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I doubt kids will find this appealing unless the parent's have already shielded them from the world of ipads/minecraft/roblox. It harkens back to the days of cr
by jclardy 4y ago
I doubt kids will find this appealing unless the parent's have already shielded them from the world of ipads/minecraft/roblox. It harkens back to the days of craning your neck to play an original gameboy with the table lamp in the corner of the room.
I ordered one because I'd like to build a simple game for it, my dev career started in z80 assembly building monochrome games for the TI-83+, so 100% nostalgia for me.
- bluedino 4y ago>> It harkens back to the days of craning your neck to play an original gameboy with the table lamp in the corner of the room. Even at the time, the screen on the GameBoy was such garbage. The lack of a light didn't help either. But even with a backlight, all LCD screens were bad. I remember how washed out the Lynx and GameGear screens were. The replacement screens you can get for them now are amazing.
- brimble 4y agoI've found kids complain about crappy old-fashioned options for games/movies/et c., until that's all they have available. After a day or two those "bad" options become totally fine and they're excited about them and excitedly tell you how great they are. I grew up mostly on the NES and earlier systems, and IMO from approximately the Super Nintendo on, game system generations have all delivered about the same amount of happiness (though some individual systems were major duds, of course). It's just a matter of what you're used to. Admittedly, the frustration level of average games on the NES and other earlier systems kept them from being quite the joy-generating devices that later ones would be.