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Sure used Gameboys are cheaper, but the supply of usable ones will surely dwindle in the coming years as old hardware inevitably breaks down. It's good to see efforts to create new devices with personality that are fun to work with, not to mention being designed for homebrew software instead of relying on hacks and 3rd party carts.



There's tons of Gameboy and GBA clones on the market.

https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Black-Revo-K101-Emulator-Hand...

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/hardware_review_rev...

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/07/hardware_review_exe...

(seriously, I'm not even dipping my toe in this list, there's dozens of these)


but the supply of usable ones will surely dwindle in the coming years as old hardware inevitably breaks down

Gameboys, at least the original ones, seem to be pretty robust:

http://kotaku.com/reminder-the-game-boy-was-almost-indestruc...


Used gameboys dwindling should, in theory, result in more people being willing to sell theirs since the price is higher.

Besides, Arduboy being worthwhile in 5 years doesn't stop their launch from flopping.




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