[HN Gopher] Nintendo Page Boy (2021) ___________________________________________________________________ Nintendo Page Boy (2021) Author : tosh Score : 34 points Date : 2022-02-20 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nintendoenthusiast.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nintendoenthusiast.com) | alexjplant wrote: | The Game Boy Color was my entree into mobile computing as a | child. I desperately wished for something that would add wireless | connectivity to it and even asked one of my relatives that worked | at IBM if they could make such a product (one of my finer moments | of youthful technological naivete). It's amazing to see that they | actually conceived of such a device! | tosh wrote: | I just remembered the Game Boy Color had infrared support that | was used by a few games: | | https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?155041-Whi... | LeoPanthera wrote: | You got your wish just a couple of years later in the form of | the Cybiko, a standalone device rather than a GBC addon: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko | | It sold something like half a million units so it wasn't a | total failure. | boomboomsubban wrote: | I had completely forgotten the design trend of "we threw some | silly putty at the wall and this was the resulting shape." ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-20 23:00 UTC)