Turn Your Droid Into a Portable Gaming System
Turn that Motorola Droid into a portable gaming machine!
Alright let's face it: while Verizon promoted the Motorola Droid as the "iPhone Killer," the Android platform so far hasn't offered much in the way of gaming. The Android Market isn't clean and tidy either, making it difficult to find something exceptional and "hard core." Really good games are hard to come by, and because the Market is addressed to multiple devices, fumbling with a game designed for a smartphone keyboard can get downright annoying.
For the emulator lovers out there however, here's a device that can help: the Droid Game Gripper. This awesome little device takes control of the Droid's built-in keyboard and actually places the directional button in the correct place: to the left. The add-on gadget also provides an additional eight buttons to truly mimic a portable gaming system (well, old-school that is). This makes it ideal for the many console emulators currently available on the Android Market.
"The Game Gripper is easy to use, you just slide it on," the product description reads. "It is designed to work with any of the game system emulators on the Android Market (GameBoid, SNesoid, Nesoid etc) but could also work with any other games that let you map out your own buttons."
The device costs a measly $14.99, and can be purchased here. Check out the video below to see this add-on in action!
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That is kind of cool.
That is a really neat idea. Requires a keyboard on the phone, of course.
Ah, old times...
ha,that is awesome!
Wow. This is the greatest thing I have seen for smartphones in a while. I didn't really get any games for my iphone since the controls sucked so much. I have a droid now, and it is time to SNES it up!
Now, I just wished they were not sold out!
I'm impressed. Simple and incredibly useful. I don't bother much with games on my Droid, but if I did this would be a must have.
They should make one that matches the color of the phone, that color is an eyesore
I bet it just pushes the buttons on the keyboad for you... but at least you wont be hitting multiple buttons at once anymore.
That's actualy amazing... good job, thats a smart phone i would buy. That's the kind of gadgets that count.
Hee, me want. Seriously considering a droid now, but of course my productivity would go way down ^_^
Now that's just plain awesome.
How about some for some Symbian phones? Symbian really has my attention lately.
Jealous! I still play SNES on my Macbook Pro ... nearly everyday. I am 3/4 of the way through Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Games ... they don't make them like they used to. They should come out with something like this for the iPhone.
It would be much better to pair a ps3 controller to it
Awesome! I have a lot of roms on my SD card but dont really play them since the controls for the droid are kind of annoying, this is exactly what I need.
I put my order in!
They should have something like this for every phone.