Well, I unscrewed the thing, pulled it apart, and looked inside. A circuit board, with 4 switches mounted on top, a cartridge hole, a big capacitor, and the rest was covered with metal armor plating. All in all, the circuit board was about 10 inches wide by 6 inches tall. Small, yes, but too big for a portable unit.

I used my manly Herculean force to rip the metal shielding off the circuit board. Underneath, I found the 3 Sacred Chips, and a whole mess of resistors and capacitors.

"Crap!" I thought, "This is way to complex to re-design a circuit board for!"

Ok, sure, it could be done. But, I'm not really a circuit board making expert.

So, I went to sleep that night in despair. The circuit board sat there, mocking me.

"Ha ha, Ben! You can't figure me out! I'm too big! Too big! Why, look! Look at all this wasted space on me! Put there only to frustrate you!"

And then it hit me. Wasted space! I grabbed the board.

"Hey! Let me go, you fiend!" it cried from the depths of its silicon soul.

"Hush, you!" I rasped at it "I have hit upon an idea that's rather clever!"

And I looked over the board. Sure enough, entire sections of it seemed rather 
USELESS! I traced the circuit-lines... hm, some could be by-passed. If they can do it 
on hearts, they can do it on Ataris!

I decided it was time to visit the band-saw...