That's the most depressing thing I've ever seen. Having the memory of your deceased rabbit in a time lapse of grainy horrible pictures captured and stored in a Gameboy.

Those run faces. They're like if an Apple phone's camera had a 50% chance of a jumpscare when you press the ''take a photo'' button.

"I suppose most of the joy does come from the shootings."

I remember getting this and thinking I was seeing the best invention ever and considered it a pinnacle of human achievement

Always remember to turn on the printer. IT will remind you.

I was also scared by the faces that appear when choosing "RUN". Even now when I see them I get a little bit scared..

The game boy camera is like an irl creepy pasta.

I always remember getting excited when Nintendo announced the game boy camera was going to be compatible with perfect dark on the n64, so you could make characters out of yourself and friends. Awesome for multiplayer. But then they got cold feet and took out the feature out of fears of kids practicing shooting their school friends etc. apparently the mode is still in the code! But it put me off buying one back then. :(

I heard the next Avatar is being shot on the GameBoy Camera.

I've never seen the gameboy camera in all it's glory. It's really giving me the heebies-jeebies. Just something about the way it animates pictures and all those random doodles and bizarre pictures and animations. It's like if Cyriak was the consultant for this game/software It's really making me nervous for some reason.

This thing was honestly the eeriest thing I'd ever laid my hands on as a kid. It always felt like there was some sort of weird horror lurking within it, and the faces heavily contributed to that. Come to think of it, why did I play with this thing so much?

On the topic of disturbing images did anyone else have the misfortune of opening the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? No joke I was scared to go upstairs alone for months after seeing some of those images. On one particularly bad night I got like 3 hours of sleep because I was too busy sweating my ass off in fear under like 4 bed sheets because I was so damn scared. Don't get me wrong the stories themselves weren't bad, save for one or two, but the illustrations were among the scariest images I've seen to this day.

I used to make first person maze games using the camera and hotspot mode. Fill it up with pictures of streets, trails, rooms, etc... and link them logically with hotspots. It made for fun little games, actually.

Taking pictures of your face and using them in games reminds me of the 3DS game where you shoot balls at evil helicopter faces of yourself.

I actually liked the "Hot Spot" feature when I played this because you could arrange the photos in a way to make little games.

Oh, and dear all of us ashens fans; I've recently discovered that if you're in the DJ menu and in the mode where you can scratch on the record and what not, by pressing select it brings up a keyboard that allows you to configure the background beat and music. It's actually quite advanced for just being a little toy thing.

Was anybody else expecting Ashens to put up one of the creepy "Who are you running from?" faces at the end of the video?

Many people's introduction to digital photography. You can definitely see the somewhat quirky influence of its Japanese youth origins. The 'selfie' mode is pretty pioneering stuff. If only we knew in 1998 what we know now.

The camera has such fun little touches in the software.

The best application for the Gameboy Printer was to print out Pokedex entries.

"And on that bombshell..." Was... Was that a... TOP GEAR REFERENCE?

"You get a picture of Mario with a onion up his bum" -Ashens 2015

6:30 Ever since you said that, I never take my Game Boy Camera out again.

Neil Young apparently used the Game Boy camera for one of his album covers.

fun fact!! first watched this video when i was 13 in February 2015 and the faces that pop up in the gameboy camera software gave me horrible nightmares for about a month :D

"BALL"-Solid Snake

I liked seeing the GB Printer in action here. I always wondered how it went. I still have my old blue GB Camera somewhere though I don't know if the save battery has died yet. I never had the printer but I remember figuring out a way to transfer pictures from it to PC, from which I could print them on a regular printer if I wanted. I took a "snapshot" of the camera's save file using a GameShark (Action Reply in EU), then loaded it in a GameBoy tile data viewer -- all my photos were there, including some deleted ones if I'm remembering right. You can also transfer them to a computer using a DOS-only program that emulates a GB Printer using a link cable wired to the parallel port, and saves everything "printed" to it as a .BMP file. Also, if you rig something to hold the camera steady and have red, green and blue filters, you CAN take color photos. Take identical photos with each filter, transfer to a computer, and combine them into a single color picture in Photoshop/GIMP/Paint.NET/whatever.

