"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted." - Arthur Miller

Friday, October 14, 2005

Homegrown Portables


Apparently Ben Heckendorn has to much free time. He keeps creating portable game sytems for all the consoles that have existed in the last 20 years. For example, he just completed a portable version of the NES that is nearly the size of the new Gameboy Micro (if don't count cartridge). He has also done the same for many other consoles including the Nintendo 64 and the Playstation 2. Check out his home page for the what and the how.

In other news, Nintendo is slowly revealing more info about Mario Kart DS and online play. Its pretty sad that Nintendo can milk this for so much since Sony beat them to the punch by a year but this is what happens with the games don't support the hardware. Also, Nintendo, as of 10/27, gives retailers free reign to price the GameCube to whatever price they see fit. What does this mean for you? Probably not much. Maybe the occasional sale price of 5 or 10 dollars but not much else.

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