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c/bad-take-tuesdayjordan653jordan6535d agoOG Member

I finally got my old Game Boy screen to work after a week of messing with it

Found my original Game Boy Pocket in a box at my mom's house last month. The screen was dead, just a blank gray rectangle. Watched like 4 different YouTube tutorials and tried cleaning the ribbon cable with rubbing alcohol. After a week of frustration it finally flickered to life last Tuesday. Now I am playing Tetris on it during lunch breaks at work in Austin. Anyone else still messing with retro handhelds or am I just being stubborn about old tech?
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ryan_carr59
My back hurts just thinking about hunching over one of those lol.
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ivan_perez
Man I'm only 30 and my chiropractor knows me by name now. Pretty sure these machines are designed by people who hate their own spines.
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