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Ilhan Ünal a student of multimedia and communication sciences in Belgium at 21 years old get the World's largest Game Boy Guinness Records the Belgian student adapted an old Game Boy to make it huge, even if it meant abandoning his portable spirit in order to win the title of the biggest console in the world.

Gamer Edition of Guinness World Records 2018, Ünal appears with the title thanks to his impressive and monstrous Game Boy XXL, which emerged as a simple hobby. Faithful to the original Game Boy of 1989, the console was made with plastic sheets cut with laser, and the covers was the most complicated part when having to design schemes and assemble the pieces, Its dimensions are 101 cm height, 62 wide and 20 deep.

This giant Game Boy is completely functional and its creator, who works as a software and hardware developer during the weekends, confesses that it took a week to create the software, and a month more to build the final pieces. With this size it is obvious that the portable console is anything but portable, inside we have a real Game Boy that serves as a brain for the rest of the components, which is connected by means of a Raspberry Pi. This is how we have a speaker with monaural sound, the old crosshead and buttons, as well as a screen that transmits and emulates what happens in the old Game Boy.

I remember that after spending several hours playing in a game boy your hands hurt a bit later, I can not even imagine how you would finish after playing a couple of hours at the tetris in that