Ever used the link cable?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I gotta admit... I never knew anyone who had a Gameboy, but the idea of trading Pokemon (or even multiplaying on a portable devise) seemed incredibly cool to me.

Ever got to use the little cable?

 

[Gemstone]

I was planning on getting one for the GBA just to transfer my Chao from SADX to SA2B, since I play on PC now I'll likely never end up doing this.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Tetris and Pokémon demanded it. Outside of those two games, nah.

 

[ATenderLad]

Absolutely, watching two Game Boys link up to play Tetris had me convinced I'd see flying cars by 2000.

 

[LUNARMYTH]

I was there when the magic of the link cable was written into reality. Pokemon was a treat even when trading with yourself.

 

[Heretic]

Oh for sure, I had an off brand purple one, would use it to play pokemon silver/gold with friends in school. One I always wanted to try out was the one for the PS1, being able to play C&C against each other would have blown our tiny minds.

 

[Flamebeard]

I sure did, it was a great thing to use but I used it only really for Pokémon. I even had the transfer pack so I could play them on the N64

 

[Zero_Kirby77]

Never had one either, but I really wanted one to transport Chao from Sonic Adventure to Sonic Advanced.

 

[Waifu4Life]

Sure, how else was I suppose to trade Pokémons with myself ?

 

[Patches]

My older brother and I had a few over time and even got to use it with some friends. As much as online can be such a help for gaming little touches like that have gotten lost over time. It did suck having to buy a cable, but I would rather own a cable than a monthly or yearly sub to a bank app for my video game creatures. I had a gamecube, but I never got to play with the cable magic for it.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I traded some Pokemon with someone on Ruby Sapphire or Emerald back in 2011/2012 as they had a link cable.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Used to play Tetris with my friends with it.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Yes for Pokémon Blue and Power Quest. Around those years I also had a Bandai Digivice I would link up to fight against my friends in school.

 

[Odysseus94]

I gotta admit... I never knew anyone who had a Gameboy, but the idea of trading Pokemon (or even multiplaying on a portable devise) seemed incredibly cool to me.

Ever got to use the little cable?

When I was a kid I traded Pokemon with some other kids at the after school program in order to get Machamp and Gengar. It felt like magic, in my head I imagined the Pokemon being sent through the cable like how it showed. I didn't own one myself but man did it just blow my mind.

 

[Jeff]

Never had one, sadly. Would want it just to play Dr. Mario or trade Pokémon.

 

[Zemus]

You didn't LIVE unless you tried the link cable, especially if you got to borrow someone's GBC or GBA!

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

No. My brother did though.... and it didn't work half the time.

No that's misleading... The link (cable) worked fine. But them trading pokemon would fail because version differences, where skill X or pokemon Y wasn't on the other system so trade failed...

 

[Yousef Yousef]

It’s possible to recreate the link cable experience via emulation however I’ve always wanted to experience it with real hardware. Unfortunately even though is somewhat undermined by not only how easy it is to hack devices, but even Nintendo themselves undermined the experience by making it really easy to use the “trade” service on your phone or switch to get really powerful Pokémon before you’re supposed. I was able to obtain gen 8’s legendaries on an unfinished shield playthrough for example. @Waffles

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

It’s possible to recreate the link cable experience via emulation however I’ve always wanted to experience it with real hardware

Yeah, same.

Although it WAS really funny duking it out through No$GBC, TGBDual and VBA.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

.. Just had to respond to this thread. Yes! If you were in holiday in any family orientated resort in the 90s there was a ton of kids with gameboys, german, french, spanish, english, etc. All playing pokémon. I got to use it for more than a few trades. It was a fun little novelty to share pokémon. In particular I remember this one german kid called Lukas on my holiday to Corfu that had a ton of Mews he was just handing out, I have no idea how he had them, I don't think you can breed legendaries.

It makes me miss promotional events where they would actually hand out rare stuff before everything became DLC. It was just cool. Also a little off topic but does anyone remember gameshark?

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

.. Just had to respond to this thread. Yes! If you were in holiday in any family orientated resort in the 90s there was a ton of kids with gameboys, german, french, spanish, english, etc. All playing pokémon. I got to use it for more than a few trades. It was a fun little novelty to share pokémon. In particular I remember this one german kid called Lukas on my holiday to Corfu that had a ton of Mews he was just handing out, I have no idea how he had them, I don't think you can breed legendaries.

It makes me miss promotional events where they would actually hand out rare stuff before everything became DLC. It was just cool. Also a little off topic but does anyone remember gameshark?

Thank you for sharing! That was amazing :)

I used to LOOOOVE GameShark! Looking up codes became my chief gaming-related activity for a while. It's just too bad that I can no longer use mine.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

I never had a game boy (color/advance)

 

[YuriSukiSan]

Thank you for sharing! That was amazing :)

I used to LOOOOVE GameShark! Looking up codes became my chief gaming-related activity for a while. It's just too bad that I can no longer use mine.

Oh! Anytime! The post brought up memories of us all sat around on the beach chairs by the pool swapping stuff, quite literally a small crowd of children just trading pokémon while the adults played water polo. Fun times. I had a game shark and an action replay iirc, a lot of ways to do wacky things. Or some times just brick your save. I felt like my experience was always my games crashing or wildly bugging out.

 

[MistHunter]

You can have the consoles, even streetpass...
but can I find someone with another console?.
in my case, it's a totally different story (and I'm not exactly someone who lives under a rock).
Told to be truth, I am satisfied and done with having achieved the first 151 pocket monsters...

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Used it with my cousins back then playing Pokémon thinking about it gives nostalgic vibes (man I’m old lol).