Just goes to show how entertaining Scott's videos are. I didn't realize he hadn't even mentioned Pokémon until the end even though it was the Game Boy's biggest hit. Awesome stuff as always.
I never heard of that game and all I thought when he was talking about it was "WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T IT CONTINUE FOR MORE YEARS", the concept sounds so genius
I’m old enough to remember when the Game Boy was still a relatively new system. The blurry green screen scared me away, even though I understood it had many good games. The introduction of the Super Game Boy was the opportunity I had been waiting for. I still think it was one of Nintendo’s cleverest moves.
Scott talking about Pokémon sounds like the most middle school presentation when you are talking about history and have to say something everyone knows
23:35 “put [Kirby] in court I don’t care” Scott is such a genius that he snuck in a reference to John Kirby (who kirby was named after because he helped Nintendo win a lawsuit) in a 2 second joke.
I noticed the video was almost near its end and thought to myself, "He's gonna get a lot of hate in the comments if he doesn't mention..." and then the funniest part of the video started playing xD
@Weston Meyer While it did have great impact (although Gen 1 Pokemon games were a programming mess compared to other GameBoy games, not gonna lie) was GameBoy struggling badly at that time?
Donkey Kong Land I and II were my first ever video games, on account of my parents allowing handhelds but not consoles when I was younger- I completely understand how they look in retrospect, but I was definitely obsessed as someone who didn't know any better.
I actually played Donkey Kong Land only semi recently via the 3ds eshop, and actually found it really well designed for the most part. Yeah the screen crunch kinda sucks but once you get past it it’s great
The first one was hard as hell because of how zoomed in the game was and how slippery the physic was, but the second and third ones were really great! Granted I never got to play the SNES version.
14:43 - 14:50 Oh, I LOVE it when video games have these types of insane subtitles; for example, Nintendo did the same thing with "Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (Gex 4)"
I really like how Scott is now Chroma keying a real world object to add some more flair to his explanations, instead of just flashing an image on screen.
@@Danny808s if I remember correctly Kirby is actually named after a lawyer (I believe his name was John Kirby) who won Nintendo a bunch of law suits and court cases
@@dmitritompkins9656 huh. I always assumed it was for Marvel/Alan Moore illustrator Jack Kirby, who invented a lot of the classic techniques and symbolic mofits of western comic book art.
I love how the whole video comes off as a trip down memory lane from the perspective of an early 90's kid, detailing how charming and engaging the games were in spite of system compromises, only to end by reluctantly conceding that almost all of it was pointless because most of us bought the Game Boy to play Pokemon.
@@FinalLuigi It was actually a blue Game Boy Pocket, but I understand your confusion. The two systems look quite similar. You can distinguish a Game Boy Pocket from a Color by looking at the system's bottom left corner; the Pocket's is flat & the Color's is rounded.
I'll never forget the guy working at Cash Converters in Australia who told my parents that Pokemon Red Blue & Yellow needed to be played on the corresponding colour of Game Boy. Good times 😂
The early Mario artwork was actually made by an ex-Studio Ghibli animator who worked on Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which is hailed as a masterpiece of Japanese cinema, and Disney thankfully released an uncut English version of it, in either dubbed or subtitled flavours.
I didn’t know the reason they packaged in Tetris instead of Mario was to spread the appeal beyond kids, but it makes so much sense to me because when that thing came out, my dad, who was early 30s at the time, became obsessed with Tetris. We had to beg for an NES and, later, SNES. Didn’t have to beg for a GameBoy in between.
Amazing how Scott's brand new videos are almost indistinguishable from videos of his from 3-4 years ago in terms of editing, pacing, joke quality, style, etc. He knows how to keep things consistent and yet also very fresh and intriguing.
You know im having a really bad time, depression hits like a bitch. But for 25 minutes i couldnt think about anything but the content of this video and my memories growing up with my game boy. Thank you so much scott my man
I love the OG pokemon series so much - the simple charm to them always grabbed my attention as a child. When you're young, simple games turn into realistic worlds, and many of these titles came across that way to me as well. I'm so glad you covered the Gameboy, and I cannot wait to see what adventure you bring us on next Scott!
Pokémon really thrives in the imagination, and that’s how it’s designed, imo. For kids who aren’t that experienced with games, getting lost makes the world feel vast. You don’t know just how big secrets work, so you think any secret you find might be the most important one in the game. Every Pokémon is special and potentially powerful. Your imagination fills in all the gaps of the actually small and simple game world. It’s definitely a series best started as a kid.
In all fairness to Metroid II, a LOT of the most iconic aspects of the series debuted in that game. Shooting downward, kneeling, the Varia suit's shoulder pads, the Spider Ball, Spring ball, Spazer, Plasma beam, Samus' arm cannon opening up to denote that you're in missile mode, the Space Jump, the Metroid larval lifecycle, recharge stations and save points- all these fundamental parts of Metroid were introduced in Metroid II. Sure, it was in black and white, but you can't downplay the importance of the title.
