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		thedaemon on Aug 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Nintendo Switch and Gadget Design There once was something called a Super GameBoy, which was a cartridge adapter for GameBoy games to play via your SNES. It came out in 1994.

squeaky-clean on Aug 7, 2017 [–]

But if you wanted to play gameboy games on TV and on the go, you'd need to own a SNES, Super GameBoy and a GameBoy.

The SNES also couldn't play GameBoy games, the Super GameBoy was really just an entire gameboy in a cartridge formfactor.

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