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ms. pac-man gets portable

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Ms. Pac-Man Portable Handheld Videogame Namco

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 its circuitry inside the power brick of an old printer…

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December 11th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bacteria gives life to mutant mini multi arcade system

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Bacteria Mini Multi Arcade System

I have a dream. And that dream is that one day a single portable gaming console can play all of my favorite arcade classics (on a decent sized screen). Thanks to a modder going by the name “Bacteria”, that day is today…

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September 3rd, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

pac-man mini portable: get in my pocket!

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Pac-Man Mini Portable by Sam Thornley

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, seamlessly melded with a tiny 2.5-inch LCD display and powered by a set of 4 rechargeable AA batteries for easy travel…

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August 28th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob