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A Lost Game Boy Add-On Called the WorkBoy Has Been Found After 28 Years

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A lost, unreleased Game Boy add-on known as the WorkBoy has been discovered after 28 years and reveals an accessory that could have brought PDA-like functions like an address book, calculator, appointment book, and so much more to Nintendo’s beloved handheld device.Video game historian Liam Robertson shared his quest to find out what happened to this add-on in a new Game History Secrets video on DidYouKnowGaming? and, not only did he track down the original creators behind the WorkBoy to learn the story behind why it was never released, he was able to get one of the only prototypes in the world working.

As you can see in the image below, the WorkBoy was a keyboard that connected to the Game Boy via Link Cable and would allow you to take advantage of 12 apps, including an address/phone book and appointment book.

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Skee-ball-like indoor golf game gets an automatic scoring system

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After making an indoor Executive Par 3 golf game with a ramp and cups like a skee-ball machine, creator “gcal1979” decided to add an automatic scoring system to the rig.

What he came up with uses infrared break beam sensors for each of the three holes, feeding info to an Arduino Mega. Stats are shown on an electronic scoreboard behind the play area, with a seven-segment display for the hole number, as well as two four-digit units for player scores.

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Dallas House Transformed Into Nintendo, Super Mario Bros. 3 Game for the Holidays

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There is a jaw-dropping holiday display on Belmont Avenue in Dallas that is serving as a bit of a time machine for many.

“The response has been exactly what we wanted. People honking their horns, hanging out the window waving at us,” Katie Milam said. “We wanted to spread cheer and silliness and playfulness.”

Katie and her husband Mike transformed their house into a giant Nintendo gaming system – complete with a Super Mario Brothers game playing on a makeshift television screen.

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Zack Freedman Built a Tiny RaspberryPi Gaming PC That Plays Crysis!

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Miniaturized gaming PCs are all the rage right now and Zack Freedman’s Coccolith is one of the best we’ve seen.

There is a fun trend going on right now with people using single-board computers (SBCs) to create tiny, functional scale models of their full-size desktop gaming PCs. These aren’t capable of reaching anywhere close to the performance of their larger brethren, but that isn’t the goal. The objective is to recreate all of the details as faithfully as possible, all the way down to itty bitty RAM sticks and hard drives in some cases. Zack Freedman wanted to get in on the fad, but took things to the next level by miniaturizing his entire computer setup. The result is “Coccolith,” which is a 1/4 scale model of his main “Monolith” PC, complete with monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

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I Finally Got my Atari VCS! (Console Review)

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UPDATE: The issues with downloading Vol. 2 have been resolved, at least in my case. I’m fully aware this video may not age well. So, I guess I was at the top of the shipping pallet, because I got my VCS less than 24 hours after they started shipping. I was the first person to post online that I had one, and Atari actually tweeted my photo as a result. This is a bite-sized review of my honest day one experience. I did not get to talk about everything I wanted to, but I did what I could.

SNES Rainbow Road – Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Switch)

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I’m back at it again and this time I decided to make Rainbow Road on the SNES in real life for my next Mario Kart Home Circuit track. I hope you enjoy the time, money, and effort I put into this course. I even made the track have a chasing rainbow led pattern and two mechanized Thwomps on the course’s split. I will be posting a making of video for this course and I will pin the link in the comments.