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The Workboy retrospective and recovery was such a fascinating story. I almost can't believe you managed to not only acquire but activate an unreleased 30 year old one-of-a-kind prototype that was near guaranteed to never function again. It was a lucky break thanks to the Gigaleak but you yourself never gave up on the conviction to run the add-on and I greatly respect your tenacity. Amazing video.

I think the Workboy video is my favorite DYKG video. It was cool to see something that only lived for a brief moment as a dream that was almost accomplished. Seeing the software suddenly start working as intended with both the cartridge and the keyboard gave me nostalgia about something I never held in my own hands.

The Workboy is unironically really cool, it's kind of a shame it never made it to market

I still can't believe the Workboy cartridge ROM was miraculously contained in one of the giga leaks; like what are the odds some small oddity like that would be retrieved? Crazy! Fortuitous indeed, but crazy!

I'm impressed that they could create so many add-ons for a simple GameBoy!

It's still really cool that DYKG got a hold of a Workboy after all these years.

The Workboy video is definitely one of your best. Truly an amazing work.

This is absolutely insane, you guys have been going above and beyond lately. I appreciate all you do to preserve and document gaming history

the applications of the Work Boy probably seem laughable to someone today who has a smartphone but in 1992, before the internet was a household thing, before computers were even portable, this seems like a cool gadget to a traveling businessman. I'm actually amazed. Great work, DYKG. Considering this is literally the only one in existence, you guys did something phenomenal

So workboy question: curious as to what countries it has in the world map with the 1992/93 release planned. Does it still have a yugoslavia, or had they already updated it? How about the rest of the former soviet satellites that were still finalizing themselves around that era? I find all the tech from that era a fantastic time capsule of how rapidly the world changed - like how two versions of the same shareware Risk clone had two different sets of countries, or things like the Workboy that are forever trapped in a world that doesn't exist anymore.

The amount of work put into this by liam, and the actual workboy he got to use makes this an absolute masterclass of a video

I am very curious as to what Liam did with the workboy keyboard after everything was said and done. Like, did he donate it to a video game conservation group, or does he have it kept safe and sound? Nonetheless, very interesting piece of history, and seeing it actually work right and proper is incredible.

When I was a kid, I always wondered why the bottom of my Gamecube had so many weird connection ports. I know that some of them were used for various things like the Gameboy Player, but I wonder if some of them ever went completely unused.

okay, so when I was very little I remember seeing and ultimately owning a cartridge for some sort of organizer software for the game boy, it had a calculator, word processor, date organizer, etc... I remember my mom and dad explicitly protesting "that's not a game, you wouldn't like it" but I wasn't interested in it being a "game" I was interested in something new for me, a piece of software... I owned something like that, I swear! I cartridge for my game boy, particularly a game boy pocket, that was sort of like a home computer, it didn't have any kind of keyboard add-on but I could still do all of the things the beginning of this video says. It was some sort of "home computer on the go" type of thing. does anyone here know what I'm talking about? I just want to find the rom so that I can confirm that I'm not crazy! it was just some random cartridge I found at target probably....

Those PageBoy ideas would have been revolutionary in a product, doing what PDAs and cellphones would later gradually start doing... Also, that presentation with Mario is adorable!

This is seriously the best channel ever.. I love the lost or rare consoles lore and you guys are always so professional and thorough, it's really awesome! I've been with you guys since the beginning and hope to be there for many years to come, great job guys!

So many things Nintendo worked on being standard today is amazing. Surprises me that 8 bit systems could handle the idea

when you pulled that workboy out, I was like, "no he didn't...NO HE DIDN'T!!!! HE DID!!!!!!!"

Even today, there’s always room for low end, low cost computers. Comparing a Gameboy paired with Workboy to the more expensive portable PCs of the time, i think the feature and hardware differences (screen resolution, processing power, memory and storage) are similar to say, a chromebook and a mid to high-range Windows laptop. Maybe a Gameboy can play better games than a Chromebook though!

What an incredible video. Amazing research! Huge find for video game history. Thank you so much for sharing.

That Workboy story fascinated me. A one of a kind technology who had very low chances of running after 30 years worked! Pretty wild, this shows always take your chances with things, you may never know.

That's awesome that you not only found and documented the WorkBoy hardware, but you were also able to pair it with the software and find out what it really could have been. Thanks for sharing and documenting this piece of video game history.

We need more video journalists like you! Thank you for this brilliant video! I just love this long form stuff and I can’t even imagine how much time it takes!

Dude this video was absolutely insane. You tracked down the only one in the world???? Mindblowing

All my local drug dealers used Beepers and Workboys.

This was very well done. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for all your hard work :)

I did not know there were this many pieces of lost nintendo hardware. Great video DKYG. 👍

Liam has been a great researcher throughout the yares.

I used the Nokia 9500 communicator as my main device for years and used it mainly for emulating snes,megadrive,gba,master system gbc and doom, and scummvm back in the mid 2000's. Fascinating how the nokia communicator line were a direct descendant of this gameboy productivity add on!! Truly interesting

Thanks for this video. I feel that this is REALLY good video game journalism on your part. 👍

You all are definitely one of my favorite gaming trivia/fun fact channels!

all workboy and no playboy makes jack a dull gameboy

Thank you for not only finding these pieces of history but, preserving them, and explaining the lore behind them. Never would've guessed the the original Gameboy would have keyboard, that seems like something Sega would've pushed for back then. I learned something new today. Love the history keep em coming! Best of luck with the new channel. Peace.

It is quite fascinating to hear stories about old "addons" for the Gameboy! Love your work guys!😊

So interesting. It continues to blow my mind how there are many pieces of hardware that I’ve never heard about.

