Hasta La Gadget!

In case you hadn’t heard, Nintendo’s trend-setting handheld, the Game Boy, just had its 20th birthday — and that’s no small thing for a game console. We won’t bore you with stories from our childhood about wasted time and missed opportunities spent chasing the dragon that was Tetris, but we will entertain the hell out of you with this vintage ad touting the system’s launch from way back in the totally excellent year of 1989. We know what you’re thinking: does the robot create the kid or just warp him there? And if he does create him, does that mean he’s some kind of metallic god? And does that mean that the kid kills god? And… why is the robot dancing? Hey — now you’re playing with power.

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Nintendo’s Game Boy turns 20 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This isn’t the first Dreamcast mod we’ve seen around here, not by a long shot — but it’s surely one of the most elegant. Built around a 15-inch LCD, this guy is a scant 2 1/4-inches thick, but it gets up to 3.5 hours of playtime on a full charge, sports an A/V out, one watt stereo sound, and a custom-built tray loading GD-ROM — just the thing for playing House of the Dead 2 on the go. We won’t belabor the point — just make sure you check out the mod-licious video after the break.

[Via Nowhere Else]

Continue reading Dreamcast tablet is a handsome, portable solution for your discontinued gaming needs

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Dreamcast tablet is a handsome, portable solution for your discontinued gaming needs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is true art, friend. The amazing “brotato” (rhymes with potato, in a perfect world) has hacked together netbook components, an ancient keyboard and a 14.2-inch LCD into this classy case, dubbing the project “The Poor Man’s Netbook.” The box is running Windows XP, but he tested it out with Windows 7 and Mac OS X and it performed beautifully, except for the Bluetooth 2.1 module. The box is based on a Mini-ITX Intel D945GCLF2 Dual Core 1.6Ghz Atom motherboard, with 2GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD and 802.11n WiFi — though you’ll have to hunt down an outlet, there’s no battery power here. The best news is that he’s selling the whole conglomeration on eBay, perfect for completing that piece of horrible cyberpunk fiction you’ve been slaving over on your boringtop.

[Thanks, Ryan]

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Netbook in a suitcase: all the shortcomings of a subnote in a large, inconvenient package originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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