♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪
- Game Boy Advance SP.
- (whispers) The new Game Boy Advance SP.
- (narrator) You can even play in the dark.
- I'm getting nostalgic vibes right now. (laughs)
- (narrator) There's a rechargeable built-in battery.
- The one plug battery, the multiple games,
and their backwards compatibility.
- Yeah, I'm loving this voice!
- They were really like hyping this up!
- Nice, yep, mm-hmm.
- Yes, oh, I love these!
- Oh my God, this is perfect.
This is perfect.
- She's a laptop, she could be a touch screen.
She could be a hello? Britney Spears?
- My cousin had one of these, but I would like steal it from him.
- (React) So, this is the one and only Game Boy Advance SP.
- Ooh.
- (React) It first came out 18 years ago in 2003.
- I was actually alive. I was actually alive, wow!
- (React) The Game Boy Advance SP was a sixth generation
handheld gaming console from Nintendo.
- Mm-hmm.
- (React) Do you know what the SP stands for?
- Mm, I was gonna say solar power. (laughs)
- Super phone. - Small portable? (laughs)
- I know it's like super something, right?
- I was gonna say special, but then, is it special?
- (React) It's special!
- Oh my gosh, I'm buying a lottery ticket.
- (React) It actually stands for special.
SP-ecial.
- Okay. (laughs)
They were trying, they did their best.
- (React) It was an upgraded, or special version
of the 2001 Game Boy Advance, have you ever seen this one, no?
- Nope, but it does look like a LeapFrog.
- That one, exactly that one, the clear one, ooh.
- Yes, that's the one that I had, yes, oh my God!
Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
- (React) The fact that it had a backlight
was a really big deal when it came out,
because you could play it in the dark.
It flipped up, kinda like a flip phone.
- Exactly, can we just see the flip? Wow!
- (React) And it also featured a rechargeable battery.
- Mm-hmm! - (React) Which was a big deal.
- Yep, I see her.
- Rechargeable battery, I'm confused,
like doesn't everything have a rechargeable battery?
- Like, you know how ghetto that is to buy batteries,
and to keep putting it in, like why am I spending more money
on a system that you guys should've like, fixed it for me.
Like, it's supposed to be special.
- (React) So when it first came out, it sold for $99.99,
and it came in a variety of colors.
- Do they have pink? - (React) They did.
(Emily gasps)
- Okay, those are a lot of colors.
I just remember, like the silver, and this kind of like blue-ish.
- (React) Why don't you go ahead and power this up?
- Let's see, is it touch screen? This button?
Oh, start.
- Am I supposed to hold it down? I feel really dumb right now.
- Don't tell me that I'm not doing it, oh my God.
(laughs)
- Ah, oh my God! (Game Boy chimes)
Ding, yes, okay, okay, this is really bringing me back!
- She said (babbles), mmm, ding! (laughs)
- Alright, Game Boy! - (React) What's happening?
- (sighs) It's taking a long time. Is it not on?
- Is it 'cause there's no game in it?
- (React) There you go, ding ding ding!
- There you go, it doesn't do anything?
There's no like main menu or anything?
- (React) This just so happens to be my personal Game Boy
from when I was a kid. - Really?
This exact one? - (React) That exact one.
And I do have a few games for you to try out.
- Oh my God, look at you coming in clutch!
- (gasps) You're gonna have me play Super Mario World?
No way.
- It's Super Mario World! (gasps)
- (React) Try turning it off and turning it back on.
- Oh.
(Game Boy chimes)
- Make sure I heard that beep now.
- Wow, this is pretty good. It held up its shape.
- And just a lot of the old Mario games are so,
have so much attention to detail
that a lot of people kind of give up on.
- (React) Mm-hmm.
- And I like it, I like that a lot.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay. Wait, I just wanna...
Okay, that's jump. (gasps)
I, oh, oh, I already lost my dinosaur dude.
- This is so fun.
