Atari 2600 Portable/Luggable: the Stella-Tubby
August 12th, 2009
Well, this all-in-one Atari 2600 mod isn’t exactly what I’d call “portable”, but the guy who built it certainly deserves props for creativity.
This hacked-together Atari 2600 Portable goes by the name “Stella-Tubby” – which does a good job summing up its less than svelte form-factor as a handheld gaming console. Retro-modder Nonogadi built out this portable 2600 with an integrated 5″ LCD screen, as well as built-in joystick and paddle controllers. Plus, it’ll run on a pair of 9-volt batteries if you don’t feel like lugging around an A/C power brick.
The Stella-Tubby has found its way all the way from Singapore over to eBay auction block, but is priced at the somewhat astronomical starting bid of $400 bucks – a bit irrational for what amounts to a 30 year old gaming system with a $25 LCD screen embedded into it. Still, you’ve got to give it up to Nongadi for the time and effort it probably took to build this oddity.
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Categories: Hacks + Mods Retro Strange + Wonderful Video Games
Tags: 1970s atari 2600 casemod ebay handheld lcd luggable portable
Looks nice.. but way to expensive.. actually.. it’s verry easy to make this.
You yust need to know how to wire stuff. and where to get the supplie’s for your project… He should make this with something like a 2600 JR. way smaller and easyer for trevveling. Yeah try to make something out of that