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Phil Hayton

LCD emulation could preserve a bunch of iconic Nintendo handhelds and their cursed rivals

Sesame Street Number Bowling LCD game next to Nintendo Game and Watch Pinball on woodgrain desk.

Old LCD games look like stone-age tech compared to even handhelds like the OG Game Boy, but they're still worth preserving. That's something BrickEmuPy hopes to achieve, as the project has already preserved over 60 portable classics, and it's seemingly the first to preserve Nintendo's Mini Classics keychains for emulation.

Created by developers Azya52 and Andrei Cherniaev, BrickEmuPy is a "Handheld LCD games emulator in Python with PyQt6." Highlighted by the folks at Time Extension, the project has already preserved everything from Tamagotchis and Digimon Digivices to those Legend of Zelda and Super Mario wrist watches I begged my parents for back in the '90s.

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