🐱 Twitter upset over Logan Paul ruining Game Boy Colors

Twitter upset over Logan Paul ruining Game Boy Colors

Twitter users are furious with Logan Paul after his DIY TikTok reveals 15 Game Boy Colors ruined by epoxy resin.

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The internet is once again upset with Logan Paul, and this time it’s because of a DIY project involving several Game Boy Colors. The older Paul brother is facing severe backlash on Twitter after “ruining” 15 Game Boys.


Logan Paul and Nintendo fans haven’t always seen eye to eye, and it’s mainly due to his extravagant purchases of vintage collector’s items. More specifically, Logan has received negative attention from Pokemon card collectors.

Earlier this year, the Pokemon trading card community slammed Paul for wearing an incredibly rare card as a necklace to his fight against Mayweather. The trading card community also blames Paul for impacting sale prices on vintage cards. Even when he chooses to spend $3.5 million on cards, the internet has a negative response.

Now, Logan Paul has chosen to upset another community of vintage collectors by ruining 15 Game Boy Colors. Retro gaming enthusiasts have taken to Twitter to express their disappointment in Paul’s latest art project.

Logan Paul ruins 15 Game Boys with resin​

Today the world lost 15 beautiful Game Boy Colors https://t.co/1yPJcqdH0b
— Bob Wulff ,(*´∀`) (@BobWulff) December 26, 2021

Logan Paul recently posted a TikTok where he soaks several Game Boy Colors in resin and then turns them into a tabletop. Many people were impressed by Paul’s ability to create this piece, but there are also plenty of people who aren’t as impressed.

Bob Wulff, a notable retro gamer and YouTuber, was among many to criticize Logan Paul’s DIY project. Many stated that Paul had ruined pieces of history and pointed out that a few of the Game Boys were limited/special editions.

Game Boys tend to sell for around $70 USD on Ebay and Amazon. Yet, they can sell for hundreds of dollars depending on their condition and rarity. But to someone like Logan, who is willing to spend millions of dollars on Pokemon cards, a few thousand dollars for 15 Game Boys might not seem like much.

Regardless, retro collectors on Twitter aren’t upset with Paul buying the Game Boy Colors. Instead, they are upset with how he chose to ruin the Game Boys instead of preserving them.

Everyone here who says “they probably didn’t work” obviously has never owned a gameboy or gameboy color since you can fucking play basketball with that thing and it’ll still be fine. Do y’all really NOT see these are all like pristine and don’t even have discoloration?
— Eva/GeekyFoxy (@PuppyHanaa) December 27, 2021

For reference, done properly: pic.twitter.com/tFH0L93Qwz
— Chad Dressander (@chaddressander) December 26, 2021

What the fuck, there’s even limited editions in there.
— Axel Evarix (@MisterSheeple) December 27, 2021

Nah.. this ain’t it for me. Ruining classic gameboys. For a table? Nah. This was a dumb idea.
— Neil Tortonesi (@Neil_Tort) December 26, 2021

There are correct ways to display and preserve Game Boy Colors. As shown above, some users even provided Logan Paul with these ideas, albeit a little too late.

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[Agent Abe Caprine]

This guy bought a Gameboy Pocket just so he could throw it around Tokyo while screeching like a special needs Tarzan. At least his art project is both productive and not disturbing the peace.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

it's all fun and games until one day when you least expect it, walking out your front door you see yourself surrounded by about 20 pale pillow-shaped and bearded guys in jorts and tshirts

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

That table top was pretty cool actually. Get fucked nerds.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

It's not like he's smashing them with a sledgehammer for fun, he bought them with his own money to do what he wants with them. Entropy of material things and scarcity of material things is a fact of life, get over it

 

[jje100010001]

Someone please convince this literally who rich idiot that driving a vintage ferarri off of a cliff is a super cool thing to do.

It is his personal property, he can do as he wishes with it. It is not like Gameboys are an irreplaceable work of art that can never be replaced. It was a mass produced product that was meant to be played with by children.

I wonder if in some twisted future this Game Boy table or that theoretical crumpled Ferrari heap becomes more valuable than the real deal, the same way Banksy's self-shredding artwork or Ai Wei Wei's smashing of Ming Vases did the same thing in setting them apart from the others.

 

[Happy Fish]

Scalpers and collectors BTFO. If you care about a "piece of history", donate it to a museum.

Fucking this. The Paul brothers may be asshats but they aren't the ones who look like faggots here. In fact good on them for being creative.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Thank you for your service, keep it up.

I need him buying obscure 1971 baseball cards.

