Seems to work still, booklets look like they’ve never been touched. We live in a small town and my Stepdad got it at an estate sale where the owners seem to just wanted to get rid of all their excessive belongings. (There was a $600 acoustic guitar there I wanted but someone scored it for $80 lol). This is fine tho 🙂!
EDIT: JUST FOR CLARIFICATION* I used the term AUCTION HOUSE before but technically I guess it was an "Estate Sale" and it was held by relatives of the owners who already passed away unfortunately and were handling the auction prices. A lot of stuff were sold almost dirt cheap, like literally they just wanted to get rid of everything efficiently as possible. A lot of cool vintage guitars my stepdad saw got sold for less than $100. A lot of random things too. The gameboy set was literally one of the last things sitting in a pile all the older folks were avoiding and he texted me: “How much is this? Should I get this?” And I said uhh sure if you can get it for cheap. I think the relatives were fairly old themselves and weren't really knowledgeable about video game related product pricing unfortunately, but lo and behold, my stepdad turns out to be a good bargainer I guess lol. Well that’s the story. I’ll just leave it at that.
oh he got her a nice shelf for around $10, and some other neat random stuff for a buck as well. Like random tins full of DVDs for a $1 and a tin full of 90's cassette tapes for a $1 lol.
When I tell you they had the most random things, it was seriously like the most random things lol. I wish I was actually present there now in hindsight…
Basically how it started lol. I didn’t even ask for him to get it, he just managed to somehow, needless to say the outcome turned out surprisingly cool
The ratings are different due to release dates and not some content revaluation. KA was and older format and then it was changed to the set of ratings we have now, dropping the KA and using simply "Rated E".
The Rated E SML2 came out in very-late 1999, along with a few others. SML1 is quite hard to find and might, possibly, be one of the rarest variants of a US game to find--almost certainly for first party titles. SML2 is also quite rare, however, it was a much more fun game and by 1999/2000, most people were not interested in getting a new copy of SML considering it's rather dated game play and that the game was still quite accessible as a used item from places like Funcoland or Electronics Boutique.
Those Rated-E 1999 versions are a bit of an enigma as to why they exist, but the OG Game Boy saw a bit of a spike in re-interest when Pokemon came out. My guess is Nintendo re-released some of their best selling titles at that time to go along with the Pokemon craze. It never hurts to give people additional purchase options, so I assume that's what Nintendo did. But, that's 100% speculation.
SML came out in 1989 when the GB was released. SML2 was a few years later. And then, when the GB was basically dead as a system, they made one last series of releases. SML had a near 11 year lifespan, while SML2 was about 8 years. I know it's a bit different now, but back then that was very impressive run for a game.
Wow that’s quite a lot of game knowledge you have there lol. And you’re showing both our ages once I read the words “Electronics Boutique” 😂. Very interesting stuff to know, thanks for the info mate!
I think they really didn’t bother touching this thing at all for God knows how long… are there any things I should be worried about when it comes to dealing with vintage game consoles like this considering its age? (I’ll do some googling after this, figure I ask here first while I’m here lol.)
Lol close enough, it was more like “Can I just take all this off your hands for a $1?” It was an auction house where the original owners passed away and the relatives were auctioning all the belongings. I think they were fairly old in age, so they had really no idea what the pricing was for video game related product unfortunately.
Man, memories with the Iron Man and X O ManoWar game. It was one of the first Game Boy games I had as a kid and I remember trying SO hard to like it because I liked Iron Man from the comics so much.
…It’s a terrible game 😭
Whoever you got that from either took REALLY good care of their games, or their parents never let them play it lol.
Is it?? I was going to try them all out eventually because unfortunately the only gameboy game I’m familiar with in this picture is Super Mario Land 2 😅 I did try out tetris for a bit and yep, it’s tetris alright 🤣.
That's actually currently my next step right now lol... on a quest to find a Crystal Repro to play haha since I grew up mainly on Pokemon with these systems...
It was an auction house where the original owners passed away and their relatives were handling the auctioning of their belongings. I think the relatives themselves were fairly old in age and didn’t really know the value of video game related product :/. We live in a small town so stuff like this happens often. My stepdad last year bought a whole wii setup with games and everything for $2 lol.
It's kind of mindblowing people can't believe something like this can actually happen in reality lol. Is finding a working gameboy really that rare in this day and age? I haven't had a gameboy since I was 6 or 7. I'm 31 years old now lol. I guess it might be the people who bought theirs off ebay or at some vintage retro gaming store for 2nd hand market value?
I don't know why you would assume I'm bsing the price lol, it was literally sold for a buck at an estate sale. The games actually came not only in plastic cases but in this protective tiny compartment bag holder for them as well, I just took them out to display them for the photo
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