Turn your Apple iPhone or Android handset into a cartridge based video game player

So you miss the old days when you used to plug a game cartridge into your video game console, and start playing. And even though technology has come a long way since then, a Japanese startup company by the name of Beatrobo is making a bet that you’d rather plug in a cartridge than load a game on your smartphone via the cloud. Company founder and CEO Hiroshi Asaeda said, “Sure, you can get Chrono Trigger on your iPhone, but it’s just not the same.”

So Beatrobo has developed a game cartridge called the Pico Cassette. These puppies click into place using the 3.5mm earphone jack on an iPhone …

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