15+ Hours of research went into this video. Huge thank you to Alex for the translations and Sendico for making this happen. I REALLY hope you enjoy this video!!! Sendico - bit.ly/2uH5yJk

The ironic thing about it glowing in the dark is that you can't even see the screen in the dark

-Glows in the dark -Still no backlight

"Dude, I won a glow-in-the-dark handheld from Nintendo!" "Tubular, homie, let's play it in the dark so we can watch it glow while we play!" "Yeah, about that..."

Well it’s a mystery, but at least you have one of the coolest pockets in the world now! Nice video!

- What's so special about it? - It's green.

*I'M SO EXCITED* **show no emotion**

Hey I care about the mouse.

Fair play the ONLY sponsor I’m actually going to go ahead and use!!! U LEGEND!

-Ah yes, we're gonna make this one special! -How special? -You know the Game Boy doesn't glow right? You know people complain they can't see it in the night right? -Oh, you want to commission Game Boys with backlit screens? -What? I mean the Game Boys that glow, not screens that glow! -Oh. Oh...

i love all glow in the dark stuff, i wish they'd do something like this with the newer consoles

Hey, I actually have one of these! Thanks for doing all that research. It's awesome to learn more about it!

1:42 Ah yes. My favourite emo band My Remical Chomance

" hey siri" 😪 "go away"

Fantastic vid man, thank you so much for going the extra mile and helping re-piece together Game Boy history!

I care about the Apple mouse! 🥰 (Also: it’s “genki” like gecko. You shoulda asked Alex! He did a great job. 😉)

Japan really cherish their collectibles and I'm here for it.

Within hours of the posting of this video - Nintendo announces the all-new Glow-in-the-Dark Switch Lite!

This is instantly my new favorite official Gameboy colorway. The Pocket is so under-rated, but at the time, it was a huge step up from the DMG in every aspect. People honk a lot about it not having a backlight, but Nintendo tried that with the GB Light and the screen kinda sucked and ate batteries. The backlit handhelds of the time were the same way. It just wasn't possible at the time to be cheap, power efficient, and backlit. The high contrast screen on the pocket made a big difference, and I played many night time hours with just a small worm light attachment. I still look forward to someone figuring out a 1:1 OLED mod for the Pocket with crisp blacks like the Arduboy. The trick will probably be getting 4 shades out of it.

that gameboy is so crazy. the lack of uv pigment in it while it was locked away. showed up like crazy when you took it out. it slowly turned from a ugly green to a briliant lime green within seconds taken out the box. super cool!

I love that he is telling people that they shouldn't take everything as fact in a sponsored video, I love this channel.

I appreciate you thanking my mum at the end of the video 😊

If I had a company and were sponsoring a youtuber, after all this cautions, I'd end the contract immediately. Awesome video, as always.

4:45 For a second I though he said “I’m really excited to crap on to this box” 😂🤣

the shade of green you are using is one of the most beautiful colours i have ever seen and it was a genius idea to use it for your channel.

Wow, now that is a collection piece! Only 1,999 to go!

I am so jealous. I have wanted one of those for years but they are so out of my price range. Congrats on obtaining one.

Dammmn, I saw it on eBay few weeks ago... Savage.

You legit set off my Siri when you said “Hey Siri” I was like what the hell man 😂

As if your content already wasn't epic enough, now we get to see this. Amazing job man! 👍

Man, I had a gameboy when I was in the army back in 92, it was great for down time.

If only this wasn't so limited that colour is the nicest I've seen on a GB

I would say you could put in a drop in backlight kit, but I wouldn't want to even think about modifying this beauty.

Maybe it was a golden ticket like thing with the Medarot game, where a select number of copies contained a survey page that you would need to send in to get the Game Boy? I'm not sure, just spitballing here XD Eitherway, really cool video! Never knew this existed!

Glad you purchased such a cool looking Gameboy! The color and condition is magnificent!

“Hey siri , go away” My siri boxes at home “ahuh okay” Me starteld almost to dead 😂

You should make a replica of this... But using the GBC's hardware specs, a backlit transflective screen, and using a 3D printed case using LIT glow-in-the-dark pigment.

Elliot, I think this is probably the most exciting video in your channel so far. I hope you can find any information about the origin of this GBC. Also I think it should be interesting to have a video in your channel showing how to preserve a console in good shape, how to storage it. Congratulations from Argentina

We can really see your excitement :D Cheers to you Eliot!

Great job on this one bro! I can't wait to hear the full story later on. You really have something special!

Medarot was released the same year 1997 but in November, where MRC was in July. So clearly the campaigns can't have happened at the same time, because you clearly stated the first competition would end in September. So it seams fair to reason that after the competition of MRC ended in September it was clear to Genki they had a surplus of these Game Boys and decided to do a campaign with Medarot. However unless something has been lost in translation, the Medarot campaign doesn't have to have been a competition as well, could also have been done with early orders of Medarot. The best chance we have of knowing about this is probably getting somebody fluent in Japanese to look through gaming magazines that contained information on Medarot from October and November of 1997. Maybe both were equally planned but based on information on the first campaign being so much more abundant insinuates to me that the second might have been done briefly to get the rest of the stock out.

The intro song is called 'David Cutter Music - Statement' btw guys

Is that a crack on the bottom right of the screen lens at 9:58???

One idea for a video: You could show your collection. Would be very interesting :)

Knowing its from a medarot competition makes it cooler imo. Would actually like to own one

My goodness that is beautiful. This is on my most wanted list. Very cool, man!

