Modern batteries = sealed inside the device and not replaceable, so you have to throw the device away when the battery craps out? No thanks.
You, in particular know that’s not a requirement for using modern batteries, but a user-hostile decision companies make.
What if he’s inserting that batteries are now better because user-hostile decisions.
They are replaceable.
I think modding older stuff to use rechargeable batteries is not too difficult. I think the harder thing is replacing the nonstandard charging ports with usb-c.
I’d love my 3ds to just have a usb-c charging ports I’m considering doing the mod myself.
Everything that was destroyed by leaking alkaline cells or stripping the battery door screws. LR44-powered toys were the worst.
It’s good that we don’t use mercury in button cells anymore, but it was exactly mercury that inhibited the off-gassing reaction that eventually leads to leakage.
You mean lithium cells ready to become spicy explosives?
I would want the great rechargeable eneloops for sure. Those would have been game changers in the good way.
I just wish the modern things would use standardized, field-replaceable batteries.
Sega GameGear. That thing had a better screen than any portable gaming device would for another 20+ years, but it would eat 6 AA batteries in less than an hour. There were rechargable battery packs you could get for it but they were heavy as shit and didn’t last noticeably longer, you could play it with the battery pack plugged into the charger but then you’re not actually mobile at all so you might as well play the same games on the Genesis.
The car 12v socket adapter was awesome though!
Do you remember how hot the big wall brick would get?
The car adapter did kick ass, but I never got to use it because looking at anything other than the road while in a moving vehicle would instantly make me nauseous. I do vaguely remember it getting very hot, alarmingly so in retrospect, but I didn’t know shit about exploding batteries at 5 years old so I never worried about it.
pretty much all of my toys who ran on regular batteries.
My parents were wealthy, but stingy as fuck. Batteries of that time were just fine.
Honesty, honestly half the time I would appreciate some good ole double A’s in my e-waste
My “Pow-Pow-Power Wheels” quad. Would also swap out those bald ass plastic wheels for some rubber.
Oh god, Ni-Cd. Six hours of charging for fifteen minutes of use.
Neighbor here has one of those for her kids with an adapter to plug in batteries from Ryobi tools. Nice idea if you have a stack of batteries around already that can be swapped on the fly.
Game Gear
The last boss of Sonic was that red light
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Color wasn’t to blame. It was the cold-cathode backlight.
Tbf, given the time and available tech, any other options would’ve been worse, considering there were any.
Reflective LCDs would have been equally blurry, in full color, and still tolerated optional tennis-ball-green frontlights for playing under the covers.
The real surprise came a decade later when everybody except Nintendo missed that active TFTs made color a decent option.
First thing that popped into my mind as well.
It was ridiculous how fast it could go through those 6 batteries.
Eventually my parents got sick of having to buy them and I was only allowed to play using a power adapter.Yeah I wanted the power back but really I just stopped buying games for it and went back to my game boy. The main reason I wanted it was for the TV card and never ended up getting that.
Yes! I remember getting one for my birthday, and the damn thing died in 2 hours.
My RC hovercraft! I loved that thing, but it had such a short battery life, it was basically unusable
The tyco one?
I loved that thing.
OG Game boy
I had this toy robotic arm called Armatron and the thing chewed through D-cell batteries.
I wired it up to a modern USB power supply
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One of my favorite things was a power cord that let me play my GameBoy as long as I wanted, also the wormlight thingie
