I thought this $4 8-bit game console was going to be total junk

"Recommended Age: 6-12y, 14+y" Poor 13 year-olds missing out on the fun.

Raid on Bungeling Bay is interesting because while developing the game maps, Will Wright realized he enjoyed making maps more than the game itself. Thus, he created Sim City.

I can't believe you don't remember when Chip N Dale got guns and hand grenades

This device is no joke. I bought it for my 4-year-old daughter last Christmas thinking it wouldn't last long in our house and boy was I wrong. One year later it's been smashed, dropped, even dunked in water and yet it still works like a charm. Not to mention It plays all of those NES games I grew up with for only, you said it, $4!

BL-5C is a very good battery form factor. I wish there were standalone battery holders for it, so it could be easily incorporated into custom projects.

You mean I am not the only one who buys junk I just can't pass up while ordering chips from AliExpress?

Just checked. UK price is £0.40 plus £1.60 shipping. What?! Less than $4! Same price for an identical looking model with the second controller, too...

Ah yes, the classics, who could forget Mario 14 or Contra 7.

Old clone NES CPUs had notoriously screwy audio, usually swapped pulse channel duty cycles. That naturally persisted to the system-on-a-chip designs like this.

The screen tearing is actually because the scaling is "nearest neighbor" and the LCD isn't an exact multiple of the native NES resolution. I have the same issues on the GameGear replacement screen. You need a screen with exactly 1x or 2x the pixels of the NES to not get this effect, or leave black bars around the screen edges.

So I'm sure you found out when doing some research but Mario 14 is a romhack of a game called Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3, a Japan only sequel to Kid Niki Radical Ninja. The Qbake game is a game called Obake no Q-Tarou Wan Wan Panic, which was released in the US as Chubby Cherub. Kage was Shadow of the Ninja, and the first Tetris bootleg you ran was actually the Tengen version of Tetris. I saw Kage Legend in the list too, which is The Legend of Kage, a Taito arcade game port.

15:12 yep, germany, Game is called "Probotector" here and all Humans are Robots. Games where you have to shoot at people are only allowed to a limited extent and are forbidden for children, especially in the 80s. So we swap the meaning and and sprites, made up some sci fi robot laser stuff, artificial life is not that sacred :D

I never seen someone trying to change the roms of this things. Could be a cool project.

If Adrian did an authentic AliExpress review it would be something like: "Received in 10 days. Missing cables. Did not test.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐" ... followed by a single picture of the thing in it's grey courier packaging 😂

I have at least 10 of those, some in the walking bag, some in gaming room, some in work, some in the toilet....and so in love with them (despite having much more advanced handhelds). It's fantastic emulation, lightweight, long battery life, ability to connect second USB gamepad to play 2-player, ability to connect to TV et. You can play 2 player on TV, this is fantastic. Have 400 in 1, 500 in 1, 800 in 1.... You bought not the best model those, can link you to the best one (I tried them all). Other model has better dpad and buttons (due to how pcb and body is built).

Bungeling Bay is a pretty significant game. Max Wright's first game, and it was the inspiration for SimCity, after he found the animations for the cities in Bungeling Bay to be so intriguing.

raid on bungling bay was one of my favorite C64 games when I was a kid.

Raid on Bungeling Bay was Will Wright's first game, the original version is on the Commodore 64. It actually has some neat mechanics in that the enemy city has factories which work towards building an enemy battleship to take out your aircraft carrier. The city aspect of the game became the inspiration for SimCity and you tell the similarity with the tile graphics used in the C64 version of SimCity.

The power and scale of China’s vertical integration machinery is pretty insane. The fact that we get stuff like this for like $4 is crazy! Even considering the lack lustre quality which honestly for the cost is still impressive!

Raid on Bungeling Bay was one of my fave early C64 games, and trivia the engine was used to make the first incarnation of Sim City!