you missed something very important about why Nintendo DS and DSi were such a success. In poor countries or countries where we couldn't buy or afford buying game cartridges, sellers were offering homebrew cartridges with SD cards where you can download and play roms. this made the sales explode in countries where nintendo traditionally has no presence

Haven’t even seen it yet but you know it’s gonna be a W

I bought a DS for my dad for his birthday, my mom said she wanted one for Christmas the same year. They were smokers at the time and you could always find them sitting on their porch each playing their DS. They were both in their late fifties. They started with rain teasers and bundle games with sudoku and puzzles and moved on to Mario Kart and Zelda. My mom has replayed Ocarina of Time several times😂

19:11 Wow, those words hurt, because the 2ds was my first Nintendo handheld and I absolutely love it.

This is a really good collection, but before the Game Boy Color there was also the Game Boy Pocket. This was a slimmed down version of the first Game Boy that required fewer batteries. There was also the Game Boy Light, which is essentially the Game Boy Pocket that had a backlit display and only released in Japan. Game Boy Micro was an interesting release and you can consider it the Game Boy Advance slim.

12:24 that ds noise… I don’t know how to explain it, it’s so nostalgic and making me Fr have a existential crisis

You forgot: Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Light

I really don’t understand how he uploads so frequently and the quality is still WAY better than any other channel I watch. It’s very impressive, and with the amount of time (and money) you put into your videos, you deserve to get to 20 million subs!

This video captured this feeling of the progression from one console to the next so well. I found myself being impressed by 20 year old tech.

8:05 zelda and the minish cap... my favorite game, i played that when i was 8 years old in a trip... bring sooo much memory the game is kinda hard but its so simple and high quality for that year

Actually the original GBA SP had a front lit display. They released a backlit model later on.

The nostalgia on these videos is absolutely OFF THE CHARTS! Incredibly fun to take a dive back considering handheld gaming was the beginning for many gamers. Please keep videos like this coming!

That calculator at 1:19 is one if the most wholesome things I’ve ever seen on this channel 🥹

The way he can just make 40 year old technology sound new is just incredible!

dude missed the Gameboy micro

well the gameboy color was my second nintendo handheld device of my childhood so i had a clear clamshell that somehow isnt yellow stained so well done arun. thanks for bringing me nostalgia, japanese exclusive pokemon yellow and tetris was my favourite game.

This takes me back. Thank you 🙏

I played my 3DS to death when it came out. And I absolutely loved those 'gimmicks' (face raiders, AR cards, etc.) God knows how many hours I spent on those alone. Not to mention Streetpass / Spotpass. I was obsessed lol.

The DS, and specifically the DS Lite and DSi, was basically my whole childhood as a kid born in 2003. I have so many memories of a thing called Summer School that my local nursery did where kids up to the age of 9 could go there during the day in summer and basically do nothing. There was like me and 2 or 3 other people who consistently brought our DSs and played Mario Kart against each other for hours. I even still sometimes play my DSi XL which was the last DS console I owned just because I love the nostalgia of playing the same games I spent so much of my childhood playing. It's kind of a shame current kids and the next gen of kids aren't gonna have an experience like that. Thanks for the throwback mate!

7:29 "this is gonna be a memeorable startup screen" (clicks Button) ad starts playing😂😂😂

This series is so interesting, there’s so many more consoles to talk about like PSP, Xbox, Sega and so much more. You should definitely do more in the future!

It’s interesting how Arun has managed to bring that highly excited, fast paced style that so often gets associated with KZfaqrs with younger audiences but maintains not only a maturity but a distinct kind of calm that seems to keep his videos from being overwhelming despite all the graphics and movement in the edit. I really don’t understand how it works but I know it’s the reason this is the only tech channel I really seek out or rewatch videos from. Like, it doesn’t get boring or out of my scope despite me being largely uninitiated but it also doesn’t make me feel like I’m being talked down to or like I’m interacted with like a child

Thats a cool video down memory lane! The pace is just perfect

I remember that on the 22nd of December, 2017, I had finally, after 12 years, worn out my DS. I was playing Mario Bros at 12:30 a.m., and the button to turn it off wouldn't go down, so that's when I realized I had finally worn it out and then got a 2DS a month after it was thrown out

