Using credit cards to buy credit cards. How utterly poetic.

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[sc name=”gadgetlust” item=”Super Impulse MicroArcades” what=”Classic video games the size of credit card!” price=”$20.00″ need=”All my old school arcade needs have been addressed years ago courtesy of MAME on a myriad of devices and platforms…” ]

…But the engineering is just so keen! To think that once what required a housing the size of a refrigerator is now the size of a credit card. The year 2000 has long come and gone, and yet I still find myself bemoaning a fundamental dearth in robot helpers and hover cars, but I will admit that young Braniff never imagined a world in which Pacman would fit in his wallet, so well done technology, well done.

Still, I don’t need it. Hell, I don’t need 95% of the things I buy, but in this particular instance it’s because I long discovered the joy that is MAME…

…thus my thirst for arcade emulation have long been quenched, to an extent where I dare say I need a bib. I’m far from a loss in ways to play Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Galaga, Frogger, Rally X, and in ways that won’t t have me worried about battery-life or excessive squinting. Van Damme these screens are tiny. But these would look nice of the office shelf as conversation starters. Though I imagine that conversation soon turning to “Get your hands off it, ya troglodyte!”

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