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Photos

Hudson developed the GBKiss software Family Shot and distributed it through their website. It adds extra functionality to the game: it will produce a photo of the current tenant family and print it to the Game Boy Printer.

Characters

Pocket Family GB contains a variety of characters, from babies (#1–7) to gunmen (#99) to alien grannies (#260). In total, 284 characters are programmed into the game. It also has the ability to load up to 6 additional characters from GBKiss files, occupying slots #285–290. If present on the cartridge, they can be invited through the in-game “Event” menu.

The official guidebook claims a “Ninja” character was available from the Hudson website (p. 47) but no archived version of the website seems to reference it.

Alarms

Pocket Family has an alarm clock feature in the settings menu. The player can set a time and an alarm tone. There are 9 built-in alarm tones:

• めざましおん: “Alarm Tone” (2 variants)
• ピンポンおん: “Doorbell” (4 variants)
• ほうかごチャイム: “Afterschool chime”
• きゅうきゅうしゃ: “Ambulance”
• きよし　このよる: “Silent Night”

Additional alarm tones can be loaded into the game as GBKiss data files. Hudson distributed one such file through their website, Saita Saita.