A DIY Classic Game & Watch Handheld Made With an Old Nokia Cellphone

Before the Game Boy total along , hand-held gambling consoles were set to just a unmarried rubric , played on a low - timber segment LCD show . At the time it was cut border material , but by today ’s standards they kind of suck . So to scratch his nostalgic gaming itching , Instructables contributor Andrew Hannaybuilt his own Game & Watch with improved electronics so it could be charge with multiple games .

The controls and actual gameplay on Hannay ’s founding — cobbled together from an old handheld , a Nokia cellphone showing , and a PIC18F4550 controller add-in — are still primitive and rudimentary compared to what modern ironware like the Nintendo 3DS is capable of . But it works and plays just like the handheld games he raise up with .

And now there ’s the added bonus that Hannay ’s Game & Watch can be loaded with all of those classic games at once , so he does n’t have to fill his pouch with multiple handhelds . [ InstructablesviaTechnabob ]