A major UK dev I worked for had a very impressive Display case of Various Dev/Prototype consoles and PCBs, games and such in their head offices. There was one that caught my eye that was with their Gameboy stuff that I've had trouble identifying due to its rather problematic name. Any ideas?
I've seen that before in a UK game mag but for the life of me I can't remember anything about it. I've defiantly seen it though. Could it be from some small time UK firm that was trying to break in to the hand held market? Yakumo
Due to the fact it was sitting between Gameboys with huge amounts of Dev-Circuit boards coming out of them and GBAs and such I did wonder if it was either some dodgy early prototype gameboy, an unused western model or more likely an EU hardware knock off that attempted to play gameboy games. Haha thinking back to school where I would lend my spectrum games to friends who would have unique experiences playing them on various amstrads or no-name unbranded machines lol.
Isn't really much to say, memories spanning near 20 years back and all... Spectrum clones and fakes were quite common, often displaying things very differently to my spectrum (128 if I remember correctly) games were even more prone to crashing than they were on on my spectrum, some games wouldn't load correctly or would be stuck in loading loops with the console doing its usual squeals when loading. My one friend's also only displayed in black grey green and blue. As with most UK games back in the day you were mainly looking at things made in a shed from someone else's idea haha.
