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The Game Boy was a low spec machine that changed gaming, so why was it so hard to develop? And how did it almost destroyed Nintendo from the inside?

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En español:    • Como la Game Boy ᶜᵃˢᶦ arruina a Nintendo  

Sources for how LCD work and their history:


Terry Scheffer, Jürgen Nehring (1997). Supertwisted nematic (STN) liquid crystal displays. Annual Review of Materials Research.


E P Raynes. C M Waters (1987). Supertwisted nematic liquid crystal displays.


Hirohisa Kawamoto (2012). The History of LiquidCrystal Display and Its Industry. 2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectrotechnology CONference (HISTELCON)


https://www.britannica.com/technology...

https://web.media.mit.edu/~stefan/liq...


Source for the historical bits:


History of Nintendo, Vol 4 by Florent Gorges


Source for the image of Uemura:


Famicom Tsushin magazine, July 1989. Scanned by: https://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/S...

The ultimate Game Boy talk:    • The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)  


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