This Game Boy Color themed electric motorcycle even has cheat codes

Dab Motors has announced a caller decorativeness for its Dab 1a electrical motorcycle that’s inspired by Nintendo’s atomic purple Game Boy Color. Customers who preorder the bike, which starts astatine €14,900 (over $16,500 USD), tin opt for a transparent purple assemblage that volition look acquainted to those who retrieve playing the handheld.

Created by Dab Motors’ “bespoke work branch,” the atomic purple mentation of the Dab 1a besides includes customized handlebars with controls made to look similar the Game Boy Color’s D-pad and enactment buttons. Between them, the bike’s surface features an overlay with a reddish presumption airy connected 1 broadside mimicking the Game Boy show galore of america spent excessively overmuch of our puerility staring at.

The champion upgrade mightiness beryllium a slot connected apical of the motorcycle for a vintage Game Boy Color crippled cartridge that’s been upgraded to relation arsenic the 1a’s commencement key. Is it applicable to transportation astir an aged Nintendo cartridge each clip you spell for a ride? Absolutely not. Is it capable to marque maine see ditching the minivan for an electrical bike? I’m sorely tempted.

The atomic purple Dab 1a volition adjacent person concealed “cheat codes” that unlock features similar “speed boosts,” themes for its display, and 8-bit dependable effects. To find those cheat codes the motorcycle volition see a transcript of a fictional gaming mag with the codes hidden throughout.

Dab Motors was founded successful 2018 by Simon Dabadie and is based retired of Bayonne, France. In 2021, it shared details of an electrical motorcycle called the Concept-E. That turned into the accumulation acceptable Dab 1a, which debuted past April, aft Peugeot Motorcycles acquired the institution successful 2023. Powered by an 11kW electrical motor, the Dab 1a is said to person a apical velocity of conscionable implicit 80mph and a scope of 93 miles with its 7.1kWh lithium-ion artillery battalion that takes astir three-and-a-half hours.

Only 400 units of the Dab 1a volition beryllium manufactured, and those who preorder 1 tin prime and take which of the Game Boy Color-inspired upgrades they really privation if they take that finish.