In the period of time I call '90s-B', the second half of the 90s, a lot of things were happening. The Euro tunnel had opened and people could take a train to France under the ocean for the first time. The Game Boy color was released and 90's Alan abstained from public transport with his Brother so they could buy it. That was my first hand held console. At the same time compact fluorescent light bulbs had become popular, they used half as much power as incandescent ones, the trouble is after about 5 months they would fade and become quite dim. The 'Game Boy Color' had no back light on the screen so it would only be as bright as the light in the room. The console looked like a small brick with a direction pad and two action buttons. The screen was half the size of the system.
90's Alan didn't fit in to social groups, he didn't like football or Starwars and looked at everything differently to other people so he wasn't popular. He found comfort in playing his 'Game Boy Color' in the dimly lit rooms, his eyesight were being strained every day. The game that stuck out to me was Duke Nukem, they put a lot of effort into making that game. There wasn't much pixels in the 'Game Boy Color' and the processor was 8 bit but they made a game that worked well on the system. They were very careful about how they used pixels I guess.
Anyway, because of the dim light of a '90's-B' room and no back-light on the 'Game Boy Color', my eyes became short sighted and at the turn of the century, I had to wear Glasses.
