Tetris. We can only imagine how many more AA batteries might’ve been sold in the ‘90s if Nintendo’s portable game machine had ended up pulling double duty as a pint-sized productivity powerhouse.
To get his hands on the WorkBoy, Robertson did some serious sleuthing. The device was meant to be an officially-licensed accessory produced by Fabtek Inc. and designed by Source Research & Development. Robertson located and interviewed Source Research and Development founder Eddie Gill, who in turn pointed him to Fabtek founder Frank Ballouz. Ballouz allowed Robertson to experiment with his still-functioning WorkBoy, even though, as Gill noted, it’s one of only two prototypes thought to still be in existence (the other safely tucked away, he speculated, “deep in the vaults of Nintendo.”)