This Portable Console Has Over 350 Built-In Games So You'll Never Be Bored Again

I would need a full list if games to be interested,

Comes fully loaded with 99.9% random unknown crap titles

Would prefer some switch VC instead 😬

The finish on the buttons looks terrible. Like it's made from wood and painted by a 3 year old.

But I feel like they milked the 8 bit era enough already. A few years ago I still got nostalgic feelings when playing those, but when you see it every other day, it does nothing anymore. Just old games.

Is this someones elementary school project? Looks like one step up from a macaroni necklace....

Nintendo already then made the best games, so any retro device without their titles seems pointless to me.

@Rika_Yoshitake Was just about to say the same thing. The quality of the finish looks very poor.

looks like the buttons have been painted by a 5 year old

This is a 35 bucks device. You surely cannot except a Nintendo/Sony quality. If the games are really 350 licenced I may give this a try.

Great price though!

Good price.

I used to have those 100+ games GBA cartridges. Gameboy's rom is so small, even 100 of them use only a few megabytes.

>300+ games
>$35

Anyone wanna bet that the emulation quality isn't that good?

NOAC here, look up a master list of all the Famicom and NES released titles from both that have no language barrier (not one word) then you'll likely know what the licensed game list vs the usually horrible filler for the rest.

It's retrobit, may just be better off poking a stick into a pile of poo for entertainment.

So, if that devices Legally Licensed, what kind of games inside ?
NES ? SNES ? GBC ? GBA ?

Not interested.

After having a blast with the Super RetroCade my wife got me for Christmas, I will definitely be keeping an eye on this.

I find Gameboy games a bit primative now, unless they're a bit more invovled like Link's Awakening or Pokemon. Anything else is pretty much cloned or available on mobile phones.

I can see the appeal, but for me, nah.

I saw this at Walmart amd passed because I thought they would be unlicenced games... I wonder what's even on this thing?

I think it is very likely we are looking at a mockup.

$35 seems like an unbelievably great price though. Mega Man and Mac and Joe are terrific games, so I can overlook 10 Yard Fight. Wonder what the full list looks like.

Lemme guess, this contains stolen non-commercially licensed emulation code too? lol

@arrmixer While we are listing things unrelated to the article, I would prefer a billion dollars instead of this Retrobit portable and Switch VC titles. ;P

@Janus1986 I'm hoping there's a way to add more titles from one's "ROM backups."

Love this little gadget. I'll look into it. Maybe get it and then when I'm over it, I will give it to my Nephew.

So many Game Boy clones as of late:

BittBoy

RetroMini

GameShell

Kengfeng GB Boy Colour

Revo K101

Kengfeng GB Boy Colour Light

Retro-Bit Super Retro Boy

Hyperkin Ultra Game Boy

Hyperkin Smart Boy

Hyperkin SupaBoy

Hyperkin SupaBoy S

Woodi GBA

Woodi GBA Micro

Retro-Bit RetroDuo Portable

350 fully licensed retro games with a $35 price tag (plus full colour LCD screen and 7-10 hours play with it's built-in rechargeable battery). Let's see how that compares to what Nintendo offers with its nigh-on-inevitable Game Boy Mini. . . .

The way this is marketed reminds me of the Atari 2600 playbook from the late 80s. The 2600 was old and crappy by then compared to the NES, so they went with the real low price pull and tons of cheap games as the big pull:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAadfsJrmM

@DannyMac
My apologies. what I meant was I’d rather have my retro games in one machine rather than carrying two. I’ll be more specific next time. 🙂

I actually think this sounds pretty good and that’s a very cheap price tag too ! Wonder if this will make it to the uk ? Those other consoles were US only I think

i'll wait.

still worth picking up as things like this tend to turn into collectors items later down the line

The placement of a and b kills it for me.

I like the little mega man face on the blue one

@The_Pixel_King @Rika_Yoshitake you do realize that's a photo of a prototype right?

I still have the My Arcade Data East Pixel Player I bought last year. Only 8 of the 308 games are Data East games, the rest are homebrew.

So does Nintendo earn on this one?

Its all in the game list... Id love one with actual good games. It showed mega Man 3 so that's a good start

I'm always confused as to how legal these things are so I tend not to bother with them.

What games?
How good is the emulation?

@FragRed

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Don't forget titles you've never heard of, that are the same exact games already on there, 3-4 times.

@Rika_Yoshitake

I must have really missed out then, because I don't recall building bootleg handhelds in kindergarten.

@Davidiam007 I do now! 😂

After hearing about how bad the RetroBit Generations microconsole is with its poor emulation and blatant shovelware shoved in, I have no desire to buy this. Given how good the NES and SNES Classics are, they have no excuse being so bad.

If it was all original NES games, I would go for it. That's impulse buy pricing, so build quality wouldn't bother me so much. If it's got weird homebrews though, I won't bother.

Based on the screenshot, it looks like they're using an emulator from one of the Chinese models (although that could be a mock up). Some of them have tons of real games, but always a few hacks and "originals." (And they're all terrible, but as far as I know these Chinese bootlegs and their related carts are only way to play any variant of Xiangqi on NES/Famicom hardware, albeit a simplified version).

I've got a few meticulously curated front ends for decades of ROM collection. So...no thanks. I'll continue to wait for Virtual Console. This offers me nothing that my phone plus SNES30 8BitDo controller don't already. I'd honestly rather they charge more but polish the build quality. If it's going to be this cheap, then it's just a bargain bin emu machine. In an age where emulation availability is not a rarity.

Slightly off topic but...

Is it a gameboy micro on new Taylor Swift video "End Game"? She's playing some custom version of snake on it! It was the best part of the video

YARD FIGHT sounds like a good game.

Lemme guess, 50 good games, 300 filler games and/or bootleg games that suck arse?

@FragRed The truth, although this one might be a little better seeing as they already hold licence for a good number of games.

Why must they alkways insist on doing them in such dreadful colour schemes.

That looks like this item on amazon with a slightly tweaked game list: https://www.amazon.com/Anbernic-Handheld-Birthday-Presents-Children/dp/B079KC8Y4Z/ref=pd_ybh_a_50?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=13YF5XAZ5Z6MPGSFYJ81 Why wait and pay $10 less.