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hey! you got your hard drive in my game boy!
technabob.com - 9/12/2009
hey! you got your hard drive in my game boy!
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Man, the classic, brick-sized Nintendo Game Boy sure gets a lot of love in the modding/hacking community. Like that retro-tacular iPhone case we showed you a few days ago. Or this Game Boy that someone managed to shove a 80GB SATA hard drive into. A user from the MaxConsole forums , going ...
Game Boy Houses 80 GB "Super Hard Drive" [Mods]
kotaku.com - 9/6/2009
Game Boy Houses 80 GB "Super Hard Drive" [Mods]
— kotaku.com — From the just-because-I-can department: This modder stuffed an 80 GB drive inside a Game Boy, USB-enabled the... case and then, for good measure, printed out that screen design and stuck it to the... (more) Game Boy Houses 80 GB "Super Hard Drive" [Mods]

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Wii Price Drop Looks To Hit First Week Of October
kotaku.com - 9/14/2009
Wii Price Drop Looks To Hit First Week Of October
— kotaku.com — Advance retail listings forwarded to Kotaku indicate that Nintendo is planning to issue its first price drop... on the Wii, with a less expensive version of the console—currently priced at $249 USD—coming the first week of October. That ... (more) Wii Price Drop Looks To Hit First Week Of October

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Engadget:  Original Game Boy repurposed as external hard drive

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Original Game Boy repurposed as external hard drive
Engadget — ... some point during the dog days of summer, the 80GB Game Boy had its innards stripped and replaced with parts that enable a 2.5-inch 80GB SATA HDD to operate beautifully as a standard USB hard drive. The display you see here is (unfortunately) an illusion, as it's simply a professional-looking still insert that merely gives the impression of it paying Game Boy titles while offloading spreadsheets. Now, if someone could figure out how to make it pull double duty... [Via technabob] Filed under: Handhelds, Storage Original Game Boy ...

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