{"id":122594,"date":"2020-12-27T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/video_uncovering_the_workboy_-_the_long_lost_nintendo_game_boy_add-on"},"modified":"2020-12-27T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T06:55:00","slug":"video-uncovering-the-workboy-the-long-lost-nintendo-game-boy-add-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/video-uncovering-the-workboy-the-long-lost-nintendo-game-boy-add-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Uncovering The WorkBoy &#8211; The Long Lost Nintendo Game Boy Add-On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a395521cfe8d5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a395521cfe8d5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a395521cfe8d5\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>Video game historian and Nintendo Life contributor <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Doctor_Cupcakes\">Liam Robertson<\/a> has uncovered the long-lost peripheral and unreleased device known as the WorkBoy. The WorkBoy &#8211; for those that don&#8217;t know &#8211; was an add-on for the Game Boy that turned Nintendo&#8217;s famous handheld device into a PDA &#8211; essentially a small personal computer.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson has gone above and beyond to share the story of the WorkBoy and his own experiences with it. A trademark for this peripheral was first registered in 1992. It was designed by Source Research and Development in the UK, while a start-up company called Fabtek in the US planned to produce it in close collaboration with Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the full history of this unique Game Boy accessory in the video above. <em>It&#8217;s definitely worth a look!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game historian and Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson has uncovered the long-lost peripheral and unreleased device known as the WorkBoy. The WorkBoy &#8211; for those that don&#8217;t know &#8211; was an add-on for the Game Boy that turned Nintendo&#8217;s famous handheld device into a PDA &#8211; essentially a small personal computer. Robertson has gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}