Game Boy Camera is a Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy gaming console which was released in 1998. It marked the beginning of a mostly unsuccessful attempt by Nintendo to expand the Game Boy from a gaming device into a rudimentary PDA. The Game Boy Camera comes in 4 different colors.
Gameplay
There are 3 main parts of the "game":
- Shoot
- View
- Play
Shoot
Shoot contains the following choices:
- Shoot (take pictures)
- Items (Self-Timer or time-Lapse)
- Magic (Trick Lenses, montange, panorama, Game Face)
- Check (checks your album)
- Run (no real purpose, seems to be a joke)
The Game Face game is notable in that it is a remade version of the Game & Watch title, Toss Up, with the juggler's face replaced by one of the pictures taken by the player.
Play
Play is a built-in Space Fever 2 game. At the beginning, 2 spaceships will appear. One of them will send you to a DJ if shot at, where you can mix sounds. The other one will send you to Game Face, which is also avalible through shoot. If enough is done in the game, a third spaceship will appear in the middle, and if that is shot at you'll be sent to a racing mini-game.
In the actual Space Fever 2 game the player is attacked by spaceships and then attacked by bosses at the end of each group of smaller ones. The first boss is a giant face of a man with horns, the second boss is a giant face of a mustachioed man and the third boss' face depends on the pictures taken in "Game Face". Once all 3 of the bosses are beaten, the cycle will start over again, only harder.
View
View contains the following choices:
- Slide Show (displays slide show of your album.)
- Animation (Where you can put together pictures to make it look like they're moving. Do this by pressing select on main screen, then go to edit, then animation.)
Hot-Spot (Where you can link 2 different pictures together by clicking on certain spots of the picture)
- Hot-Spot (see paragraph below)
Hot-Spot is especailly good for creating a game where you can go from one photo of a room to another in a house by pressing certain spots (that you can set up) on the photo that will send you there. You do this by pressing "Select" on the main screen, go to special and choose "Hot-Spot". (See list below). Then each picture will have 5 One-eyed blobs that can be put on your picture. Each blob can be programmed to go to send you to a different photo. Then in Hot-Spot mode, the places where you put the blobs will send you to other photos when clicked.
"Start" and "Select" options
The following are options that appear when select is pressed on the main screen:
- Link (print, transfer photos)
- Speical (Hot-Spot, compose) (see paragraph above for Hot-Spot)
- Edit (Album, Animation)
- Doodle (Paint, stamp on pictures)
The following are options that appear when start is pressed on the main screen:
- Username (make your own username)
- Record
- High Score
- Credits
The start options appear as planets and asteroids.