Akai MPC-1000 drum machine drops a beat, plays Pong
By Darren Murph | December 28, 2006
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming, Portable Audio
Cram any sort of retro game onto a machine clearly not designed to play it and you’ll probably color us impressed, and just as the off the wall Doom installations, MIDI hacks, and Wolfenstein ports have gone down, Japan’s own JJ has struck a cord with vintage folk everywhere with his latest tweak. Reportedly, the hacker / entertainer re-wrote the actual operating system for a $999 Akai MPC-1000 drum machine, added a few features from the more expensive MPC-2500, and got the MIDI all setup precisely like he wanted — all to play a little musical Pong. Aside from the snazzy custom loading screen, the game itself looks to work fairly well, and also triggers samples of your choice to loop in the background while gaming. The good news is that the Pong upgrade will only set you back $30, but the bad news is that would require you to actually already own the Akai machine, and just in case your wallet can’t handle anymore abuse whatsoever after this past Monday, just click on through for a (gratis) YouTube demonstration.
[Via Joystiq]
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