Turn your TV home screen into a Pokemon-style town
robbietilton turned his TV into a Game Boy Color-style experience: a town is the home screen, you walk into a building to open an app and must beat a gym leader to change settings, built with Opus 5.5.
Source
@robbietilton on X · 2026-10-18
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-24.
What they did
robbietilton turned his TV into a Game Boy Color-style experience: a town is the home screen, you walk into a building to open an app and must beat a gym leader to change settings, built with Opus 5.5.
Result (as claimed)
A playful TV launcher that feels like a game.
Tools they used
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Set it up
Define the job
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Share only what is needed
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Review the plan
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Check the result
Confirm the outcome yourself (order placed, request sent, document understood) and keep a record.
Copy the full setup prompt
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You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Turn your TV home screen into a Pokemon-style town What the original author did: robbietilton turned his TV into a Game Boy Color-style experience: a town is the home screen, you walk into a building to open an app and must beat a gym leader to change settings, built with Opus 5.5. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A playful TV launcher that feels like a game. Source: https://x.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923 Tools they used: Claude Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Turn your TV home screen into a Pokemon-style town What the original author did: robbietilton turned his TV into a Game Boy Color-style experience: a town is the home screen, you walk into a building to open an app and must beat a gym leader to change settings, built with Opus 5.5. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A playful TV launcher that feels like a game. Source: https://x.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923 Tools they used: Claude Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Turn your TV home screen into a Pokemon-style town What the original author did: robbietilton turned his TV into a Game Boy Color-style experience: a town is the home screen, you walk into a building to open an app and must beat a gym leader to change settings, built with Opus 5.5. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A playful TV launcher that feels like a game. Source: https://x.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923 Tools they used: Claude Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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