The amazing USB-C gadgets that play old Nintendo cartridges

A 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball lost its save file when the cartridge’s watch battery failed. The author had previously backed up the data with an Epilogue Operator, a $50 USB-C device that reads Nintendo cartridges and transfers data to Windows, macOS, or a Steam Machine. The Operator is a transparent trapezoidal reader that connects real cartridges to PCs.