Back in the early 1990s, a portable Nintendo Entertainment System would have been in an instant blockbuster, and that’s why BDL’s ‘The Express’ existed in prototype form. Paul Biederman helped BDL eliminate unnecessary circuitry and scaled the system down onto a board that measures only three inches by five inches, complete with a built-in screen.
Unlike the standard NES console, The Express had a special stereo simulator built-in, which was accessible through standard headphones that plug into the unit. It transmitted parallel sound into a special stereo chip, much the same way that other controllers at the time did, making gameplay on the portable system quite impressive.
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The portable Nintendo, formally called The Express, delivers solid gaming on the go using your existing library of NES-compatible cartridges. In the version we tested, joypad ports were built into the surface of hte unit, although a different model, with the pad built-in, was also working,” according to a 1990 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly.