Got a gameboy color for my birthday in February and I got my third game for it yesterday lol. I thought it was links awakening DX but it was the original
@@HerAreDough he really doesn't care about it, he bought both Sword and Shield during the games midnight launch and said he doesn't even like these games.
@@cartersmith9842 Yeah, I thought it was common knowledge by now. Yet he does seem rather enthusiastic about Zelda. But he also loves Picross, so... Scott's just a little weird! XD I never even viewed Pokémon as an RPG, lol
My favorite part of every Scott video is that brief moment when, after the video ends, I hold my phone up to look at the comments and Scott's profile picture appears upright before the screen shifts. It's truly magical.
In my experience classic Gameboy is best played on a bed or couch with a dimly lit warm colored lamp to the side. It doesn't illuminate the entire screen, there's like a tiiiny fraction that's not in the light, but you can still see it in my experience. It's actually really good for something to do before bed, since there's no blue light shining into your eyes keeping you up like a phone would. It's incredibly comfy to play Gameboy if you have the right environment for it.
I'm sure this has been said a million times already, but the screen wasn't THAT bad back when the system was actually new, but sadly, the original screens really didn't hold up over time well. The pocket screen seems to have held up somewhat better though, but even those aren't as clean as they originally were.
I'm one of 5 people who think of other games when they talk about the link cable, so when he started talking about pokemon, I was like: oh yeah, there's pokemon too
I don't even have something against Pokémon. In fact, it's more of the contrary. I was just enjoying this funny documentary on the history and life of the Game Boy without thinking of what games it has.
You do know that the same person can rewatch the video and it still counts as an extra view right? XD, it's not like once you view the video you can't contribute to the view count anymore in the future, it's not like that and Scott The Woz is one of the most bingeable channels on UA-cam, us people we will all keep rewatching him until the end of the end of time XD
For as much as Scott harps on Castlevania: The Adventure, you have to remember that it was one of Konami's first attempts at developing a handheld game and it turned out to be a bit of a buggy mess. However, if you compare The Adventure to Belmont's Revenge, you can see that they learned from developing the first one to aid in improving the second.
Keep in mind that those screens were a lot better when they were new - even ones that have sat unused for 20+ years have degraded, especially in regards to ghosting. It wasnt great then, but it's even worse now.
everytime i hear the super mario land theme i cower in fear because my alarm clock for school is A LITERAL GAMEBOY THAT PLAYS THE SUPER MARIO LAND THEME DJSOFHA;UDTG
Finding Dory felt like a direct sequel to me. Monster University is a direct Pre-quel (Though Mike meeting Sully in the 5th grade is retconned now). Car's 2 did feel like a spin off though, it felt like a Mater's Tall Tales episode.
9:28 I sorta think the video editor only glanced at this line of the script. It’s hard to tell if the wrong games were shown per category as a joke or unintentionally.
0:15 Gave me a memory back when I was 8 I asked my dad if he had a GameBoy growing up and he said “Man, did I love the game boy” And the “ITS A MINOR” part gave me a flashback to it so cool ig :/
Sometimes I watch Scott's videos and halfway through I remember Scott wasn't alive when Game Boy came out and doesn't actually remember any of this. He had to learn it.
Lmao I always find it hilarious how he talks about all of this stuff like he was actually there to experience it. He's 2 years younger than I am and I wasn't even there to experience it.
Growing up in the age of the Internet, watching ScrewAttack/Game Trailers and other web content creators, a lot of people in our early 20s or so learned about retro gaming through that. At least, that's how I got into retro gaming. Born in 1999.
@@JDLaney-zk4wb well it does not start the game all over again, it just makes you have to do the final level of each world over again. Not as bad but still it is a bit annoying.
@@meat7490 And yet I feel like he isn't quite as biased by nostalgia as a lot of people are. A true fan of something can criticize things they loved as a kid/teen because they can now see the flaws. I always have and always will love the game boy as it was my first true console way back in the day and yet I can clearly see all the various problems with it now all of which Scott mentioned here.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The fact that he skipped Pokemon is already kinda biased imo. Also nostalgia/bias is not bad as long as we acknowledge it as OPINION NOT FACT
We were real poor as a family when I was a kid and my grandma , mom, dad, aunt and uncle all chipped in and got me a gameboy with Mario 6 golden coins and killer instinct 🥳. I had such a great childhood
You know, Capcom was planning on making a collection of the GameBoy Mega Man Games for the GBA, but they lost the source code. There was an effort by fans to do this since Capcom couldn’t, but I don’t think anyone’s heard anything new from that in at least 8 years.
I had a Game Gear and the weight of it added to my already overly heavy pack back deff contributed to my scoliosis. But I was the COOLEST chick on the playground. For 3 hours at a time.
The displays were much much better when they were new. They wear out over time. You used to be able to buy screen replacement kits for them in the mid 90s. This is like saying an ancient castle sucks because it’s all crumbly.
