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		robert-boehnke on May 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camer... I imagine this is because the original Gameboy only had a 2 bit color palette.

TazeTSchnitzel on May 19, 2014 [–]

Right. The Game Boy Color changed that, but it wasn't black-and-white.

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