So back in the day, long before we had smart phones and all that fun stuff, we had a hard time watching stuff on the go, so my generation had some pretty crappy options.

The first one was a thing called Gameboy Advance Video.

https://youtu.be/-x4Uq_aZguI

Yes, this was a thing, apparently Nintendo, for some reason, decided to make a way to watch popular shows on the go by letting kids watch shows on their Gameboy Advance, which in my opinion is still awesome, but a little dated. In fact no one really like GBA Video because you only got at most 1 hour of Programming on cartridge, and it cost $20. What a ripoff! For almost that much you can get a Full Season on DVD or iTunes. And most the shows on it was crap, like Dora The Explorer, DragonBall GT(⬅UGH REALLY WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?), and Strawberry Shortcake to name a few. But that's not it, watch what the videos looks like:

https://youtu.be/DGjTIMm_vgs

It's like watching it on a potato!

That was a major bust, but another favorite, but sadly no one got one was the Juice Box.

https://youtu.be/XGYgMRV-Pj0

This probably didn't sell well because, well, this is what it looked like to watch anything on it:

https://youtu.be/EtDNCp7lG7c

COULD YOU TURN IT UP A LITTLE?

My old iPod nano had better quality than this.

But this was the one⤵, me and my friends all had growing up.

https://youtu.be/McUFGRxs7o8

Okay we first had this which was useless because the screen was small, not backlit, or in color, luckily the one that came after fixed up all the problems.

I recommend you google Videonow color and see yourself.

But was the best personal media player out of all of those, neither.

Say What?

As a kid I thought they were awesome, now I'm glad it's has changed, but back then I would recommend a Portable DVD player, which are still being made today but for Bluray instead. The screen, larger, always in color and backlit so you could watch the show at night on the road, this was just the toy companies being greedy.

And lost a lot of money on them.

https://youtu.be/YsDhwD0bges

This is a part of the 2000's no one liked, really glad now we can get more for our buck now, especially since one episode of a cartoon/TV show goes for 2 dollars on iTunes or google play.

I think that sums it up the best.

I'll do a better one of these retrospectives this weekend.

-xanderwrites.