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Jawbone A Boy Named Sue Since: May, 2011
A Boy Named Sue
#1: Mar 15th 2012 at 5:46:39 PM

...on my 3DS, that is, I realized something.

The Game Gear is a gigantic monster.

Maybe not a monster, Just gigantic.

Here's a picture from Tiny Cartridge of a Game Gear resting on a 3DS' top screen.

I don't know why everyone calls the original Game Boy a brick. This right here, you get some cement, you can build a house- albeit a lumpy house- with the right amount of Game Gears. Any chicken would cross the road to see you lay these.

Godzilla had a Game Gear when he was younger, fit right in his hands; but he spent a fortune on AA's, and when you're a giant monster who goes around and smashes stuff, you really don't want to pay more than you're already paying for people's destroyed property.

If you throw a Game Boy at someone's head, they'll probably just shake it off, swear at you, and have a minor bruise. If you throw a Game Gear, the bugger 'll stay down. If you throw a Sega Nomad... have fun with your life sentence.

XBOX HUEG? More like GAME GEAR HUEG!

What I'm trying to say is that this thing is a colossus. Today's portable gaming market understands "compact", but I guess in the 1990s, having no wires was the only requirement for a portable console. Back then, you'd be carrying a system the size of an Apple II and be happy you'd have your games on the go. Anyone would.

I love old games, we all do, and our newer, flashier consoles digitally restore our favorite games we one struggled to carry, but imagine paying $130 just to CARRY 130lb.

Not that I don't like the Game Gear, though.

edited 15th Mar '12 5:48:54 PM by Jawbone

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#2: Mar 15th 2012 at 5:54:52 PM

The original gameboy is a brick because its nigh invulnerable. Besides playing zelda, I used mine to beat back several kidnappers when I was a little kid. Two of them where DOA and the third one hasn't regained consciousness and the doctors have pretty much given up hope. My gameboy still works.

stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#3: Mar 15th 2012 at 5:58:20 PM

We should totally get Jamie to make a gun with gameboys. Not only will they be fatal. But the ammo is reusable.

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ElRigo I'm freezing! Send help! from Baja Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
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#4: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:02:19 PM

[up] Now, if there was a way we could make Gameboys ferromagnetic they could be used as railgun ammunition.

Jawbone A Boy Named Sue Since: May, 2011
A Boy Named Sue
#5: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:02:19 PM

[up][up]Tetris bullets.

Don't use the long piece until you see the whites of their eyes.

edited 15th Mar '12 6:02:28 PM by Jawbone

RocketDude Since: May, 2009
#6: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:03:11 PM

I had a Game Gear, and it was indeed rather bulky for a handheld.

Ramus Lead. from some computer somwhere. Since: Aug, 2009
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#7: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:09:41 PM

Geez, the Gameboy Brick. I dropped that on my toe when I was younger and bruised it pretty badly.

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AikoHeiwa I AM NOT A TREE from Aikoland Since: Feb, 2011
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#8: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:10:18 PM

But will it blend?

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#9: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:11:47 PM

[up] No. It will blend the blender.

Jawbone A Boy Named Sue Since: May, 2011
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#10: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:12:46 PM

[up]I'm not Inception! I'm my original character,

BLENDCEPTION

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#11: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:15:31 PM

When nuclear war has killed us all, there will remain three things. Roaches, Twinkies that they will eat, and the Game Bricks they will learn to play.

AikoHeiwa I AM NOT A TREE from Aikoland Since: Feb, 2011
I AM NOT A TREE
#12: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:17:17 PM

Also Game Cube.

That was also indestructible.

Actually, pretty much everything Nintendo made prior to the DS Lite.

the fuck happened man

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AwesomeZombie22 Shaggy haired shaman from somewhere over the rainbow Since: Apr, 2010
#13: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:19:27 PM

I would sometimes fly into a rage and bite the top of my Gameboy Advance SP.

It still has bite marks in it. And it still plays.

Usually here.
AikoHeiwa I AM NOT A TREE from Aikoland Since: Feb, 2011
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#14: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:21:12 PM

Zombie...

the fuck dude?

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#15: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:24:52 PM

Have you ever been so mad you bit the fuck out of your gameboy?

It makes sense, the guys in charge are expecting to have little kids using their hardware, and little kids are prone to testing the resistance of loads of stuff. I remember every time I would beat my kid brother at videogames he would hurl the controller with great force. It never broke.

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
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#16: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:32:54 PM

They used to QA test Game Boys by chucking them into the street from the roof of a 3-story building.

Nintendo does not fuck around.

AikoHeiwa I AM NOT A TREE from Aikoland Since: Feb, 2011
I AM NOT A TREE
#17: Mar 15th 2012 at 6:35:51 PM

Except now.

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ElRigo I'm freezing! Send help! from Baja Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
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#18: Mar 15th 2012 at 7:05:14 PM

Well, of course. If you break your DS light like the klutz you are, you have to buy a new one. Nintendo wins.

Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#19: Mar 15th 2012 at 7:12:56 PM

Maybe Nintendium supply is running low? sad

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#20: Mar 15th 2012 at 8:15:43 PM

Wait, they have Game Gear games in the 3DS Virtual Console?!?? MUST GO BUY SOME.

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#21: Mar 16th 2012 at 1:22:36 PM

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Quick! We must invade a jungle planet populated by smurf people to dig out more.

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