Just as an aside, the GBA SP had two different models. The AGS-001, which had a front-lit display, and the AGS-101, with a backlit one. Most people remember the latter, but I have the former. If you pressed the button with the sun on it, it essentially turned the screen into the original GBA’s. 🙂

What's incredible to me is how I often would end up getting a new handheld system roughly every time I got a new Pokemon game. First the Gameboy with Pokemon Red, then the Gameboy Color with Pokemon Silver. My cousins got the GBA and then a year later got the SP so I got their old GBA and grabbed Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Firered. Then I got my DS Lite and with that came Pokemon Pearl, Pokemon SoulSilver and Pokemon White. My DS Lite was my go to for years and only briefly did I get a New 3DS XL (for Pokemon X of course) before finally getting the Switch for Sword and Shield, Scarlet and Violet and Arceus. The evolution of Nintendo handhelds was in many ways assisted by the Pokemon franchise.

I missed the NINTENDO MINI CLASSICS , that would have been the dot on the i. But overall a great video, thank you very much for this recap!

4:03 the way he slammed that cartridge into the gameboy made me jump☠ would never do that in 1 million years lol

So many good memories with the 3DS… whether it be playing Pokémon with my friends, or playing Mario Kart at 10PM and hiding it under my pillow when my parents came in… That handheld brought me so much joy

The 3D effect on the N3DS was amaazing! by the way you forgot about the Gameboy Micro

A memory that really sticks with me is when we did dance competitions when I was about 12/13 and so many people had a Nintendo DS, and we would Pictochat with a whole bunch of strangers across this huge hall. We had so much fun chatting and being silly.

This video deserves a big thumbs up!❤ I would love to know what you spent on total for all those sealed consoles! 😅😅

I noticed you left out a few revisions of the Gameboy, like the Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Light and the Gameboy Micro. And you also didn't talk about the Pokemon Mini devices, either. And even though I personally don't count it as such, technically the Virtual Boy is technically considered a handheld device by Nintendo. Definitely should do a third video on the obscure Nintendo devices.

Game and Watch (1980) - 0:10 Game Boy (1989) - 2:00 Game Boy Color (1998) - 4:17 Game Boy Advance (2001) - 6:17 Game Boy Advance SP (2003) - 8:30 DS (2004) - 9:14 DS Lite (2005) - 13:07 DSi (2009) - 13:34 3DS (2011) - 14:54 2DS (2013) - 19:01 New 3DS (2015) - 19:17 Switch (2017) - 20:05 OLED Switch (2021) - 21:13 Switch Lite (2019) - 21:50

i had a mario kart 7 edition 3ds on my birthday a few years ago. The switch didnt exist so i was really excited. Even tho i have a Xbox series x now, its still really good when im going somewhere.

Love the Shadowless Charizard at 4:20

Congrats on your 13 million subs! This video really dragged me back to my childhood

The way that Arun looked like it's his first time seeing the handheld devices, his genuine amazement added more in this video. Nintendo was such a big part of my childhood and seeing all of these, just takes me back. Thank you for this 😊

Hey Arun, i noticed you didn't cover the Gameboy Micro during the transition from the Gameboy SP to the DS. I remember when i was in Junior High i had the sp growing up along with a few friends in band class and other classes, that i eventually got the Micro and it was a gamechanger from how small it was to put in my pocket with it's microfiber case and wasn't a bulge in my pocket or digging into my thigh. The screen was also a lot brighter and felt a lot crisper. That and i think it had a longer play time. I reviewed specs and it says it was worse than the SP but i couldnt see much of a difference. Would be a cool idea if you did a review on it lol. But this and the Sony Handheld videos were great and love the quality of the vids, that i started a rabbit hole into your channel, as I'm also a big game/console collector as well.

Im feeling so Nostalgic...the Gameboy Advance was my First Every Mobile Gaming Console, and that little device has survived over 20+ years of wear and tear and still works and plays Super Mario like a Champ! I vaguely still remember when i was shopping with my parents when they bought it for me. Ah Good Memories...

