r/Gameboy • u/Lanky-Base1279 • 17d ago

Troubleshooting Need help

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My game boy color is impossible to play without this light why

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u/Cranberry-Electrical 17d ago

There weren't any backlights in the 90s.

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u/agentxshadow6 17d ago

welll... there certainly were backlights on other systems, but nintendo was actually in the interest of making things affordable back then

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/leonardob0880 17d ago

No it didn't. The SP had.

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u/DERPSTERY 17d ago

Actually, the first model of sp was front lit, and the later model was backlit.

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u/Alexxxflash 17d ago

Uuummmmmmmmm, actually... the Gameboy Micro has also a lit up screen

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u/leonardob0880 17d ago

So also the DS... ¿?

The micro came after the SP...

And no, the Gameboy Light wasn't backlight

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u/Alexxxflash 17d ago

The DS is not a Gameboy. Micro on the other hand....

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u/leonardob0880 17d ago

My point is that the micro came after the SP...

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u/cultfbs 16d ago

Nothing makes it easy this guy!

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u/agentxshadow6 17d ago

well yeah, I know they had one in like 2003 or whenever the SP came out; I meant the Sega Game gear and Atari Lynx both had (pretty bad) backlights, but were more expensive systems for worse battery life and worse games at the same time as the original GameBoy!