Feeling nostalgic? Miss the solid feel of an original Nintendo Game Boy? You could smash a window with one and keep playing Pokemon the whole time! Well, [Raz] was, and he built what might just be the biggest Gameboy ever. Gameboy XXL: The Texas Edition.
Actually, it was commissioned for a Belgian music festival called Nintendoom — picture video game music + rave. Anyway, the organizer thought it would be so cool to have a giant functional Game Boy, so [Raz] got to work. He made it out of 10 square meters of 3mm thick MDF, which he laser cut into shape at the Brussels FabLab. The electronics inside consist of a 19″ LCD monitor, a Raspberry Pi, and a few jumbo size buttons.
It’s pretty freaking awesome. It runs Retropie which allows you to play pretty much whatever game you want. Check it out after the break.
Kind of reminds us of this giant wearable Game Boy Color [John] made for Halloween last year….
Argh ! My eyes.
I love how the camera pans out to the dance floor and, from the looks of it, only the DJ is dancing.
It runs Retropie which allows you to play pretty much whatever game you
wantlegally ownNot that all hackers follow the rules…
No, i remember an even bigger gameboy and IIRC it was featured right here on HaD. And that one used proper upscaled catridges with the original ROMS.
It was probably http://gameman.loungespot.com/
its almost as big as the original gameboy!! :D
Yeah, when you were about 1/8 of your size now, or so.
How about 2 huge Gameboys running 2 player Tetris?
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