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Remember Chris “LeggoMyFroggo” Hackmann? He’s famous for creating the Frog Boy Color and Tad Boy Color, but his next project is perhaps the most ambitious (and unhinged) yet – he’s created a Game Boy Color you can wear on your wrist.
As spotted by Hackster, Hackmann set himself three goals with this crazy venture:
“It has to use the original GBC CPU. It needs to be able to play cartridges of some kind. And to fulfill the whole ‘being a watch’ thing, it has to be able to maintain the time while turned off. Anything less and I wouldn’t consider it a true Game Boy watch.”
This device doesn’t use emulation, and it even loads games from (tiny) carts rather than from a ROM-packed SD card.
The end result is a technological marvel, even if it’s near-impossible to play and lacks audio.
“If this all sounds needlessly complicated,” Hackmann says at the close of the video, “have you even thought about this? It’s a Game Boy Color with a less-than-optimal playing experience, shorter battery life than most, and a right to exist just ahead of macaroni and cheese with ketchup. But in the end, I’m still shocked that I have a real playable Game Boy Color, in at least a technical sense, on my wrist.”
[source hackster.io]
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Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension, the network’s newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming’s past glories.