It’s
a dangerously day to be teasing awesome retro novelty products, but
Hyperkin is at it anyway. The company just announced that the Smart Boy
design concept it posted on Reddit
—a special iPhone case that lets you play real, physical Nintendo Game Boy cartridges on your smartphone—is for real. I’m so happy this isn’t
an April fools joke.
The image Hyperkin’s Chris Gallizzi teased Reddit with Monday apparently started
as an April fools gag, but graduated to “full-fledged project” soon
afterward. Basically, Hyperkin took a page from ThinkGeek’s playbook:
testing the waters with a “fake” but realistic product idea. Either way,
the Smart Boy is familiar ground for the company: Hyperkin’s Retron5 game console also used a mixture of emulation and physical cartridge ports.
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What's this Retron 5? It lets you play NES, Genesis, SNES, Game Boy game with your original cartridges. Sounds cool. But gets mixed reviews on Amazon.
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