pac-man mini portable: get in my pocket!
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August 28th, 2008 post a comment (1) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
Check out this pocket game system which plays arcade games including Pac-Man and several other classic Namco games.
Created by modder Sam Thornley, the portable Pac-Man Mini console gets its brains from one of those Jakks Pacific Namco Arcade Classic systems
While the screenshot photos below look a bit blurry, Sam assures us that the screen is actually very sharp thanks to a direct composite video connection to the Jakks circuit.
Besides Pac-Man, the chunky portable system can play Galaxian, Rally-X, Bosconian, and my personal arcade version of crack, Dig Dug.
The only thing left out of the portable console is a sound system. That’s because those Namco “arcade on a chip” systems that run those Jakks systems don’t offer the exact same sounds that the original versions played, and Sam is clearly an arcade purist.
Sure, I suppose Sam could have just gone an grabbed a copy of Namco Museum for the Nintendo DS, GBA or Sony PSP, but what fun would that have been?
[via Ben Heck Forums]
August 28th, 2008 post a comment (1) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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1. Tab Numlock | August 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Reminds me of my favorite joke from the 80’s:
What’s yellow and round and drinks blood?
http://cackl.com/joke/view/584/whats+yellow+and+round+and+drinks+blood
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