Well they did. People forgetting at the time Square thought didn't have a high opinion of Americans with RPGs. Had to use that name recognition or it woulda fell through the cracks, probably
Ah, those old Game Boy cartridges... I used to do this thing where I'd lay out all my cartridges in a path like you'd see on a board game and roll dice to play different ones back to back. I can't have been the only one to have this idea. Right?
I only had Advance cartridges, but because there was that overhang on the top side I'd "line them up" in an arc and try to make a guess as to how many it would take to make a circle at different angles.
I remember playing “Link’s Awakening” when it first came out on my original Game Boy, I loved it but had to sit like 2feet from a lamp with my face like 2 inches from the screen, lol! And I still have no idea how I spent so many hours playing “Metroid II: Return of Samus”, but I loved it at the time!
I recently played the original Metroid 2 for the first time, and it actually does hold up pretty well. I never felt like I NEEDED a map, but one would have been useful at times
My most legendary of days as a 7 year old little idiot was when my mom took me to Toys R Us and bought me not one but TWO Gameboy games. Something absolutely unheard of back in 1998 Kirby Dream Land 2 and Mario Land 2, those two games are core memories forever engraved in my brain.
I still don't understand how Scott can still pump these videos out, with so many original and hilarious jokes! *Scott is a god confirmed*
worshiping a false god is heresy.
your feeble cult will be eradicated
@@michaelwesten4624 r/wooosh
@FBI R/wooosh
@@optionalbread42 I... What?
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Just goes to show how entertaining Scott's videos are. I didn't realize he hadn't even mentioned Pokémon until the end even though it was the Game Boy's biggest hit. Awesome stuff as always.
*Bruh wtf scott left a sus comment in my video!*
@@riskyy2657 What do you mean?
@@someoneirrelevant6815 it’s a bot ignore it
I barely noticed it until he got towards the end and said "those are the most iconic games on the Game Boy" without mentioning it. lol
@@colorweaver5070 I figured. It r replied the same thing on multiple comments, I just wanted to make sure.
Mole Mania sounds like a game that would have been perfect on the DS. Imagine having both layers of the level each on their own screens.
That sounds like a really good idea!
That would be cool!
Very similar to bowsers inside story
I never heard of that game and all I thought when he was talking about it was "WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T IT CONTINUE FOR MORE YEARS", the concept sounds so genius
I think that would kind of defeat the purpose. It would be way too easy if you could see both screens at the same time.
I like how Scott was more interested in talking about moles than Pokémon
I mean, in all fairness, so am I
Me, huge Pokémon fan: thinking “well he’s gonna have to talk about Pokémon
Me, after Scott talks about Pokémon: Yeah that’s the most Scott thing ever
Ya, the end made me laugh so hard
im a lifelong pokemon fan and that was hilarious
Same
😂
It's hard to be upset, because the pokemon youtube community is so vast there's not much left to be said about how it affected the game boy.
I’m old enough to remember when the Game Boy was still a relatively new system. The blurry green screen scared me away, even though I understood it had many good games. The introduction of the Super Game Boy was the opportunity I had been waiting for. I still think it was one of Nintendo’s cleverest moves.
your a scot fan?!
great vids btw
edit wow this is the most likes i haveever gotten
Is this a crossover episode?
i loooooove your videos
Well this was an unexpected crossover
J.Jayyyyyyyyyyy
Scott talking about Pokémon sounds like the most middle school presentation when you are talking about history and have to say something everyone knows
It's like me talking about doki doki panic
His biggest flaw is that he doesn’t like Pokemon
@@conormurphy4328 *rpgs
@@toooydoeur I'm not an rpg guy
@@viligerm6592 😢
"Kirby can do anything! Put him in court, I don't care."
I see what you did there.
Oh because he was named after John Kirby, Nintendo’s lawyer.
I totally missed that joke
I love that joke
classic kirby moment
@@fecxorfecxor768 i thought it was named after the vacuum company
@@Robin-jk6wz damn thought he was named after the baseball player. (Kidding)
23:35 “put [Kirby] in court I don’t care”
Scott is such a genius that he snuck in a reference to John Kirby (who kirby was named after because he helped Nintendo win a lawsuit) in a 2 second joke.
Very cool thank you
*Bruh wtf scott left a sus comment in my video!*
As soon as I read the words John Kirby I remembered, thanks for jogging my memory
My God you’re right
@@riskyy2657 stfu
I noticed the video was almost near its end and thought to myself, "He's gonna get a lot of hate in the comments if he doesn't mention..." and then the funniest part of the video started playing xD
Only Scott can talk about the GameBoy for so long without so much as a mention of Pokemon
People have been doing that before 1996
Nintendo can too
400th
Cool profile picture
@@mr.whimsic6902 Why thank you
wow, I had no idea scott was so passionate about pokemon!
Ok thanos burger
He's not an RPG fan
@@tylermauldin54 that's the fucking joke
“Kirby fits everywhere, put him in court I don't care”
I understood that reference. :^)
I think I do, too. Any similarity to putting Mario in the real estate business?
