Game Boy

Custom-Built Game Boy Camera Photo Booth Shines at Pixelated Wedding Party

By Jackson Chung July 23, 2025

Photo credit: Sebastian Staacks
Sebastian Staacks, a physicist and maker of interesting tech, has turned a retro relic into a wedding photo booth. His Game Boy Camera photo booth is a lo-fi delight for his cousin’s wedding. He’s built five photo booths for family events, including his own. For this one, he tapped into his cousin’s love of vintage gaming and chose the 1998 Game Boy Camera as the star. This DIY favorite features a 0.014-megapixel monochrome sensor that produces 128×112-pixel images.

Squid Game Shrinks to 8-Bit Glory on the Original Nintendo Game Boy

By Bill Smith July 21, 2025

Squid Game, the South Korean series that had us all hooked with its brutal survival drama, has been reborn in a crazy way. The 64 Bits team has made a Game Boy demake of the first season, and it’s playable on the same handheld that brought us Pokémon and Tetris.

RubenRetro’s GBS Windows Brings a Windows 3.1-Like Experience to the Game Boy Color

By Bill Smith April 21, 2025

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.

This Incredibly Rare Nintendo Game Boy M91 Kiosk from 1989 Still Works

By Bill Smith March 22, 2025

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.

Gamer Uses 3D Printer to Create Key Boy, a Game Boy-Inspired Computer Keyboard

By Jackson Chung February 5, 2025

‘The Lesser The Besser’ used a 3D printer and a Logitech K380 to create Key Boy, a Game Boy-inspired computer keyboard. The 3D-printed outer shell encapsulates the K380’s hardware, as well as the DMG-01-inspired red buttons.

EZDMG-103 Turns the Classic Nintendo Game Boy Into a Modern Handheld with DS Internals

By Bill Smith January 18, 2025

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.

Pixless Camera Takes 0.03MP Game Boy Camera-Like Photos

By Bill Smith January 10, 2025

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.

Orange FM Game Boy Cartridge Turns the Handheld Into a Radio

By Bill Smith January 2, 2025

Orangeglo’s Orange FM Game Boy cartridge turns the handheld into a functional radio. You can think of it as a faux car stereo system in a cartridge, complete with digital tuning, presets, basic radio text support, as well as other interesting features.

Modder Streams Video to Game Boy Color, Choppiness Ensues

By Bill Smith December 23, 2024

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.

Fascinating Look Back at the Singer IZEK 1500, an Unusual Game Boy Sewing Machine

By Bill Smith August 29, 2024

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.