@xpeterson
The production quality in this video is insane. 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.
@ktmidol
I was 12 when I watched other students play game boy. I got around playing my friend’s game boy in school. Later my parents bought me game gear when I asked them to buy me game boy. But I always wanted a game boy so I bought my first game boy advance with my own savings while I was in college. That was year 2004. I bought switch 2 years back and I love it. Nostalgia of childhood days.
@madalee_com
The 3D art in this episode is absolutely epic!
@douglascodes
Can't wait for the part where he explains how the Gameboy's blunt nose cone design holds up to mach 25 reentry.
@HappyGM-R
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. That junior would also go on to design the Switch. 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.
@MrMarinus18
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.
@erneststackhouse1133
This was cool. For me it was my 1st time really owning a real gaming console! i remember like it was yesterday when i bought a Game Boy on Oct. 16th, 1989. i was still in high school & saved up all summer long but still didn't have enough so i had to do odd jobs to get the full amount & finally had enough mid October! Still play plenty of my game boy games to this day!
@DoctorZacharySmith
It’s amazing to think that the Gameboy was a low-powered budget game console when it appeared in 1989 and yet it was an expensive and coveted piece of tech for me as an Eastern European kid in the mid-90s. I was so happy to get a Gameboy in 1996 after years of saving my pocket money! When I saw a Sega Game Gear my classmate had (whose family emigrated to Canada and then came back for some reason) I wasn’t even envious, it was straight up sci-fi. I couldn’t believe that such a backlit color screen could exist in the real world.
@bananachild1936
While this was a fantastically put together short documentary, I must say I was more blown away by the photorealistic, pristine as hell 3D renders of everything that were presented on screen. From the Gameboy itself, the Game Gear, and all the way to the AAA Energizer battery.
@ShaneGoodson
I left my gameboy on pause overnight to finish Super Mario Land. That thing was a beast. I got it in 1990, still works.
@lordkrythic6246
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 "strangely died", and said jumbo battery packs would mysteriously go missing shortly afterwards. Fond memories.
@2WaterGuns
Regarding the trademark defense mentioned at 9:02, it turns out Sega did a similar thing for their Genesis / Mega Drive system, but when they took Accolade to court over it, they lost, establishing the precedent that it's not trademark infringement if technical aspects of the system force you to use that trademark. But of course that was after the introduction of the Game Boy, so Nintendo wouldn't have had that precedent at the time. Still, it's an annoying thing for homebrewers, who have to put a big "just kidding, not actually licensed by Nintendo" screen after the boot up sequence.
@MillionDollarPersianMDP
Gunpei Yokoi was so pivotal in establishing the Nintendo philosophy in its most important early years. He not only established the philosophy of hardware design that made the NES and GameBoy so popular and so profitable, but also in game design by mentoring Shigeru Miyamoto, who still practices the philosophies of his mentor
@Catapumblamblam
Rechargeable batteries had already existed for years when the Gameboy came out, I bought it as soon as it came out and I have never put a non-rechargeable battery in it.
@Simon-jh1hf
My parents always had to read me what to do during Link to the Past because I couldn'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.
@dan725
How does this a tiny team making youtube videos surpass the quality and creativity of large studios in terms of making documentaries? Man this was amazing!!! Who’s your sound guy/designer? The sound effects coupled with the amazing visual effects were ON POINT. Just so good!
@davidbuckingham8046
The production values are so good on this video that you could just straight up run this on a TV Channel.
@NicholasRehm
The classic Nintendo sound effects accompanying the animated plots and figures was a nice touch
@js-gc2hk
The graphics and animation were awesome, and the narration was clear and informative.
@RySoRy