game boy
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The 25 Best Gaming Handhelds, Ranked
13I recently got a Nintendo Switch Lite, and I love it. I wanted to write about the joys of that dying breed of device, the dedicated portable gaming machine. And I thought to myself, how can I write this in a way that would make the largest number of people hate me? And I realised:…
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The Link’s Awakening Remake Is A Complete Graphical Overhaul
I thought the original The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening looked great on my Game Boy when I was a kid, but they Game Boy had nothing on the graphical capabilities of the Nintendo Switch. In this side-by-side comparison video showing the Switch and the Game Boy Colour versions, you can observe the gorgeous details…
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Meet The Pixel Artist Recreating Breath Of The Wild Scenes In 8-Bit
Earlier this week, Instagram user ncxaesthetic began uploading a series of “screenshots” in which he took iconic scenes from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and rendered them in the 8-bit pixel art style of the Game Boy Color Zelda games such as Link’s Awakening DX.
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25 Years Ago, The Super Game Boy Reinvented Donkey Kong
25 years ago, Nintendo released the Super Game Boy, allowing the Super Nintendo to play an expansive library of Game Boy titles. Beyond letting gamers play years of portable classics on their televisions, the Super Game Boy housed extra functionality that would enable certain games to achieve a level of presentation that the original Game…