Skyrim Just Landed On The Absolute Last Platform You'd Expect

Skyrim Just Landed On The Absolute Last Platform You'd Expect

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been ported, albeit unofficially, to yet another unexpected platform. First released in 2011, Skyrim's constant ports and re-releases have since become a fandom in-joke. It's officially available for nine platforms officially, plus a parody port for Amazon Alexa released alongside its next-gen port.

But fan efforts have created something even more impressive: a playable Skyrim on the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo's 2003 flip-open console. Despite being a handheld that predates Skyrim by eight years, the SP can now run Bethesda's massive open-world RPG, owing to Reddit user Apprehensive-Word891 (via Gaming Bible).

After Bethesda re-released Skyrim for a variety of different console generations and platforms, fans took up the mantle. They've been able to bring Skryim to all manner of unusual devices, including a keyboard's OLED screen, a digital camera, and a car stereo (the latter two efforts thanks to Can It Skyrim? on YouTube).

It parallels and parodies a similar set of fan ports for the 1993 shooter Doom, which players have managed to run on rotary phones, pregnancy tests, and even another copy of Doom.

Now, Skyrim is playable on yet another Nintendo handheld,...

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