Put your SNES in your pocket this summer

Hyperkin, a third-party accessory manufacturer has a rather cool piece of kit due out in the US this summer. They’ve created a portable Super Nintendo console titled SupaBoy.
Lame name aside, the handheld will play any US SNES cartridge, sporting a 3.5 inch LCD screen, 318g of weight, and a battery life of around five and a half hours. There’s also A/V stereo output to plug into the TV and two controller ports for if you want to play with the real controller or with another player.
A release outside of the US is yet to be confirmed although we’re hopeful. Super Metroid on the train? We think we’d miss our stop.

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External Hard Drives Disguised as NES Cartridges

Gamer swoon alert!

The first game I ever played to completion was Super Mario Bros., like most of my early-80s classmates. These days, I don’t do much gaming at all—but I do spend quite a lot of quality time with my computer. Etsy dealer 8BitMemory has an awesome way to introduce the games from our childhood (or whenever, if you’re not in the near-30 crowd) with these nostalgic NES Hard Drives. Tetris, Metroid, Excitebike, Legend of Zelda… be still my geeky heart.

And for the (slightly) younger set: Game Boy Advance 4GB flash drives.

And gift packs! Complete with mouse pad, cartridge sleeve and case, fitted with 500GB drives.

The NES Cartridges (with 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive) will set you back about $150. The GBA flash drives, $40, and the gift packs range from $130-140.

What You Didn’t Know About Nintendo

I saw this on Reddit a earlier today and just wanted to share it. I’m impressed by two things: One that someone took the time to research it and put this together. And two, that I was able to compress the entire image down to only 317kb and still make it look good. The entire, and very long, image after the fold.

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Square's unreleased Aliens game for Famicom Disk System uncovered

Man, what is it about the Aliens franchise that makes its video game adaptations so easily cancelable? Long, long before Obsidian's Aliens RPG ended up on the cutting room floor, Square had its own unreleased entry into the franchise: A 1987 side-scrolling action game for the Famicom Disk System (the disk-loading NES attachment which never quite made it stateside).

A ROM for the canned title recently appeared online; you can check out some footage from an emulated version of the game over at 1UP. It actually doesn't look too terrible -- though back in 1987, we really only had room in our hearts for one unstoppable, alien-obliterating heroine, and that room was totally already spoken for.
Source: 1UP