...These were released the year I was born. I suddenly feel way too young to be here.

"What are you running from?"

The Game Boy Camera had Miis before it was cool.

What the heck...? This is like something you'd expect to be a creepypasta, not to have actually been made...

Alright those faces were fucking terrifying...I mean holy shit especially in the context of a shitty little Gameboy peripheral menu. This is like a Creepypasta come true.

with the music feature I now know that the gameboy printer is the mother of dubstep

I recognized Barry immediately

Dug mine out a while ago with the intention of selling. Found my camera had pics of my cat that died a few years ago on it so didn't want to let it go then. Also, I had left batteries in the printer which were now leaking all over it leaving a crystal like mess. Still had some printer paper left in it's box though all sealed up. It's kinda weird how I got such a nostalgic feeling for the camera though. It's quite a fun little thing. I kinda felt like the 3DS was paying a little bit of a homage to it with some of it's camera games and functions.

My boss gave me a Gameboy printer and camera with Pokémon Gold for Christmas last year. I didn't know how they work and that's how I found your channel and you are definitely an excellent KZfaqr

Nintendo should totally resurrect all this silliness with a Switch camera add-on!

I played the shit out of this when I was a kid. A 3Ds port would be amazing.

I like how the background music in the Ball minigame is Mayim Mayim. I can't believe I never noticed that after all these years.

The Hot-Spot feature seems a bit less crap when you realize that clever use of the jump feature can be used to create a mini 32-state adventure-type/"Myst" game.

i remember me and my dad looking for a shop that sold the camera and printer, one shop offered to sell us just the paper for the printer but none of the other things. my dad and i were pretty incredulous why anyone would think we would want the paper if we didn't have the printer.

The camera on the 3DS XL isn't much better...

I remember getting one these brand new at the store for surprisingly only $10 back in the day and I've never regretted it. The Running game was extremely addictive from what I remember and the ball game actually became kinda fun when it got to levels that made the juggling extremely fast. My favorite thing though was making stop motion looping animations with LEGO figures and clay and then making my own DJ mix for it to play to. So much simple fun from what was essentially a cheap webcam.

"Including not-yellow" is now my favorite thing.

Why the fuck have I heard of Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and Game Boy Micro but never Game Boy Light?

I remember wanting the Game Boy just for the the camera and printer! I wanted to take pictures and play with the toy thingies. I also remember reading in the instructions that you could plug the camera into a Super Game Boy to record your "animations" on VCR and even make them longer by having them on tape. Though, I imagine that'd create jumps in the video from each time you stopped and restarted the recording... Also wish I had the printer, but that never happened. You could print panoramas you took in the trick shot mode. I'm pretty surprised there where never any followups to the Game Boy Camera, no Color Camera, no GBA Camera. You could say the DSi and 3DS cameras are followups, and they are pretty nice, especially the 3DS letting you take 3D photos and video, but what about all the toys you had on the ol GB Camera? Would've been nice to have seen it evolve with more features, more pictures, more colors, more resolution, etc, but the GB Camera was one of a kind, the first and the last.

I can honestly say this is mysterious,fascinating and scary as hell man.

I love your vids, Ashens always keenly waiting for the next. Cheers from down under :)

"Shoot the boss, everybody loves you, the world ends, yaaaay" So, Space Fever 2 is essentially Evangelion, then.

I heard the next Skrillex album will be made using the DJ mini-game in Game-boy Camera.

The Game Boy Camera was released in 1998?! The Nintendo 64 had been released for 2 years (in Japan at least) at that point, amazing.

Hurrah at last! Been waiting for this for a while. Loved it. =)

"Most of the joy comes from the shootings." Stuart Ashen, 2015.

Where's my selfie stick?

I helped a friend clean out their crawlspace a few years ago, and we actually found a gameboy printer and camera, new in the box. He gave them to me, and to my surprise they worked exactly as I remembered them working when they were new to the market.