Great job on this one dude. The Apple Mouse was pretty cool - perfect condition too! Thanks for all the hard work you put into your content!! 💜👌🏼

Dang man, while I am not a huge fan of gameboys, I can appreciate the enthusiasm for one. Especially one as expensive as this. Rare too, that's important.

Very cool Elliot! Thank you for sharing this with all of us.

Hey I know a lot of people are joking about it being glow in the dark and yet you cant see the screen, but hey wouldn't it be cool to make a back light mod. It would probably not be worth it considering how expensive these are, but in theory, very interesting idea!

Stunning piece of history Elliot!

I don't know about sendico specifically, but a lot of those auction+mail forwarding sites will receive the item and repackage it better before sending it on.

If you want that thing to glow like its radioactive shine a UV/blacklight on it. It only takes a few seconds to supercharge the glowing effect on phosphorescent materials with one.

"It glows in the dark" (goes on for over ten minutes KZfaqr style)

My best find was a Casio QV-10. Got it from my local flea market including the original packaging, all accessories and the printer. Paid 15€, value for the camera: over 1200€, value for the printer: unknown.

"hey siri, go away" is the most human thing

No way, medarot! That was my favourite game as a kid

That’s a fantastic looking Gameboy Pocket!

For the best glowy results charge it underneath another light source for a few minutes, it could definitely glow more than what you showed in the B roll!

Wow! This is crazy, I've never heard about these gameboy pockets before.

I cant believe you are not going to play with it! You should be trying to beat the top 2000 time-scores to be worthy of owning that treasure!

Literally brand new never been out the box. INSANE

Would’ve been way cooler if it was a glow in the dark gameboy light

Siri is jealous that their older tech sibling is getting more attention

When your gameboy's shell is brighter than the screen...

the medabots rpgs are sooooooooo good, so much fun, the comedy is great, 5/5 italian chefs kiss

I just picked up the transparent Extreme Green with all of the correct stickers on it, but no box. Bought it in USA from a guy in Canada. Pretty cool system that's hard to find.

You said Genki correctly the first time. It means "chipper" or "happy" or "energetic".

I love getting into a box and finding out the flaps are still strong.

For 600 to a 1000 dollars that thing better be packaged like an explosive device.

I'd like to have one of these Gameboys in my collection. This is really nice looking Gameboy Pocket. I've got a old Macintosh Mouse in my Apple collection. Those are really cool.

Really interesting search with a surprise ending!

Holy crap, with the purchase of this GameBoy, Elliot has ascended. He's now just a sentient ball of energy.

Japanese text: The little star: "Hikaru" which means "light." So yes, that's letting you know that it glows in the dark. The white banner on the front: "Game Boy Electric Cartridge (Glows?)" which, yeah. What you expected. The white banner on the side appears to say "Game Boy Pocket" in katakana, but I can't get a good enough look at it.

Well, sorry, you are not right about nobody caring about the mouse cuz I kinda do, that thing is quite a piece of history

I used to have a translucent slime green (non-color) gb pocket. I still haven't seen another since

Love the matt finish on this!

Maybe with the first competition they didnt get a full 2000+ submissions and still had too many game boys that they did a 2nd completion using medarot to get the rest out

Then, approximately 3 years later, Analogue would release a limited edition Glow in the Dark Pocket based on this Game Boy!

This is really really cool I thought I saw an ad for one of these before. It reminds me of the famitsu GameBoys. There was a pocket and a light variant. And each was also limited to a very small production run. I have a famitsu gb light and its my favorite gameboy by far.

You got one of them super secret rates! I imagine that these were intended to be a part of unique giveaway that never happened. It possibly could be because, they produced more than they needed for the first giveaway, and did not have quite enough for the second giveaway. Who knows!

I really love these videos. So informative for a nerdy 90s gamer like me!

Here it is we’ve been waiting for hours yey finally

4 commercials each with 2 of them + a sponsor in 10 minutes of content ... Marvelous

Just found out this gameboy exists. You did an awesome job dude!

That color is cool even when it's not glowing

Well, this is amazing! Regarding Sendico? My paranoid brain is asking questions ... I've seen some very cheap stuff there. Were those the prices on eBay not too long ago?

You got Genki right the first time. The Spirit Bomb, an attack Goku learned from King Kai in Dragon Ball Z, is actually named Genki Dama in the original Japanese version. Genki can mean energy, health, pep or original spirit, among other things.

Really nice job bro!!! congrats!!

Am I the only one whos Siri activated when he said “Hey Siri”??

Another great video dude 🤙🏻

This thing is gorgeous. Awesome score Elliot!

You said Genki correctly the first time! It means You good? on it's own in japanese, but when it's said like "Genki desu ka?" it means How Are you? /Are you good?" :)

This is so freaking cool! I thought you would say how much you had to spend to get this extremely rare Game Boy. Anyway great video and looking forward for the next video about this console/

Definitely going to need part two if you are able to find more information about this

"Here's the first Apple Macintosh mouse ever made but y'all guys don't care about that so we're going to skip it." Me: NO I WANT TO SEE MORE!!!

Great video and what a cool Gameboy!

Oooooo.. Loving the radioactivity and eerie glow. Do you know about the exclusive Spanish Orange Drink Gameboy Colour?

You made me even more jealous this video...

Can't wait to hear where the story goes with this