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Re:The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-d... by ChrisClark on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:20AM (#19819186)
I had a small LCD color one and we plugged the NES into it and played it on the tiny screen. While still sitting in front of our nice 20 inch TV.

It was an even lower resolution than Super Mario Bros 3 as you could tell it couldn't show every pixel, so it was probably something like 120p. It seemed like half the resolution of SMB3 which is 256x224.

But it felt like the future. :)

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Re:The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-d... by ytjohn on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:26PM (#19822439)
It is the future. Us old-timers (you know, in our late 30s/early 40s) keep thinking that a big screen tv is great, while the cool young kids each just want their own small screen. Most are happy with a 4-5" screen, others like a 7" - 10" screen, and the rich kids have the 12.9" ipad pro, though even that is "a bit too big".
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