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Its amazing, how cartridge based games could extend hardware capabilities by adding their own circuits, like rumble, tilt controls, camera, even battery to save game was huge innovation. I wonder what kind of innovations from hardware side could be released today, if most games still came on huge cartridges?



Not only games. Here is elektor adding oscilloscope hardware to a gameboy.

https://www.elektormagazine.nl/news/nu-in-de-elektor-outlet-...


$200 games (compared to $100 in the 90's) with its own GPU.




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