The ClockworkPi Gameshell is a portable game console you make yourself, coming as a modular kit and assembling to form a GameBoy-like gadget with a quad-core CPU, 2.7-inch color display, WiFi and Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, HDMI output and a 16GB MicroSD card holding its Linux-based OS: "a powerful computing platform that lets you begin creating immediately."
It smoothly runs various dev environments/engines (including PICO 8, LOVE2D, PyGame and Phaser), comes with Cave Story, Doom and RetroArch for folks who just want to dive in, and clearly has its stuff together both as a creative tool and entertainment device. Mike Fahey reports that it runs 16-bit classics perfectly.
Looks like a very serious effort to create a hackable-from-the-ground-up handheld, and a perfect competitor to the recently-announced PlayDate. Yellow is in!
The GameShell is available on Amazon for $159 in red or white; yellow is exclusive to the official website, at the same price.
Unusually for retro game consoles, Polymega includes an optical drive and they offer five custom controllers to make it more fun to play games from all the old systems. Polymega™ is a modular multi-system game console that lets you enjoy original game cartridges and CD’s for classic game consoles on your HDTV. Polymega™ was created […]
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It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that there’s a species of nerd for everything. Food, film, ragtime nostalgia, astronomy – you name it. Well, if there are any design nerds out there, we have a gadget for you. As a matter of fact, we know there are design nerds out there because every year they […]
We all have a favorite room, the one we spend more than half our waking hours in. Typically that’s the living room. If you work from home, it might be the den or wherever you’ve set up a desk. If that’s the case, doesn’t it seem wasteful to make sure the entire house is the […]
If we were to pick one game out of the classic arcade pantheon that truly represented the anxiety and energy of the ’80s, it would have to be Tempest. The neon vector graphics. The jackhammer pulse of the sound effects. And of course, the faceless, unstoppable enemies crawling up that tunnel to meet you. If […]
