The Game Boy Color was released in 1998, a few years before the first and grossest smartphones hit the market. Back then, the internet was fairly new and the idea of carrying around a single device that could send email, search the internet, send photos, and stream live video was years and years away. But when one is canceled Game Boy ColoFor the accessory that PageBoy saw the light of day, you might have done all of this with Mario via a single add-on.
The Page Boy was discovered by video game historians, researchers, and journalists Liam Robertson. In a video released today, Roberston first revealed a slew of details and images of the proposed device.
This strange device was planned to use radio transmission technology in order to Gameboy color Owners search for information and read international news, game magazines, weather reports, sports scores and even, most ambitiously, watch live television. This technology would also allow users to contact and message other PageBoy owners. This radio transmission technology was used extensively by pagers at the time, which is where the name PageBoy comes from.
Roberston spoke to some of the people who worked with Nintendo on the PageBoy project about the device and how it came about and what ultimately killed it before it saw the light of day. According to those involved, after meeting Nintendo of America in 1999, the company became excited about the potential of the PageBoy, and for the next three years Nintendo worked with Wizard – a group that was formed to help manage the device – together to see if this add-on could actually be created and it would be profitable in the end.
While Nintendo was impressed with many of the features of PageBoy, including the ability to send pictures with the Game Boy camera and even the ability for Nintendo to broadcast live video to PageBoy owners over wireless technology, it ran into a major hurdle . The device relied on wireless networks that only existed in a select few parts of the world, such as the United States, which severely limited the device’s customer base. According to Robertson
Because of this, Nintendo reportedly canceled the project in July 2002. However, as Roberston pointed out, many of Wizard’s ideas for the PageBoy would become a reality in the years to come. The idea of using live video to advertise games to the fan base is basically what Nintendo Directs is all about, and the idea of sending messages and cute pictures to people would be a feature on the Wii U and 3DS -Consoles. In some ways the PageBoy was ahead of its time, which resulted in the fact that it never saw the light of day.
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