This looks fake, but it isn't. I found it on a recording of the 1999 "June Bugs" marathon. It's what happens when someone invests a lot of money into "disrup...
I can play games like Space War, Shooting Attack, and MUCH MORE? And on a garbage tiny single-color LCD screen too? Here’s the funniest part: you may be wondering why the screen has to flip down, and yet the d-pad and action button are on the outsides—the middle of the device is taken up by a CALCULATOR, a full calculator with its own little LCD display (and power button/battery, WHY), and this is listed as a major feature. They couldn’t include the calculator as one of the 200+ games, where you could just navigate to buttons with the d-pad, making the device significantly smaller (the GBC has a calculator as a bonus in Mission: Impossible that works exactly like this), they think this will be so important that it must have prime real estate.
Ofc it’s a budget device like those plastic pieces of garbage you can get off AliExpress with 50,000 retro roms loaded in as if 49,980 aren’t completely awful, or those Lexibook emulators that somehow managed to get Disney princess licensing, and those are fine if you just need something to entertain a kid or play while you wait for your flight. It would be unfair to compare this to better portable consoles like the Game Gear, or the GBA which came out 3 years later, but they do even worse: they drop a SNES cartridge in the garbage and act like a giant device being able to store about five bytes of memory qualifies as some new patented technology and that this replaces the SNES and Genesis. It would be like a dropshipper throwing a Nintendo Switch in the trash and then holding out a crappy plastic mess that has framerate issues emulating NES games.
I can play games like Space War, Shooting Attack, and MUCH MORE? And on a garbage tiny single-color LCD screen too? Here’s the funniest part: you may be wondering why the screen has to flip down, and yet the d-pad and action button are on the outsides—the middle of the device is taken up by a CALCULATOR, a full calculator with its own little LCD display (and power button/battery, WHY), and this is listed as a major feature. They couldn’t include the calculator as one of the 200+ games, where you could just navigate to buttons with the d-pad, making the device significantly smaller (the GBC has a calculator as a bonus in Mission: Impossible that works exactly like this), they think this will be so important that it must have prime real estate.
Ofc it’s a budget device like those plastic pieces of garbage you can get off AliExpress with 50,000 retro roms loaded in as if 49,980 aren’t completely awful, or those Lexibook emulators that somehow managed to get Disney princess licensing, and those are fine if you just need something to entertain a kid or play while you wait for your flight. It would be unfair to compare this to better portable consoles like the Game Gear, or the GBA which came out 3 years later, but they do even worse: they drop a SNES cartridge in the garbage and act like a giant device being able to store about five bytes of memory qualifies as some new patented technology and that this replaces the SNES and Genesis. It would be like a dropshipper throwing a Nintendo Switch in the trash and then holding out a crappy plastic mess that has framerate issues emulating NES games.
Well, the Play date only comes with 44 dates, shitty monochrome LCD, and costs 199$ today. And people love it.
It looks cool imma buy it