This 2026 series explores the intersection of nostalgia and fantasy through erotica in the style of a Game Boy Classic. The piece touches on the youthful experience of first experiences with desire, attraction, and arousal, which emerge in the fantasy world of video games. Many of us couldn’t help but think beyond the intentions and limits of the game. This series is dedicated those of us who tried to make our video game characters get it on with each other, long before video games were made to be able to do so. It is also an exploration of the futurity of memory, and how we remake our relationship to the past through fantasy and imagination.
Created on a smartphone using a Game Boy camera simulator, the photos are a combination of images shot live and photos of original images from Gordon’s existing catalog of work.
*In 1998 Game Boy released a Game Boy camera, a lens attached to game cartridge that turned the handheld console into an early version of a digital camera. Radical coder Maple Mavica Syrup created a digital simulator of the original, allowing a person to make Game Boy style images with a smartphone.
Thank you to the staff of Level Up Games for their invaluable guidance and introduction to the world of Game Boy photography.