If you were asked to name a non-obvious merit of the Game Boy line, perhaps after power efficiency would come it being a relatively open platform, with tons of licensed and unlicensed software and even hardware (although it has nice competition on this front).
Among these is the Glucoboy, a 'healthtainment' title by Paul Wessel's Guidance Interactive Healthcare which, as the name suggests, adds some gamification to measuring your blood glucose levels.
Released in late 2007 shortly after the commercial relevancy of the GBA, this rather offbeat product made quite a bit of news when it was announced, but was rather quickly forgotten by most people who don't live to remember funny and obscure factoids - indeed, the device as a whole had become rather infamous for being generally believed to exist in the wild but still hard to verify, at least compared to its DS spiritual successor (the Bayer Didget, for which both the manual and the ROM have long been circulating online).
Indeed, while the emulation scene has been putting a lot of effort nowadays sweeping through the classic list of obscure GBA hardware (with mGBA and especially the otherwise obscure GBE Plus leading said scene), nothing came of the Glucoboy, not because some developer is afraid of needles but rather since this title has long been featured in undumped lists!
But this may change, albeit in a probably far future, as one of these elusive units has been obtained, photographed, and dumped at the end of last month; for those still digging the sequential release numbers, No-Intro calls this ordinary GBA title number 3021.It does not appear to be in the wild yet.
Source: No-Intro via @Hiccup
Among these is the Glucoboy, a 'healthtainment' title by Paul Wessel's Guidance Interactive Healthcare which, as the name suggests, adds some gamification to measuring your blood glucose levels.
Released in late 2007 shortly after the commercial relevancy of the GBA, this rather offbeat product made quite a bit of news when it was announced, but was rather quickly forgotten by most people who don't live to remember funny and obscure factoids - indeed, the device as a whole had become rather infamous for being generally believed to exist in the wild but still hard to verify, at least compared to its DS spiritual successor (the Bayer Didget, for which both the manual and the ROM have long been circulating online).
Indeed, while the emulation scene has been putting a lot of effort nowadays sweeping through the classic list of obscure GBA hardware (with mGBA and especially the otherwise obscure GBE Plus leading said scene), nothing came of the Glucoboy, not because some developer is afraid of needles but rather since this title has long been featured in undumped lists!
But this may change, albeit in a probably far future, as one of these elusive units has been obtained, photographed, and dumped at the end of last month; for those still digging the sequential release numbers, No-Intro calls this ordinary GBA title number 3021.
Source: No-Intro via @Hiccup
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