The lo-fi Game Boy Camera is making a comeback 26 years later and Kick needs streamers to make use of it in its new ‘Bounties’ reward system.
The lengthy forgotten Game Boy Camera accessory, that you could attach to your Nintendo handheld device back in the late ’90s, is making a comeback 26 years later – unofficially at least.
A new company is planning to bring it back through an app, and that’s great timing for streamers, as Kick has launched a new ‘Bounties’ system, where one of the challenges is to broadcast yourself using a Game Boy Camera.
The unofficial Game Boy Camera app is still being worked on, with no release date yet, but the creators don’t want to change too much, saying, ‘It’s the worst and the best webcam you’ll ever have.’
The company working on the Game Boy Camera app, Epilogue, wants to add it to their already existing $50 (£38) GB Operator USB dock.
GB Operator lets you connect and play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on your computer, and Epilogue now wants to add the Game Boy Camera for the full experience.
On Twitter, Epilogue says that they nonetheless have to ‘fine-tune some issues and permit for configuration choices.’
To put into context simply how poor the Game Boy Camera’s decision is – and the way far the expertise has come since 1998 – it packs 16 kilopixels in comparison with the most recent iPhone, the iPhone 15 Pro, which has a 40 megapixel digital camera.
Although in actuality the Game Boy Camera was amusingly low-tech even again in 1998, when it was paired with a Game Boy Printer which seemed uncannily like a toilet roll dispenser.
It’s extra in regards to the nostalgia and allure of the Game Boy Camera, which is able to come in useful for any streamers on Kick who needs to tick one of many new bounty challenges off the listing.
‘Kick Bounties’ dares streamers to finish challenges to incentivise creativity on the platform, after which reward the profitable creator with gifted subscriptions to their channel.
Some of the challenges embrace broadcasting your self utilizing a Game Boy Camera, beating the Ender Dragon in Minecraft on hardcore mode, and discovering sure places in Elden Ring’s enlargement Shadow Of The Erdtree.
Epilogue can be engaged on a dock that can play Super Nintendo cartridges, however there is no such thing as a launch date for it but.
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