Game Boy Oddities

On its 20th birthday, 13 strange lives of the most popular gaming handheld ever.

By  |  Monday, April 13, 2009 at 11:36 pm

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Larger Than Life

Jeff Hermann created this enormous working Game Boy (called the “Game Man”) for a senior project at the University of California, San Diego. The distinctly non-portable device uses huge interchangeable cartridges and holds the unique potential to fall over and crush the player to death, a property conspicuously absent from official Nintendo consoles.

Photo courtesy Jeff Hermann

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