*Bruh wtf scott left a sus comment in my video!*
@@riskyy2657 shut up
@@Chaos89P not exactly Kirby was named after Nintendo’s lawyer John Kirby
...Whoa!
I'm glad future generations will never have to experience the pain of running out of batteries and not being able to get more for several days
It builds character though
Yes
i do and im 15 rn, i have a gbc. and a phone box full of games.
Wait, you guys ran out of batteries playing the Game Boy ?
Rechargeable AA/AAA FTW!
I was just wondering “hey wait how has he not mentioned Pokémon yet?” Then I saw the link cable
And the red cartridge
This but for Game & Watch Gallery.
Scott's gonna Woz. Not an RPG Guy but still mentions Pokémon.
Hi
@@airygunner hi
It's for the pokemon fans.
@@seamusquain2706 true, but you'd have to be ignorant to not at least acknowledge the impact it had on nintendo and gaming in general
@Weston Meyer While it did have great impact (although Gen 1 Pokemon games were a programming mess compared to other GameBoy games, not gonna lie) was GameBoy struggling badly at that time?
Every sunday midnight I go “Is that Scott the woz” and have a good night. Amazing video 👍
How Scott the woz is successful
Woz is the best youtuber
Yea
Midnight?
@@canadianmapping4651 There are different time zones in the world, you know.
Donkey Kong Land I and II were my first ever video games, on account of my parents allowing handhelds but not consoles when I was younger- I completely understand how they look in retrospect, but I was definitely obsessed as someone who didn't know any better.
I actually played Donkey Kong Land only semi recently via the 3ds eshop, and actually found it really well designed for the most part. Yeah the screen crunch kinda sucks but once you get past it it’s great
The first one was hard as hell because of how zoomed in the game was and how slippery the physic was, but the second and third ones were really great! Granted I never got to play the SNES version.
@@constancies It is a very challenging game at some points. I need to get a new battery for mine, so maybe I'll finish it then.
My brother traded our copy of DK land 1 for a cd of lil bow wow (or lil Romeo not sure)
And I never forgot that to this day.
I didn't have a SNES so Gameboy versions of them were the best I had. I had Killer Instinct and DKC on Gameboy
14:43 - 14:50 Oh, I LOVE it when video games have these types of insane subtitles; for example, Nintendo did the same thing with "Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (Gex 4)"
cool but why do you only do timestamps on this channel?
Don’t forget when they did “Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash (Gex 3.5)”
That game was worse than taco night at James Earl Jones's house.
Weeb
"Animal crossing:amiibo festival (gex 5)"
I love how scott cares so little for pokemon that he literrally reads from a script dissapointed
and then he likes qix
That’s the joke
@@ozmond why else did you think I wrote this comment
t o a s t e r
as someone who has never been able to get into pokemon, it was quite affirming 😂
ok but that brick joke was perfect
yes
@FNF SUCKS. pleasure to meet you Mr FNF SUCKS :)
@FNF SUCKS. I’m a girl but thank u
@@Xploshi i hope you have a nice day as well, Xploshi! Keep up the good work on your channel!
hey i know you
I really like how Scott is now Chroma keying a real world object to add some more flair to his explanations, instead of just flashing an image on screen.
He’s gotta get his money’s worth outta that thing somehow. What else is he gonna do with it, play it?
@@conormurphy4328 uhm buying more wii u?
When?
@@toone1562 Throughout, when he talks about some of the other consoles.
The “Kirby, put him in court idc” joke. That’s clever scott
Didn’t get this until you re-mentioned it. That’s pretty dang funny.
Only real gamers know
@@lordsatan8391 let me guess, a guy had kirby in their name and nintendo won a lawsuit or something idk
@@Danny808s if I remember correctly Kirby is actually named after a lawyer (I believe his name was John Kirby) who won Nintendo a bunch of law suits and court cases
@@dmitritompkins9656 huh. I always assumed it was for Marvel/Alan Moore illustrator Jack Kirby, who invented a lot of the classic techniques and symbolic mofits of western comic book art.
I like the running gags. Like the allusions to his color blindness or how he always talks about Wario likes it is the greatest thing of all time.
Are you saying Wario ISN'T the greatest thing of all time?
He does have color blindness thou
Like? LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIKE
he is
My FATHER was wario, can confirm he isn’t the best thing in the world.
Wario is the grandfather of Peppino Spaghetti, Scott had a VERY good reason to treat him that way
I love how the whole video comes off as a trip down memory lane from the perspective of an early 90's kid, detailing how charming and engaging the games were in spite of system compromises, only to end by reluctantly conceding that almost all of it was pointless because most of us bought the Game Boy to play Pokemon.
The Game Boy was ancient by the time Pokémon came around, so much so that Nintendo of America advertised it with the Game Boy Color.
@@FinalLuigi and yet, I only remember one kid in the school who actually playing it on the Game Boy Color.
Us 80s kids didn't even know what a pokemon was. We bought it for Mario and Tetris.
