SmartBoy review: Turning your phone into a GameBoy is cool, but it’s also a pain

The Nintendo GameBoy library is a sweet chocolate box of retro gaming: little cartridges containing quaint, meticulously machine-coded 8-bit treasures. It would be a shame to see these games become lost and forgotten in time.

Doing its part to make sure that doesn’t happen, Hyperkin has launched the SmartBoy (available now for $50), a smartphone accessory that hooks up to any handheld Android device with a native Type-C USB port and enables you to play the gems of the GameBoy catalog. All that’s needed is an original GameBoy or GameBoy Color cartridge to slide into the unit.