Johnny Barry’s Freaker Sneaks is a company that produces super-small runs of custom sneakers. Its take on the retro Air Jordans IV are especially sleek, including 2017’s extremely limited SNES and NES-themed ones. Now there’s a Game Boy pair, and holy shit do they look hot.
They’re $US1350 ($1897) a pop though, and like most of Barry’s stuff only 10 pairs will be sold. That’s both good and bad. Bad because neither you nor I will ever get our hands on them. Good because neither you nor I will end up spending almost $2000 on them.
The left and right heels have the handheld’s D-pad and two face buttons embedded on them respectively, while the front flaps feature Super Mario Land’s box art and an image from the game as it would have appeared on the Game Boy’s mini green-tinted LCD screen. Did I mention the buttons are press-able? A plastic Game Boy cartridge serves as the hang tag.
The package as a whole works a lot better than all three of the previous Nintendo console versions, mostly because the warm, off-white grey tinged with yellow and green is a lot less oppressive than the darker, cooler greys of the SNES and Super Famicom colour schemes. The black in the NES Jordans is just ugly.
The Game Boy variant also has the honour of a shared birthday. Both the Air Jordan IVs and the handheld released in 1989, making them a uniquely perfect pop cultural crossover that’ll you never have.
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4 responses to “These $1900 Game Boy-Themed Jordans Almost Look Worth It”
One of life’s great incomprehensibles that people would want gimmicks like this, let alone pay $2K for it.
No.
These look really good but holy hell, I just cant imagine spending 2000 on clothes (art or not)
These are great, but yea that price is bloody ridiculous.
The problem with prices like these is that it is enough to spend 50-75% and get a knockoff pair made by a custom sneaker-freak studio and have it more personalised