It is NOT mold or water damage, despite what some people will tell you. Sometimes it’s just a few small specs of black right in the middle of the LCD, sometimes it’s a whole corner of the LCD filled with black splotches. What is it? With the classic Game Boy, screen rot can occur just about anywhere on the LCD.Last Content Revision: Original Game Boy Problemsĭon’t forget that the common problems section also has more info, such as failure to power on or speaker issues. Splotchy circles in LCD (after backlight/bivert install).PIL consoles use “chip on board” package components and thus the PCBs are covered in epoxy blobs. The PI” series only added new shell colours and was not full a hardware revision.
In 1995 the “Play It Loud” series released. The original “grey brick” was released in 1989. Later nicknamed “DMG” after its product code “Dot Matrix Game”.
