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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

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

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I bought that EXACT model, red and everything, in December. I was just as impressed (and unimpressed) as you were. DigDug and Joust are enough for me. I have spent $20 in quarters on just those two games on single nights back in the 80's.

I was watching patiently just for the tear down 😂

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!

Hacking that into a TV would make a great video, man! Thanks for sharing this with us.

I bought one of these in 2019 when you showed one before. Still works well and battery holds its charge for ages!

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.