"Let me be honest from the start: nobody was waiting for this."

"Let me be honest from the start: nobody was waiting for this. The world has many needs, and a Game Boy cartridge with no game inside it was not high on the list." So begins Dr Marcel Pflug's explanation for one of the most unexpected projects I've come across in a while: a Game Boy reference museum that isn't just a Game Boy reference museum; it's one that works on a Game Boy cartridge.

"I run this museum, a project that catalogues everything around the little grey machine," Pflug writes on the Game Boy Museum website, "and one day a thought took hold that I could not shake, mostly because it made me laugh. Every object in the collection is a museum piece, so what if the museum itself became one of them? A cartridge that plays nothing, that you slot into a real Game Boy, and that turns the machine into a guide to its own world. An exhibit about the collection, living inside the collection."

The Game Boy Museum, in its original website form, features a museum's worth of knowledge and exhibitions focusing on Nintendo's classic handheld. There's a dizzying array of Game Boy product shots , all neatly presented and organised; there's an entire archive of peripherals , including things as incidental as cables; there's a guide charting every micro-adjustment to the Game Boy's hardware over the ages; and there's a journal area collating hundreds of articles about the handheld .

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