Broken gameboys are much cheaper and usually come in lots, like the box of 20 I bought on ebay for this video (nobody really sent in GBs, though I did get some messages from people who wanted to.)
Oh my god u are officially the person who has created everything on the internet. I remember when this video was popular and I remember seeing other videos like it.
I want my fucking Gameboy back now. It's been several years and the note I sent even said that I'm LOANING my Gameboy to you until you figure out the mystery. Give me my childhood back.
wasn't there a video where you took apart a gaming console or something and found like 4 tablets, a psp and a gremlin that guarded one of them, or was that somebody else?
Well I do know what it is, its 16gigs of ram, and it also transmits or helps police and other emergency services. No one noticed cause it didn't interrupt gameplay. They were also used to triangulate car phones as well. They didn't have a strong enough network back then so that helped magnify the signal.
It's a tracking device that they originally installed for the early gameboys to protect them for theft, it was a beta that never worked properly but it's basically anti-theft :3
Oh wow! This is in mine too! I didn't notice there was an antenna though, I thought that was just something to connect it to the other parts. Huh. I see there's a part two so I'm going to check it out; maybe you figured out what it was?
Neil, what is the serial number on both of the Gameboys? Figuring out which came first would be a big help in figuring out whether that component was added later or removed later.
After watching the second one, I can say you got me. I didn't think it was a spy device or anything, but you fooled me in that you made me think you thought it was one, and you fooled me into thinking it was actually something that came in a Game Boy. I love where you took it at the end of the second one!
Triangular head screws are common to many little toys, doodads and electronics. Producers use them because most people won't have triangular head screwdrivers (except those people qualified to work on said toys, doodads and electronics) and therefore can't open them up and tinker with them.
I used to work for nintendo in 1985 and they showed me the first gameboy they made and that little screen was supost to be a miny tv that you hooked up to your gameboy to watch tv and play but nintendo recalled it 1988 before we shiped the gameboys but when i was in the factory i stuck one in a random gameboy so someday people whould know. jk its probaly a goverment tracker!!!!!!!!!
it looks like the guts from the Gameboy TV peripheral; you could use it to watch B&W TV when you plugged it in to your gameboy. Why they marketted it, I don't understand, but from the way it's hot glued into your console, I think either some newb stuck it there cuz they were trying to look busy or someone just was having one of those creative moments that only excruciating boredom can inspire. BTW, LCD screens did exist in '89, there's one on the front of your Gameboy
Was this inspired by that string of videos of people taking apart batteries, like the one (parody) where the dude opens up like a 6-volt and "finds" a bunch of smaller random batteries inside?
The antenna and the old LCD screen remind me pretty much of an old mobile phone. Maybe some part dropped on the wrong part of the assembly line, and the screwmonkey in the sweatshop didn't know what else to do with it?
Actually, a speaker could prevent it from working because the electronics could be wired in series or it might have diagnostic checks on it. I suggest you re-solder the speaker and it should start up
It makes me think either A.Gameboys were meant to have gps, B.They could connect to the internet usimg some component from what appears to be a phone,or C.You're being tracked by the NSA
That is a transmitter or a receiver it will either be for some sort of tracker or sending some sort of signal out to a saterlight (sorry for bad spelling) or sending a signal to another device just like it
It's a tracker that transmits a signal to the company so they could see if a good majority of the people were using there systems so they knew weather or not they had a good product. Last week me n my friends took a part a Wii and theres a small chip in there that works with the WiFi everyone does all game companies n cell ones
Can you scan it with a photo scanner or really goog camera? Or do you have a link with picture of this in the web? Maybe I can figure out what this thing does.
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Broken gameboys are much cheaper and usually come in lots, like the box of 20 I bought on ebay for this video (nobody really sent in GBs, though I did get some messages from people who wanted to.)
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69 likes, nice
Man that would be cool of actual people sent you Gameboys
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This video is oddly terrifying, I keep thinking that something bad is going to happen when I least expect it.
Oh hi tux
you found that missing missile chip that the bad guys in home alone 3 were looking for. i hope your parents are around.
Spoiler
Spoiler alert for a 20 year old movie?
wow old comment
Oh my god u are officially the person who has created everything on the internet. I remember when this video was popular and I remember seeing other videos like it.
I want my fucking Gameboy back now. It's been several years and the note I sent even said that I'm LOANING my Gameboy to you until you figure out the mystery.
Give me my childhood back.
+Alex Kuhn
This comment is a lie.
Stop lying dude. He said he bought a pack of 20 broken game boys to use for his video.
I figured he bought them in bulk, I was just messing aaround :p
God he's still got your gb
poor grandpa. he doesnt understand...😭
He brought his Gameboy or whatever to the table..
