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My friend's Game Boy got stolen so I built him one

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend My friend's Game Boy Color got stolen. Rude. Then he went looking for a replacement and found out that decent used ones are now rare, overpriced, or "mint condition" in the way that means "mint-flavored lie." So I built him a new one that can't be stolen: a Game Boy Color in the browser. It's teal, it has a D-pad that clicks, and it plays real Game Boy games. The twist is that he never has to scroll through a ROM list.

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