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Game Boy Camera

The Game Boy Camera is a Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy game console. As a toy for user-generated content, it can be used to shoot grayscale photographs, edit them or create original drawings…

21 February 1998

Game Boy Camera is a video game developed by Nintendo, released 21 February 1998 on Game Boy.

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What Game Boy Camera is

Game Boy Camera was developed by Nintendo and released in 1998. It is available on Game Boy only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Game Boy Camera is a Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy game console. 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. 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.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Game Boy Camera launched on 21 February 1998, within three weeks of Xenogears, Sega Rally 2, 1080° Snowboarding and Gunbird 2.

Released around the same time: Xenogears, Sega Rally 2, 1080° Snowboarding, Gunbird 2.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

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When did Game Boy Camera come out?
Game Boy Camera was released on 21 February 1998 for Game Boy.