It has a camera, can make calls, browse the Internet but did you know your trusty blower can also blast Mario and his buddies? Yep, that’s right, you can turn your trusty Nok into a Nintendo NES with a bit of jiggery pokery. Go on, what are you waiting for?

What’s the point?

Get all your childhood favourites on your phone and relive the button-bashing glory days of your youth!

Is it free?

You’ll need to buy an emulator (around £7), but most ROMs (games in non-geek speak), are freely available online.

Sold! How do I do it?

Step 1: Download an emulator for your phone. It’s a piece of software that pretends to be an old games console so it can run retro titles.

You can find iNES from ClickGamer.com. It’ll make your phone run old Nintendo NES games, but there are more available for GameBoy and GameGear here. There’s even one to run old PC adventure games, called SCUMMVM, you can find it the Scummvm site.

Step 2: Install the emulator by Bluetoothing it to your handset. Once it’s installed you need to get some ROMs, or game images, to play on it. You can find NES ROMs at TheOldComputer.com, although to stay on the right side of the law you should only download games you own original copies of.

Step 3: Transferring ROMs to your phone isn’t as simple as transferring the emulator. Your handset won’t know what sort of file they are, and will refuse to open it if you Bluetooth it straight over.

If you’re using a Mac, head to your Bluetooth menu and choose ‘Browse Device’. Then head to ‘E:’ followed by ‘Others’ and ‘iNES’. Hit ‘send’ and choose your ROM file. It’ll copy over and you’ll see it listed when you open the emulator on your phone.

Step 4: If you’re using a PC, plug in the USB cable supplied with your phone and copy the file over to the memory card that appears in My Computer. Put it in ‘Others’ and ‘iNES’ as described above and it’ll show up when you load the emulator.

Step 5: Take a few minutes to figure out the key controls. Generally, 4 and 6 are left and right, while the hash key is attack and the star key is jump. In iNES the 1 button acts as the console’s ‘select’ key and pauses the game. The 3 key is usually ‘start’.