Here are the top 7 strangest Gameboy accessories I've ever encountered...
Used for locating fish underwater. Yes. In the pond. It came with a fishing minigame to play when you got bored of not catching any actual fish.
Allowed you to plug your Gameboy into a keyboard and do actual work on it with a calculator, address book, and more. For those who couldn't afford a real computer in 1992.
For playing the two or three games that required four players.
To calm down kids who needed to be medically sedated in the doctor's office... To be honest, I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking on this one...
Am all-in-one gadget for the Gameboy. Speaker magnification, screen magnification, replacement of the D-pad with a joystick (Why?)... Sadly, it didn't add the main thing the Gameboy needed: A backlit sceen...
Yes, Nintendo was one of the first to try to let you play games on your phone.... But mostly it was using the phone's antenna to connect to a wireless network so you could play multiplayer games. (However, the entire concept was ahead of its time, and the service soon shut down.)
1. Gameboy Radio
Basically, it was a radio that plugged into your Gameboy and used it as a power source. The Gameboy didn't even know it was there... It just plugged in and sucked extra power from your Gameboy like an electronic vampire, so the batteries wore out twice as quickly. But at least it let you listen to fuzzy AM stations...
Basically, it was a radio that plugged into your Gameboy and used it as a power source. The Gameboy didn't even know it was there... It just plugged in and sucked extra power from your Gameboy like an electronic vampire, so the batteries wore out twice as quickly. But at least it let you listen to fuzzy AM stations...
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