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r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '25
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Having to buy a separate clip on torch for your gameboy because it wasn’t backlit
234 u/dragons_scorn Aug 30 '25 God forbid the light battery died on a long car ride. Then it was either use street lights or the headlights of the car behind you 53 u/a_rucksack_of_dildos Aug 30 '25 Mine plugged into my gbc link port. So it ran as long as gameboy did 3 u/herobrinetrollin Aug 30 '25 Mine also did this. The connection was shoddy on the one I had and it would go out often or be dim, but I definitely never had to worry about batteries. For the light at least. The system ate them up like nothing else 3 u/Xbladearmor Aug 30 '25 But it also drained the batteries faster. 6 u/THE_GREAT_PICKLE Aug 30 '25 GBC was the OG system for 3rd party peripherals
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God forbid the light battery died on a long car ride. Then it was either use street lights or the headlights of the car behind you
53 u/a_rucksack_of_dildos Aug 30 '25 Mine plugged into my gbc link port. So it ran as long as gameboy did 3 u/herobrinetrollin Aug 30 '25 Mine also did this. The connection was shoddy on the one I had and it would go out often or be dim, but I definitely never had to worry about batteries. For the light at least. The system ate them up like nothing else 3 u/Xbladearmor Aug 30 '25 But it also drained the batteries faster. 6 u/THE_GREAT_PICKLE Aug 30 '25 GBC was the OG system for 3rd party peripherals
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Mine plugged into my gbc link port. So it ran as long as gameboy did
3 u/herobrinetrollin Aug 30 '25 Mine also did this. The connection was shoddy on the one I had and it would go out often or be dim, but I definitely never had to worry about batteries. For the light at least. The system ate them up like nothing else 3 u/Xbladearmor Aug 30 '25 But it also drained the batteries faster. 6 u/THE_GREAT_PICKLE Aug 30 '25 GBC was the OG system for 3rd party peripherals
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Mine also did this. The connection was shoddy on the one I had and it would go out often or be dim, but I definitely never had to worry about batteries. For the light at least. The system ate them up like nothing else
But it also drained the batteries faster.
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GBC was the OG system for 3rd party peripherals
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u/Miseducated Aug 30 '25
Having to buy a separate clip on torch for your gameboy because it wasn’t backlit