While much of the tech industry is forging ahead with wonderfully complex and futuristic-looking products, there’s one manufacturer out there who is still doing wonderfully complex things, but under a slightly different guise. That manufacturer is Hyperkin, and they’re most famous for bringing back video games from decades past in ways that can be played now, for nostalgia’s sake if for nothing else. Their latest product is the Hyperkin Smart Boy – as you can probably guess from the name and the image above, it’s a hardware and software emulator for the Game Boy, making use of your smartphone as the primary driver. Hyperkin has teased the device several times in the last year, bringing it to E3 2015 in prototype form:
Concept art for the #Android smartphone version of the #SmartBoy. Let us know what you think! pic.twitter.com/GCZqCXe6ra
— Hyperkin (@Hyperkin) April 11, 2015
Here’s the Alpha Build of the #Smartboy that we’ll be bringing to #E3! pic.twitter.com/Zh6tnBIM2q — Hyperkin (@Hyperkin) June 15, 2015
We’re assuming that the Smart Boy uses a Game Boy emulator app, not unlike those already on the Google Play Store, and the hardware controller is just an awesome way to play the game. However it is that it works, I know I want one, and I hope Hyperkin comes out with the Smart Boy soon.
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Source: Nintendo Life
