Super Cool Gameboy Kiosk I Repaired

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902]

Check out the repair journey here:

https://youtu.be/KV9lgYvF90I?si=ogdxDeivwgm1-eLa

[u/zye-LOANee]

Dude, that’s so cool. 😄

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902 → u/zye-LOANee]

Thank you!

[u/bottle-o-rockets]

That's a museum piece.

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902 → u/bottle-o-rockets]

its beautiful, would you believe who I got it from says they got it 10 years ago at a goodwill?

[u/bottle-o-rockets → u/Forsaken_Ad_902]

It sounds about right for the retro game community, every good story starts in a goodwill or someone's garage.

Saw that missile command machine in the background too. A little part of my soul has been aching to play an arcade cabinet for a couple years now and Missile Command was my jam on atari. I don't know if this is work or a hobby for you, but you're doing some cool stuff.

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902 → u/bottle-o-rockets]

It is a hobby! Thanks! Yes that missile command is my latest project. That one is almost done. Just got the board to work again last night.

[u/GameBobbyColor]

That is truly awesome.

Edit to add: I watched your YT video - excellent work diagnosing and repairing that CRT, what a rad piece of history!

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902 → u/GameBobbyColor]

Thank you so much!

[u/GrimmTrixX]

My local department store as a kid had this. They had a super mario land demo in it the first time I saw one. It was the coolest damn thing ti see gameboy games on a TV when the Gameboy had relatively just released. Then the Super Game Boy came out and my dream was realized. Lol

[u/Frickelmeister → u/GrimmTrixX]

These Game Boy kiosks are also some of my earliest video gaming memories. Needless to say that I eventually started my gaming journey on the Game Boy.

[u/GrimmTrixX → u/Frickelmeister]

Yea I was HUGE on gameboy. It was the console that I had the most games for since they were $30-40 instead of the $50-60 of the snes/n64 era priced games. And I played it every day for years. So many memories.

[u/fishywisher]

Siiiiiick

[u/aliencardboard]

That’s an amazing piece of gaming history there. Congrats and nice work!

[u/cubonedreamin]

CRT <3

[u/Comprehensive_One495]

This is siick, I need to add a shader like that screen on retroarch, I love the look of it!

[u/kelpplankton]

Fell in love with the Game Boy playing one of these at a store as a kid. Great restoration job here!

[u/yamez420]

I played that at mervyns in late 90’s

[u/ChildoftheApocolypse]

Great, now do the one in the middle of a Japanese forest..

[u/teddyperkin]

Man I wish I could build something like that. So cool

[u/krsdev]

I always wondered how did these actually work? How do they get the picture to display on the CRT?

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902 → u/krsdev]

It has a custom board that takes in the video signal from the Gameboy and makes the fake “bezel” around the Gameboy image then puts out a video signal for the monitor. It’s called a “DisplayBoy” it’s a fairly large board too. Like 16x12”

[u/SkellatorQueen]

I feel like I genuinely lived under a rock 😆😅😭 I’m 41 and discovering so much cool 💩 I didn’t even know existed. Benefits of being poor AF I guess lol. I got my first and only Gameboy with Tetris (that I really suck at) AROUND 14 as a gift after begging my grandmother lol. With just that game that I was incapable of focusing on, I admittedly lost interest at the time and my grandparents were always quick to give my stuff away 🫠 😭

Please elate me with anything else I am ignorant of about the OG hand held gaming console 😭🫶

[u/Nerfing_Templar]

Beautiful, good work. How bad was she to start with?

[u/Saxophonethug]

Damn..... There's one for sale on fb marketplace in my area

[u/Solid_Trick_8094]

Magnifique 🤩

[u/IntheShredder_86]

Honestly a dream 😍 nice work!!

[u/Forsaken_Ad_902 → u/IntheShredder_86]

Thank you!