#ConsoleTeardown hashtag - Bluesky

@efunstar.bsky.social

1 week ago

Original Xbox CPU was a 733 MHz Intel “Coppermine” Pentium III at the heart. So it was basically a PC processor dropped into a game system.

#OriginalXbox #Xbox #RetroGaming #ConsoleTeardown #GamingHistory

Diego Torres Silvestre (CC BY 2.0)

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efunstar

@efunstar.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

GameCube teardown: disc drive (left), main board w/heat sink (center), controller board (right). Compact engineering behind the 6th-gen console. + at least 1 screw that vanished into the carpet forever.

#GameCube #Nintendo #ConsoleTeardown #GamingHistory

Ray Dehler (CC BY 2.0)

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efunstar

@efunstar.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Inside the Nintendo GameCube: its mini disc drive engineered for proprietary 8cm mini-DVD disc, designed to reduce piracy. Also the reason your friend’s burned “backup” never worked.

#GameCube #Nintendo #RetroHardware #ConsoleTeardown #GamingHistory

Ray Dehler (CC BY 2.0)

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