The Game Boy turns 32 this year, but, unlike most entering their fourth decade on this planet, it has remained surprisingly small. Thankfully, the Grumpy Modeler has decided to change that by forcing Nintendo's handheld to grow up – in more ways than one.
Using a combination of parts – including a 3D-printed case, NES and a bunch of third-party components – the Grumpy Modeler has created the 'Game Man', which also boasts a 5.6-inch full-colour 640x480 LCD screen. While the original Game Boy was hardly the most svelte of handhelds, the Game Man is far too big to fit inside your pocket – unless you've borrowed some trousers from MC Hammer, at least.
Still, it offers TV play via a special cable and certainly looks the part; it's not known if it's now married with three kids or has a mortgage, however.
[source gizmodo.com]
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I met a Game Man once, he was marching in a unicorn parade.
Is this a North & South reference??? 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XltBBEHQJxE
Plot twist… its actually an offspring of the Gameboy and the Walkman
That is a ridiculous but altogether fantastic contraption!
You think you’re a man, you are only a toy.
That's class! Still hoping that they release a Gameboy Mini Classic edition.
"You...man! You stupid stupid MAN!!!"
@Damo - fourth decade. 0 - 10, 1st. 10 - 20, 2nd. 20 - 30, 3rd. 30 - 40, 4th.
@Lordplops Of course! Fixed.
@OldManHermit Don't mess with me man, I'm a lawyer!
This looks fun! Not really practical, but fun to play around with.
The new Wii U Gamepad looks weird.
I mean, if I were gonna do this I would have used a SNES so it could run Game Boy games still, via Super Game Boy.
Or if I wanted the piracy route, a Raspberry Pi of some sort.
"Off course" someone would make this.
Haha! That's pretty awesome.
Let me know when it’s purchaseable
Or is that really a Famicom inside, rather than a US NES?
You're the man now, dog!
I'mma need a bigger magnifying glass now.
I'd rather have a Game Boy kiosk: https://i.redd.it/i0o0spx1dyr41.jpg
I met a Game Man once, he was marching in a unicorn parade.
@3RedTriangles I hate Tingle.
@the_weakest_link Reminds me of the trouble I had playing Super Metroid on my New 3DS. (way too big, compared to an actual SNES controller. And I'm lucky that mine is a Japanese console so I get the standard size, don't want to imagine how worse much the basically XL-only American region console would've been. )
I still have my original GameBoy and it still works fine. It's hard to believe I've had it for 32 years now!
And thus ends the great Game Man experiment.
OK... time wasted by everyone, thanks.
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