The Mini NES Of My Dreams – WITH CARTRIDGES!

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I got home from watching Jason Bourne (pretty good movie, by the way) and was too wired to go to sleep. Out of habit, I went on my computer and fired up Feedly to see what news tidbits crawled past while I was out. I found a Destructoid article whose title made my eyes click hard.

“Someone made a custom mini NES that takes cartridges.”

Wait, what?

I want you to take a good, hard look at daftmike’s YouTube video below. Seriously…watch this video and take it in.

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A custom mini NES I can understand. I have seen articles like this one that show people taking a stab at a small form factor NES case that can house a Raspberry Pi. These are meant for hobbyists who want to build their own Mini NES; you can choose from quite a few on Etsy.

But the Mini NES shown in the video is just…as a retro game lover, how can it NOT make me giddy? The man took a 3D printer; a Raspberry Pi; some NFC tags and a reader; and an incredible imagination, and created something ingenious. This Mini NES has its OWN MINI CARTRIDGES!!! He even made tiny NES controllers for it!!!

Every time I replay the video, I end up grinning like the Cheshire cat after freebasing the Joker’s Smilex!

If anyone adept at electronics and Linux wants to follow daftmike’s lead, he posted a guide on his blog. For the rest of us, we can only hope that he plans to sell kits.

He has been playing video games for longer than he would like to admit, and is passionate about all retro games and systems. He also goes to bars with an NES controller hoping that entering the Konami code will give him thirty chances with the drunk chick at the bar. His interests include vodka, old-school games, women, vodka, and women gamers who drink vodka.

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