different colored dmg 001 gameboys

in 1989 nintendo came out with the gameboy, the original model dmg 001, they have come out with several updates over the years, adding color, back lighting, and a whole slew of other features, unfortunately the sound was not improved, instead it was weakened

in 1995 nintendo announced a new gameboy product, the gameboy "play it loud" series. in actuality, the play it loud series was exactly the same as the original gameboy model dmg 001, aside from 1 major change, the case came in different colors. exactly the same gameboy guts, and sound, as the phatt thumpitty gameboy dmg 001, but now in a plethora of color, ditch that old grey gameboy brick and grab a blue, green, red, black, yellow, or clear one!

i have been slowly hunting these colorful little beasts, trying to catch them all like they were pokemon!

so far i have acquired the black dmg 001, yesterday i won a clear dmg 001 on ebay, my collection is growing! last night my wife asked how many different colors i need? well that's easy, all of them! i am not a racist, i gladly welcome gameboy dmg 001s of all colors!

i am into using the gameboys for music making purposes, once the clear one arrives i will be doing a simple modification to make the sound louder, less noisey (as in line noise, which is bad...usually), and the bass a bit thicker. some people call this a pro sound mod, some bitch and complain when they hear it called that, i'll just say it's the "gameboy sounds mo' phatta" mod.

this site has an excellent and thorough comparison of gameboy models, as well as comparisons of the gameboys after a sounds mo phatta' mod:
http://www.herbertweixelbaum.com/comparison.htm

chip tune is fun, but i prefer to use the gameboys as sound sources which get mixed in along other instruments as well. lately it has been more of a techno live pa with a bit of acid filtering. i sync the gameboys up to my other equipment using a low gain audio lsdjmc2 gameboy midi converter box, in my genius i thought the low gain audio device was messed up as i couldn't get sync to work properly, i discovered this amazing nanoloop feature by reading the manual, the feature turns turns on external sync! hahaha @ me, holy crap i thought the lsdjmc2 was broken at first, but once i discovered this and popped nanoloop into external sync mode, the gameboy stayed locked on to my midi clock for hours on end without missing a beat! hooray!!

here is a really tacky ad for the nintendo gameboy play it loud series:


for more info on the gameboy timeline, check out this awesome chart