Game Boy Camera Photo Filter
The world looks different through four shades of grey and a hard pixel grid. I built this so you can see it too - drop any photo in and get something that looks like it came out of 1998.
Choose an image
Click to browse
or drag & drop
Palettes
How to use:
- Upload an image or pick a sample
- Drag and scroll to frame your shot
- Play with contrast and pixelation
- Select your favorite palette
- Download!
A bit of history
The Game Boy Camera was a $50 Nintendo accessory released in 1998 that shot 128×112 pixel photos in four shades of grey. It held a Guinness World Record for the world's smallest digital camera, and its rotating lens made it one of the first consumer products built around taking selfies, long before that was a thing. It stored up to 30 photos on the cartridge, with no way to transfer them to a computer (the Game Boy Printer existed, technically, but that's postage stamp-sized thermal paper that fades in a few years). Somehow, that made every shot feel more deliberate.
how does it work?
When you upload an image, the browser reads every pixel and quantizes its color down to one of four shades from the selected palette. You can adjust the contrast, control the pixelation level, and drag or zoom to frame the shot. All of it runs client-side.
Drop image or click to upload