Sewing machine that runs on a gameboy color?

[Bojay1997]

The scooters are called "Aprilias". From what I understand they actually have a programing component on them that uses a gameboy color cart for speed controlling. All someone had to do was create a rom hack that let you do whatever you want and bam, super fast scooter. The real cart it's self is only given out by aprillia dealers & the like, so it's one of the rarest gameboy color games to my knowledge.

Here's a picture.

http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/s...d.php?t=158051

I don't really understand what the point of making this a Gameboy cartridge would be. Dealerships have had laptops and other PC based computers since the 1980s. Why didn't they just create an interface between a standard computer and the on-board computer in the scooter?

[wingzrow]

Who knows. Gameboy color games and systems must have been really really abundant and easy to make for that situation to have pieced together the way it did.

[Famidrive-16]

It was the April 2001 issue of EGM - at least, that's an issue I have which directly references it.

The funny thing is that almost everyone thought this was the April Fool's joke for the issue.

[Icarus Moonsight]

It was... The grill and tie organizer.

[rolenta]

I wrote about it in the May 2004 issue of Manci Games.

I'm glad this post came up. I own one but I haven't come across it while I'm creating my new game room. I better look again.

[rolenta]

Whew! I found the sewing machine, along with my Coleco Telstar Arcade (which I also completely forgot about) and my Beefsteak Tomato Beachball!

[SparTonberry]

It was... The grill and tie organizer.

I think that was the year of the Sega Neptune prank?
I wonder if they said how many people actually tried to buy one?