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GameBoy Workboy

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Why This Matters

The GameBoy Workboy, a nearly forgotten prototype, highlights the innovative potential of portable devices to serve as micro workstations long before smartphones became ubiquitous. Its story underscores the importance of preserving and exploring unreleased or lost technology, which can offer valuable insights into the evolution of mobile computing and user interface design for the tech industry and consumers alike.

Key Takeaways

This game was never completed and/or given a public release.

As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

This page or section details content from the September 2020 Nintendo Leak.

Check the September 2020 Nintendo Leak category for more pages also sourced from this material.

Workboy converts your Game Boy into a micro workstation, complete with a keyboard, allowing you to keep track of your important appointments, addresses, notes, bank account balance, and telephone numbers as well as convert temperatures, currencies, and words between five languages. Sounds pretty useful, right?

Unfortunately, it was never released despite numerous advertisements in contemporary video game magazines, though the ROM for its Game Boy cartridge was found among the September 2020 lot check leaks.

The keyboard was considered lost too, but in December 2020 the DidYouKnowGaming? YouTube channel published a video made by Liam Robertson that shows himself using a prototype keyboard with the leaked ROM on a Game Boy. The leaked ROM fully works with its keyboard, and the video provides other details about its story, including how Liam obtained it.

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Version 5.74

The title screen shows a version number of 8.87, but the strings for it in the code have a version number of 5.74 instead.

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