Gameboy Camera
Not a Traditionally Good Camera, but a Great One
A bit over a month ago, I picked up this fun little thing called the Game Boy Camera. Above is a picture of a blue Game Boy camera inside a Game Boy pocket console, which, as you can hopefully see, is displaying a picture of my Cat above this short blob of text.
The Game Boy Camera, developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and the Japanese company Jupiter, is a 1998 cartridge-based accessory for the Nintendo Game Boy. Its camera has a 128×128 pixel CMOS sensor, and it can only store just Thirty 128×112(0.001434-megapixels) grayscale digital images before you have to start deleting and replacing its photos, of which only use the 4-color palette of white, light gray, dark gray, and black that the Game Boy system is limited too.
Despite the limits of the Gameboy Camera, with its extremely low resolution of 0.001434-megapixels and its four “black to white” colors, I’m still having a good time with this thing. Maybe it’s nostalgia for some and a general interest in niche video game history for me since I never grew up with this thing, but I honestly really like taking pictures with this little guy. Though some people, even today, are doing some crazy stuff with this antiquated piece of technology, such as the one in the image above/the hyperlink embedded in this text, the limitations of the camera are actually fun to work around.
This is a relatively quick “War Room update” compared to what I think I’d prefer to be making right now, but I’ve been taking quite a few pictures with the Gameboy Camera recently(I’m biased, but I think they’re pretty good), and I think this would be another good place to share them, so I’ll leave a couple of my favorites with some mild descriptions below.
You are the boss with these Nintendo pics. And, a pic of Nero 😍. My favorite is still your grad day pic with Dr Wood with the Nintendo DS. Keep sharing, I love your creativity!