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Portable GameCube

Posted by michael on from the gameboy-on-steroids dept.

Bodero writes: "After Slashdot ran a story about the Portable N64 over a month ago, many of us have been enlightened to the idea of portable home console systems. The Portable N64 was more of a novelty item whose cost and development factor outweighed its feasibility. However, IGN Cube is running a hardware review on the Interact Mobile Monitor 5.4, a 5.4" LCD that hooks up to your gamecube, providing a screen and power from either AC or an included car adapter. All that for only $150. For only $50 more, Interact sells an optional battery pack, which IGN claims can power the GameCube and monitor for up to three hours."

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  1. Cigarette adapter too? by RogrWilco · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I'll get run off the road by some guy playing Luigi's castle instead of reading his morning paper? Isn't progress grand?

  2. Re:This gets me hyped. by megacia · · Score: 4, Funny

    something like this is already out for the XBox, it's called a TV! if you have room for the XBox you can bring a television too :)

  3. New York, New York... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You thought cell phones were bad?! :)

  4. Barely legible fortune cookie say... by Fortune+Master · · Score: 1, Funny

    You will renew your glasses perscription for the first time in years after discovering the joys of small flatpanels.

    --
    ...in bed.
  5. Mattel Football by Rothfuss · · Score: 2, Funny


    You can get an old Mattel Football game on Ebay for around $20. That's about $400 less than the (NCube + Madden 2002 + PortaScreen).

    I also think the screen is slightly bigger, although I haven't actually measured.

    That'll free up more than enough cash to buy yourself a GeForce3, processor, and giant bag of Doritos. Morpheus will happily meet your software needs.

  6. Re:yup by jx100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you the guy that made the Xbox controller? I'm asking because you apparently can fit both a flatpanel and a PS2 in your hands...

  7. What?!? by jred · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd just like to say I'm shocked and appalled that not one single /.er has said anything about using one in conjuction with (insert whatever game machine is currently booting Linux) and using it to hack on the kernel source in the back of the car. Oh, yeah, and usb wireless nics will allow them to surf the net through the chain of all the wireless nics in all the cars. Hey! A beowolf cluster! rotflmoa, I slay me...

    --

    jred
    I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
  8. Lunchbox by SilentChris · · Score: 3, Funny
    As if the thing didn't already look like a child's lunchbox, now it even has a lid. :)

    I fear purchasing one so my girlfriend doesn't think I'm gay.

  9. Re:Flamebait, but what the hell.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never purchase products from a company named STD.
    heh