Gameboy Mystery

[0078265317]

Very interesting and after you watch this there is a link for part 2.

 

[MagitekAngel]

Ah, yes, I remember this. It was pretty funny.

[Osgeld]

that was the most retarded thing I have seen this week

 

wow a Russian spy inserted the guts of a old wireless thermometer into your gameboy, conveniently after you took it apart and broke the speaker connection

 

clap clap, way to scam a dozen free gameboys ... surely they didn't end up as rare vintage units on ebay, being someone that totally wouldn't fabricate FUD on the internet.

 

this kid at best is a clown, at worst a future con artist

Edited June 24, 2013 by Osgeld

[jmetal88]

that was the most retarded thing I have seen this week

 

wow a Russian spy inserted the guts of a old wireless thermometer into your gameboy, conveniently after you took it apart and broke the speaker connection

 

clap clap, way to scam a dozen free gameboys ... surely they didn't end up as rare vintage units on ebay, being someone that totally wouldn't fabricate FUD on the internet.

 

this kid at best is a clown, at worst a future con artist

 

You didn't watch to the end, did you? The guy put a note at the end of the second video that said he didn't actually accept anyone's Gameboys, but rather that he bought a box of eighteen broken Gameboys on eBay several months before filming the videos.

[0078265317]

So the transmitter thing is a not a hoax and real? Anybody here have a G016 gameboy.

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

So the transmitter thing is a not a hoax and real? Anybody here have a G016 gameboy.

 

It IS a joke, this is made clear in the second video.

[Satoshi Matrix]

> Watches video

 

>> Video: In 1989, The Soviet Union existed!!!!!

 

>>> *Waits for audience laughter

 

>>>> Nobody laughs

 

 

 

No wonder people find this confusing. Even the concept that this is even remotely funny is confusing.

[0078265317]

I'm sorry I didn't watch the end. Just did I see now. How stupid. Would of been cool if it was real also.

[Satoshi Matrix]

There's so many holes in this joke "theory" though...

 

-Nintendo didn't "steal" Tetris from the soviets, they bought the console and handheld rights officially from the soviet government It was Mirrorsoft who unofficially bought the console rights from the Russians.

 

- GameBoy units were made in Japan, not America

 

-GameBoys were sold all over the world - including Russia. This wasn't in anyway an American product.

 

- GameBoys were mostly targeted towards children

 

-FM Transmitters require a power source

 

-FM Transmitters don't have LCD screens

 

-The theory itself is ridiculously stupid

[SoulBlazer]

 

- GameBoys were mostly targeted towards children

 

Uh.....so I guess me buying one when I was in college makes me a exception?

[Satoshi Matrix]

The market was young. I'm not saying that ONLY kids bought GameBoys (in fact early on Nintendo aggressively marketed the GameBoy+Tetris bundle to business workers who take flights frequently) but yeah, as the NES and other consoles, videogames were targeted almost squarely for kids as elaborate toys rather than a normal consumer electronic gadget like a VCR.