This reimagining of the Game Boy looks like a prototype Nintendo could have made
Imagine if Nintendo made a Game Boy Advance without the
Advance
part.
That’s what video game console and handheld modder Obirux did:
they created a reimagined original Game Boy handheld that retains
the aesthetic language of the 1989 model but reoriented it as a horizontally
handled system akin to the Sega Game Gear, original GBA,
and many modern handheld systems, including the Nintendo Switch (
via Gizmodo
).
This creation is named the Game Boy DMG-0B “Prototype,” a homage to the original model number of the Game Boy DMG-01,
where DMG stands for Dot Matrix Game.
Obirux has a brief list of what went into this modification: