Indie developer Two Tribes has released several games for Nintendo consoles in recent years. However, their latest game pays homage to a very specific relic from Nintendo’s past. In their upcoming game Rive, the in-game video feeds were made using the specifications from the Game Boy Camera. Released in 1998, the Game Boy Camera allowed very crude photographs to be taken on Nintendo’s handheld. Attempting to capture the same low resolution look, Two Tribes revealed on Twitter that they recreated the accessory’s specifications for the game. Certainly an interesting nod to a forgotten piece of Nintendo hardware.
Did you know RIVE's in-game video feeds were made according to Game Boy Camera specs? #FactsOfRIVE #indiedev pic.twitter.com/8nTbCqG9Ws
— Two Tribes (@TwoTribesGames) September 8, 2016
That’s cool I guess.
||Everyone wants our technology, it’s amusing how much they kneel without knowing it…||
Translation; everyone look at me please.
||Since I have your exclusive attention then it must be true, for you…||
never forget.
I’m surprised Nintendo never made a 3DS Camera, much like the Game Boy Camera. Pictures would look SO much better on 3DS than they did on the Game Boy.
I wasn’t much of a Game Boy fan, but I do own the original Game Boy. I only own a small handfull of Game Boy games. My Game Boy didn’t get much use until I bought the Game Boy Camera. I LOVED that! It was by far my favorite Game Boy ANYTHING. That was before I bought my very first digital camera. So I had a lot of fun on the Game Boy Camera before getting sick of the limitations and packing it away.
It always disgusted me how the pictures that are printed with the Game Boy Camera Printer faded (due to heat compression instead of ink). I used to put the little stickers/pictures on our fridge, and they would always fade, sometimes completely. I even printed a picture of my sister’s cat, and put it on her cat’s collar, and it completely faded to a blank piece of paper. So basically, the Game Boy Camera Printer was an interesting novelty, but a waste of money.
3DS pictures still look terrible.
But at least they’re in color.
Hahahahahaha!!!
||High Command should just remove the camera altogether for the next machine and put in extra power instead, everyone uses their phones or something else anyway…||
once at a football tourement a kid had one so i took pics of the games with it
piocs were amazing low res black and white shadows running about the pitch it looked so cool,only time i ever used one
Cool