@@FinalLuigi It was actually a blue Game Boy Pocket, but I understand your confusion. The two systems look quite similar. You can distinguish a Game Boy Pocket from a Color by looking at the system's bottom left corner; the Pocket's is flat & the Color's is rounded.
@@Sonen10 I'm positive the pocket is even older than the color, Pokémon was localized in 1998, same year the gbc was released.
I'll never forget the guy working at Cash Converters in Australia who told my parents that Pokemon Red Blue & Yellow needed to be played on the corresponding colour of Game Boy. Good times 😂
Upselling to ignorant parents, a key cornerstone of computer and video games retailing since day 1.
cashies
@@thonking7193 Oh, I found it at Cashies!
@@cattysplat Youve never been to a cashies have you? It isn't upselling bless.
The early Mario artwork was actually made by an ex-Studio Ghibli animator who worked on Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which is hailed as a masterpiece of Japanese cinema, and Disney thankfully released an uncut English version of it, in either dubbed or subtitled flavours.
They had to. If they had cut the movie, Miyazaki would had cut them.
@@sinisternorimakiStudio Ghibli sent Miramax a LITERAL KATANA to ensure they wouldn’t cut anything from their dubs (Miramax is a subsidiary of Disney)
I didn’t know the reason they packaged in Tetris instead of Mario was to spread the appeal beyond kids, but it makes so much sense to me because when that thing came out, my dad, who was early 30s at the time, became obsessed with Tetris. We had to beg for an NES and, later, SNES. Didn’t have to beg for a GameBoy in between.
Amazing how Scott's brand new videos are almost indistinguishable from videos of his from 3-4 years ago in terms of editing, pacing, joke quality, style, etc. He knows how to keep things consistent and yet also very fresh and intriguing.
Yes, it's that blue border that's formed around his life
Idk, I kinda miss old Scott. Nowadays, He speaks too fast for my non-native english brain 😞
“See how long you can last, try to win. Like a divorce.”
-Scott the Woz
Gameboy.
That is indeed what he said
Purple
@@PurplePurplePurple checks out
@@tgirl.stuff_06 Purple
Love how you ended with your undeniable love and appreciation for Pokémon Scott
You know im having a really bad time, depression hits like a bitch. But for 25 minutes i couldnt think about anything but the content of this video and my memories growing up with my game boy. Thank you so much scott my man
hey bud, hope you're doing alright
yeah how are you doing so far?
You good bro? We’re all here for you
hope you're doing well
I hope your doing well dude. Good luck, we're with you til the end.
“Scott’s color blind and it finally doesn’t matter”
you're doing a favour for the people too lazy to read the description
I love the OG pokemon series so much - the simple charm to them always grabbed my attention as a child. When you're young, simple games turn into realistic worlds, and many of these titles came across that way to me as well. I'm so glad you covered the Gameboy, and I cannot wait to see what adventure you bring us on next Scott!
OG series... Like it's changed any... HAHAHAHA.
Pokémon really thrives in the imagination, and that’s how it’s designed, imo. For kids who aren’t that experienced with games, getting lost makes the world feel vast. You don’t know just how big secrets work, so you think any secret you find might be the most important one in the game. Every Pokémon is special and potentially powerful. Your imagination fills in all the gaps of the actually small and simple game world. It’s definitely a series best started as a kid.
In all fairness to Metroid II, a LOT of the most iconic aspects of the series debuted in that game. Shooting downward, kneeling, the Varia suit's shoulder pads, the Spider Ball, Spring ball, Spazer, Plasma beam, Samus' arm cannon opening up to denote that you're in missile mode, the Space Jump, the Metroid larval lifecycle, recharge stations and save points- all these fundamental parts of Metroid were introduced in Metroid II. Sure, it was in black and white, but you can't downplay the importance of the title.
The Game Boy screen hits so hard in 2021
Hi Nintendo Collecting :)
Yeah I hurts when it hits you
Yeah my eyes are in pain
I just bought a gameboy color for the nostalgia of old Pokémon games, my eyes hurt from the lack of light 😅
Got a gameboy color for my birthday in February and I got my third game for it yesterday lol. I thought it was links awakening DX but it was the original
I feel like the Christmas special this year is gonna be about pokemon where Scott finally breaks and talks about each generation
Yeah - it feels like he's been building up the joke like he did RPGs last year :) If it happens, it will be hilarious!
@Weston Meyer God I’d feel bad for him, especially if we’re talking Xenoblade 2, it’s SO bad.
But Scott's not a RPG guy
9:31 with Scott’s sense of humor, I can’t tell if the games being wrong is a joke or a genuine error.
just wanted to comment about it lol
I was thinking the exact same thing
It’s Scott, everything is intentional.
I honestly didn't even realize he never mentioned Pokemon till the end.
Does he have something against Pokemon? This isn't the first time he's appeared unenthusiastic while discussing them
@@HerAreDough he doesn't like pokemon
Watch the "not an rpg guy" video
I guess you’re not an RPG guy too huh? Lol
@@HerAreDough he really doesn't care about it, he bought both Sword and Shield during the games midnight launch and said he doesn't even like these games.
