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David Nield

A NES emulator just landed on iOS but it's already disappeared – here's why

A close-up photo of an iPhone, with the App Store icon prominent in the center of the image.

The iOS App Store has only been open for business for game emulators for a few days, but already we're seeing plenty of drama around this fledgling app category – including the curious case of NES emulator Bimmy, which briefly showed up and then disappeared.

As reported by MacRumors, Bimmy made its way into the App Store as the first emulator for the Nintendo Emulator System. It was described as a tool for testing and playing games in the public domain, though it did give users the option of importing any ROM available from the web.

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