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The Nintendo Snack Pack Dedicated Oldschool Entertainment System (DOES)

We have always been in awe of Starforce Pi’s creations, like the amazing PC-Engine SD and Sega OMega Drive.

This time around we are in awe of The Nintendo Snack Pack, a portable gaming/streaming system fitted into a 1972 Sony TV-740 case, including a large 20,000mAh battery and 12v charger that makes it an easy proposition to carry around and play!

The Ninty Snack Pack specifications are quite impressive (see below), but at the heart of it are two boards, the SNES mini and NES mini, stacked on top of one another. Switching between ‘channels’ is done via the large retro-style rotary dial on the front of the all-in-one unit.

The rotary dial not only allows you to switch between SNES and NES gaming fun, but it also allows you to switch to a SEGA channel which comes complete with 8/16-bit Sega fun and a host of other gaming systems to play. The third channel, VIDEODROME, is used to stream classic cartoons, movies and other shows via Chromecast, and last but not least, the fourth channel allows any console with an AV/composite connection to be plugged in and played – wowser, this is one super impressive DIY creation!

It would be a huge understatement for us to say how much we’d love The Nintendo Snack Pack to be sitting in our games room right now!

The Nintendo Snack Pack DOES What Sega Don’t!

Nintendo Snack Pack SPECS:

Authentic Nintendo NES Mini Board (Channel 1)
Authentic Nintendo SNES Mini Board (Channel 2)
4x Controller Ports (1-2 Player for Channel 1 & 2, respectively)
Google Chromecast 2nd Generation (Channel 3)
RCA Audio/Video Input (Channel 4)
Aluminium Rotary Dial to switch channels
8″ IPS LCD screen in 4:3 aspect ratio, 1024×768 (HDMI/RCA/VGA)
Logitech 1.2watt Stereo Speakers (Z120)
20.000mAh 12V DC Battery
Vintage 1972 Sony TV-740 Converted Case
Dimensions: 25 x 20 x 24 cm, Weight: 2.5kg (5.5lbs)

story & image source: Starforce Pi

There are DIY’ers and then there are people that surpass even the best industrial designers of gaming hardware at companies like Nintendo and Sega.

Marcel J. de Haan from the STARFORCE PI (SFP) Development team has shown their latest creations, which lets admit it, are absolutely and astonishingly amazing! Both the PC-Engine SD and Sega OMega Drive Dedicated Oldschool Entertainment System (DOES) (Ed: Sega DOES what Nintendon’t! Very clever!) designs are a work of engineering feat and art that totally blow us away. You can check out the specs of each system by clicking on their respective links.

If you haven’t already done so, also check out their equally beautiful STARFORCE PI Electronic Tabletop Mini-Arcade and STARFORCE NEO creations – be warned, you will be drooling!