Before mobile devices made pocket computing mainstream, Nintendo had a curious idea: the Game Boy Workboy. Released in Japan in 1992, this keyboard peripheral transformed the portable gaming system into a portable word processor. According to The Cutting Room Floor, a video game preservation site, the Workboy featured a full QWERTY keyboard that attached to the Game Boy's cartridge slot, enabling text entry and basic productivity tasks. While innovative for its time, the accessory never achieved widespread adoption—a footnote in gaming hardware that now lives on in preservation archives.

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