Not sure if they were trying to disrupt the market as much as they were trying to scam boomer parents who didn't know any better and thought their kids would love it. I wonder how many of these they sold.
We had this or something like it. Pretty sure I mostly played the pole position adjacent game. I don't remember name that tune, but can definitely imagine it being terrible
I had a version of this in 2005 or so. 200 games was, of course, quite a stretch.
Imagine a 3 lane avoid the traffic car game (1) and the same thing with a spaceship (2) and also a man running (3).
Or breakout (1) and breakout but the paddle is at the top of the screen (2).
Mine didn't even have the calculator. :(
At least your kid will at least get more utility out of it than a $20-$100 commemorative coin that isn't made by the real mint. (If we're comparing dumb tv stuff). Especially if you can't afford a gameboy, or don't think it's a good use of budget.
This seems more like over-promising shit that is such a pain in the ass and so expensive to return that you don't bother. Which is basically a different version of the sales tactic for mail-in rebates that they hope you don't cash.
Also how long has 19.99 been a stereotypical as-seen-on-tv price, that's gotta be like $40 current day dollars.
Why did I only just realize that as-seen-on-tv was the original drop-shipping. This made every other obsolete just like the slap-chop made you an idiot for still using a knife to chop stuff.
I did some weed, so I hope this explains why there's like 3-4 comments in my comment.
I can play games like Space War, Shooting Attack, and MUCH MORE? And on a garbage tiny single-color LCD screen too? Here's the funniest part: you may be wondering why the screen has to flip down, and yet the d-pad and action button are on the outsides—the middle of the device is taken up by a CALCULATOR, a full calculator with its own little LCD display (and power button/battery, WHY), and this is listed as a major feature. They couldn't include the calculator as one of the 200+ games, where you could just navigate to buttons with the d-pad, making the device significantly smaller (the GBC has a calculator as a bonus in Mission: Impossible that works exactly like this), they think this will be so important that it must have prime real estate.
Ofc it's a budget device like those plastic pieces of garbage you can get off AliExpress with 50,000 retro roms loaded in as if 49,980 aren't completely awful, or those Lexibook emulators that somehow managed to get Disney princess licensing, and those are fine if you just need something to entertain a kid or play while you wait for your flight. It would be unfair to compare this to better portable consoles like the Game Gear, or the GBA which came out 3 years later, but they do even worse: they drop a SNES cartridge in the garbage and act like a giant device being able to store about five bytes of memory qualifies as some new patented technology and that this replaces the SNES and Genesis. It would be like a dropshipper throwing a Nintendo Switch in the trash and then holding out a crappy plastic mess that has framerate issues emulating NES games.
Well, the Play date only comes with 44 dates, shitty monochrome LCD, and costs 199$ today. And people love it.
Throw away your SNES games, kids, they're worthless!
God, someone actually bought that thing.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