@@cartersmith9842 Yeah, I thought it was common knowledge by now.
Yet he does seem rather enthusiastic about Zelda. But he also loves Picross, so... Scott's just a little weird! XD
I never even viewed Pokémon as an RPG, lol
This was the first Scott the Woz video I ever watched!
Such a life changer! 😌
Liked it so much bother changed his name to Scott
the last part hahaha
Didn't expect to see you here! Awesome 👍🏻
@@Sunksquatch didn't expect to see him here with only 26 likes!
Leon :)
fourth and its epic how you made it here
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The whole video I was thinking "Scott's gonna leave pokémon out just to piss off people"
But that ending was way better
Man, I can see just how much love and soul was put into that Pokemon paragraph! Scott truly is a visionary.
My favorite part of every Scott video is that brief moment when, after the video ends, I hold my phone up to look at the comments and Scott's profile picture appears upright before the screen shifts. It's truly magical.
What about when boy meets world? I was there when game met gear.
Here before this comment blows up, only has 1 like.
The nintendo worldboy
@@sharolynwallis2147 it didn't blow up
@@sharolynwallis2147 rip
Metal Gear?? It can't be......
In my experience classic Gameboy is best played on a bed or couch with a dimly lit warm colored lamp to the side. It doesn't illuminate the entire screen, there's like a tiiiny fraction that's not in the light, but you can still see it in my experience.
It's actually really good for something to do before bed, since there's no blue light shining into your eyes keeping you up like a phone would. It's incredibly comfy to play Gameboy if you have the right environment for it.
I'm sure this has been said a million times already, but the screen wasn't THAT bad back when the system was actually new, but sadly, the original screens really didn't hold up over time well. The pocket screen seems to have held up somewhat better though, but even those aren't as clean as they originally were.
Absolutely fantastic retrospective, this coming from a boy who literally grew up with these systems. You’re not from that time but you get it 100%.
I always saw this thing as the Tetris/Pokemon machine. Most people used it for that reason.
I totally forgot that Pokémon was on the Game Boy until the Link cable was brought up.
@Jay he tries to forget its existence, Nintendo just won’t let him.
I'm one of 5 people who think of other games when they talk about the link cable, so when he started talking about pokemon, I was like: oh yeah, there's pokemon too
I don't even have something against Pokémon. In fact, it's more of the contrary. I was just enjoying this funny documentary on the history and life of the Game Boy without thinking of what games it has.
@@Kayclau me too, that's why I was surprised with pokemon in the end
My immersion is ruined because I know Scott is just filming these on Crash Bandicoot’s pants
*Cash Banooca's
Bash Cashanooca’s
Brash Candycoot
Clash Bandycooka
Thanks Caddicarus!👍🏻😁
“Built with durability and longevity” now all I can think about is the game boy that survived a literal bomb
Man, I hate it when that happens.
I don’t get why Scott “only” has 1M subscribers and yet consistently gets more than 1M views per video. You would think he would have more subs.
You do know that the same person can rewatch the video and it still counts as an extra view right? XD, it's not like once you view the video you can't contribute to the view count anymore in the future, it's not like that and Scott The Woz is one of the most bingeable channels on UA-cam, us people we will all keep rewatching him until the end of the end of time XD
I wish I loved anything as much as Scott loves the Gameboy.
Hell yes
For as much as Scott harps on Castlevania: The Adventure, you have to remember that it was one of Konami's first attempts at developing a handheld game and it turned out to be a bit of a buggy mess. However, if you compare The Adventure to Belmont's Revenge, you can see that they learned from developing the first one to aid in improving the second.
Castkevania The Adventure is better played on Wiiware than on gameboy.
@@mmert138 he mentioned that 2 years ago
As a Pokémon fan, thank you. I know that couldn’t have been easy for you. 😂🤣
10:29 Ahh the 90's. I miss the days where you would meet up and let your gameboys talk to each other
"I was hoping it was going to give me advice" no Scott, that's backseating, not back lighting
Really? I thought backlighting was when somebody betrays you unexpectedly?
No, that's Backstabbing. Backlighting is when you put your car into reverse.
@@MarioMamTess that’s backwardsdriving, back lighting is when you throw at an angle to your back
@@ivanhui6051 no that’s backangling, backlighting is when you pedal backwards
@@memerman9268 no that’s backpedaling. Backlighting is malicious talk about someone who is not present
Keep in mind that those screens were a lot better when they were new - even ones that have sat unused for 20+ years have degraded, especially in regards to ghosting. It wasnt great then, but it's even worse now.
*Bruh wtf scott left a sus comment in my video!*
@@riskyy2657 stop
@@riskyy2657 19:34
@@riskyy2657 you’re not fooling anyone
God that ending killed me in its simplicity
*Bruh wtf scott left a sus comment in my video!*
everytime i hear the super mario land theme i cower in fear because my alarm clock for school is A LITERAL GAMEBOY THAT PLAYS THE SUPER MARIO LAND THEME DJSOFHA;UDTG
Omg, my alarm clock is the original super Mario bros theme XD
My alarm clock is coconut mall and it gives me so much anxiet each morning lmao
My old ringtone was a part of iron maidens song phantom of the opera. Now every time I listen to it I subconsciously recognize it as a notification
PTSD response haha.
