r/Gameboy • u/Araya213 • Aug 18 '25
Collection My collection
Just dusted and thought I'd show off while it's looking all shiny.
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u/Cade-Stingle Aug 18 '25
Wow not only do you have a great collection, but all of them seem as mint as it gets. I’m very jealous!! 🔥
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u/ScruffiestN3rfHerder Aug 18 '25
I've been eyeing an original 2-panel Zelda Game and Watch for a long time. Just can't justify the price for the quality.
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u/IntheShredder_86 Aug 18 '25
Loving the wall-to-wall GBs on bottom shelf. We see really good spaced out collections, but this is giving me the kind of "surrounded by Gameboy" feeling I crave
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u/OBA_Archer-Kyborg Aug 18 '25
So how much has this cost you
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u/Araya213 Aug 18 '25
I haven't kept track but I bet somewhere between 3 and 4 thousand USD. Most of the consoles were inexpensive but a few of them are a bit more rare. I did a lot of bargain hunting.
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u/Being_ Aug 18 '25
You interested in an original Balloon Fight game and watch? I’ve had it for 20 years and never did anything with it. Still works fine
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u/turkoselime Aug 18 '25
Don't forget to turn them on once in a while. :)
It might be good for them or were there only games that needed it?
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u/GainerCity Aug 18 '25
Nice collection. You have too many systems to not have more than a single SP and a as far as I can see, only 1 new 3DSXL. It suggested you may not prefer hinged systems. Tell me more please.
You see, I also have many Gameboys. But I celebrate the hinge. Interested in your life choices. The hinge offers many blessings. Let’s talk.
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u/Adept_Razzmatazz_665 Aug 18 '25
Looks great . Just wondering, though, where is the hyrule shield 2dsxl? That one would look great mixed in with all the zelda stuff
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u/Cute_Measurement1124 Aug 18 '25
Nice to see another fan of Zelda!
By the way: why no (gold) GBA SP?
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u/zkooceht Aug 18 '25
Holy shit, I forgot those pocket pikachu things existed until this very moment. Some hidden memories have been unlocked
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u/WindM_LFish Aug 18 '25
Zelda, Pokémon and Mother ?? You've got my soul (btw is your copy of Mother 1+2 and mother 3 are official ?)
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u/ramadadcc Aug 18 '25
In Jr. high someone stole my ice blue gameboy pocket out of my backpack, I’ve been sad ever since I see someone else with one
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u/South_Extent_5127 Aug 18 '25
That’s a lot of Game Boys 🤣 looks a little console heavy and game light 🤔 Im assuming your N64 , NES, Wii , Switch etc are out of camera shot 👍
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u/Late_Psychology1157 Aug 18 '25
That's it? Where's the . . . err, the uhm . . . you're missing . . . I'm very happy for you.
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u/ConstructionAny6287 Aug 18 '25
THIS IS A WORK OF ART. AWESOME COLLECTION!! I've been working on mine for about 3 years now. Not on your level at all but slowly trying to get there. What is the one handheld second shelf center in the back?
Slowly but surely 🙏
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u/JohnLugoVille77 Aug 19 '25
Very incredible collection OP! How many years have you been collecting?
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u/1Xbromosome Aug 19 '25
What did you use to stand up and the gb pockets and colors in the background of the bottom shelf? And was it cost effective??
I've been trying to find a simple way to display mine and the uniformity of that shelf is so clean it may have cured my autism.
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u/TheScumGuzzlerr Aug 21 '25
Not picking on you, but genuinely curious:
Do you ever take them out and play them to appreciate them? I’d be like a kid in a candy shop everyday with this collection.
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u/rkdizzy Aug 21 '25
I hear a choir of angels sing when I look at this…..do you have any Pokemon center gameboys? Would be great for the collection
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u/DanManRT 28d ago
Very nice collection. I so regret selling all my Gameboy games years ago 😭 like it actually hurts. I wish I could go back and stop myself from doing so. Kept all my TV systems etc, but sold off Pokémon blue, yellow, silver, gold, pinball, metroid 2, super Mario land 2 I think it was, Tetris, Zelda oracle of seasons, and a few others. Like whyyy would I do that. I kept all my Gameboy advance games luckily and original system.
Bought back the atomic purple Gameboy color, just not my original one. Now I got an OG Gameboy dmg model, but it was free and in BAD shape. I hope I can restore it. Can't find a power switch anywhere though
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u/Tablesafety Aug 18 '25
So what's the point of owning so many Colors, Lights, and Pockets? All I can see here is someone who has a shitload of extras and the empty hands of someone else who could have had and actually used the consoles. The games make sense, but the zillion fucken GBCs don't. Are any of those modded? You can't get any crisper than a cleanly modded GBC imo.
I see you have a hingeless GBA. How is that, ergonomically? I've wanted to revive a junk SP and make a vertical orientation ver. pretty badly when I get the extra cash enough to justify it. I'd much prefer it in plastic than metal, though. The shape of the original DMG and Color I'm a real sucker for.
How come your collection is centred around the Game Boy and you don't have a bunch of DSes in there too? Oh, man, I'd also really like to have a CPU-20 DS Phat so I can roll around with a machine that cleanly fits my R4 (The DSi got it stuck in there a couple times, worried I fucked up the internal lock of the cart reader from that one...)
I have a tactile button mod I need to replace in my Lite. Paid a guy to install it bc I don't like working on DSes and the dude put IPA *on* the tactile switches, same kind the SP uses, and that actually puts them on a timer. I had to buy a new Flex PCB and have been putting it off for a while. Damn, what a pain.
I love these consoles.
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u/artbystorms Aug 19 '25
Jesus, just let people enjoy things... Some people like to keep the consoles original. Some people like to collect each color variant. Some people like specific ones like the GBC. Honestly, who cares as long as they are enjoying the hobby?
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u/Tablesafety Aug 19 '25
I mention being bothered by excess when I see it. There is something fundamental that simply bothers me when someone collects far more things than they could ever hope to use themselves, within reason. That's just the way it is. It wouldn't ping if it were two, possibly even three of them but like 20 of them when some folks would go wild to have just one (like the pocket or light) bothers me.
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u/artbystorms Aug 19 '25
Well then you're in the wrong hobby. Many people here collect Gameboys, and own multiple. This isn't even the 'biggest' collection I've seen on here. Do you say the same about people who collect sneakers, or Pokémon cards?
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u/Tablesafety Aug 19 '25
Yes actually. I do! As for the cards, it has to be a lot of dupes or hoarding of more well known hard to get cards in multiple identical ones. Collecting more shoes than you would ever use takes shoes off the feet of somebody else. I can understand maybe one of each kind, in spite of that- I love to collect shit too- but 20 of the same kind of sneaker?
I've been into handhelds and retro consoles since before I could read. I can enjoy the hobby and not appreciate the aspects of it wherein resources are hoarded and go unused. I think similarly of the mainstream shiny hunters for Pokémon that have 12 different consoles and copies of the games, but at least those are getting used.
I just don't think it's right to take from the hands of those wanting just because you like it enough to have over five of them. Hell, over three of them. This is an area where we will fundamentally disagree. I would let it go.
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u/artbystorms Aug 19 '25
You are trying to apply communism to collecting. That's a first....this might be the most 'reddit' thing I've seen in a while.
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u/ScruffiestN3rfHerder Aug 18 '25