 

[UzumakiLeaf]

Fucking this. The Paul brothers may be asshats but they aren't the ones who look like faggots here. In fact good on them for being creative.

At least the Gameboys are getting used instead of rotting away on a shelf somewhere. Hell, I still have my Gameboy advanced somewhere and I intend to give it my kid when Jr gets old enough to use it. It doesn't really have a use to me anymore when I emulate the games on my computer.

 

[TenMilesWide]

He's a fool if he bought them as working units instead of getting a junk lot. Don't see how anyone can complain about preservation though, seems to me they'll be very well preserved in there.

 

[Happy Fish]

At least the Gameboys are getting used instead of rotting away on a shelf somewhere. Hell, I still have my Gameboy advanced somewhere and I intend to give it my kid when Jr gets old enough to use it. It doesn't really have a use to me anymore when I emulate the games on my computer.

And Gameboys in particular it's not like they do anything that can't easily be reproduced accurately on modern hardware. Like I get it if you are a younger fan who wants one but can't afford it because scalpers/collectors ruin everything but if that is the case the Paul brothers aren't who you should be mad at.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Forget Gameboys, you can at least still buy working ones relatively easily, even if you can’t always find the exact variety you want. And due to the LCD lifespan, they will probably last for quite a while yet. Or maybe he bought damaged ones. There’s millions of those.

Arcade cabinets are the only game thing where actual lifespan is being reached. many of them are built on specific circuitry and some require things like CRT monitors - which are no longer manfactured - to even work.

 

[UzumakiLeaf]

Forget Gameboys, you can at least still buy working ones relatively easily, even if you can’t always find the exact variety you want. And due to the LCD lifespan, they will probably last for quite a while yet. Or maybe he bought damaged ones. There’s millions of those.

Arcade cabinets are the only game thing where actual lifespan is being reached. many of them are built on specific circuitry and some require things like CRT monitors - which are no longer manfactured - to even work.

This guy, omg.

Man Reportedly Terrorizes Local Arcade, Smashes Vintage Machines

New Orleans' Sea Cave arcade has been subjected to two days of attacks, with the assailant smashing arcade cabinets and threatening customers.

www.gamespot.com

Now this is a tragedy. I got MATI over this story, those cabinets may not be able to be replaced. A guy lost his shit and smashed up this arcade the owner is gonna have a tough time fixing them. The owner has a gofundme asking for help.

Help support Sea Cave keep its employees paid!, organized by Judah Lea

Hello Sea Cave Arcade here asking for your help! Hello my name is Judah Le… Judah Lea needs your support for Help support Sea Cave keep its employees paid!

www.gofundme.com

 

[elite_club]

I don’t see why the game boy color has to be preserved in playable condition. If you want to look at it, the resin tabletop does the same thing, and if you want to play the games, a gameboy advance sp would work best anyway

 

[CatParty]

Wait till they see all this history destroyed

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Forget Gameboys, you can at least still buy working ones relatively easily, even if you can’t always find the exact variety you want. And due to the LCD lifespan, they will probably last for quite a while yet. Or maybe he bought damaged ones. There’s millions of those.

Arcade cabinets are the only game thing where actual lifespan is being reached. many of them are built on specific circuitry and some require things like CRT monitors - which are no longer manfactured - to even work.

Capcom used a suicide battery in CPS2 boards. It's supposed to brick the board if anyone tampers with it. Age also triggers the battery.

 

[Niggernerd]

GBC was shit to begin. Worst ports snd the only playable games were pokemon which is plagued by faggots

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

That guy's a douchebag.

 

[BlerdBjern]

NOOOOO how dare you destroy [old thing here].... It wasn't going to be mine anyways BUT STILL!!!

Okay, but now replace the game boys with a confederate statue.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

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No thanks.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Forget Gameboys, you can at least still buy working ones relatively easily, even if you can’t always find the exact variety you want. And due to the LCD lifespan, they will probably last for quite a while yet. Or maybe he bought damaged ones. There’s millions of those.

Arcade cabinets are the only game thing where actual lifespan is being reached. many of them are built on specific circuitry and some require things like CRT monitors - which are no longer manfactured - to even work.

*laughs in pinball wizard*

Actually, there are a number of game things which have reached the end of their life. Most notably, over the past ten years, have been the cart batteries in NES and SNES games starting to die but there's other examples too, like the rubber bands in certain older systems needing replacement. And, of course, the more modern stuff is reaching the end of it's lifespan after only five or six years, like fucking 360s and PS3- those age like milk. Baring cap replacements and new batteries the old stuff, like you said, is basically still good while post-2005 items are a real crap-shoot.