I designed a game console that is already obsolete. 

you know what would be cool? doing something like this for a fantasy console like Pico-8

now make a cartridge for super auto pets for the gameboy

Abe: How many stock footage should i use for the video? Abe: Yes!

It's like a glorious cross between a PC Engine and an Amstrad GX.

To give you some product designer insight to make it feel more like a retail item, think about the end user and marketing. Little things like the sticker on the game should be flipped so it’s properly viewed when inserted. This would have been something that would have been done so product photos showed off a game as well.

For the Plastic for the Console and Cartridges I recommend Resin Casting. It will give you a plastic feel closer to what you want. Robert Tolone, Brick in the Yard, and Crafsman Steady Craftin for tutorials. Also Plastic Geek is great person to ask for advice.

Man I’m just so impressed by the production quality and generally content, that’s crazy for such a recent channel. Keep going this is really top quality content ❤️

What if, you added something like the gamecube did, modular devices for what you wish to do at that current time, say want to watch a movie? You just insert the IR module Play normal games? module for keyboard and mouse Play retro? Make a module! It seems like itll work

I like how you brought back the TurboGrfx / PCEngine design vibe, I had one of those and it was amazing.

lovely project! i really like how cute the cartridges look and how they autorun when inserted, makes it really polished

At first, I thought this video was pure clickbait, but you using Framework Laptop 13 parts reminded me: I had dreamt of making something similar, but rather than make a late '80s console, I wanted to make a mid '90s laptop.

I got this video recommended, and I was not expecting it to be as high quality as it was. Can't wait to see what else you cook up! And keep up the good work 👊

Amazing build! Can’t wait to try it. I reckon the two ports on the front could be great for peripherals - a VCR style player for movies, a slide projector for photos etc. Looking forward to seeing what you do next!

Man this editing is amazing

00:10 They were simple and comfortable to the touch. Today, everything is so complicated and out of touch with what we need... What we truly want.

I designed my own game console also. Tha was a 2 yr long journey and i loved doing it. Spent a lot but learned and enjoyed a LOT. So cool to see someone else doing the same. Mine was a portable 3D printed arcade, but i am in love with your console. Congrats for the results and thanks for sharing this video !

I like this editing not all the stock videos but some of them parts your videos and the little design plans

This was art

very cool project, tho i must admit that the framework board used is massively overkill and would hardly be seen as "obsolete hardware"

The LED ground control was amazing.

Thank you so much! The cart design is exactly what I've been wanting to design for the longest time. You nailed it!

Subscribed for the electronics. Stayed for the editing.

The case design looks very inspired by the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16, maybe with a bit of a Sega Mark III in the mix.

Turbografx Vibes

Glad I found you, you’ve inspired me to do more projects!

It reminds me of the PC Engine Console

I couldn’t ignore the video on my home feed, doing a triple take, and I’m glad I watched. I definitely wasn’t expecting this to be the third video posted

please let this banger of a video go viral so the sexy sexy Abe can do this shit full-time and just bless us with these awesome videos!

Wow! Just found this channel, this was Amazing! ❤

this video and the build are exquisite

it's so beautiful! I've looked at this for five hours now.

Instantly Subscribed, I just discovered your channel while browsing videos for the 32blit and Pimoroni Pico System.

This is amazing content, superb work! Can't wait to see your channel continue to grow!

This man is the king of using stock footage in context. It’s great

Looks wicked, and that noise as the cartridge slots in 👌🏼

I like the way this video was made. The goofiness is a plus. You earned a sub

love the channel, cant wait for you to blow up!! Road to 100K!

That looks cool. I went the 3.5" floppy route on one of my consoles but your cartridge idea is so clever.

This reminds me of the old atari consoles, especially the lynx with those unusual cartridges, what a cool idea!

This is great! Love me some cool little hardware projects :)

production quality is crazy good keep it up

Awesome video! This channel has great potential to blow up. Keep up the great work!

this is amazing. you should make the cartridge labels flipped so they are seen the right way up when plugged in

Great content! Well done. Love the design

This is cool and inspiring. I love the way it looks. My one qualm is the exposed pins on the cartridge. I'm making a retro game and would love to make a cartridge for your custom console!

Amazing video! I would love something like this, and I'm amazed by your ability to make stuff happen. Would be incredibly interested in learning to do this type of thing.

Super cool, makes me want to build one!!

this is just the phineas and ferb episode with max motem "were not trying to make you a celebrity were trying to make you a has-been"

USB in the front so it can support any USB controller, or USB-converted controller. Just recently I bought some NES and SNES controllers that work by USB, so my Emulation feeling is all the more authentic.

This is absolutely beautiful, I have had a vision for creating a physical copy of my own fantasy console and this really scratches my itch! Glad to see someone had the same idea. Curious if you will be making some unique controllers to go along with it?

If the frame was reworked a little, the ports on the front could be reworked that lead to a new controller input. USB is cool, but that feeling of weird controller inputs was really mysterious and nostalgic for me. The S-Video input looking ones especially got to me, because it looked so complicated.