Didn't someone make this video already? This is all super familiar....

The page boy would've been revolutionary, I wonder if the future cell phone market would have evolved differently had it been released

Wow. The Workboy story was a huge win for gaming history conservation. Thanks for putting in all the effort.

So crazy to think that the game boy had a lot of accessories some crazy and weird

This is probably the best documentary I’ve seen. Hands down. Thank you

58:22 Tetris Effect: Connected laid the groundwork, so Nintendo can try with this now. Same with the Labo VR, but that one's a different story... The Workboy? Oh boy

the handy boy was awesome!!! loved the light feature on it with the magnifying glass and boosted speakers

Leaving these videos on in the background while farming in Monster Hunter is an experience for sure

This video is frankly amazing. What fantastic work.

This is all information I didn't know I needed in my life but god i'm glad you found it

Damn dude. That's some dedication. Good stuff!

This was a really cool video, I didn’t even notice it was an hour until I was done.

Great research! Workboy was such an amazing add on for its time.

These long vid have been a god send for my insomnia

The workboy story and presentation legit made me cheer wtf lol

Would love to see a timeline where the Workboy became a reoccurring accessory for the handheld. Like Workboy Advanced or something

The work boy was so ahead of its time. No one had even said the word apps at that point. And a thermometer and clock?! Crazy

It amazes me just how far ahead of their time Nintendo was. Who knows where we'd be if they actually came out with those products

I just love the workboy story, probaly my favorite discovery of you guys

The fact that you got the prototype is absolutely insane!!!

The hands on thing with the work boy was awesome

Holy crap congratulations and this is absolutely amazing.

The workboy story warms my heart ❤️

that Work Boy story was absolutely wild

The wii zapper sux cuz it's not help like a submachine gun either. That's not how u old any gun. U dont hold the end of the stock. The RE umbrella chronic one was super great had a knife too. I also used a off brand one that looked more like a pistol.

Gameboy's quickly became eldritch horrors with the amount of add-ons you could buy.

High quality content! Thank you!!!

Nintendo: We need accessories for our consoles Also Nintendo: What if you could do your banking, send emails, and just do business from your snes or gameboy?

Looking at what could have been really gives a new appreciation for the things that we have, which could just as easily have been lost too.

Well done. Its great that the software is already dumped, using this video it should be possible to emulate and build a mock keyboard if someone wanted.

Listen closely and in the distance you can still hear the Angry Video Game Nerd yelling "I WANNA BE SEDATED WITH A GAME BOY!"

The fact the WorkBoy was fully functional with its software after all these years of being so elusive is really interesting

Frank chasing that bag by getting a 35-40% raise is incredibly based.

Quite impressive the amount of peripheral devices they created/attempted for the gameboy given it's limited screen.

Well researched video - very interesting

Blimey mate, what a scoop. Fascinating story.

The work boy is honestly one of the more interesting stories in gaming I’ve heard but l don’t think it would’ve sold well as it has very niche features most people wouldn’t use.

The workboy looks interesting, especially with a GUI portable device at that accessibility

wow I had no idea this video was an hour long when I clicked it but I watched the whole thing lol

The workboy part was amazing

It is channels like this that makes KZfaq still worth it 😃👍

I missed my original Nintendo gameboy I got it for Easter when I super young, that thing ate batteries like crazy. I had to use the power adapter more often than not.

This video has been thoroughly enjoyable!! I'm so impressed that you got your hands on this peripheral!! Like holy shit! You got a new sub 🙂

The story about the workboy is so fucking cool

What happend to the Ponémon "Mew Machines" used to distribute Mew at events to players and afterwards they were also used to distribute Celebi! In Belgium we got our Celebi event before we even got a Mew event! 😁

I lost my DS as a kid, does that count as lost hardware?

This was fascinating.

"Wild Coincidence" I'm excited for the new WorkBoy

I wonder if there are other unfinished/canceled projects we don't even know about. crazy stuff

Its like a pre-internet travel thingie. To use on vacations.

Is that actual concept art for the GBA Workboy 2? It is sick af!

What a journey to recover the Workboy...

The Workboy is incredibly impressive and even feels like a precursor to the smart phones we all enjoy today. It is a shame it was never released a product truly ahead of it's time.

These are so good to listen to while mindlessly strip mining in Minecraft

The pageboy sounds amazing. I wish it would have come out.

I love the 10000 extra add-ons Nintendo consoles had.

Considering how popular electronic organizers and later palmtops were at the time, the idea of the Workboy isn't that far out. And the UI on the GB was way above of said Organizers.

Cell phones years before cell phones…well, closer to a PDA, really, but this truly was ahead of its time.

man, that WorkBoy would have been so cool! Shame that never came to the market.

The Workboy video feels like a nick robinson video

00:16 STD "We will help you win" hahahaha

35:55 These are some unforgivingly early 2000s mockup graphics, true UX design

Even if the market eventually became more of a grey spot after PCs got more mainstream, or it QUICKENED PCs becoming mainstream, the WorkBoy still would have gotten a lot out of parents that wanted their kids to get into all its uses and applications, just as I used to in our old Windows 98 pc haha. Its GBC repercuted sequel really actually captured a market that could have been held, It's almost as a wireless phone medium as was achieved later but for gaming and would have never been seen as "fighting with THAT industry" if it came out. Kinda ironic as that same bubbled social media for THEIR users and interactivity with games was later tried heavily with Miiverse, but this time they weren't the first. Pretty cool stuff. Awesome insight

What no fuqqqin way ! I see the Avgn episode and Elliot’s one on it it’s pretty sick you went so far into it