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Daniel d’Entremont has done something faintly ridiculous. He’s taken a small, working fridge, cut a hole for a screen and some more holes for buttons and turned it into a Game Boy-lookalike console. He admits that it’s all a bit unwieldy for actual gameplay, but who cares when it looks this cool! Read more here<\/a>\u00a0and see a work log here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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