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The Gameboy That Nintendo Should Have Made

 It was 1989 when the Nintendo Gameboy first came out. One would be the envy of everyone else if you had one of these. It was cutting edge for its day, but compared to more recent tech, this is ancient. It had  no built in memory or games - you had to buy game cartridges. It had a mono speaker. The screen was monochrome and had no backlight. Over the years, mods have been introduced and fairly recently were new mods introduced to this handheld that revitalized it's status as the granddaddy of all hand held gaming consoles. Here we have the backlit, IPS screen. A modded original Gameboy with IPS display. Though the original DMG Gameboy has had this revolution in the past few years, it's still largely relegated as a collectors item. I myself have modded several Gameboys yet I find myself only playing with these a few hours each week. It is no longer the addicting handheld game console it once was, but that doesn't stop a handful of enthusiasts, mostly my age, who still love a...