I was hoping that someone has a picture of the unreleased(?) 'Nintendo Express' made by BDL. if you have never heard of this before, that's because there is basicly no info on it, on the internet. but I have an EGM article on the BDL Nintendo Express, which was basicly, a portable NES. it was developed around 1989-1990. here' the article from the April 1990 EGM, page 38-39 (EGM Number 9, Castlevania 3 cover) I think that perhaps the GameAxe is based on BDL's Nintendo Express but GameAxe came out in the late 1990s I think, a good number of years after the Nintendo Express was in development and mentioned in EGM
BDL Eh, you might want to recheck the date on that issue before searching for more info on that "rare" handheld prototype. ;-) -hl718
sorry, I don't follow you (too little sleep lately) .... are you saying that because the magaizne is so old (1990) that means there wouldn't be any info on the internet about it?
April fools joke aside, I remeber in EGM there was a pic of an NES portable made by Camerica, kind of Supervision like with a large screen and extra controller port on the bottom. Don't have the issue anymore (sold them all.) I think they called it "express." Was it the same thing, or was this the joke? I can't remember.
There were a few portable Famicom units. The previously mentioned Gameaxe. http://spoonman.roarvgm.com/videogame/gameaxe.html There was also the Top Guy. http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/pirate/topguy.html Also the homemade one that is posted elsewhere on the boards. Bandai made a prototype portable Super Famicom. http://assembler.roarvgm.com/MIA_games_and_systems/MIA_Superfamicom/mia_superfamicom.html
I have that issue and I do remember how BDL (Beiderman Design Labs) used to come up with all sorts of cool NES hardware back in the day. BDL even had a working Gameboy-to-NES adapter which let you play your GB games via a special NES adapter cart! Sadly, due to Nintendo's tight control over the games market back then, few if any of these BDL gadgets ever saw light of day. But the Portable NES does indeed sound like it could have been the precursor design for the GameAxe. Never saw a pic, but the descriptions given sound like it.
Don't forget he Game Theory Admiral, a recent attempt. Heh, a "handheld" CRT-based system would be kinda cool. The battery life would be nasty.
SuperGrafx (great name btw, i love that system and Grandzort) glad you know the article. I did not know what BDL meant before your post. I tried searching google, yahoo and altavista again for anything on that company, came up empty handed. I would have liked to have been able to compare the the supposed Nintendo Express to the GameAxe and other portable NES devices....
I do remember the pic of it clearly, aslo I think it was mentioned in Nintendo power as well as EGM, and I could have sworn it was made by Camerica, the same article had a rumor about a NES CD Rom drive. A few years ago I sold all my EGMs (I had issues 1-100, and it really stinks becasue I didn't get too much for them) but there's a used game store that has tons of back issues around here so I'm going to go hunt for this pic.
Nintendo Express You won't find anything on the Nintendo Express because it was an April Fool's joke...
Camerica was never officially licensed by Nintendo so there is no way you saw anything in Nintendo Power made by them.
Yeah, not in Nintendo power, probably in EGM. Still looking for the issue with the pic in it, the store has like seven stacks of old mags three feet high. It might take a while. The CD rom drive was supposed to be something you plugged into any portable CD player, anybody remember reading about this? And I'll bet my soul there was a pic of some kind of handheld; it was white, with a squarish screen and a NES controller buit in, also a controller hookup on the bottom. Is this the april fools joke, or was this thing real?
