Here’s a really cool mobile accessory from the peripheral developers, Hyperkin: a Gameboy color cartridge adapter, dubbed Smartboy. Essentially the device clips onto your phone and allows you to plug ...
Back in the olden days, when video games still came on cartridges, the engineers and programmers making these carts had a lot of options. One of the most inventive, brilliant, and interesting ...
The RetroN Sq started as a joke. In 2017 gaming accessory maker Hyperkin tweeted a drawing of a device that would let you play games from Game Boy cartridges on a TV. But that tweet came out ahead of ...
“Since the beginning, day one, we’ve always wanted to do a portable, handheld system,” Analogue founder Christopher Taber tells me over the phone. Analogue makes exceedingly high-quality hardware to ...
The first of April has long been a day for practical jokes and silly pranks -- and there's no escape from April fools on the internet. Companies like ThinkGeek regularly announce fake products on ...
The relative simplicity of the Game Boy consoles (at least compared to modern portables) means they’re now infinitely hackable and customizable, but one modder has come up with a Game Boy Color ...
Sometimes silly projects catch our eye, and we just can’t resist covering them. Over on Hackaday.io, [solderking] realized that there was a glaring omission in the multi-game management hardware for ...
The Nintendo GameBoy library is a sweet chocolate box of retro gaming: little cartridges containing quaint, meticulously machine-coded 8-bit treasures. It would be a shame to see these games become ...
Ever since opening an original Game Boy and Tetris one Christmas morning, Joseph was hooked into the world of video games. A staggering number of years have since passed and Joe can still be found ...