Exploring New York City with a Game Boy Camera

Before digital cameras were common place, the only way you could take digital photos at an affordable price was via cheap and nasty cameras or add-on contraptions for the Game Boy.

Speaking of Nintendo’s little pocket rocket, the below photos of New York City landmarks and people were taken with a Game Boy camera back in 2000. There is a certain charm in grainy low-resolution black and white photos – heck, there are camera apps nowadays emulating this on your smartphone! We may have come a long way with camera resolution being measured in the tens of megapixels, but we still love the fuzzy feeling we get when seeing these heavily pixelated photos.

Rockefeller Plaza
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The New York Public Library
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A Giacometti statue at MOMA
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A slice of pizza
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A park bench
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Toy taxis
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A subway carriage
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A subway passenger
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A snoozing subway passenger
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A selfie, 2000 style
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source: Ironic Sans