket or an episode of rick and morty. It makes you feel so complete

My science teacher gave me a lower grade on my homework because I accidentally wrote color instead of colour because I was playing on my gameboy color on the night I did it. He gave me a lower grade because I spelt it the American way. Thanks gameboy!

Lol, I had those "18 in 1" cartridges as a kid. I swear I think DKC or a game like that was in German. That joke brought back some memories! :D

I've had a gameboy color for 10 years and I had no idea you could change colors for gameboy games. Thanks, ashens.

I love these vids and your action figure videos

the reason its spelled color is because every letter is one of the colors it came in

who is that guy that flash on the screen at 13:17

another amazing and halarious video by ashens 😀👍👏👏👏👏

That light was successful BECAUSE IT'S AMAZING. I want one for my Gameboy Color right now!

A lot of gaming channels use the Super Game Boy to record their Game Boy gameplay

Ive held that Gbboy because im the one who sold him it :P Was waiting on this review for a while. keep up the good work Ashens :)

that blob light brings back alooottt of memories lol.

I never saw The Blob back in my GBC days, but I remember I did have another light that Nyko produced called the "Worm Light". It basically looked like a little, blue street lamp on a coiled-up wire. It was wicked cool at the time, and since it was adjustable, it was easy to angle it so that the reflection of the LED could be hidden. When the GBA came out, though, I upgraded to the UFO Light. It was similar in concept, but instead of a coiled wire, it had a big, kinda blobby-looking tube thing, which bulged out at the connector port, and tapered up to the light. I think the light cover was interchangeable, as well.

"Ruptured with Horror" sounds like a bad garage metal band.

Fun tip that might piss you off if you used to own one of these. Alot of kids like myself didn't know that if you turned the game boy on while holding a number of combinations of buttons, you can change the colour pallet for black and white gameboy games so it doesnt default to that shitty green and blue. You can use up to 3or4 colours and you can pick a colour scheme that matches the game alot better.

In the usa, i had a cover for my gameboy color, which lite it up, and made the screen seem bigger though a magnifying glass. It was awesome and worked great.

That "The Blob" thing or whatever you called it, I thought it looked pretty damn cool. XD It looks like a Resident Evil type collectible thingy.

Even as an American, I still think that "color" looks weirder than "colour".

Oh hey, I got the limited edition of that Yellow Gameboy Color. Well... Had. Bastards stole it.

The color on the GameBoy color is just magical how good the colors look to me it looks better than screens today

Ah seeing that translucent purple Game Boy Color brings back memories. :)

IIRC, Left+B played the games in black and white, which is what I always used.

The main reason for the Gameboy Color was the improved screen that nearly removed the blur that happened when ever things moved on the screen as the Original Gameboy suffered from.

I had the lime green GBC, and alongside it many purple accessories, including a rechargeable attachment for the batteries (plus speaker enhancement, I believe). That must have been a godsend for my parents.

Hey Ashens, The GameBoy Color was a total revelation to me as a kid. I was 10 when I first got one and got to play Pokemon Silver, DejaVU I &II, Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons, Army Men Sarge's Heroes, and more. I've found out that there is a whole library of amazing games for the color too in the way of Konami Compilations and original games like wario land 3!

I find the best way to play Game Boy games is on a Game Boy Advance SP.

Am I the only one who finds the GBC a pretty little beast?

Man I remember having this, I also had Pokemon Crystal my favorite of the 2nd gen Pokemon games..

I had this on in the background and the second the Tetris theme started playing I moved exactly like Ashens did with the gameboy

harry potter and the philosopher stone??? has harry potter been doing HUMAN TRANSMUTATION?!

ashens you have to admit though for a pirated harry potter game it looks like its very playable and not boring. some gameboy games were boring and some were fun.

The purple GBC and Link's awakening were my main entertainment in the army.Highly recommend this combo.

I remember the first time I discovered the pallet swap trick on the Gameboy color. It blew my mind.

13:16

anyone else noticed the thing at 04:20 ?

Ashens: another interesting feature about the solid-black GBC carts was that on some games, there were enhanced features exclusive to the Super Game Boy. It might be SGB-exclusive colours, borders, or sometimes both. One game that was a good example of this was "Dragon Warrior I&II". Also, Japan got lucky with a re-release of the SGB where the speed was fixed. Apparently it, or the Game Boy Player at AGDQ are all they take for speedruns or smth.

A couple of games had quite advanced Super Gazebos features. Wario Blast let you play with upto 4 players on one screen, Killer Instinct let you play multiplayer with a link cable, and there was a Space Invaders port which included a full on SNES version on the cartridge which you could play instead of the game boy one.

Best way to play Game Boy Color games without emulation, modding or dodgy clones is with a GBA SP. It'll also play Game Boy Classic and Advance games, and it's neat and compact.

You can still buy the mighty GB boy colour in Aliexpress.

I had the see-through one as a kid :P I liked looking at all the stuff in it :3

"and they be whinin'" so true.

Do what you want cause a pirate is free! YOU ARE A PIRATE!

wasnt the master system convertor just a pass through as the megadrive had the master systems cpu?

Can't wait for the inevitable Virtual Boy review...

oh my god, someone else on the planet had that blob light? I got it for christmas from my brother something like 17 years ago. It wasn't perfect, but it actually was quite nice for letting me actually see the damn screen at night -- and it looked pretty cool, I think! I haven't seen that thing in so many years, that's nostalgic. Surprised there was no going into detail about the GB camera / printer, but I guess they weren't technically GBC exclusives...