Do you understand?
@@evilpossessedcat9572WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS MEDICINE
King trying to find Neil to get that pumpkin pie recipe.
Aww Neil looks so adorable
I wanna pat his head
What the fuck
why .
😟
He looks like a butch lesbian in a Netflix Original sitcom here idk what you mean
In these comments:
People who don't watch part 2 of things.
Holy shit - I remember watching this when it was a day old....
29gish yeah, all four years ago...
+PSIcoh That's like two centuries in internet time
Me two it was a week old for me
says Benny Boi 2 years ago
You should watch it now
he's literally so adorable in this video his voice also kinda makes me sleepy
yeah it's like asmr!!
@@arcade3198 EXACTLY he should do asmr with a nice mic and all that he has a rlly nice voice
@@snookinatr god i agree
Chuu ⁉️⁉️
@@snookinatr listen to the spirit phone commentary, I think it's pretty close to asmr lmao
I miss Neil with comically large glasses
dude i haven't seen this video in years and i had no idea my favorite meme music maker fuckin made it... what the fuck.
he lost me at "i dont know much about electronics"
wow, how many free gameboys did you get from this video? ;D
18
Holy crap i havent watched this in forever
Barrel Roll ikr
you should watch it now though
lol the people in the comments who don’t realize this is the comedy lord Neil Cicierega
The dorky glasses make feel like neil can see me
wasn't there a video where you took apart a gaming console or something and found like 4 tablets, a psp and a gremlin that guarded one of them, or was that somebody else?
I remember that! That was Daneboe. Classic CZcams for ya.
its a vcr player.. i remember that too hahha
Daneboe's VCR video with the marshmallow troll
Yeah!
That’s the kinda vibe I was getting from this.
But nothing cool was in this.
"because i dont know much about electronics..."
HA
I re member watching this when it was less than a week old how has it been 8 years already
8 years? It's more than 10 years! I feel old.
I'd love for this to be the start of an Alternate Reality Game, something really spooky and weird.
Neil: *posts a video about a video game system*
Me: omg guys it cabinet man
Dang, I like his voice... it just sounds so nice :V
he has a band called lemon demon!
Maybe its a tracker that they put in random gameboys, seems shady.
Watch Part two!
Jarod Barrow o
DirtWormGames slim shady
The GameBoy _has_ an LCD screen.
clicking on this i knew it was gonna be a goof but it was so realistic up until "i don't know much about electronics"
thank god for part 2. glad you figured it out. really interesting conclusion
I remember watching this a LONG time ago. I don't think it was 2011 though...
Neil, thanks for always makes interesting videos. You're awesome!
He sounds so hurt when he says, "I don't know who could've."
Well I do know what it is, its 16gigs of ram, and it also transmits or helps police
and other emergency services. No one noticed cause it didn't interrupt gameplay.
They were also used to triangulate car phones as well. They didn't have a strong
enough network back then so that helped magnify the signal.
oh my god I adore those glasses
It's a tracking device that they originally installed for the early gameboys to protect them for theft, it was a beta that never worked properly but it's basically anti-theft :3
I remember whatching this years ago all parts lol. Good times...
Oh wow, I remember watching this when I was 11 and being terrified. What a great video.
oh man…. private messages on youtube… i remember that lol
Oh wow! This is in mine too! I didn't notice there was an antenna though, I thought that was just something to connect it to the other parts. Huh. I see there's a part two so I'm going to check it out; maybe you figured out what it was?
My guess, its part of a cellphone that fell into your gameboy at the production plant.
Cellphones in 1989 costed thousands of dollars. No way they were manufactured in the same factory where Game Boys were.
Watch part 2
I did, but thats what I thought when I first saw it.
@@hristaki99 you know how jokes work, right?
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Batteries. You need batteries
Neil, what is the serial number on both of the Gameboys? Figuring out which came first would be a big help in figuring out whether that component was added later or removed later.
fucking i totally bought it in this part the second part i was like holy shit
It looks like a dreamcast memory card with an antenna attached :D
Keep us posted on your progress! The mystery component made me laugh when you pulled the antenna. XD
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ITS NEIL, BEING NEIL.
ITS NEIL, BEING NEIL.
OH YEA MAN! OH YEA MAN! ITS NEIL, BEING NEIL.
the more i hear neil speak the more he sounds like the voiceover in a 6th grade math practice problems website
" and together well solve this mystery! Cuz it's freaking me out." LOL
After watching the second one, I can say you got me. I didn't think it was a spy device or anything, but you fooled me in that you made me think you thought it was one, and you fooled me into thinking it was actually something that came in a Game Boy. I love where you took it at the end of the second one!