This video actually hits home with me in a way not many videos do. When I was a teenager around 2001, a friend and I spent some time to create a game console that used floppy disks as its storage medium. At it's heart of course, it was torn down laptop motherboard trimmed and repurposed into a somewhat generic looking beige chassis and a custom OS written in C and some assembler that allowed for some low level graphics calls and stuff. It was affectionately dubbed the Fdrive. We wanted to make actual cartridges for it but we were definitely butting heads against the limitations of the time as teenagers in a world where parts were not so readily accessible.

What would be cool is if you made a more complex menu interface (similar to the ps3 xmb) with customizable settings and stuff

I love how this turned out! Lots of clever design choices throughout.

I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while. Glad to see someone jumped on it already

Yo this channel is a sleeper, predicting subs to spike up soon, great stuff.

I need more of this!

i think the simplest and most obvious thing to add would be a couple usb ports, which doesnt entirely fit the retro vibe but it does open a lot of possibilities for other controllers, since theres usb adapters and remakes for basically every controller and controller adjacent device you can think of

Fantastic job ! I love this retro console ! 😍😍

This is so stellar. Great job!

Amazing work

This is great keep up the good work 👍

Man it was my first time checking out a video on your channel that I discovered from yt shorts, and although I'm not much into retro consoles built but the production quality and your content was soo awesome to just not appreciate your channel.... Keep up such great vibes and you will be one of the top creators one day

honestly the best part is the cartridge and the mechanisim to read them for ages i wished for an storage like this, i imagine saving my art and projects on a cartridge like this and could put it onto other devices through that cartridge

I can't believe you put Steamworld Heist on your console! It's my favorite game!

The more I see kickass Framework projects, make me think they should make a modular Console.

The production quality is amazing on this video, and the final project is awesome! I can't believe you designed that entire thing with Tinkercad, it really shows that the tool doesn't matter.

You made this look so much easier than I know it was

Dude, this is incredible! I want one like this, but for Steam games. The homemade cartridges are chef's kiss.

thanks random youtube guy, would love to see more creations from you!

Looks so retro! I love it! You should put adapters in the ports

I would love to follow a build or tutorial of this to learn. I absolutely love this.

ive been wanting to dot his for years but never had the money, so seeing something someone else do this is really cool (:

Congrats, you must be very dedicated, seems like a lot of work.

Something that was always fascinating to me were the "data crystals" in Stargate & Stargate Atlantis. Also these scifi crystal interfaces where you put a crystal on a surface and it all lights up around it and turning the crystal controls the interface etc.. That or all the very chonky precision machined expensive looking storage devices of cassette futurism (as opposed to real life cheap plasticy consumer electronics). Where you like plug it in with a complex locking mechanism and many intricate moving parts and a satisfying noise. Like how R2-D2 interfaces with spaceships in the prequels but as a USB stick. Or where you need to grab a handle with your hand and turn it 180° to unlock a giant "data canister". Like something out of a 80s/90s scifi anime.

Great project! The console really needs a shiny logo sticker on it like the C64 rainbow or ZX spectrum

Great job man, I want to do this now

we need more of this content

Very, very cool project.

this has better production and editing than channels with millions of subs keep it going man

Glad this got recced for me! Very interesting build, I feel like it has a lot of potential! Also, definitely would want at least one of the USB ports to have controller support/detection~ I already have old controllers with adapters for my PC in general. I feel like the cartridge needs a lip on the end so it's easier to get it out of the console, also! Not sure if you're still working on this, but I guess I'll go digging to see if you have. Watching development on a lil console seems really intruiging~

This has all the vibes of an SNES dev console

Wonderful project! I'd love to see you make some controller for it similar to the old ones with a full keypad on it!

i love those cartridge designs and how you used a sublimation polaroid printer, i make printed nfts and biught nes/n64 cartridges recentky and wanna make one actually run

Would be dope if you designed your own controller aswell!! And use the ports for it c:

It's criminal that a build this cool isn't more than a ten minute video.

I think using those ports for 8bitdo wireless receivers could be nice. They make wireless versions of classic controllers. Those adapters may also work for their regular top of the line controllers (such as the Pro 2 or Ultimate). Great video.

Can we get a part 2 on this going into more detail? Getting people to watch two videos on one subject is challenging so making part 2 stand-alone might be necessary (if a bit difficult) but I sure would appreciate it

I really love this project. I think making it look like a floppy disc drive and the games going on actual floopy discs

Nintendo's gonna love having you working with them

Really putting "PC" into "PC Engine" here. Nice work!

this is amazing and i always wanted to do something like this for emulation

New Sub! Dryden, Michigan. I want to Make a Small Retro System and Put an old Laptop MoBo in it. But My Favorite system is my OG Atari 7800, I keep wanting to make it look like that. I might attempt to 3D Print the Nolan Bushnell Atari 7800 Signature Edition Case; Looks almost identical, with a few Cosmetic changes. The Homemade Card Carts are AWESOME! Well Done

Pretty cool. I wanna do a project like this as well, except I would have made the case out of wood or molded plastic, and base it off of a PIC Microcontroller.

Its not every day that I witness the beginning of a legendary channel.

Another banger Abe. Could you potentially just keep swapping framework MOBOs every time you get a new one?

for the polishing step of the 3d printed material, you should have tested out an acetone vapor bath to actually melt the plastic and give it a shiny uniform finish, THEN hit it with the sandpaper and textured paints.

That's pretty rad

Love the video!

I love the airplane bit so much