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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

oh god I remember one guy at band practice had a gameboy with a frickin light and magnifying lens on it to make the screen bigger. Rich kids were just as strange back then as they are now

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

I had that accessory and I definitely wasn't rich. I remember not using it much because it made the Gameboy really unwieldy, I can't imagine young me trying to cope with a Switch or a Steam Deck.

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

The original Game Boy weighs 220g (I’m not sure if that includes batteries or not), but the Switch Lite isn’t much more. It’s 275g with the battery included.

However, the original Switch is quite a bit heavier at 398g, the Switch 2 is 534g, and the Steam Deck is a whopping 640g. The new Xbox handheld looks like it will be quite a bit bigger than the Steam Deck and will probably be even worse to carry around. These devices simply aren’t suitable for kids, and some of them aren’t that easy to hold for adults either. This is a real shame and pushes kids further towards using phones that are filled with exploitative freemium games and social media slop.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

exploitative freemium games and social media slop.

now now let's give Nintendo some time

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Oh Nintendo already does make exploitative freemium games, but they (mostly) put that stuff on phones and not on Nintendo devices.

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

but they (mostly) put that stuff on phones and not on Nintendo devices.

so-far

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I ended out getting one of those for Christmas and it was too much stuff. I just wanted a dang worm light.

[-] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Peak version of this was the Worm Light. Lightweight, flexible, indestructible, and completely necessary often even in daylight on the first gen GBA.

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