I am a child of the very early 80s, and that original gameboy was my first handheld device. This video brought back so many memories as I haven't seen that thing in decades. Arun, my brothers and I were big into gaming, and there were some high end, expensive systems that were released in Japan around the same time that were significantly better than what we had in the U.S. My family bought them at a specialty gaming store in the late 80s or early 90s. One was Turbo Graphics 16 (or something like that). It had these really small cards that acted as the games, and this was when we had those large Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges (though the Sega's were a bit smaller as far as I remember. The graphics on that Turbo Graphics 16 was revolutionary. Also, the best handheld of all time was released around the same time, the Turbo Express, which was about the size of a gameboy but played the full fat turbo graphics 16 games. And it was color! It was amazing. Lastly, and the best system IMO ever released for its era, was the Neo Geo. It had these massive cartridges, but the graphics were like nothing that would be seen for years after. It felt like you were playing arcade games in your home, which was amazing at the time. Not sure if these things will ever make their way into a video, but trust me as someone who grew up at that time, they really changed the entire landscape of home gaming.

I still remember buying the Oled Switch last year, booting it up and seeing how crisp the quality it is. I'd owned a GBSP and a DS when I'm still a kid, and then only owned smartphones as a handheld device, so the Switch truly amazed me. Even till this day everytime I boot it up once a while it still surprised me and some part in me will just quietly screams "Good god this looks amazing"

1:35 Oh boy I remember finding a Donkey Kong 'gameboy' like that on an airport somewhere in Spain back in the 90's when I was a small kid. I played the shit out of it during the flight and for some reason I believed that it was actually mine haha!

9:51 oh my goodness the Nintendo 3ds or 2ds I can't remember which one lol but it was the first gaming device I got. Brings me so much memories back 😢.sadly I don't know where mine is but Im going to start looking.

Great video as always. I definitely enjoyed the stroll down memory lane. One console that was notably absent was the 2DSXL which was (as far as I recall) released after the 3DS and was approximately the same hardware but without the 3-D effect on the upper screen.

I actually loved the Nintendo 2DS. I bought it during my apprenticeship when I didn't had the budget for a 3DS. I could play all of my old DS games but also enjoy newer games. I had around 2.5 hours daily commute and it made many long train rides enjoyable.

My first handheld gadget was the Game Boy Advanced in Pink with see through case. I was in Highschool. I was stupid that I sold it but I bought it back. Then my next Handheld was the Game Boy Micro.

I loved playing on my 3ds xl! I remember these nights where i build myself a castle with pillows and then play with my 3ds the next mission in Luigis mansion dark moon. Aww man the good old times i will miss them 🥲

Seeing how far games have come really crazy, coming from just a small time passer, to a device u can sit down and play with the family is amazing, I love these videos

17:13 “Omg, i forgot there was a joystick” -Arun, 2023

His brother be jealous of you now😂

going back in time. I love seeing the consoles that were before my time. :)

1:18 I see what you did there 😂

@10:00 you forget to mention the major element that led to DS being touch.. they were competing with the PALM pilot, and with the blackberry cellphones... iphones were the genereation AFTER that, way later. Like 7 years later.

The new 3ds with the changeable faceplates is my favourite console. The form factor, the feel of the hardware and the games library are unmatched

you're missing the Gameboy light, Gameboy micro, Gameboy pocket, Pokémon Mini, new 3ds xl and new 2ds xl so technically you didn't buy all of the Nintendo handhelds (pls see this comment and add them in)

Nintendo will always be the handheld GOAT. It's so cool to see the entire history of the hardware laid out like this, massive nostalgia hit.

14:02 - Thank you so much Arun for using my footage in your video! I was ecstatic when I saw my name there in the corner!

I’ll never forget the day I got my transparent purple game boy color… it was life changing. I just bought my daughter the oled switch and she couldn’t care any less lol

Nintendo Gameboy was my very first ever video game console. It's what I grew up on. It's all I knew. And it was very fun and great memories

Amazing video!

Amazing video as always but I'm afraid you forgot or didn't mention the "New 2DS XL". The last 3DS revision that Nintendo released, which is exactly what the name implies. The (slightly) improved hardware of the New 3DS, a bigger form factor and an all around really slick design, just without 3D.

Now I am waiting for Arun to do "I bought every sega console ever!"

19:07 I CAN FEEL THE NOSTALGIA This was my first introduction to Nintendo :D

There was actually one handheld you missed, the Gameboy Micro, not many people knew about it cause it didn't sell well, but it was basically a tiny version of the Gameboy Advance without the backwards compatibility

My first model was the 2ds version for the ds. I got it in 2017 when I was going to my grandparents and we stopped at meijer and i got it. It was on chrostmas eve. It was a part of my Christmas present. It was a huge flex to bring to school since I was the only kid with one

7:12 Most played part 😂😂

I love the way you look at the evolution of these. It would have never crossed my mind to think: the GBA has so many more colours than the GBC. But it is kinda mind blowing, indeed!

