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Posted on Thursday, April 5 @ 17:27:32 Eastern by

Goodie Thursdays are anything and everything, every Thursday night, bringing oddities to your eyeballs so you don't have to watch shitty TV, play shitty games, or socialize... God forbid. Honestly, we're just working for the weekend.

The Game Boy was my first video game hardware. I got it when I was 5. I remember being in the department store and playing the demo for Kirby's Dream Land. I got that and Yoshi for the little battery sucking handheld. You couldn't see shit on that screen!

Look at it! Thanks go to Classic Game Room for this review. While I no longer have my Game Boy, I've got stuff that would fucking blow 5-year-old Daniel's brain to smithereens. Seriously. My head would fucking explode at the handhelds I have now.

My eyes would fall out of their sockets and my blood would boil. Then the entire earth would explode killing everyone with it. Seriously, tell me in the comments what your first gaming hardware was and how you got it. Then imagine freaking out at all the new tech 2012 has that would makes your inner child go insane.
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  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
    The family's coleco (I think that's what it was called) I remember playing donkey kong and qbert and that's about it. Good times tho
  • dirty_f
    dirty_f

    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
    Black GameBoy Pocket. the screen fell off after i threw it on the lawn in the garden out of rage from playing Donkey Kong.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
    I loved the Game Boy Pocket.
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
    My parents had some kind of Atari when I was very young. I just remember it as THE Atari. I quickly remember it being sold at a garage sale and them getting an NES with a duckhunt/mario combo game. Then later on I got a GB and even had a hard case for it that looked like a giant GB.
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
    Still have the GB and it's case.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
    I had the same giant case.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
    I had it too. My nephew has it now. He's so going to be a gamer, it's awesome.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
    My first console was a Sears Tele-Games Pinball Breakaway 1977 (made by Atari) my older sister bought it for herself, but I took it over. No cartages just a choice switch, Breakaway, and Pinball. One controller only that was a small plastic knob. The Pinball was weird, so I played the hell out of Breakaway, a Breakout clone. That was over thirty years ago.
  • freek187
    freek187

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
    I remember those cheap LCD one game AA battery games! I had double dragon, mortal kombat, and mega man 2. Bad thing with those is that when your a kid you leave the batteries in them. Still I am going to see if my old man saved one!
  • Flamadiddle
    Flamadiddle

    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
    Genesis was my first system. Gamegear w/battery pack was my first hand held. Later on I sold it for a blue gameboy pocket to play pokemon.
  • CaptainPicard
    CaptainPicard

    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Apr 6th, 2012 at 1:15 am
    My first was nintendo but i dont remember getting it (born in '86), but the first one i was excited to get was my Sega Genesis... I pretty much did explode when Playstation came out though lol, just the demo disc that came with it was enough to make me pee myself...i remember it had Wipeout , Twisted Metal, and Loaded on it. It was the time i was most impressed with new technology :P
  • freek187
    freek187

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Apr 6th, 2012 at 10:59 am
    That demo disc ruled! I would have over a dozen friends fighting over who got next in TM you only had the arena level but you could use all the vehicles! I wish I was so easily amused nowadays.
  • truncheon5000
    truncheon5000

    Joined: Jul 2009
    Posted: Apr 6th, 2012 at 5:21 am
    Pokemon? Still worth firing up that on an original game boy every now and then.
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy

    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Apr 6th, 2012 at 7:30 am
    My dad had an NES that I played the **** out of. My older brother an I would play games together, and if I beat him, he would get super pissed and we'd fight. The first system I personally owned (or co-owned with my brother) was a Genesis. I couldn't even tell you how many hours and birthday dollars got sunk into that thing. I loved it, probably more than I loved my brother.

    If I could go and show myself any Heavy Rain or Metal Gear 4, or any game in 3D, I'm pretty sure my little brain would melt.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Apr 6th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
    Atari 2600, fine wood grain trim, and joysticks that kinda smelled like they were rotting. My father got it from a friend of his that was always getting the newest tech. An old hand me down but still, the seed had been planted. Years later got an old used Commodore 64 from same friend, it was on its last legs but I did get more than a year out of it. A spoiled child of the early 80s.

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