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The Game Boy: A Technical Marvel of Handheld Gaming (slicker.me)

submitted 1 week ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nintendo has been prioritizing battery life over flashy graphics since a looong time.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Game Boy in particular was from Gunpei Yokoi's design philosophy, "lateral thinking with withered technology".

Honestly not a bad choice, especially for the time. Even if it was late in GB's life, pokémon would have never worked on a system that eats 6 batteries in 3 hours.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Did the Game Gear even last 3 hours? Felt like 1 or less, but I might be remembering it after being forced to use nicads after the rents got sick of buying new alkalines.

Really needed a car lighter adapter, but never had one.