Developer Ruben Retro’s GBS Windows is essentially a homebrew Game Boy Color application designed to emulate the look and feel of Microsoft Windows 3.1 on Nintendo’s handheld. It’s not a full operating system but a creative suite of mini-applications that capture the retro aesthetic of early 90s PCs.
Elliot Coll of The Retro Future recently stopped by a friend’s house to check out an incredible rare Nintendo Game Boy M91 kiosk that sat in a shop between 1989 to 1993 before it was relocated to someone’s home. Eventually, this piece of history made its way onto eBay and the ended up in the hands of a Nintendo fan.
You’ve seen the Game Boy speedometer, now you can easily create a Nintendo Game Boy DMG with the EZDMG-103. This kit basically simplifies the process of building a DMG-103, or retro-fitting a Nintendo DS Lite motherboard into a Game Boy DMG shell to play GBA games natively.
Miss the Game Boy Camera? Pixless just might be the next best thing. This tiny device takes 0.03-megaixel images (256 x 128) that resemble the pixel art masterpieces you grew up with, or least for some of us.
Modder Chromalock managed to stream video to a Game Boy Color and the experience is choppy to say the least. This isn’t a plug-and-play project either, as it required a custom Game Boy program that receives data over a link cable, and then displays it on the handheld’s screen as video.
A Game Boy Color sewing machine? Yes, it exists, and called the Singer IZEK 1500. Put simply, this sewing machine came bundled with the handheld console, a built-in Link Cable and a small number of Game Boy Color cartridges for sewing design patterns onto clothes, like Mario Family.
