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Gameboy

  • 28-11-2012 5:16pm
    #1
    yellowbear
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭


    I came across my old Gameboy that I got for Christmas in the early '90's and was just wondering how much they would have cost back then.

    Anybody any ideas?


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  • #2
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Think it was 89pounds on release iirc


  • #3
    yellowbear
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭yellowbear


    Cheers.
    I was interested to know compared to todays prices.
    I got great use out of it as a child anyway, its looking fairly beat up now.


  • #4
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I got mine on it's release, and a lot of fun was squeezed out of that little monochrome wonder!
    Tetris, Super Mario Land and Nemesis (Gradius) were all games I had the first time around.
    I now own pretty much the whole range of Gameboy devices released and while I still love the big grey block with the yellow/green tinted screen, it doesn't compare to the pure class of the Gameboy Pocket, a fantastic console, great screen and lighter by far, and all from two AAA batteries, rather than the four AA's the Gameboy rocked.


  • #5
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    About £150 in todays money
    £89.00 in 1990 is equivalent to £148.58 in 2011


  • #6
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,564 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Mine was a hand me down and it's still floating about the home house somewhere and getting use with Tetris.
    Been trying to get Dynablaster for ages as that was one of my favourite games to rent for 20p.
    Funnily enough I found the paperwork that came with the box a while back, even the aero board no box though. Thought that to be strange.


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  • #7
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,886 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Got mine for 100 dollars in the US around release.
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  • #8
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Got mine for Xmas after the release. I remember holding off for the"guy who knew somebody who get gameboys for £15"
    Second game was gremlins for my bday on the 29th dec, what a melter


  • #9
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I was 18 when it was released, I recall getting lot of strange looks when I played it in company, like they thought it was a toy or something.... Philistines!
    Showing them Super Mario Land only compounded the problem :(


  • #10
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Got mine off Santy, can't remember if it was Christmas 89' or 90'.

    Tetris, Marioland Super RC ProAm bloody love the Gameboy:)


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