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.
Rare Unreleased Game Boy WorkBoy Prototype Demonstrated on Youtube
Liam Robertson, a video game historian, has created a new video about the Game Boy WorkBoy for the Game History Secrets series. In the video, which is hosted on Did You Know Gaming’s YouTube channel, Robertson details the history of the device and his attempts to get his months-long quest to locate one. In a tweet, Robertson described the video as his “strange labour of love.”
WorkBoy, like the Game Boy Camera or the Game Boy Pocket Sonar, is one of many pragmatically-geared accessories to accompany Nintendo’s Game Boy. Over the years, these accessories and add-ons for the popular handheld have grown in obscurity, but WorkBoy has proven to be one of the more difficult items to track down as it has “consistently eluded collectors around the world,” for nearly thirty years, according to Robertson.