Probably! According to Wikipedia you get 3-5 hours off of 6 AA batteries. Not sure how that changes with the TV tuner but battery life wasn’t great.
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ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 6 months agoWould this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The antenna doesn’t need power to receive the signal, unless it’s boosted, but something tells me that’s not the case here.
What might consume more power would be any kind of decoding that’s going on.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And a carry pouch
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Absolutely! (Same as playing a regular game on a Game Gear.)
I had both an AC adapter and a 12VDC car adapter for mine. Without those (considering the sorry state of rechargeables back then), the cost of batteries would’ve made actually using the damn thing untenable.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 6 months ago
Look, I tried, and failed, to come up with a joke involving bonking something on the head, but they all got too wordy.
That thing was heavy as hell, especially with all those batteries.