--- title: Kids React to Game Boy Viral Video description: Watch kids react to a Game Boy canonical: https://time.com/2962778/these-kids-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-buy-a-game-boy/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-07T15:09:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:25.419Z og:title: WATCH: Kids React to a Game Boy og:description: "I thought it was going to, like, zap me" og:url: https://time.com/2962778/these-kids-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-buy-a-game-boy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Kids React to a Game Boy twitter:description: "I thought it was going to, like, zap me" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Kids Have No Idea Why Anyone Would Buy a Game Boy  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 7, 2014 3:09 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 7, 2014 3:09 PM CUT The latest episode of the [Fine Bros](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pCp8g-VjOs "undefined") web series about kids reacting to old technology features youngsters who are adorably awestruck by Nintendo’s [Game Boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%5FBoy "undefined"), a handheld video game device. First impressions range from “My dad had one of these” to the savvy 10-year-old’s insight, “Girls can play this, why can’t it be called Game Boy Girl?” The players are shocked that the game did not have rechargeable batteries and that it is too big to fit in their pockets. Feel old yet? **MORE:** [Take Five Seconds to Honor Game Boy’s 25th Anniversary](http://time.com/70052/take-five-seconds-to-honor-game-boys-25th-anniversary/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2962778/these-kids-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-buy-a-game-boy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2962778/these-kids-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-buy-a-game-boy/"},"headline":"These Kids Have No Idea Why Anyone Would Buy a Game Boy","datePublished":"2014-07-07T15:09:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:25.419Z","description":"\"I thought it was going to, like, zap me\"","url":"https://time.com/2962778/these-kids-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-buy-a-game-boy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2962778/these-kids-have-no-idea-why-anyone-would-buy-a-game-boy/","name":"These Kids Have No Idea Why Anyone Would Buy a Game Boy"}}]}] ```