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Friday June 30, 2006 5:25 pm

Portable NES: The nPod




Posted by Josh Smith Categories: Nintendo, Portable/Mobile, Retro,

nPod Prototype

Do you have a desire to play your original NES games on the go?  Can’t be tasked with remembering where you put all those tiny cartridges Nintendo has re-released your favorites on?  Ben Heck has got the solution for you!  Ben has been known previously for his portable reincarnations of the NES, PSOne, and the Nintendo 64.  Ben claimed his fame by taking the guts of your “sit on the TV stand consoles”, and placing them into custom made portable enclosures!  His latest creation is a portable NES known as the nPod.  The unit runs off your original NES cartridges and is roughly the thickness of two stacked cartridges.  The nPod includes a headphone jack and runs off 4 AA batteries.  While this thing is amazing and would let me get more use out of the 15 or so NES cartridges at home, I’ll be sticking with my DS Lite.  However if this gets your gaming thumbs twitching, then shoot Ben an email, since he is potentially selling these for around $250.

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