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Turn iPhone into GameBoy
Crazy cheap controller is great for retro games.
Leander Kahney
April 18, 2025
I’ve always been hopeless at video games.
They demand too much hand-to-eye coordination, which I just can’t muster, and I soon tire of getting killed on the first screen.
But my roommates and I would often smoke a ton of weed and watch our other roommate for hours while he masterfully steered Sonic or Mario through their weird, trippy environs, which are surprisingly mesmerizing to THC-clouded brains.
You can play a lot of classic video games on your iPhone (weed optional), especially using the brilliant all-in-one Delta retro game emulator.
But the on-screen controls often make the games hard to play. What you really need are buttons.
Enter the GameBaby from Bitmo Lab — an iPhone case and game controller that takes retro iPhone gaming to the next level.
We hands-on reviewed the GameBaby and found it a ton of fun. The best part — it’s crazy cheap, too!
Also in today’s newsletter:
The Chinese smartphone market grew in Q1, but Apple lost out, thanks to some domestic financial chicanery.
Next week marks the Apple Watch’s 10th birthday, but now’s a great time to pick up this highly underrated wearable at up to 25% off.
Apple just canceled Mythic Quest, a gaming workplace comedy that had legions of fans (not legions enough, I guess). But surprise! The show managed to release a new, cliffhanger-resolving ending.
The M1 MacBook Air is still a killer machine, and this tidy refurb deal makes it less than $500.
Yesterday’s poll asked: “Any interest in a consumer-oriented (and priced) Apple headset?” The results were overwhelming — and pretty surprising. See below.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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One more thing ...
Customers can't anticipate what the technology can do. They won't ask for things that they think are impossible. But the technology may be ahead of them. If you happen to mention something, they'll say, “Of course, I'll take that. Do you mean I can have that, too?” It sounds logical to ask customers what they want and then give it to them. But they rarely wind up getting what they really want that way.
Today’s poll
Do you play games on your iPhone? |
Results from yesterday’s poll: Any interest in a consumer-oriented (and priced) Apple headset?
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