You know one portable platform that had an unabashedly great library? The GameBoy Advance, a color portable handheld console released back in the innocent year 2001. Sure, we have a few of each to choose from, but it’s still slim pickings for the avid gamer. Sometimes it feels like there aren’t enough of certain game types on Windows Phone, such as RPGs and strategy games.

Blue Tomato (Sega Game Gear and Master System).

Like emulators? Check out these other excellent apps for Windows Phone: It plays SNES ROMs just perfectly and is just pure awesome on Windows Phone 8. It’s a little plain but once again, that’s nitpicking. There’s nothing to not like about this emulator. Sound is tight, frame-rate is high and the ability for Save-states to restore later is fantastic. Did we mention it’s completely free with no ads? So far, Snes8x has played every ROM we’ve thrown at it with no errors. There’s no URL direct import and it doesn’t uncompress ZIP files, so you will need to upload them in full to a SkyDrive folder but that’s a trivial thing. The app comes with one free demo ROM but the real fun is loading up your collection via SkyDrive.

nails with his free Snes8x app for Windows Phone.

Now combine it with the power of Windows Phone 8’s dual core CPUs, extra RAM and high resolution display and you have an ideal gaming platform-assuming the developer gets it right. The console is still revered by many to this day. 1991 was a good time because video games were really just starting to get big and the SNES system was leading the pack for 16-bit gaming.

Windows 8 sega emulator