[HN Gopher] Nintendo Page Boy (2021)
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       Nintendo Page Boy (2021)
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2022-02-20 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (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."
        
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