Back in 2000, those kindly souls at Burger King decided to partner up with Nintendo to bundle tiny little reproductions of the (then) dominate Game Boy Color handheld with its meals. Fast forward 16 years, and some crazy fool is actually turning these pint-sized facsimiles into real, working machines.
Redditor ChaseLambeth wanted to create one of these himself, but stumbled across an individual online who had already done the job. The units cost $250 each and contain a Raspberry Pi Zero running the emulator RetroPie through a 2-inch LCD.
It's mind-blowing that someone has been able to turn these diddy plastic toys into working consoles, but even more mind-blowing is the cheesiness of the original Burger King commercial for the range:
[source altpress.com]
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Wasn't FireRed a GameBoy Advance game?
@Bugpy RetroPie is a multi-system emulator so you can run several different systems on this, I think.
Cool! I'd love to be able to do something like that.
It's emulating GBA? These things don't have L or R buttons, surely?
Here's a vid of the guy explaining the mini GB color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u5GEdBSzVM
@EarthboundBenjy I've been thinking about that too 🤔
@dizzy_boy Thanks, have added that to the post!
Big kids wanna be treated like big kids.
Haha, I remember getting toys like that at fast food places (though this is a bit older than me.) Those were good toys
Here's a vid for the guy explaining the mini GB color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYLL7-rUGPY
Huh, I got one of those somewhere.
Hum that made me hungry.
Pretty cool, though I don't know how long I could stand staring at a two-inch LCD screen.
The sad thing is that they don't seem to make fast food kids toys as well as they used to. (That or I'm wearing rose-tinted glasses)
Looks like the reason you wouldn't really want to play on this (other than the small screen) is the fact the d-pad and buttons are so freaking close to each other on the face of it. You can tell while he plays, it's uncomfortable like that.
The guy that made the tiny Donkey Kong emulator machine, that had a much nicer style to it, I think that's the one I'd want if I got a micro device like this. Pretty soon, they'll probably make keychain emulators.
This is really cool! However I don't think I'd want one just because it seems uncomfortable and it's so small. Very clever idea, though. It's a shame some other guy is getting the credit for it.
I would love it had he made it to support actual cartridges rather than using emulators.
I remember these things back in the day.
I also remember feeling rooked when I realized that they couldn't actually play GB/GBC games.
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