Time to imaginary crush some imaginary invaders!

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      1 day ago

      I did one a few years ago. the total kit was around $200. this included the screen, some solder kit to modify brightness, and a new front screen glass.

      I also took the opportunity to upgrade the case and li-ion battery.

      all for a Christmas present for my kids that they never play…

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          33 minutes ago

          SPs have hinges and don’t fair well with children. also, the handheld format is smaller so it’s slightly more difficult for children to hold onto.

          finally, I had a crusty advanced from goodwill I had bought for around $3 that was the base.

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      There’ve been tens of mods over the years for backlighting a GBA v1. Nowadays there’s clone hardware that plays anything via emulator.

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        I’m using an Anbernic clone. It also plays older gameboy games, some arcade cabinet games, NES, etc.

        Build quality is not as good as I remember the gameboy being, but it’s still pretty decent. Especially for ~$70.

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      yeah, the campaign is much more fun

      never played PvP on AW1 but I can attest that’s it’s excellent on 2

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        yeah, the campaign is much more fun

        I remember it being all fun and games until you had to spend a bunch of turns blowing up impassable pipelines, then it got brutal hard. 💀💀💀

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    Looking at the thumbnail, I was trying to figure out why Groot was staring at you…