Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: UncleBob on March 17, 2007, 03:23:23 PM
Title: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: UncleBob on March 17, 2007, 03:23:23 PM
Do me a favor, if you've got a Game Boy Pocket (or two), look at it and tell me what color it is and if it has a power light on the front..
Title: RE:Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on March 18, 2007, 12:06:26 AM
It's that indigo-ish color, and the power light is immediately to the left of the screen on the front. The switch is on the top. I can take a picture of it with a camera, if you wish.
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: 18 Days on March 18, 2007, 05:53:32 AM
Grey, Power light where Stabby decribed. also, Translucent Blue, same applies.
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: UncleBob on March 18, 2007, 06:01:17 AM
No pictures are necessary.
The issue I've got is that, according to Wikipedia, the implication is that only the Silver GBP was released without the power light. However, I *know* that other colors were released without the power light, because I *know* I remember seeing two yellow GBP's side-by-side, one with and one without....
Anywhoo, I'm wanting to, for my FB2K thing, get a GBP with and a GBP without...
18Days - is the grey one one of them that looks like the original GameBoy, only smaller? Or is it grey-ish silver?
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: Athrun Zala on March 18, 2007, 08:54:06 AM
Green one, with the light....
after digging through an old pile of magazines, I found an article that says that at least the first shipment in Japan, and quite a few in the US of the GBPs were indeed lacking the LED. So yes, the other colours didn't have the light either....
mind you that apparently ALL the European GBPs had the light though....
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on March 22, 2007, 01:53:34 AM
Finally heard back from my friend with a yellow GBP:
Quote My Game Boy Pocket has no form or fashion of an LED. You could tell the batteries were low because you'd have to darken the contrast gradually over a short amount of time to be able to make out what was on the screen.
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: UncleBob on March 22, 2007, 10:13:01 AM
I think it's mostly yellow, clear and silver ones that were made w/o the LED light...
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: UncleBob on March 22, 2007, 10:18:36 AM
I take that back - I found a green unit without the LED..
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: Athrun Zala on April 02, 2007, 10:40:39 AM
bump
check this, seems like ALL original colours were LED-less at first.....
Title: RE: Game Boy Pocket roll call
Post by: UncleBob on April 02, 2007, 12:45:42 PM
Unfortunatly, no one seems to know what the original colors released in the US were... :*(
But that's a great pic - it's got a clear pic of the one I really want in the bottom, left hand corner - the one that's colored like the original Game Boy...
