Visual Studio Windows Phone project has no Run Device or Mobile Emulators options

After upgrading my computer to Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, I opened up my old Windows Phone 8 projects to work on them. I found the Run Device or Mobile Emulators function missing, previously available in VS2013 and all the Visual Studio 2015 showed was a Start button, as shown below.

My first thought was that the installation probably had some problems and I spent a lot of time with repairing, and reinstalling Visual Studio 2015. After some time, I did a mouse right click in the Solution Explorer on the project and found the Retarget to Windows Phone 8.1 option, as shown in the screenshot below.

Right after the option was selected, the Start button changed to the Run Device/Mobile Emulators button.


That was what was needed to reinstate the function back to Visual Studio and I found it by accident after unsuccessfully doing a Google search or reading the documentation.
Hopefully this post will help some people.