We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Traditionally, each game console is an island that runs its own software from media unique to its own platform. This economic model that has successfully powered the video game industry since the launch of the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. But there are times when game companies have turned this practice on its ear. Sometimes they have introduced devices that allow certain game systems to play cartridges designed for a completely different platform—or game cross-platform game adapters, for lack of a better term. Being the kind of guy who likes to curate collections of weird corners of gaming history, I thought it would be fun to round up a selection of such devices for your reading amusement. In fact, the following seven products are the only officially sanctioned game system adapters I know of. Sure, there are plenty of unauthorized cross-platform adapters, especially those released in recent years for Nintendo or Sega consoles. But we'll focus on the ones officially approved by the console maker. And by that I mean the maker of the console playing the games, because in a few cases, console makers dipped into a rival platform's game library without permission, as you'll see below.

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