Pikachu possesses the ability to charge itself and attacks the unlucky enemy but the famous Pokemon can shed some light whenever one needs some illumination.

The Pokemon Gameboy Color Light gives you just that. A Pikachu and a PokeBall lamp are combined to light up the screen of your Gameboy Color, we have to admit it is a gaming portable of some age. A pushbutton allows one to switch on the PokeBall and play some games in a dark room.
$10.90 from NCSX.
Image: NCSX

What the hell am I trying to do, you ask? Shucks, I don’t know. A lot about games changed with the introduction of the Playstation and although the change came quickly, it didn’t happen all at once. Once in a while I’d like to look back at that strange transition, if you’ll let me.
See, the first CD-based game consoles were exciting at first, but they were turtles: plenty of storage space was available, but the system’s processors didn’t exceed the sixteen bit consoles’ power by much.
“Oh dear,” said Sega CD Developer #1, “our games play like their sixteen bit counterparts, …read more