About a month ago an app called the 1-Bit Camera arrived, promising images with fidelity low enough to make Instagram look like HDR. The nostalgia it delivers is a bit more recent than Instagram’s film love, however, recalling the Game Boy Camera, an add-on that came out in 1998 promising to Game Boyify reality. Which it did really well. And the Game Boy Camera had some fairly serious fans too, judging by the the wave of excitement over the 2012 app, and this video, “15 Things You Hope Never Happen To You In A Urinal.” Done in 2001, it’s the product of only Game Boy software and hardware, and also happens to be pretty funny. Thank Ben Claassen, Josh Sisk (disclosure: both friends of this writer), and Loren Cox for the masterpiece.Reach this writer at michaelb@motherboard.tv.
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