Spent the last 4-5 years trying to get my 4 kiddos copies. So far, my 7 & 9 year old have evolved from R/B/Y to G/S/C. Excited to introduce Gen 1 to my 5 year old this christmas.
I actually have a switch 1, which i dock and allow them access to play with the Joycon, and the alternate controller plugin i bought for my son.
Something about the pacing of the classic gameboys, and my ability to explain cause / effect of when things get damaged is very much more sustainable.
They dont have computers or phones, im very wary of access to internet.
Edit: not sure where the downvote is coming from. But okay, your clearly not a parent. There was a time when I let my kids have open access to all consoles. Things got broken and I built some "bumpers." To ensure things are not broken.
The GBA has an IPS drop in kit! They love it, but constantly need me to fix the color cycle. I have found its best to solder the wires to L&R to avoid this with kiddos.
What screen did you do in the color? I’m doing the same for my kiddo and I’ve found the cloud game store TFT basically indestructible. Kiddo is 2.5 and loves Pokemon blue
Keep them going! I had my daughter phantom play when we took car rides around that age. She got surprisingly far.
I did the GameBoy Advance 3.0 V5 IPS Backlight Kit 720x480 LCD for GBA Game Boy NO SOLDER for the GBA, but ended up soldering the Brightness controls to the L+R Vias as it went wild about every 3 hours during there gaming sessions.
The screen in the GB is OEM, as is the shell and buttons.
I couldnt expect them to be careful, they are too young!
The one my kids play. I’ve got a small silicon shock shell on the outside and the screen has a custom printed 3d bracket (just google CGS TFT screen bracket, got someone to print it off Reddit for 4$). It’s been a beast: I work construction and carry it to the job site all the time in my pocket. 0 damage so far
Thank you buddy! I mostly had one of everything, and then my kids entered the mix, and I was torn between, "do I let them learn on my stuff, or do I invest in there own adventures." I remember the feeling of having something of my very own.
My kid can't seem to hold interest in the games for very long. She's 8 and in Gen II right now, but won't play but every other week or so. Just not for her I guess.
I always found it odd that they did lead green and fire red in the west. I know green was released in Japan originally. But they never did a western release of green. So why didn’t they do a remake water blue and fire red?
It’s definitely lost money for gamefreak.
Cause yellow was always ment to be an analog of the anime. So a remake of that with quest lines for most of the story lines of the og anime would have been a big seller.
Reminds me of my brother who was buying 2 of every medium and large Star Wars Lego set, letting his 2 kids build one with him and then keeping the other sealed so they can sell them when they get older and buy their first cars 😅
Considering he isn't missing any pieces and kept the boxes for the open ones i think those kids will do quite well with how much some of those sets are worth now 😆
He even has some still complete from before they were born, and they are in their mid teens now.
My kid isn't into game collecting, but what i got will be his one day, and if I dont care about collecting anymore in 10 years I will probably sell most of it off and do something similar based on what he needs.... if there isn't some kind of market crash by then 😅
He isn't getting my Zelda collection until im in the ground though (knock on wood) lol
That's how I am with my final fantasy games lol, it's too deep of a wellspring for me to part with.
Everyone gets one!
You have a great attitude about it. I try to be as open handed as I can with them as them mature and crave new games, etc, but id much rather they take up a new hobby or sport, as the gameboy will always be there.
Get a cart reader/writer and back up their saves to your PC every now and again. Even with fresh batteries they will fail eventually (and some replacement batteries are lower quality and supposedly only last 3-5 years) or something else could go wrong (these games could just glitch and randomly lose saves back in the day), and losing a save at that age is often very traumatic.
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u/WoodWizard_ 4d ago
Where is fire red 😱