I remember one of the kids on the school bus having a Game Boy Camera. And I still remember the fucking jingle from the commercials.

I bought these years ago, my camera is yellow too! (I think)

I loved the music in this game when a was little

A new 22 minute long Ashens video. I'm so happy c:

the frame rate gets faster (up to around 15-20 FPS) in bright conditions but it also uses more power in bright conditions in fact if the battery is low enough you can see the power LED flickering as the image is updated

Could have sworn that first celebrity photo was Anne Frank.

I thought the picture of Barry was Gabe Newell.

I work at tesco, and the printer we used a few years back to print reduction labels looked exactly like that

I still miss my old copy of it... I don't know where it is thanks to moving like 10 times. But I do remember figuring out that the pictures I printed was also stickers and shat my pants!

"Who are you running from?" -GameBoy Camera

But Ashens, I was going to sleep!

I had the camera and the printer but had completely forgotten until this video jogged my memory. Extreme nostalgia.

I remember having the Game Boy Color game Super Mario Bros. Deluxe and you could unlock pictures that you could print with the Game Boy Printer. I never actually had the printer, though.

Not yellow is my favourite colour.

I still got the Gameboy Camera and printer! I no longer use them!

Finally, part 4! Great video as always :)

Back when I was a kid, I remember taking pictures all around my neighbourhood and in the woods and using the hotspot feature to make my own little point and click adventure games

Why does ashens know what the Moomins is? Hell, why do I know what the Moomins is?

I demand a printer for the 3DS! Nintendo

Great video brings back memorys !

Thank you for reminding me of my childhood. Pretty sure i lost mine/dads ten years ago... and that was just 2005

14:52 Took 796 shots deleted 837 shots. So - 41 shots in the camera??

I used to own a camera...then I decided to press RUN

Yay! I was waiting for this to come out :3

Loved that thing so much. Spent hours making short animations on it. Even the time lapse function was interesting, because while you could only take 30 shots, you could have them at really long intervals. If you kept it plugged in you could take 30 photos spread over 12hrs or something like that.

I wonder if Stuart's profile picture for his extras channel was taken using that camera

Part 5: game boy colour and advance Where is it Stuart?!

Been waiting forever for this episode and it did not meet my expectations. (The tat)

It's really quite amazing that they put this many Easter eggs in a game like this, I wish people still did that kind of stuff. It might be "just a print game" but it looks like somebody put a lot of thought into it.

I know two games that utilize the GB Printer: Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver

Dancing miyamoto is best waifu

I loved this thing back in the day!

I have never seen a Game Boy Printer in action before this day. Today is a good day for me. Thank you, Ashens.

Damn you Ashens, my router glitched and i lost connection so in the middle of the video it said that stupid message "An error has occurred, please try again later" so i thought it is one of your shinenigans and stared at it for 20seconds like an idiot in vain hope the video will resume. Somehow this is your fault so you should be ashamed!

The stuff on the camera reminds me of WarioWare Inc..

I'm new to the channel! Enjoying everything I've seen so far! Keep up the good work!

Glad you are still on your Gameboy odyssey. Recently got a Super Gameboy for the SNES and it makes a surprising difference when playing games on the big screen and with a proper controller.

"inception of face eating"

i thought the tom cruise picture was anne frank

I had the blue Gameboy Camera and I loved it so much, in fact I still have it somewhere, presumably still with the pictures I took with it about 11 years ago.

thank goodness for you tube it means we can watch something other than mainstream tv,I really think ashens will and should be mainstream, thanks ashen for all your good work.

Me: during the first bit of the video: "Please don't choose 'run', please don't choose 'run' ple- *cringe* ooo he chose 'run'" Also, I just realized that I had let Simon Pegg's face replace Stuart's face in my mind. They looks somewhat similar, but I was a tad surprised, because I hadn't seen Stuart's face in a long time. I felt like an idiot.

Hello

God, I remember this. When my friend got this, it was the most amazing thing ever... And when he got a game boy colour, it blew our minds.

I love this so much for it's uniqueness