The world is mine! Ha ha!
on July 14, 2014 at 12:01 am“Or play my Game Boy!” really sounds like one of those pop culture references you drop into a story so you can obnoxiously establish that it’s taking place in the Nineties, but, no, I wrote this in 1999 and Walky really just wants to play his Game Boy, for reals.
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Nothing wrong with playing a gameboy in 1999. Pokemon had only come out a year ago.
It’s more that “I’m gonna play on my game boy” is a line that an amateur writer might use to deliberately date something, like “Let’s go to the disco!” to denote the 70s or “Let’s go kill some french noblemen!” to denote the french revolution.
Or “Let’s go to the disco to kill some French noblemen!” to denote the 2030s.
Seeing this after the Bataclan attack makes it one hell of a Funny Aneurysm Moment
Pokemon came out in 96 in the US, not 98. I know, it was my best 9th birthday present ever.
The first Pokemon movie came out in 1998, though it didn’t get to the US until ’99.
(My mnemonic is “Ash’s death was really bad / Although it made you cry / Turns out it’s not that sad / It’s just that you were five,” but it only works if you were born in late ’92 or early ’93.)
This sounds like a variant on the first strip of a new comic “It would help if we had a plot!” ‘punchline’ =I
Glad it got better from here!
To be fair, I would have said the same thing.
…In 2000-2004, when I had a Game Boy.
I play Gameboy all the time.
Ah the gameboy, where it all began.
To be fair, it’s only been about 8-ish(?) years since Game Boys were replaced by Nintendo DSs (which, let’s face it, are just the next evolution of Game Boys).
Amazingly enough, it’ll be up for its tenth anniversary this November (Also, Wikipedia says they actually released in North America like a week before Japan. Huh. Must’ve been to catch the full wave of the Christmas rush.) But it took a couple years to really catch on, first years aren’t usually the best for handhelds. And it still took ages for people to stop calling it a Game Boy and start calling it a DS. (And some people still don’t.) As it is I usually drop the three from my 3DS, I could see people still calling them Game Boys. I mean, yeah, they’re totally the next evolution, Nintendo just didn’t want to attach the name to it because they were worried it’d flop and kill the brand name and Game Boy was too valuable to lose like that.
Nintendo should basically just catch on and call the next one the Game Boy DS. Longer, but hey, everyone calls them one of the two.
A baby Geek with pretentions of normality.
I have a 3DS, and I still refer to it as my Gameboy.
It’s very cute coming from Walky. He sounds just like a little kid.
Who is this Jim Carrington guy?
His head’s poking out of the bottom of panel 2.
He’s the guy with the bowl-cut in Squad 135. His power is spinning. But, y’know, like a ceiling fan.
Maybe it’s just because we had the later-drawn intro pages between, but the art here seems worse than the end of Roomies!.
“Wiigii”? Why’s he referencing Mario’s brother?
“Wiigii!” is what happens when you try to type “Woohoo!” but your right hand is one key further to the left than it should be.
I think the joke is that Walky is surly in the last panel because he’s bored. But it looks like he’s trying to do the dance from Thriller.