Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a dad who helps my son play his Gameboy
After reading many reviews about this light (both pro and con), I have to say that I agree with both sides! The light works very well for lighting the screen, providing it is adjusted properly! It does give off of an extremely annoying glare, as other reviewers have complained about.However, I took a tip from another reviewer and stretched out the neck about 70% so that it's not quite straight, but still has slight twists in the neck. This adjustment basically about doubled the distance of the light from the screen. Be very careful when doing this because the neck appears to be rather flimsy and might break under rough adjustments. Now that the light covers the whole screen area, I tilted the neck/light head toward the top of the Gameboy, so that the bright glare spot appears in the black border area of the screen. The final step is to tilt the actual light a bit toward the bottom of the Gameboy so that the light covers the entire screen. Voila, now you have a very good amount of light illuminating the Gameboy screen, and the annoying glare is at the top black border and doesn't interfere with the playing area. All in all, a good product, but could be designed a bit better/tougher. BTW.... We noticed maybe 20% more battery loss during a week of typical use. Not bad considering that the usual magnifying light units eat AAA's like there is no tomorrow!
Rating:  - good light
This is really good accessory to have for your Game Boy. The best thing about it you don't need to buy batteries for it all the time and never have to change the light source. It lights up the face of the Game Boy in any darkness. In fact, you can also use it as a flash light. The only thing I don't like is the glare of the light on the screen, but you can change the postion to reduce the glare. Over all it's great for all Game Boy players.
Rating:  - Not bad, could be better
I bought this after reading many of the reviews. I figured if I didn't like it, I could go back to not playing in the dark. Well, it arrived, and I attached it to my GB, and there was this big glare spot right on the screen. So I did as most of the people who have reviewed this did. I moved the light around til the glare was in the black part of the screen. Well, it still didn't illuminate well enough, so I stretched it out as far as I could. Still the light was bright but didn't cover enough of the screen. The only way I found to stretch the light out far enough that it covered the screen well enough to see without the big glare spot was to untwist the cord so it was straight, then bend it where it plugged in, and at the light end. Then shift it around so the glare spot was in the black part of the screen, and, wow, it actually covered enough of the screen to see without the glare. So, I think perhaps if Nyko had put a longer cord on the thing it would work better. But, I'm happy with mine, and glad I can still play my GB in the dark. Hope this helped.
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