But I don't wanna die. (laughs)
- Yeah! Ooh, gotta get this one.
Yeah, woo!
Aw, this feels amazing!
- I used to have a Nintendo DS, and I'm so used to
that little joystick, so it's like so weird having to go back,
back to the basics, you know, two buttons,
and four sides. (laughs)
- (React) What differences do you notice between
like modern Mario and this?
- I mean, as you can see, it says press the A button to jump.
It's very different, especially with the controls,
'cause you normally have a Y button and an X button,
and now you just only have two,
and especially if you wanna break like these bottom blocks,
you gotta do your little spin jump.
- For when it came out, it's still pretty like
advanced, I would say.
Like, there's a lot happening on this tiny little screen.
- (React) What do you think of the graphics?
- It's cute, I actually really like it.
'Cause this is like (gasps)
Go, go, go, what, where did I go?
Oh my God.
- Oh, it's so different,
but at the same time, you can tell that like
Nintendo really likes to keep their nostalgia factor,
so they really don't switch up that much.
- I mean, it's not perfect, but like, no I don't want you.
Oh yeah, I do, I thought that was bad.
I thought he was naughty. - (Mario) Mamma mia!
- I wanna do that thing where you like go on top,
and then you flip over, do you know what I'm talking about?
I don't think you can do it on here.
But you can like go on top, and...
- (Mario) Oh! (Emily laughs)
- Aw shoot, yes, there we go.
Woo!
- And you got the little football guy, I think they're called Chucks.
And that's world one. Doo, doo, wait.
♪ (upbeat celebration music) ♪
- I haven't played Mario in so long!
- Oh, you were about this life, honey. Okay, hold on.
- Oh my God, look at you!
You have the whole setup, my guy!
- Nah, I don't even have to look at anything else.
It's this Scooby Doo game.
I feel like I had this game too!
- (gasps) The movie?
No way, is it gonna start playing the movie?
- Do I just watch the movie on this?
I'm confused, so do you just hop into Scooby Doo 2?
- Okay, I was about to say, if it started playing the movie,
I would've been very impressed.
- Wow, look at him go!
Make Scooby jump with the A button.
This is interesting, I could see why it's a favorite.
- (React) How is playing games on this compared to how you play games now?
- It's different.
I feel like the graphics make it intense,
so that like, it kinda draws people in.
- Literally you could fold this and put it in your bag,
and it won't take up any space.
- (React) Yeah, you can't really put a PS5 in your pocket.
- Yeah, exactly, and even if you do,
like hey, what TV are you gonna set it up to?
- (React) You know, the Nintendo DS came out shortly after this one.
- Yes. - (React) This came out in 2003,
the DS came out in 2004,
and then the PSP came out in 2005.
- Mm.
- (React) And then eventually fast forward to the Nintendo Switch
which came out in 2017, you said you had one of those,
that's arguably one of the most popular handheld
gaming devices of all time.
You talked about this earlier, but what's it like to look at
how handheld gaming has evolved over the years?
- It's so, it's just so crazy,
'cause we went from only a green screen Game Boy,
and then you look at the switch, and then it's just,
the colors just look beautiful, and the games look so nice,
and you could just tell that they're putting so much to it.
- It's so cool how we went from this to then a DS,
and then now we're at a thing where literally you download the games
onto the thing, and you never have to bring a cartridge or anything.
- (React) And then now it's like kids just get an iPad.
- Yeah, listen, out the womb! Out the womb coming out with iPads.
Like how you know how to work this better than I do?
Having a system just for your games, like outside of like,
I feel like that's healthy.
You know, you have that work and life balance?
You know, you need to have that game and life balance,
you know, like you need to keep it separate.
- Thanks for watching this episode.
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- Let us know what other gaming devices
we should react to in the comments.
- Bye! - Bye!
(laughs)
- (React) Alright. - Game Boy Advanced special.
Sp, sp, sp! (both laugh)