Nanoraptor: The NeXTlevel was NeXT Software's first handheld device, eagerly awaited but canned just two weeks from release when Apple purchased NeXT and chose not to pursue gaming. All 250,000 release devices were pulled from channels and unceremoniously rolled into landfill out northwest of Dubbo.

The NeXTlevel was NeXT Software's first handheld device, eagerly awaited but canned just two weeks from release when Apple purchased NeXT and chose not to pursue gaming. All 250,000 release devices were pulled from channels and unceremoniously rolled into landfill out northwest of Dubbo.

I believe that's the 1992 10th anniversary edition, with a proper color screen, the 1982 version compensated it's black and white LCD screen by using garish colors on the frame.

Wasn’t NeXT a successor to BeOS? If I’m remembering that correctly, then that color makes perfect sense! I guess it also explains why I like the appearance of my PlayDate so much…

Oh I’m dumb and missed the joke (or just really wanted to believe?). That’s a Game & Watch on the bottom, isn’t it?

Yes, that's the 1982 Donkey Kong dual screen Game & Watch :)

But that's just a Nintendo DS Lite.

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lol I came into this thread specifically to see if someone had tagged you yet

This is amazing because I've often wondered about the alternate universe where the Nintendo DS hit the market with cellular 3 years before the iPhone. And here Apple dumped gaming 7 years before that! www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/01...

The Nintendo Phone Almost Happened A Decade Agowww.nintendolife.com Ex-Danger employee reveals how Game Boy games nearly came to mobile - Everyone seems to be telling Nintendo to get its games on mobile phones these days, and...

hey wait just a god damn second

The 56001 DSP was the entire left side of the device, and needed 4 AA batteries all by itself. But you can't fight tradition.

You gotta love Google's summary result accuracy. Nothing but facts.

It's killing me that I can't figure out if this is real or not

I really want it to be real, but NeXT never made a handheld.

If twilight zone gets rebooted again, there's going to be an episode where shitposts appear in encyclopedias in real time.

Omg the speakers

I actually have one of these from when my uncle worked at NeXT

at first I chuckled, then I noticed the speakers, and the d-pad, and the bezels, and now I'm wondering if there's anything here you *didn't* tweak from the original DSL

fucked up that they didnt even give you all the vowels to spell with, just A and sometimes Y

Never heard of this. I bet it would have been a hit under the right circumstances. Oh well, I guess Apple made out all right.

Yep, new to me

i say the right hand button labels should read N e X T

I did do that as a layer and it looked awesome funny but did not quite work. But I will post it tomorrow!

North East Xouth wesT

...damn it i just picked up a DS Lite now i have to make this real :(

Is this going to be the NeXT landfill run like all those copies of ET?

you sure that’s not just a rebadged DS lite?

The buttons should have been N e X T instead of A B X Y

I had a Nintendo DS; I LOVE THIS!

Wasn't it NeXT who bought Apple for minus 400 million dollars?

"can I copy your homework" "Yeah just change it a little so we can't legally sue you"

replacing the top screen is such a pain, since it's so easy to pinch/crimp the hinge wiring, but worth it to keep it running!

utterly gorgeous work on this one

Dang it! Now I’ve NeXT on the Newton stuck in my head.

Dubbo Step

I feel like nextstep is the only thing a modern mobile device still couldn't run all the way

What Queen’s Gambit ass game is this thing playing

If I had to guess probably one of those weird artsy indie horror games

Those little horses are terrifying

I mean it hasn't even gotten to the part where the screen goes black before revealing the bleeding hollow eyes of the entity "haunting" the games meta narrative who refers to you solely by the name of the user profile on your actual console But I don't rly like the horses either they got bad vibes

Dubbo, NSW?

Thanks for this bit of history I never heard before :)

That is absolutely beautiful, and something that would be disturbingly possible to recreate now. So tempting.

i can’t tell if this looks more like a next laptop or a thinkpad

Why do you love torturing us with what could have been?

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