Around 20 years ago, I disassembled various electronics and scanned them on a flatbed scanner. The scans were 300dpi. Gameboy Color and Gameboy Pocket were among the items I scanned. You can see the scans at <a href="https://waltersgameboy.tripod.com/" rel="nofollow">https://waltersgameboy.tripod.com/</a><p>I don't remember why I didn't scan my DMGB. Either I had lost it, or it was too precious to me to risk breaking. As a kid, I bought it with my own money. I was probably 11 years old.<p>edit: I did find my DMGB eventually when I moved out of my family home.
I regret to see they skipped the Gameboy Advance SP and Gameboy Micro. The former was quite popular because it was the last console that played Gameboy Color games.
Not sure what's the most amazing bit... the CT scanning, the information, the imagery, the 3d models of the CT scans or the fantastic page design! :WOW:
That was painful to try to read... "Clever" design that abuses scrolling, provide only a miniscule amount of info and outright breaks on browser zoom is a nightmare.
The text dims a bit too fast to read comfortably on my phone (especially since in the latest version of iOS Apple has inexplicably moved the address bar from the top of the screen to the bottom).<p>But this scrolling paradigm is just fantastic for looking through the CT scans on my phone - I can easily move up and down layers. Kudos to the web design.
If anyone is wondering why they go from focusing on heaping praise on the design of the controllers to...uh...the side rails and heat pipe of the Switch(?), it's probably because joycon controllers fail shockingly fast, and Nintendo has done nothing to improve their design despite raking in truckloads of cash.<p>This, however, is tripe:<p>> For more than 30 years, Nintendo has stayed true to its holistic philosophy that making great experiences is about more than any given component or specification. This integrated approach to design, engineering, and manufacturing has helped them remain dominant in a space where rivals have come and gone time and again.<p>More like: Nintendo has stayed true to endless recycling of its IP which keeps game development cheap, while underspec'ing their hardware, figuring that game developers will slave away figuring out how to still make games run and users will grumble but put up with abysmal performance and graphics quality.<p>People might be shocked to know that the switch's giant screen is 720p, 30hz. Even in 2017, that was pretty terrible. They're desperately milking the Switch for whatever they can wring out of it, too - the recent OLED update shows the desperation. They went with a new display technology that adds little to nothing...because the SoC is so anemic, it can't possibly handle higher resolutions or framerates.<p>Describing them as "dominant" is a joke, too. Nintendo hasn't had market dominance since the NES; their console sales numbers are quite in line with Sony and Microsoft.
When they started out with the original Gameboy, I wondered "why are they doing a CT scan when they could just disassemble it?", but with the newer devices it quickly becomes apparent that getting to all the internals has become more challenging recently...