It plays Sega Megadrive, NES, SNES and Gameboy games, has a wimpy camera, and can do the tunes. Chinagrabber’s Game-800 even reads plain text files out loud, perfect for those upset by Amazon’s kill-switched Kindle 2.
You bring your own games to the machine via SD card (“You can freely expand your library of emulated games by downloading new ones,” the sellers naughtily declare) and there’s a TV-out function, too. The display is 320×240, perfect for the old raster stuff from the 1980s. It’s offered in a bunch of virulent colors.
The only downer would be those controls–I can’t imagine beating any high scores with ‘em, even if it is just $70!
Product Page [China Grabber via technabob and Nexus 404]
Update: Here’s what you want, Rob:
Doug Aamoth says it can play “NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy Advance, Neo-Geo, and certain Capcom arcade systems”, plus it’s just under a hundred bucks shipped. (Which actually seems a bit spendy and the 340 x 240 pixel screen is probably junk, but at least it has a proper D-pad.)
That’s brilliant. Though “China Grabber” does not sound like a place I want to send my credit card details.
It does sound like a serial rapist’s media nickname, doesn’t it?
Cool – I didn’t know we were up to MP5′s by now. Are they those lossy/lossless combined video/audio files?
NM – it seems that MP5′s have been around for a while now http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/brilliant-marketing/mp5-digital-player-did-we-miss-something-298805.php
Personally I’d rather go for a GP2X Wiz:
http://www.gp2xwiz.co.kr/FrontStore/iStartPage.phtml
I have one of the older GP2X models and it consistently puts other handhelds to shame for sheer functionality and overall entertainment value.
I am so absolutely interested in these little GameBoy Micro-looking ROM players.
Anybody have the Chinavision one? Looks not so solid.
I’m very very intrigued by the GP2X one, but the website is entirely Korean. Is there an ENglish page for it? I can’t seem to find it.
I live in Tokyo. Any chance you guys think I can find one of these in Akihabara?
So… the 320×240 screen on a device that costs $70 is “perfect” yet the 320×240 screen on a device that costs $17 more is “probably junk”?
They have the same screen, a D-Pad is definitely worth $17 to me.
I like that GP2X Wiz.
I recently started playing some older stuff on my Dell Mini 9 now that I have an SNES-esque USB controller. (ebay)
If only my i910 Omnia did multi-touch!
Then I could just do this stuff on my phone and not have to carry a specific device for it.
I’ll keep an eye on all the players mentioned here.
Great stuff.
anyone ever bought anything from chinagrabber? they have some intriguing products but they may well be photoshopped poundstore crap for all i know
The thing that turns me off of the GP2X is that instead of buttons on the right side it looks like it has another + D-pad. Not real sure about that, and I’m not too sure about what they could have been thinking to design it that way.
that second Item is a white, thick PSP.
Look at the dimensions, REDSHIRT. It’s 5 inches by a little over 2 inches. How big is the PSP?
Oh I gave in and ordered the Chinavision one (the white one).
Hundred bucks, why the hell not?
Looking forward to your review!
#12: I am also looking forward for your review. What I want to know is if this thing has a built-in battery or if it uses standard-cells.
The GP2X can be purchased at thinkgeek.com