NES + PDA x CELL = OMG!

by Kevin Kelly { May 9th 2007 at 6:27PM }

First you could turn your NES into a cell phone, and now you can go the other direction. Talk all you want about your precious Bejeweled, but if you were to hand us a cell phone that had a gamepad and a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator built into it, we'd pretty much follow you anywhere.

If you live in or near Taiwan, you can get yourself a Century Sutra 1688 smartphone that runs both Windows Mobile, and Super Mario Bros. Sure it's a bit unwieldy, but if you'd told us back in 1985 that we could carry this around in our pocket one day, we'd have called you crazy. Bring it on.

[Via Engadget]

Tags: gaming phone, NES emulator, NesEmulator

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

GJM @ May 9th 2007 7:06PM

Um, I had a perfectly good emulator on my Verizon Samsung SCH-i600 3 years ago...

Kevin Kelly @ May 9th 2007 7:10PM

Um, did it come with it installed? And with a gamepad? Um, no? Darn.

kingofwale @ May 9th 2007 7:19PM

wouldn't this be illegal? downloading emulators on your phone.

*sighs*, Joystiq, I hope you aren't actually saying this as a good thing. :)

Defenestrator2.0 @ May 9th 2007 8:35PM

"First you could turn your NES into a cell phone..."

I believe you mean "NES Controller," and not simply "NES," Kevin.

Kevin Kelly @ May 9th 2007 8:37PM

Actually, I mean the whole NES. Because we all know that would be a convenient phone to carry arround.

mko @ May 9th 2007 11:29PM

dude... it has 6 buttons! I certainly hope you can run an snes emulator on it too, SFII mobile o yeah. The roms in the screenshot looked like they had been produced with goodrom too... amazing for a retail product eh?

samfish @ May 10th 2007 12:10AM

They ought to make something like that where the controllers flip out like wings from the side.

Damn, I'm smart.

GJM @ May 10th 2007 12:31AM

"Um, did it come with it installed? And with a gamepad? Um, no? Darn."

Took mere seconds to install. If you can figure out how to turn on the phone you're probably smart enough to install an app. Who the hell is going to carry around a gamepad to use with their phone? Might as well carry around a DS or PSP. Congratulations on arguing just to argue.