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Game Boy Printer / Pocket Printer

MGB-007 · Nintendo · JP 1

ReleasedJP 1998-02-21; NA 1998-06-01; PAL 1998-06-04
Typeprinter
Rarityno data
WhyThere’s no units produced with a source and not enough listings. We don’t make things up.

The Game Boy Printer, known as the Pocket Printer in Japan, is a thermal printer accessory released by Nintendo. It allows users to print special images from over 100 compatible Game Boy and Game Boy Color games onto thermal paper, which can then be applied as stickers. The accessory was designed primarily for use with the Game Boy Camera, which it released alongside in 1998.

For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

How to tell them apart

Thermal printer taking 6 AA batteries, 38 mm paper roll; connects through EXT/link port. JP "Pocket Printer", West "Game Boy Printer"; MGB-007 on label.

Details from sources

NA/EU boxes include Universal Game Link Cable MGB-010. Works with >100 GB/GBC games (110 listed on en.wikipedia, 35 outside Japan). Not compatible with Micro or original Super Game Boy (SGB2 and Game Boy Player have link ports).

Data source: en.wikipedia.org

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