This is going to be such a fun series.
I totally forgot this video existed!
That's a neat Game Boy you got there! You look great with those excellent glasses...
this sound a bit dumb but could it be a tracking device?
those are some big glasses
Triangular head screws are common to many little toys, doodads and electronics. Producers use them because most people won't have triangular head screwdrivers (except those people qualified to work on said toys, doodads and electronics) and therefore can't open them up and tinker with them.
Did you find that component in game if you did time for revloshon.
.... wow. this video is 3 years old already?.
:)
Your comment is 3 years old already.
8.
is this a creepypasta
Watch the second video.
In honor of my unit in ap world history on the cold war, I'll be watching these 2 videos
What did you think
@@Aurora.exists they were the sole reason I passed
That, and they were still sold well into the '90s.
neil omg😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I used to work for nintendo in 1985 and they showed me the first gameboy they made and that little screen was supost to be a miny tv that you hooked up to your gameboy to watch tv and play but nintendo recalled it 1988 before we shiped the gameboys but when i was in the factory i stuck one in a random gameboy so someday people whould know. jk its probaly a goverment tracker!!!!!!!!!
Those screws save many gameboy games, my ds lite, and my wii.
That's for the multiplayer connection back in the day!
U would connect two wires to each gameboys so you can' play with each other
Nope! Watch part 2
good guess, but no.......watch part 2.
How, Alex! You just said the best comeback ever! Nice job, Droogie
If I remember right the TriWing screws mean you are on a Dmg-07 motherboard or around that time.
I love your glasses c:
Man saint seen this in a min
it looks like the guts from the Gameboy TV peripheral; you could use it to watch B&W TV when you plugged it in to your gameboy. Why they marketted it, I don't understand, but from the way it's hot glued into your console, I think either some newb stuck it there cuz they were trying to look busy or someone just was having one of those creative moments that only excruciating boredom can inspire. BTW, LCD screens did exist in '89, there's one on the front of your Gameboy
Was this inspired by that string of videos of people taking apart batteries, like the one (parody) where the dude opens up like a 6-volt and "finds" a bunch of smaller random batteries inside?
The antenna and the old LCD screen remind me pretty much of an old mobile phone. Maybe some part dropped on the wrong part of the assembly line, and the screwmonkey in the sweatshop didn't know what else to do with it?
Actually, a speaker could prevent it from working because the electronics could be wired in series or it might have diagnostic checks on it. I suggest you re-solder the speaker and it should start up
It's a radio chip for model airplanes
Weird. I didn't have one of those components in my Gameboy either.
it is a bigger mystery than stop 'n' swap on banjo kazooie. we will possibly never know what it truely is
Don't apologize for the glasses Neil, they are adorable!
it could be a test/quality control tool that was left in during production
His glasses are amazing! :'D
did you buy your gameboy used ?I think some random kid wanted to track his gameboy in case he loses it or something…
I'd open my own Game Boy to see what's inside, but mine still works for now and I'm afraid to risk breaking it.
Nintendo put those in early models as an unused feature that would let you check stocks on your gameboy.
Neil now holds the first cellular phone that has existed!
i need a game boy classic
It makes me think either A.Gameboys were meant to have gps, B.They could connect to the internet usimg some component from what appears to be a phone,or C.You're being tracked by the NSA
That's so strange!!!
I should probably find my old gameboy and look...
it looks like a portable TeeVee
Cool and wierd .Your videos on your canel are GREAT! mine suck
You, sir, are a God damned genius.
They're watching you, Neil. Always watching.
It can be a tracking devise or a pocket tv
That is a transmitter or a receiver it will either be for some sort of tracker or sending some sort of signal out to a saterlight (sorry for bad spelling) or sending a signal to another device just like it
This would make a great creepypasta.
damn this shit brings back memorys 1994
good underated vid.
its a screen from this little mini gameboy thing that was only released in japan... kinda the size as those tamagochi things or whatever their called.
It's a tracker that transmits a signal to the company so they could see if a good majority of the people were using there systems so they knew weather or not they had a good product. Last week me n my friends took a part a Wii and theres a small chip in there that works with the WiFi everyone does all game companies n cell ones
just 2 questions!!! did you have your glasses the same time you had your gameboy? or are you Deirdres love child from coronation street?? lol
dammit these ARG creepypastas always start off so well....
@satoz7430
That's how you fight a war. You don't go against your enemies with sticks and stones if you have the means to end it.
Can you scan it with a photo scanner or really goog camera? Or do you have a link with picture of this in the web? Maybe I can figure out what this thing does.