Mother finds original Game Boy in the trash and gives him directly to her son - even a game is still there

This original Game Boy still looks damn good for his age! (Image: Reddit/Fazecumrag_)

We often replace old technology without thinking about it with new devices that can do more. The old load then ends up in the garbage or on the recycling center. Small treasures are thrown away from time to time, like this game boy here. Fortunately, he found a new owner - who was allowed to thank his attentive mom.

Mother finds Game Boy and tells her son right away

On Reddit, a user shared the very cute story behind it. Accordingly, the player was probably at work when his mother sent him a message. In it, she said that someone in the neighborhood had put a few boxes with garbage to give away.

What she found in it was anything but disposable goods. Instead, she fished a really well -preserved game boy from one of the boxes:

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She probably had to think of her son directly and took the Game Boy for him. As a picture of the back shows, even a cartridge with the game Tiny Toon Adventures is inserted.

The son is not only happy in the comments that his mother thought of him, but also that the Game Boy will not land at the landfill.

Other retro fans recommend him in the comments to replace the screen for a newer model. However, the user decides against it because"An original, functioning screen from 1989 great"be for him. Obviously the Game Boy is in good hands here.

Many other fans congratulate the user not only for the find, but also for what a great mum he has. That also fits onefurther contributionthat the son had already dropped a few weeks ago.

Here he had rush his old PSP again, which his mother bought a neighboring child 22 years ago, but was actually too young for which the user was still too young. Now he wants to finally use the handheld to let his mother know that she hadn't worried him for nothing.

Back then, did you get consoles or handhelds from the family or did you have to save them yourself?