I get that when I hear my alarm. Dread.
man now i want a ps1 alarm clock that plays the castlevania theme as the alarm
14:38 - 14:49 It’s like Cars 2, Monsters University, and Finding Dory. They’re more spin-offs than sequels. (Cars 2 should’ve had a different title.)
Monsters university is a Prequel
Finding Dory felt like a direct sequel to me. Monster University is a direct Pre-quel (Though Mike meeting Sully in the 5th grade is retconned now).
Car's 2 did feel like a spin off though, it felt like a Mater's Tall Tales episode.
They're also all bad
@@etrs finding Dory is pretty good, and Monster’s University is at least decent. I agree with you about Cars 2, that one sucked
@@devin7436 no, MU is not decent imo
Can't wait for the sequel: Game Man.
That's what DS stands for!
Dgame
Sman
I feel like the Game Guy will be better
same
The computer-based entertainment system which relies on electricity and player control and soul mature male human being.
Until feminist cancelled Nintendo for naming it "Man"
9:28 I sorta think the video editor only glanced at this line of the script. It’s hard to tell if the wrong games were shown per category as a joke or unintentionally.
@@Chad_Eldridge Meaning this is intentional!
@@QuezLo7 Actually Scott edits his vids himself, meaning this is intentional!
0:15
Gave me a memory back when I was 8 I asked my dad if he had a GameBoy growing up and he said “Man, did I love the game boy”
And the “ITS A MINOR” part gave me a flashback to it so cool ig :/
It feels a little awkward knowing that Scott makes his videos on Crash’s pants.
Ikr
Ahh. I see you know daddy caddy.
You'd think Favre could've found a better place to put Scott. Maybe someday Vince Young can help get him off of there.
Sometimes I watch Scott's videos and halfway through I remember Scott wasn't alive when Game Boy came out and doesn't actually remember any of this. He had to learn it.
Lmao I always find it hilarious how he talks about all of this stuff like he was actually there to experience it. He's 2 years younger than I am and I wasn't even there to experience it.
@@thegreatfusili4673 I am an old man and I remember it all clearly.
Growing up in the age of the Internet, watching ScrewAttack/Game Trailers and other web content creators, a lot of people in our early 20s or so learned about retro gaming through that. At least, that's how I got into retro gaming. Born in 1999.
@@thegreatfusili4673 He does a pretty good job. It's largely what I would say as someone who "lived it".
Lol I was waiting the obligatory Pokémon mention. Was not disappointed.
I’m more impressed he went for the whole video without mentioning it
The first two songs in this video are my two most nostalgic games I’ve ever played, I swear this video was made for me
The only Mario games I haven't played are Land series. I guess I'll finish all in onesit
Marioland 2 is fantastic, it really should get a remake.
2 is great, but has a pretty unforgiving difficulty spike at the end. And if you run outta lives, it makes you restart the game again.
@@josephperry3700 there is a fan remaster out there for gameboy in full colour, it's not that hard to find either, i play it on my phone
Ive beaten 1 and 2 and am about to play 3
@@JDLaney-zk4wb well it does not start the game all over again, it just makes you have to do the final level of each world over again. Not as bad but still it is a bit annoying.
Scott makes this 4th of July even better
“This isn’t America, this is Ohio!!!”
@@EllieMiller510 “This is America, so no!”
Any other UA-camr: "releases an essay about the Gameboy"
Scott: "releases a research paper"
@@meat7490
And yet I feel like he isn't quite as biased by nostalgia as a lot of people are. A true fan of something can criticize things they loved as a kid/teen because they can now see the flaws. I always have and always will love the game boy as it was my first true console way back in the day and yet I can clearly see all the various problems with it now all of which Scott mentioned here.
@@meat7490 Yeah, That's why I prefer this than other. I'm not here for a history lesson. I'm here for Scott 😚
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The fact that he skipped Pokemon is already kinda biased imo.
Also nostalgia/bias is not bad as long as we acknowledge it as OPINION NOT FACT
I love how scott sounds so dead inside when he talks about pokemon it's really funny in my opinion
Having a Scott the Woz video come out on my 20th birthday is honestly pretty great gift .😁👌
Happy birthday, dude.
happy birthday dude !!
happy birthday🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉🎁🎁🎂🎉🎁🎂
Happy Birthday!
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
9:30 , Scott is such a mad genius that I’m not sure if that’s an editing error or a joke that he’s showed the games backwards
took me a while scrolling to see if anyone else noticed this!
