Ever wished you could take your old Atari 2600 with you when you travel? Well you can if you mod it out so there’s a 5″ LCD screen and a joystick controls right on the console itself. Dubbed the “Stella-Tubby v1.0″, this modsterpiece (damn I though I made that word up but apparently the term’s been used 3 other times in the history of the internets- still not bad) can actually be yours as it’s up for sale on Ebay. It even runs on a pair 9V batteries so it is truly portable- yeah you’ll need a giant backpack or something but you could in theory take it to go.

Ebay via technabob

This is cool! You’ve probably seen homemade mods that do something similar to this but this is a professionally manufactured version of a portable game playing device that plays vintage Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. The Retro Mini features a 2.4″ LCD TFT screen, built in speakers, a headphone out jack and a composite (NTSC) video/audio out cables for playing on a TV. At last, a handheld NES system! It runs on 4 AA batteries and that will give you over 8 hours of playing time. Where was this in 1988?

Buy the Retro Mini for $49.99