At Recalbox, we love original ideas and projects that help grow the world of retrogaming. And recently, Time Extension highlighted one of those projects: a web manager for the Game Boy Camera.

Remember: the Game Boy Camera, an official accessory developed by Nintendo, was released in 1998. It’s a miniature digital camera that plugs into a Game Boy (classic, Pocket, Color models, etc.). At the time, it was one of the smallest digital cameras in the world.

With this accessory, you could of course take black and white photos, with the ability to add frames, stickers, filters, and more. It was also possible to edit the photos, add text or stamps, create stop-motion animations, play mini-games, and even print your pictures with another accessory: the Game Boy Printer.

Until now, however, there simply wasn’t any modern tool to easily manage photos from the Game Boy Camera. That’s exactly what Marc Robledo set out to change with his excellent Game Boy Camera Manager.

This tool, fully usable directly in a web browser, allows you to extract photos from a save file, convert them to PNG, add dates, and of course edit them. It’s even possible to add new frames—some of which were previously inaccessible in the original version.

This tool highlights the enduring popularity of the Game Boy Camera, now a cult object. Whether in the world of retrogaming or in the world of art, some artists continue to use this accessory as part of lo-fi photography, an artistic practice that involves creating photos using unconventional devices.

If you’d like to try the tool, head over to this page.

Illustration image: Marc Robledo