News You can now use the Game Boy Camera as a webcam for your PC — 26-year-old camera gets new life with the sleek GB Operator dock

[Admin]

The Playback software will soon receive an update that allows it to read image data from the Game Boy Camera cartridge.

You can now use the Game Boy Camera as a webcam for your PC — 26-year-old camera gets new life with the sleek GB Operator dock : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

16 kilopixels wasn't that bad considering the GB and GBC had a 160x144 (23 kilopixel) resolution, and the Game Boy Printer had the same resolution, and digital cameras of the age used 3.5 inch floppies as storage.

 

[USAFRet]

16 kilopixels wasn't that bad considering the GB and GBC had a 160x144 (23 kilopixel) resolution, and the Game Boy Printer had the same resolution, and digital cameras of the age used 3.5 inch floppies as storage.

This was taken with a digital camera only 2 years newer.
3 megapixel Olympus C-3000

(pic taken in 2003, still one of my favorites)

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

This was taken with a digital camera only 2 years newer.
3 megapixel Olympus C-3000

(pic taken in 2003, still one of my favorites)

Not bad for only 16x the price of the GB Camera.

 

[USAFRet]

Not bad for only 16x the price of the GB Camera.

Well, yes.
But then you also need all the other associated Gameboy stuff.

That pic was just a demo of the state of digital in 2000.