Intercepting the Gameboy LCD

A peculiar aspect of the original Gameboy is how well it did given how absolutely dreadful the display hardware was. The screen is not backlit, the colour palette is a meager 4 shades of gray and the resolution is only 160×144 . Before you object that that’s just how the technology was back then, note that it launched at about the same time as the Lynx and the Game Gear,  both of which had beautiful backlit, 4096 colour screens.