The Supertendo Portable SNES

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009


I would buy this portable SNES. It’s probably one of the cleanest portable retro gaming systems ever made. In fact, it sort of looks like something that Nintendo would have made in the 90′s as a competitor to the Game Gear.
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But instead this device was constructed with the help of a vacuum-former and a bit of hand wiring. Currently six AA rechargeable Ni-MH batteries power the device for about 2 hours.

Want it? Well, you better hurry up before it gets more gadget blog coverage today and email the builder as he is selling it. I would expect the builder to make well over the $200 it cost him to construct it.

Supertendo via technabob

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