While I generally weep when modders take classic video game consoles like this Game Boy here and gut it to produce something less important, like a hard drive, I’m taking solace in the fact that this mod might be used to store Game Boy ROMs for an emulator. I hope.
It’s rare that, as an adult, I look at a sexually suggestive joke and don’t quite get it. But it’s even rarer that the ad would be from Nintendo’s marketing department.
Super Monkey Ball is arguably the current zenith of iPhone tilt gaming. The gameplay involves navigating your bebubbled monkey through a series of elevated, edgeless mazes without letting him fall—it’s fun, if repetitive. Nintendo’s Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble is similar: The player guides Kirby through mazes using tilt-sensitive control, collecting stars along the way. Both games are entertaining, and both won positive reviews for nearly identical control schemes. So why is Monkey Ball getting all the attention? Well, for one, Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble is only available for the the Game Boy Colour. Oh, and it was released in 2001.
Before there was the Game Boy, there was Game & Watch. DS Fanboy has a sitdown with two dudes who scoured the world to collect every Game & Watch handheld ever produced: 60 in all, each one a unique and delicious plastic bundle with a single game, like Snoopy Tennis or Donkey Kong Jr. How obsessed is collector Michael Panayiotakis?
If you want to show off your love for the Game Boy, I can think of quite a few better ways to do it than by wearing some seriously ugly boots with Game Boys strapped to the front. Not that I’m a fashionista or anything, but I mean, come on. They also come in high heels form, which might be even worse. Check those after the jump.
We’re not sure which Ocean, Pacific or Indian, PlayAsia salvaged this stash of Game Boy PocketPrinters out of, they’re on sale now for US$9 each. Those of you who have the Game Boy Camera add-on and want to re-live your youth of low-resolution thermal upskirt prints should act fast before other nostalgic twenty and thirty-somethings beat you to it. [Play Asia via Kotaku]
