The Insane Engineering of the Gameboy

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  @douglascodes · 2 years ago

  Can't wait for the part where he explains how the Gameboy's blunt nose cone design holds up to mach 25 reentry.

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  @RySoRy · 2 years ago

  Early video game engineers were absolutely cracked. Getting as much as you can from every byte is a lost art form.

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  @HappyGM-R · 2 years ago

  My grandfather was one of the electrical engineers that designed gameboy, and I loved the small stories he would tell me about designing this when I played with it. <br><br>They weren’t anything technical, but stories about how he sometimes clashed and sometimes worked together with his team to design what they believed as the perfect portable gaming device. <br><br>One of the best story I still remember was when my father bought me the Wii U and how my grandfather told me that Wii U was designed by one of his juniors(?) that he mentored. He would tell me how his junior would again, sometimes clash with him, sometimes work together as a team. But I knew he was unique to my grandfather as he was crying unlike when we told all the other stories. <br><br>When my grandfather eventually died, that junior came to his funeral and I, as a child just went up to him and told him about how grandfather described him. I can’t remember if he was crying, but now that I look back at it he probably was and trying to hide it. <br><br>When it was time to bury my grandfather, me and the junior put the gameboy I played with as a child in the coffin together. <br><br>That junior would also go on to design the Switch.<br><br>Sorry if my English is not as good, I wanted to share how a small gaming device has so many stories around it, and how it brought people together.

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  @madalee_com · 2 years ago

  The 3D art in this episode is absolutely epic!

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  @xpeterson · 2 years ago

  The production quality in this video is insane.<br><br>From the 8 bit pixel graphics for explaining the display to the game boy model that I could only tell wasn’t real because it was floating in separate pieces; it’s been so cool to watch this channel grow.

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  @lordkrythic6246 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I used to wait until the batteries were low, and then switch them out with the batteries in the remote to the televisions throughout the house. My mom would go out and buy jumbo battery packs because the tv remotes &quot;strangely died&quot;, and said jumbo battery packs would mysteriously go missing shortly afterwards. Fond memories.

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  @MrMarinus18 · 2 years ago

  What made the Gameboy superior was that it was actually doing what people bought it for. it was small enough to fit in a pocket, sturdy enough to withstand rough handling, efficient enough to last a whole road trip and cheap enough people felt comfortable taking it with them in places where it could get damaged.

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  @alicethegrinsecatz6011 · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t need 50 Shades of Grey. I only need 4 shades of green. 😍

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  @wailingalen · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm45Az02YE&amp;t=338">5:38</a> anybody else remember the screen contrast would suffer as the batteries got closer to dying? lol

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  @ShaneGoodson · 2 years ago

  I left my gameboy on pause overnight to finish Super Mario Land. That thing was a beast. I got it in 1990, still works.

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  @Simon-jh1hf · 2 years ago (edited)

  My parents always had to read me what to do during Link to the Past because I couldn&apos;t read yet. My 86-year-old grandfather now uses my Gameboy and plays Tetris every day. It still works.I also still play Gameboy, but on emulators.

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  @Nonya_bidness1980 · 1 year ago

  I like how people say the GB is underpowered, yet it has 4 times the amount of Work RAM than the NES.

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