Pocket Camera

Pocket Camera

Aka: Game Boy Camera
Console: Nintendo Game Boy
TV Standard: NTSC
Country: Japan
Developer(s): Creatures, Inc., Jupiter Corporation, Nintendo
Publisher(s): Nintendo
Release Date: 1998-01-21
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: Not Rated
Type: Utility
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The Game Boy Camera, released as Pocket Camera in Japan, is a Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy game console. It was released on February 21, 1998, in Japan, and manufacturing ceased in late 2002. As a toy for user-generated content, it can be used to shoot grayscale photographs, edit them or create original drawings, and transfer images between GBC units or to the 64DD art game suite Mario Artist. The accessory featured a 180°-swivel front-facing camera that allowed users to capture selfies. Its images can be printed to thermal paper with the Game Boy Printer. The GBC's cartridge contains minigames based on Nintendo's early games such as the arcade video game Space Fever and the Game & Watch handheld game Ball, and a chiptune music sequencer; photographers have embraced its technological limitations as artistic challenges.