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The Nintendo DSi has only been out in Japan since last November and already the line is expanding to include a new range of very bright colors: pink, green, and blue. Not, it must be said, the blue that’s coming to the United States this spring, either.
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February 27th, 2009 by: Alisha K.
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The next generation Nintendo handheld, the DSi, debuted in Japan last November to robust sales while the rest of the world looked wistfully on, wondering when we, too, could have a chance to take pictures with our game systems without spending $300 to import. At last, Nintendo’s set a date…
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February 19th, 2009 by: Alisha K.
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Remember the Pandora open source handheld gaming console? Well after a long wait, it looks like the portable gaming system is getting closer to production from the looks of this revised design rendering I spotted over on the Open Pandora blog.
While the design hasn’t changed dramatically from the original…
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February 11th, 2009 by: Technabob
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When you think classic video games, two names come to mind PacBoy and Space Intruder…, right? No? Well even if those aren’t the games you remember from your childhood, it’s the best you’re gonna do if you pick up these cheap-o handhelds on sale over in the UK.
Judging
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February 8th, 2009 by: Technabob
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Nintendo is launching the DSiWare store for the latest iteration of their DS handheld next week in Japan, and in celebration, they’re offering Ugoku Memo Chou (Moving Notepad…), a notepad and animation flipbook, completely free! Of course, we won’t get the DSi until next April in the U.S.,
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December 19th, 2008 by: Alisha K.
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Not to be outdone by her dot-gobbling boyfriend, Ms. Pac-Man has made her way into a custom-built handheld.
Influenced heavily by Sam Thornley’s Pac-Man Mini, modder ela built this portable Ms. Pac-Man Mini… video game system using the guts of one of those Jakks Ms. Pac-Man TV Games, and put
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December 11th, 2008 by: Technabob
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Casemodders have implanted the brains of the Atari 2600 into all sorts of strange host bodies over the years, but this is the first time I’ve seen this particular permutation.
Modder Chris Koopa (with a name like that, I’m shocked he hasn’t done any Nintendo mods) melded the shell of…
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November 26th, 2008 by: Technabob
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Sure, this portable gaming system might LOOK just a little bit like the Sony PSP, but don’t expect it to play any games made in the last 15 years.
Another in a long line of cheap Chinese knock-off systems, the 2PG TC8281 handheld plays a mish-mash of questionable 8-bit and…
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November 15th, 2008 by: Technabob
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Want to build your own games, but don’t have the artistic talent to build complex game graphics? This new kit lets you create games using a simple LED dot-matrix display.
With a colorful 8×8 RGB LED display, the Meggy Jr RGB handheld platform gives you everything you need to create…
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November 14th, 2008 by: Technabob
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Call me a sucker for old school gaming, but the Super Nintendo (SNES) has always been one of my favorite consoles. This custom-built handheld brings back those classic gaming memories.
Perfect for the occasional on-the-road game of Super Mario World or Star Fox…, this portable SNES was put
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November 10th, 2008 by: Technabob