Nintendo Cracked Open Its Secret Game Boy Stash to Help a 95-Year-Old Fan
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#2Doomsday supply of rare electronics in order to satisfy warranties would be an amazing research project
Re: Nintendo Cracked Open Its Secret Game Boy Stash to Help a 95-Year-Old Fan
#3> When you’ve got a loyal customer that’s already been through three copies of your product, it might be time to give them a free upgrade.
Some reason that line of the article really annoyed me.
If I wanted my Game Boy fixed, I want a fixed game-boy. Not another product. Not bashing Nintendo, much kudos to them. But if my GBC broke and was swapped out with a Switch, I would be annoyed.
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#4> When you’ve got a loyal customer that’s already been through three copies of your product, it might be time to give them a free upgrade. Some reason that line of the article really annoyed me. If I wanted my Game Boy fixed, I want a fixed game-boy. Not another product. Not bashing Nintendo, much kudos to them. But if my GBC broke and was swapped out with a Switch, I would be annoyed.
Plus, Tetris on the switch is some sort of weird online only dumpster fire.
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#5> The original Game Boy’s screen is also notoriously awful, with just 23,000-plus pixels on screen and contrast levels that make it a challenge to play even under a lamp. Couldn’t Nintendo have sent Tsusaka’s grandmother a Switch as a replacement? Or at least a New Nintendo 2DS XL, with its giant and bright screen as a better alternative that would presumably be a lot easier on her aging eyes? When you’ve got a loyal customer that’s already been through three copies of your product, it might be time to give them a free upgrade.
Yeah, no.
Maybe this was meant sarcastically, but:
- A front-lit LCD (i.e. lit with the room's ambient light) is arguably easier on the eyes than some bright UV-spewing modern replacement.
- Neither the Switch nor the Nintendo 2DS XL are able to play the customer's Tetris cartridge (even the Game Boy Advance can't run non-Color Game Boy games, IIRC).
Re: Nintendo Cracked Open Its Secret Game Boy Stash to Help a 95-Year-Old Fan
#6Doomsday supply of rare electronics in order to satisfy warranties would be an amazing research project
I mean, there was always that cache of Atari E.T. that they found buried in the desert...
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#7> The original Game Boy’s screen is also notoriously awful, with just 23,000-plus pixels on screen and contrast levels that make it a challenge to play even under a lamp. Couldn’t Nintendo have sent Tsusaka’s grandmother a Switch as a replacement? Or at least a New Nintendo 2DS XL, with its giant and bright screen as a better alternative that would presumably be a lot easier on her aging eyes? When you’ve got a loyal…
All models of the Gameboy Advance including the front-lit SP and Micro variants, are able to play all of the original B&W and Color carts. Even good ol'Tetris which spends a pretty lengthy amount of time in my SP.
The DS won't play them the original cartridges though--it will however play the Advance carts.
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#8> The original Game Boy’s screen is also notoriously awful, with just 23,000-plus pixels on screen and contrast levels that make it a challenge to play even under a lamp. Couldn’t Nintendo have sent Tsusaka’s grandmother a Switch as a replacement? Or at least a New Nintendo 2DS XL, with its giant and bright screen as a better alternative that would presumably be a lot easier on her aging eyes? When you’ve got a loyal…
Yeah I'm pretty sure the author's attempt at sarcasm fell flat. Either that or they have never met any old and/or stubborn people before.
Presumably they either don't have to fix all their relatives' computers over the holidays, or they do and are trying to make an injoke with the outcrowd.