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The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Console Special: Nintendo Game Boy

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Cane and Rinse

Leisure, Video Games, Games, Hobbies

4.8801 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 182 minutes

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Summary

In the third of our series of single format console special podcasts, Leon, James and Leah stock up on AA batteries and fire up their Nintendo Game Boy handhelds for one last T-spin around the Tetris block. Along with contributions from similarly nostalgic members of the Cane and Rinse community, we explore the strengths and weaknesses of both the hardware itself and the machine's huge software library, as well as picking up a few fun facts and figures along the way.

Transcript

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0:00.0

They said it wasn't humanly possible.

0:03.0

All the power and excitement of Nintendo right in the palm of your hand.

0:08.0

Introducing Game Boy.

0:10.0

It's portable. It's in stereo.

0:12.0

And its games are interchangeable.

0:15.0

Game Boy comes complete with batteries and the outrageous new game, Tetris.

0:19.0

And for head-to-head competition, use video link and blow your opponent away.

0:24.4

Game board, only from Nintendo.

0:26.7

Now you're playing with power, portable power.

0:29.8

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the third of our single-format console special podcasts with Cana Rince.

0:36.9

This is The Game Boy Show, the Nintendo Game Boy,

0:39.8

as if there was any other version. But specifically, we're talking about the original

0:44.1

black and white model. We did have a conversation. We were asked if we were going to go on

0:49.1

through the Game Boy series. But the way I see it, this was its own machine. It took, it was around for nine years

0:55.2

before the colour version came along. That has its own library of games that we may cover

1:00.0

some point in the future. And then the advance is very much a whole new machine again. So I thought

1:04.8

we'd stick with the original and the pocket version, which we'll talk about and a couple of other

1:09.1

variations, as it were.

1:11.5

But now you are playing with power.

1:14.0

Portable power.

1:16.1

Yes.

1:16.8

Cana Rinse.com is the place to go for the schedule.

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