DOES IT PLAY MARIO KART?
Genius is rarely able to manifest itself in the form of kitschy consumer electronics – or we fail it to recognize it in that arena. But during the last year a man took a look at a Super Nintendo and said to himself, ‘That needs to go in my pants.’ And a new breed of portable electronic devices was born…ones that emulated the aesthetic of older systems with the portability of new ones. New portable videogames are the approximate size of cookies in an Oreo snack pack. We need to go back to having bricks shaped like Zagat-restaurant guides shoved into tiny crevices for our entertainment.
Which is where the Hypakin’s Supaboy busts through the wall and starts a party. Slated for a North American release, the portable system will play both American SNES cartridges and the Japanese equivalents. Which means you’ll have to jump the fence of carrying around Super Nintendo cartridges like a hoarder – but when you bust out the oversized SNES controller that the system’s built to echo, I’m sure you’ll get a lot of looks.
Not necessarily from ladies, but drooling geeks. You can’t win ‘em all. The Supaboy will retail for about 60-70 bucks.
Now they just need to make a portable Virtual Boy. So we can blind ourselves AND reminisce simultaneously.
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