Summary
Pokemonis a game fans can take with them on the go, and one player has figured out how to run it on their car’s radio display. Modders often come up with inventive new outlets for gaming, especially when it comes to the classics. Fans have already gottenthe 90s FPSDOOMto play on such unexpected outlets as a potato-powered calculator, a pregnancy test, and even Nintendo’s rerelease of the oldGame and Watchhandheld.
The radio display screens present in most modern automobiles are another possible (if unorthodox) platform for playing video games, as demonstrated by the more recent line of Tesla vehicles allowing gamers to runCyberpunk 2077while stopping for gas. Tesla owners have also figured out how toplay kart racers likeMario Kartusing the car’s actual steering wheel as a controller. Of course, dedicated modders don’t need a Tesla to run their favorite Nintendo titles, as one fan was able to getPokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearlto run on their Ford Focus.
The car-relatedPokemonhijinks don’t stop there either, as a Reddit user named ZanClackRuso recently surprised both themselves and their fellow fans by playing whatappears to bePokemon FireRed and LeafGreenon their car’s Android-based radio display. Indeed, the photo they shared shows them navigating a town using the radio’s touchscreen as an impromptu controller. Other users have expressed their amazement in the comment section of ZanClackRuso’s post, along with a few jokes about how Trainers shouldn’t hunt for shiny Pokemon while driving.
This isn’t the first time aPokemonfan has managed to play one of the series entries usingtheir car’s touchscreen display, and just likeDoom, creative modders have managed to bring Nintendo’s iconic monster-collecting RPGs to common calculators and Apple Watches. In the case of ZanClackRuso’s round ofPokemon, some users have theorized that they used a radio with screen-mirroring capabilities to run the MyBoy Game Boy Advance emulator.
Playing video games while driving isn’t advisable, but it’s still impressive to see dedicated modders manage to run classic titles likeDoomandPokemonon unconventional hardware like car radio displays. It’s especially fitting for the latter, as mostPokemontitles are played on portable systems like the original Game Boy or the more modern Nintendo Switch in its handheld mode - and now ZanClackRuso has managed to take things a step further by turning their car into the ultimate portable gaming system for catching rare Pokemonat a gas stop.
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