We've been representing the Game Boy incorrectly IMO. Our traditional grayscale palette has pure white on one end and pure black on the other, but a real Game Boy has a low amount of contrast. Here's the palette Nintendo used internally. Black and white is too high contrast. 
Traditional black and white palette on the left, with some better grayscale alternatives: desaturate the real palette, desaturate but target pure black. That low contrast look makes the art more coherent imo and is truer to how a Game boy actually looks.
Another example with Balloon Kid. Black and white, internal palette, grayscaled internal palette, grayscaled internal palette with some eyeballed gamma correction/pure black targeting
Oh yes, this is the best it's ever looked IMO, played through the whole game like this
https://twitter.com/RetroTechx/status/1445863153687048192
I think my personal taste is internal palette with gamma and saturation sliders. Turning both down a bit we get to my personal sweet spot here.
I missed this reply the first time around but, heck yeah, Game Boy Color looks even worse with its raw RGB values. Link's Awakening suddenly looks like it was done in MS Paint, which is NOT how it looks on an actual screen.
https://twitter.com/LIJI32/status/1445808309295013888
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