Nintendo Announces $70 Mini Game Boy That's Designed to Be a Jukebox, With Dozens of Cartridges That Play Pokémon Music From 30 Years Ago

Buried betwixt caller footage of Pokémon Pokopia and today's genuinely momentous Gen 10 announcement for Pokémon Winds and Waves, Nintendo announced a miniature mentation of its legendary Game Boy — that's really a benignant of retro jukebox.

It definite looks similar a Game Boy, lone smaller. It besides sounds similar a Game Boy, and comes with classic-looking cartridges — though these lone play tunes from the archetypal Pokémon games' soundtrack.

In a neat touch, the cartridges see images from Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue that bespeak the euphony connected that peculiar cart. So, popular successful a cartridge with the games' rubric surface connected it, and it's the rubric surface euphony that you'll hear. Pop successful a cartridge with Cycling Road connected it and... you get the picture.

45 songs are featured, stored connected 45 cartridges. (Or are they each stored connected the main miniature Game Boy, and these cartridges conscionable archer it which to play? It is unclear.) Priced astatine $69.99, the Game Boy Jukebox is disposable to acquisition present via PokémonCenter.com successful solemnisation of the Pokémon franchise's 30th anniversary.

"Relive cherished memories of your Pokémon adventures successful the Kanto portion by embarking connected a caller travel to perceive to the songs and sounds that helped bring it to life!" reads an authoritative blurb. "In this peculiar collection, you'll find Game Boy Jukebox, a dependable artifact modeled aft the archetypal Game Boy strategy from Nintendo, on with 45 cartridges that you tin insert into the instrumentality to perceive a acquainted melody oregon dependable effect from the archetypal Pokémon video games."

Alas, determination does not look to beryllium immoderate headphone jack — truthful you'll beryllium listening to the tunes retired loud.

Back to today's caller creatures, there's a question of emotion for occurrence pooch Pombon, though besides calls for it stay lasting connected 4 legs aft it evolves. For much of today's announcements, beryllium definite to drawback up connected everything revealed successful today's Pokémon Presents broadcast and each Pokémon taxon confirmed for Winds and Waves truthful far.

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