Willkürlich: Lust auf etwas „Sew-per“’ Mario? Bestaunen Sie die Game Boy Nähmaschine

We live in an age of quirky Nintendo peripherals; Ring Fit Abenteuer is an example where Nintendo took a relatively standard Yoga ring and cleverly turned it into a huge sales success. Third-parties join in too, natürlich, and let’s not forget Nintendo’s own Labo range that made cardboard cool.

For those with a retro perspective, obwohl, the NES / Game Boy era was a golden age for quirky accessories, and the video above from Die Retro-Zukunft showcases a version of a Game Boy Sewing Machine. It’s a rather funny walkthrough on how machines were designed to hook up to a Game Boy and related software to make sewing easier. Once you get past the ‘is this a real thing?’ part of the topic, it’s actually rather fascinating.

It’s pretty neat, and the video teases a follow-up with a rare accessory that’ll allow fancy Nintendo embroidery, zu.

If you’re interested in learning more about accessories like this in the sewing / Game Boy field, die 2018 video below from Kelsey Lewin (now co-Director of Stiftung für Videospielgeschichte) is also worth a watch.

Retro accessories like this almost make us want to get into sewing. Schon fast.