Topic: Game Boy Pocket roll call

[UncleBob]

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..

[Sir_Stabbalot]

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.

[18 Days]

Grey, Power light where Stabby decribed.
also, Translucent Blue, same applies.

[UncleBob]

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?

[Athrun Zala]

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....

[UltimatePartyBear]

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.

[UncleBob]

I think it's mostly yellow, clear and silver ones that were made w/o the LED light...

[UncleBob]

I take that back - I found a green unit without the LED..

[Athrun Zala]

bump

check this, seems like ALL original colours were LED-less at first.....

[UncleBob]

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...