College student painstakingly built a Nintendo Switch clone that plays thousands of classic games

Beating Nintendo to the punch, Tim Lindquist built a Nintendo Switch clone that plays thousands of classic games. The video above shows a timelapsed version of the process and it looks sick.

The Nintimdo RP, as Tim calls it, has a Broadcom BCM287 processor running Linux, a 7-inch touch screen, equipped with emulators that contain a massive catalogue of games.

"This project was to create a portable gaming system that could also double as a portable computer," said Lindquist. "The goal was to create a console that was functional as well as aesthetically pleasing." It's an impressive piece of hardware and the video shows what the future of playing retro games on the Switch might look like, should Nintendo ever be interested in doing that. Read more...