This is a sewing machine that uses a Gameboy as its CPU and user terminal, to control the pattern of the needle's movement for different stitching styles. The googleword is Jaguar JN-2000.
Once upon a time, processors were expensive enough for this to make sense, I guess. And, well, the cartridge interface kind of exposes the whole procesor bus, anyway.
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@FeralRobots It was probably mainly a cost-saving measure. Japanese engineers just know that when saving costs, it's important to do it cutely.
@selzero No wonder — before the smartphone era, cellphones were highly limited by design. And even when smartphones started to come out, IIRC, they took something like three years to reach Japan.
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