Hacking Video Game Consoles: Turn your old video game systems into awesome new portables (ExtremeTech)

Hacking Video Game Consoles: Turn your old video game systems into awesome new portables (ExtremeTech), 9780764578069 (0764578065), John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Space Invaders and Asteroids are back!

Loved that Atari® when you were a kid? So did Ben Heckendorn — so much, in fact, that he successfully resurrected it as a slim, go-anywhere portable. When Playstation® and Nintendo® aficionados got jealous, he created miniaturized, fully functioning, battery-powered versions of those too. Now it's your turn. Every secret is here — complete instructions, materials lists, tool tips, even advice on finding parts. Just wait 'til they see this at the high school reunion.

Ready? Let's get started

Plans and instructions for building eight handheld, classic video games

Choosing a game system — Atari®, Nintendo®, Super Nintendo®, or Playstation®1
What you'll spend
Electronics and soldering 101
Hacking portable TVs for their screens
Building the case — CNC or freehand?
Yank the cord, install the batteries

About the Author

Benjamin Heckendorn is a graphic artist and independent filmmaker who fell in love with Atari at age five. While waiting for New Year's Eve festivities to begin in 1999, Ben decided that if Y2K did not cause the end of life as we know it, he'd find a way to bring back those beloved games of his childhood — and here it is.

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