We were real poor as a family when I was a kid and my grandma , mom, dad, aunt and uncle all chipped in and got me a gameboy with Mario 6 golden coins and killer instinct 🥳. I had such a great childhood
same, still remember getting a OG gameboy for my birthday during 90s 😁😁😁
@@HUYI1 that’s so cool . I was born in 89 . The gameboy they gave me was a red gameboy pocket and it still works to this day
@@andrewharris9302 i still have my og gameboy too, it's seen many days tho thanks to my 7 year old self lol
Man this brings back so many memories. 100% this are the types of videos people will make in 30 years about the Oculus Quest 2.
You know, Capcom was planning on making a collection of the GameBoy Mega Man Games for the GBA, but they lost the source code. There was an effort by fans to do this since Capcom couldn’t, but I don’t think anyone’s heard anything new from that in at least 8 years.
25:23 Did Scott leave in the sound of a pen clicking, or am I going insane-
I think he did.
i heard it
But why? And what could it mean?
*Bruh wtf scott left a sus comment in my video!*
Why is that there?
9:28 I feel like I just had a stroke trying to follow along with the visuals not lining up lmao
I was hoping someone else caught that lol
I got a green game boy pocket still lying around. It was legit my first video game system, way back when I was like 6. I loved that thing to death.
I had a Game Gear and the weight of it added to my already overly heavy pack back deff contributed to my scoliosis. But I was the COOLEST chick on the playground. For 3 hours at a time.
Game Gear fo life!!!! I never had batteries to take it anywhere with me unfortunately....
If the GameGear had the puke brick library and battery life I'd take it any day over the puke brick.
game gear for life baby!
And now Valve are coming out with the Gabe Gear 😁 (the Steam Deck)
so this is what scoliosis smells like
I love seeing Scott play Tetris, because he’s always so bad at it.
It makes me quietly rage everytime
I thought the same
Probably intentional on his part lol
Rumor is if you play Tetris 99 on easy mode the AI is modeled after Scott
9:33 ah yes my favourite sports title, Tetris
The displays were much much better when they were new. They wear out over time. You used to be able to buy screen replacement kits for them in the mid 90s. This is like saying an ancient castle sucks because it’s all crumbly.
"they brought random rpgs and renamed them final fantasy" this SAGA slander won't stand!
What do you expect from someone who is not an RPG guy!
@@computer6062 yeah, Scott's all about RPG slander
Well they did. People forgetting at the time Square thought didn't have a high opinion of Americans with RPGs. Had to use that name recognition or it woulda fell through the cracks, probably
SAGA?
"Before the virgin phase"
Does this mean Scott has a hidden "Chad phase" past??
what else do you call the frat house episode?
@@internettoon Ah, a fellow original Scott fan, I assume?
@@internettoon _the what_
@@williepchamp3060 *GETTING SLOSHED*
Redemption phase
Ah, those old Game Boy cartridges... I used to do this thing where I'd lay out all my cartridges in a path like you'd see on a board game and roll dice to play different ones back to back. I can't have been the only one to have this idea. Right?
I only had Advance cartridges, but because there was that overhang on the top side I'd "line them up" in an arc and try to make a guess as to how many it would take to make a circle at different angles.
“it can be difficult to see where enemies are” *immediately falls of the edge*
I had a kids mom force me to trade him his Pokémon back in kindergarten lol
24:52 i can just imagine someone with a loaded gun behind the camera.
“Grass was way better, back then”
Nintendo fans be like
How come they know if the grass is better if they never touched it in their lives
@@Pyrax99 who even touches grass with their bare hands anyways
@@Pyrax99 fair point, fair point
@@toceeno874 people who sit on the grass?
@@toceeno874 me? You never sat in the grass at the park?
i love that in spite of scott's best efforts, youtube still decided this video is primarily about pokemon
I remember playing “Link’s Awakening” when it first came out on my original Game Boy, I loved it but had to sit like 2feet from a lamp with my face like 2 inches from the screen, lol! And I still have no idea how I spent so many hours playing “Metroid II: Return of Samus”, but I loved it at the time!
I recently played the original Metroid 2 for the first time, and it actually does hold up pretty well. I never felt like I NEEDED a map, but one would have been useful at times
My most legendary of days as a 7 year old little idiot was when my mom took me to Toys R Us and bought me not one but TWO Gameboy games. Something absolutely unheard of back in 1998
Kirby Dream Land 2 and Mario Land 2, those two games are core memories forever engraved in my brain.
Reminder that LoZ Link's Awakening's overworld theme is a banger, and it's just Game Boy beeps.
“You can still… fit it in a pocket.”
*Cries in girl jeans*
You could buy boy pants to put it in
It was the Jncos era. You could fit a 32 inch crt tv in those pockets
@@samuelchallis3420 mate the mammoth ones could fit an entire cinema inside
I don't want to be sexist but it is called the game BOY
This is why you need a jean jacket
You Know It's A Good Video When You Hear Scott Say: "Hey All! Scott Here!"
The 2ds has the squishy buttons we all loved
Kept spending the whole vid waiting for him to talk about Pokémon, and when he did, it was nothing and everything I expected.
It's like me and my school presentations
The opening sketch with the Microvision is one of my favourite Scott the Woz gags