Your Move

Your Move: Remember The Game Boy Camera?

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Sinopsis

I’ve always been attracted to photography. My first camera was a little 110 film camera that added a Ninja Turtle to the corner of every photo. The problem with that was that, for a kid, film and developing were expensive and slow. In 1998, Nintendo released a digital camera I could afford - the Game Boy camera. It was a cartridge for Game Boy that had a little round camera pod attached to the top. This camera could turn around 180 degrees, so you could take photos of things in front of you, or take some of the world’s first digital selfies. The camera’s resolution is 128 by 128 pixels, a tiny fraction of a megapixel. And forget about color - the camera sees with the same palette as the Game Boy. That’s black, white, and two shades of gray. But the Game Boy camera was the most affordable entry into digital photography at the time, and at that point was the smallest digital camera in the world. There’s no easy way to hook the camera up to a computer to get the pictures - instead, you