Summary
- Modders continue to find inventive outlets for gaming, with one fan successfully running Pokemon on their car's radio display.
- Tesla owners have also been able to play video games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Mario Kart using their car's features.
- Playing video games while driving is not recommended, but it's impressive to see classic titles like Pokemon being played on unconventional hardware like car radio displays.
Pokemon is 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 gotten the 90s FPS DOOM to play on such unexpected outlets as a potato-powered calculator, a pregnancy test, and even Nintendo’s rerelease of the old Game and Watch handheld.
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 run Cyberpunk 2077 while stopping for gas. Tesla owners have also figured out how to play kart racers like Mario Kart using 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 get Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl to run on their Ford Focus.
The car-related Pokemon hijinks don’t stop there either, as a Reddit user named ZanClackRuso recently surprised both themselves and their fellow fans by playing what appears to be Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen on 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 a Pokemon fan has managed to play one of the series entries using their car’s touchscreen display, and just like Doom, 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 of Pokemon, 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 like Doom and Pokemon on unconventional hardware like car radio displays. It’s especially fitting for the latter, as most Pokemon titles 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 Pokemon at a gas stop.