Over the years, the company released a variety of machines, with the last being the A7000 series,  first released in the mid-1990s. While the A7000 and its later A7000+ models were fairly substantial desktop systems, one modder figured out a way to turn the A7000+ into a portable.

Derbyshire, UK modder Sam took the old RISC OS based computer and managed to make a rather nice little portable system with it. Sure, it's a little boxy, but to put things firmly into perspective, this is what an Acorn A7000+ originally looked like.

Impressed now, right? I sure am. Dubbed the A7Kp, Sam's A7000+ portable is built into a case made from MDF, with a 10.4" front-panel LCD set behind a layer of clear perspex. It uses an original A7000+ mobo, with the circuitry necessary to run it on an internal 9.6v NiMh battery. Yes, this thing truly is portable. It'll run for just under 3 hours on a full charge. Warning, gory insides splayed out ahead...

Wait, that wasn't gory at all. As a matter of fact, it's one of the tidiest custom builds I've laid eyes on. Nice job keeping things so neat and clean. I bet the original A7000+ didn't look that nice under the hood.

Other updates include 4GB of flash-based storage, and a modern keyboard and mouse. Sam says he mostly uses the A7000+ plus for classic games like Lemmings, Lemmings 2, Zool and Overload, and that there are tons of old 16-bit Acorn titles that play on the system.

Sam worked on the mod over a period of about 7 months, although he says that if he had worked on it straight through, it would have taken about a month and a half. Regardless, it looks like it was well worth the effort. Check out more details on the build over at Sam's Modifications. Can I please have a portable Atari ST now?

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Freetron’s FunPlay 20-in-1 not only can be connected to your television, but since it runs on 3-AAA batteries can be played on the road with portable DVD players (as long as they have a video input). The battery-operated circuit also makes this a perfect candidate for portable game system hackers – although the built-in 16-bit Genesis/Mega Drive emulator is limited to the 20 included games as far as I can tell.

Here’s a full list of included games: Sonic Blast, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic Spinball, Sonic Triple Trouble, Alex Kidd High Tech World, Alex Kidd The Lost Stars, Altered Beast, Astro Warrior, Bomber Raid, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, Ecco The Tides of Time, Fantasy Zone, Golden Axe, Penguin Land, Psycho Fox, Quartet, Ristar, and Super Columns.

You can grab one of these over at DealExtreme for just under $15 (USD). With 20 fully licensed SEGA games for that price, this thing looks like a pretty great deal. I think I paid $159 bucks for my original Genesis, and that was before I bought a single game.

Of course, if you don’t need to take it on the road, and you’ve got a PS3 or Xbox 360, you owe it to yourself to check out Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection instead – which includes twice as many games for just $28 (USD).

Apparently, this Rambo TV Game console came out at some point back in the 1990s. It’s a serious doppelganger for the Atari 2600, and actually claims to have had 208 built-in games. Despite the “2600 compatible” labeling, the photos on the box make me think this was one of those cheap NES/Famicom clone systems from China. And check out those joysticks…

While I certainly don’t remember this system, I did manage to find a brief mention of the Rambo TV console over on the Ultimate Console Database – and the version they show has 2,001 built-in games.

And the one in this YouTube video claims to have a whopping 11,555 built-in games! Of course, they neglected to mention that 11,554 of them suck, and the final one is a knock-off of  E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial.

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There’s not much more to say about this rarity, except that anything that combines an Atari 2600 and Sly Stallone is okay in my book.

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This Chinese import plays 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit titles from 7 different game platforms in one compact system. While it sports a less than thrilling name, the CVFH-N03-4G (aka the Dingoo A320) can play thousands of games from the NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Nintendo Gameboy Advance, SNK Neo-Geo consoles, as well as the CAPCOM CPS1 and CPS2 arcade systems. The system features a 2.8″ QVGA (320×240) display and can also output to your TV.

Now how you get game ROMs to play on the system is up to you, but once you do, you can load up the portable system with up to 4GB of games and other media files and can even play some Flash-based games. There’s also a mini-SDHC slot in case 4GB isn’t enough to whet your appetite for storage. In addition to retro games, the portable can play your audio and video files in a wide variety of formats. There’s also an FM tuner, voice recorder and e-book reader along for the ride in case you get bored with all of those classic games. Check out the video clip below to see one of these in action:

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The CVFH-N03-4G/Dingoo A320 multi-platform gaming handheld is available over at Chinavasion in both black and white versions for $87.31 (USD) each.