{"id":554,"date":"2009-04-07T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-04-07T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T23:13:57","slug":"inside-the-nintendo-game-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/554\/inside-the-nintendo-game-boy","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Nintendo Game Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/162588\/gadget_autopsy_the_nintendo_game_boy.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/inside_gb.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Nintendo Game Boy\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In honor of the Game Boy&#8217;s 20th anniversary this month, I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/162588\/gadget_autopsy_the_nintendo_game_boy.html\" target=\"_blank\">dissected an original 1989 model<\/a> of Nintendo&#8217;s famous handheld for PC World.  Of course, I took pictures of the process.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth entry in my &#8220;workbench series&#8221; of technology tear-downs for PC World.  Here are the others: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/148391\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Famicom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/143520-2\/anatomy_of_an_icon_inside_the_apple_iic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple IIc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/152528\/inside_the_commodore_64.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commodore 64<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/147939\/inside_the_worlds_greatest_keyboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Model M Keyboard<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/146496\/inside_a_classic_the_trs80_model_100.html\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80 Model 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the Game Boy&#8217;s 20th anniversary this month, I recently dissected an original 1989 model of Nintendo&#8217;s famous handheld for PC World. Of course, I took pictures of the process. This is the sixth entry in my &#8220;workbench series&#8221; of technology tear-downs for PC World. Here are the others: Nintendo Famicom, Apple IIc, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}