When 3DS launched, it also was the peak of 3D smartphones and TVs, I remember my friends having a Motorola or Samsung with the 3D camera as well.

The Gameboy is as old as I am and I have such fond memories growing up playing Pokemon on it. And I'd had one version or another of every one of these consoles since then.

Who’s the boss is honestly the best item reviewer because he has good quality videos, good editing, fast uploads, it’s a subscriber paradise! Keep it up, Boss.

Love the fact he always hides a hilarious Easter egg in his videos 😂 1:19

He's been skipping over some of the systems like the Game boy pocket and Game boy light and the Game boy advance sp with the updated screen. There's even the GBA eye strain Edition that was super tiny. Also I'm very confused why the pokémon mini exists.

Just bought my kid the OLED switch yesterday and the screen is AMAZING. I’m kinda bummed though that the switch 2 is coming out in like 6 months…. Didn’t realize that until today lol

Video idea: you should continue the series by testing every single windows OS with a computer from the time of it's launch. It would be pretty epic 😀

This is incredible. It’s so awesome to see you go through all these handhelds. Plus, you now have thousands of new games to enjoy too!

Awesome video :) Just as a side note, didn't the Sega Game Gear do all that Nintendo color did? But in 1991? It had full color, cartridges etc? I had the game gear back in the day, and loved playing sega classics in full color.

Gameboy sp was my first handheld that i had and i regret it not keeping care of it since, brings so many memories playing spiderman and tmnt

Hey Arun, I'm here to correct you a little: The GBA SP had two versions. The one you showed is actually the frontlit AGS-001 model. Big N released a little later the AGS-101 model which was actually Backlit and was brighter than the model before (and I think it had a better speaker and more battery time but I'm not sure rn)

Watched this so many times since it’s release and it’s only been a few months. Genuinely the execution of this vid is nothing short of perfection!

I had heard of that 3D tech in modern laptops and stuff, but I didn't realize Nintendo had already done it.

I wasn't at all excited about the DS's two screens until I got one as a gift 😆

16:06 He could say Nin10Do Missed opportunity

13:35 ds was a big part of my childhood but when I got the dsi it was great. I spent who knows how many hours playing with the camera. Then one day my uncle gave me his sd card and we were able to put the pictures onto the Wii and it was great. It was my first portable camera

Nintendo is iconic and gave joy and laughter to many generation of kids, im so gratefull for that

4:38 game boy color was also my 1st gaming console. Missing those days 💔

I'm loving this whole ''I bought every'' idea, it's very cool, and it would be cooler to make it on other things too

It took me a year to see his cat is at the back. 😅

Gotta love the limited version super expensive charizard on the table when he unpacking the 3ds. (I could be wrong but it does look like it)

19:19 i got my hands on New3DS XL for the first time i think back in 2021, and i fell in love with it 😂 feels so modern and also bigger than the DSi. I’m so amazed on first boot because icons and text literally floating at the screen like How is this possible!? 🤣

12:35 when you wanted to use the stylus but didn't know what to draw ... you write your name XD

0:29 damn that’s insane bro. 43 years old that thing is now? Making me feeling old as hell right now, I’m 37 right now, this thing making me feel like it’s my older brother right now 😂

I watch this video every day and never get sick of it. I wish Mr Whoistheboss would see this sir.

I love this series that you have with game consoles! Thank you man!

This video is utter brilliance. The content, production value, presentation, pacing and passion are all of the very highest level. Pure quality.

I remember salivating over the Advance SP even tho I already had a GBA

8:53 The Nintendo GameBoy SP is front-lit. Only the S101 where backlit

These videos are such a delight, so much joy and happiness on screen that i end up smiling through out the video

Great video. I think you missed a couple. Like the Gameboy Pocket, the GBA Micro, and the New 2DS XL. They each had their own reasons for being notable but I can also understand why they might be easy to overlook. But beyond that it was a great video on the history and timeline of the big N's handhelds. Got my sub for it. Imma go watch your backlog as well. Keep it up.

Awesome video! And thanks for the dedication! One thing to add, you forgot the New 2DS console.