Cheeseburger

You still see people on planes and trains with Game Boy Advances, playing like time doesn’t apply to them. And the GBA was good enough for that - the graphics hit this weird zone between SNES and early PS1, which basically made it the perfect machine for the games that actually held up. Zelda, Metroid, Advance Wars, the Pokemon games that mattered. You couldn’t get that combination anywhere else.

But realistically the GBA is history now. Not because something better came along, but because the plastic was never built to survive what kids do to things. Crack it wrong, throw it in a backpack for years, and it shatters. Pieces break off and don’t come back. Most of them are just gone.

There’s this Swedish artist, Love Hultin, who started taking broken Game Boys and bringing them back as something completely different. He doesn’t just repair them - he rebuilds them into new shapes, new colors, new lives. One of them he turned into a cheeseburger. An actual cheeseburger - colors, shape, texture, everything. And it works. Fully playable. You can load up Mario Kart or Castlevania or Golden Sun on it.

The GBA was never precious - it was just a brick you played games on, something that didn’t apologize for how it looked or felt. A cheeseburger has exactly that energy.