Since the inception of smartphones, we have seen devices trying to bring the "Game Boy" or more specially the handheld dedicated device experiences to the our new powerful handheld screens. There have been dozens of attempts from strapping on controllers to various 'emulation'. Yet I don't think many have gone as far as creating a cartridge slot for a device that had the authentic buttons.

Hyperkin had unveileda smartphone accessory concept called the Smart Boy in 2015 as a joke, an April Fool’s Day joke. But from taht joke the company gauge demand for that of a controller w/ cartridge slot, and this week Hyperkin showed-off ist working prototype at the E3.

It is a bit "off looking" at since they want all sorts of phones to slot-into the device, yet it seems like a fair compromise if a bit ugly. It does give you the authentic style buttons and the ability to put the cart in the slot would seem to make the 'pirating' issues moot. Not for everyone, maybe not even for most, but still interesting...maybe as a fail-safe if your old GameBoy dies.

That thing is really cool. I never need to play a Game Boy game again for the remainder of my life.

You may want to go through your post and edit some grammatical/spelling errors. It confused my simple brain more than once.

@spoonman671: Yeah gameboy isn't something I go back to alot but when I do I fire up my super gameboy.

This is super cool that it has cartridge support! I really want to see more emulators with original physical game support.

Most of them do if you have the right interface for the physical stuff. Like I can play PS2 discs on my pc and I have a usb-ps2 controller adapter. so its almost like the real thing... Except the part where it runs like shit. I haven't messed with any emulation on my new PC though so maybe it will be better.