The advent of handheld gaming systems also gave rise to a cottage industry of accessory items. Some were ingenious, some were helpful and some were not.
Tetris. We can only imagine how many more AA batteries might’ve been sold in the ‘90s if Nintendo’s portable game machine had ended up pulling double duty as a pint-sized productivity powerhouse.
To get his hands on the WorkBoy, Robertson did some serious sleuthing. The device was meant to be an officially-licensed accessory produced by Fabtek Inc. and designed by Source Research & Development. Robertson located and interviewed Source Research and Development founder Eddie Gill, who in turn pointed him to Fabtek founder Frank Ballouz. Ballouz allowed Robertson to experiment with his still-functioning WorkBoy, even though, as Gill noted, it’s one of only two prototypes thought to still be in existence (the other safely tucked away, he speculated, “deep in the vaults of Nintendo.”)
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In context: After the Game Boy launched in 1989, it accumulated several accessories. A few were somewhat sensible, like attachable screen magnifiers. Others were not so practical such as the Game Boy Printer. The WorkBoy is arguably the most useful (and most rare) device ever created for the handheld.
Gaming historian Liam Robertson has uncovered a never-released accessory for the Nintendo Game Boy that can turn the handheld gaming console into a full-fledged PDA. Robertson unveiled the peripheral, thought lost for the last 28 years, on a recent episode of his YouTube series Game History Secrets (below).
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