Long before VR gaming and the Nintendo Switch, there was the humble Gameboy – a handheld, nonbacklit console with just four buttons and a directional pad. It was a phenomenon. Just under a decade ...

Jean-Jacques Calbayrac bought his first Game Boy Camera at a flea market around a decade ago, “just for the fun of it,” he said. “You take like four or five pictures and you’re like, OK, yeah, I’m ...

The Game Boy Camera, released in 1998, wasn't even close to the weirdest peripheral for Nintendo's classic handheld console and even earned a Guinness World Record for the smallest digital camera in ...

Twenty-five years after the Game Boy Camera first debuted back in 1998, fans are not only still enjoying lo-fi, black and white, pixelated photography, they’re also re-engineering the camera to make ...

Released in 1998, the Game Boy camera was a bit ahead of its time. This specialized Game Boy cartridge featured a 128×128 pixel CMOS sensor and took 4-color greyscale photos. The camera even rotated, ...

The Game Boy Camera is a 128×112 pixel sensor from 1998 that was probably the first digital camera in many, many homes. There’s not much you can do with it now, besides replicate old Neil Young album ...

You never forget your first love, and for many digital photographers, that was the Game Boy Camera: a $90 low-resolution digital camera for the Game Boy released by Nintendo in 1998. Almost a quarter ...

Not to go all “kids today” on you, but my goodness, kids today will never appreciate what it was like to live in a pre-smartphone world. They’ve grown up carrying an unimaginable source of information ...

Conor Merrigan shot the image on the left with the Gameboy Camera and Canon lens rig on the right. Conor Merrigan SHARE The Game Boy Camera is one of the weirdest somewhat-successful consumer cameras ...

Soon after the Game Boy Camera launched in 1998, Nintendo broadcast a TV ad confidently announcing that it would “turn photography into fun-tography.” But it turned out the claim was even fuzzier than ...