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60 points

Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

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33 points

A girl in my class: proud owner of a PS1, plays Spyro and Medievil constantly.

Same girl as an adult: “I don’t even knew what a video game was, I played outside.”

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13 points
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Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, “Mom, I need more AA batteries.”

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6 points

“12, to be exact. I have to beat scorpion and then I’ll get to face Goro and I can’t risk running out of batteries now.”

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3 points

I must have driven my mom crazy because I ended up with one of these.

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3 points

I had something similar. Mine claimed 14 hours on Gameboy or 4 hours on Game Gear. Got the Gameboy for my birthday along with Tetris and FF Legend II, but got it a few days early because I went into the hospital the Saturday before.

The present I got on my birthday was finding out I could go home the next day.

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10 points

Same but with NDS

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10 points

Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.

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1 point

I played the crap out of Adventure back in the day.

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8 points

I remember opening parts of the blinds so the street lights would brighten my Gameboys display for some quality past bedtime gaming

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3 points

That’s a really nice memory, thanks for sharing

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