China's New FAKE GameBoys!

The latest offerings from aliexpress are in. What do you think? 3 Different price points for 3 different audiences. Which one would you go for?

BUY THIS INSTEAD!

(The prices mentioned in the video are from Ali so are cheaper than the links above)

#TheRetroFuture #GameBoy #Retro

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[kajraske]

Elliott going feral over the Powkiddy build quality when he thought it was £14 was delightful.

[scribeofsolace]

Does anyone remember when Tweeterman would do these kinds of videos on here many moons ago? DAMN....anyway...awesome video dude! Game Station here I come :p

[WoodlandChill]

50 pounds is not a whole day of work for most people, to be frank three billion people in the world live on less than $2 USD per day.

[TechWithBruno]

All the Ali links from the description are dead / 404 error btw!

[osgeld]

I would go for the second one as a gift for my kid ... I have most of that stuff loaded on my vita anyway

[trevorrandom]

Great review I'm gonna get the one for £14 more reviews please 👍

Fyi the links don't work...

[mostlyghostey]

I purchased and tried out the mid tier console and I’m loving it! It seems to run pretty well and for the amount of games you get it’s well worth the price. It also plays Super Famicon games you just need to take the micro SD out and add your own roms! It doesn’t load some of the roms of course (I’m assuming because of the super FX chip) but I have gotten super Metroid and earthbound to run on it. The listing Elliot has linked no longer works but you can still find this available on AliExpress if you do a bit of searching. They even had stateside package tracking for me and it came fairly quickly for it being sent from china. I’d definitely recommend it! (It does have issue saving sometimes but if you’re always saving to a brand new save state it works fine. You just need to go in on a laptop on occasion and clear out your previous states since it doesn’t seem to save over them itself very well. )

[Handles_suck_ass]

I can’t believe you’re holding that 35 pound game boy with ease

[SkellaBella]

“If you love your kid SLIGHTLY more, but this one instead” lmao ouch

[xdragoonzero]

The second one might have the 50-in-1 thing to hide the fact that it ships with the ROMs pre-installed.

[joemck]

That £14 one surprised me. That's some really good GBA emulation. Only real differences I saw in Mario Kart compared to the real thing were the _slightly_ off aspect ratio, and that the screen is significantly better than on an AGS-101. Most notably the background stays crystal clear instead of smearing into a motion-blurred mess when you turn quickly. Some colors looked washed out compared to what I'm used to, but backlit Nintendo LCDs before the 3DS oversaturate colors. I did have one gripe though: The little buttons below the D-pad are start and reset. What are you supposed to do for games that use the select button? Besides, putting reset that close to start is bad design -- I know I would accidentally reset it all the time, either accidentally when trying to pause in a hurry with start, or by muscle memory when I want to push select. Reset should really be up next to mode or down below the screen like a 3DS home button.
I do think I see some screen tearing, but not nearly as bad as on the more expensive Powkiddy one.
Also, I'm curious what's in the "retro" folder.

BTW you should really drift in Mario Kart. It makes going around tight corners without slowing down or hitting walls much easier once you get the hang of it.

[Drayton]

That second game boy for 14 lb is an incredible buy for that amount of money that is awesome

[speedwaynutt]

It's nice to see Elliot back on the main Channel.

[ajdoyle]

You need a long term review on stuff like this because if it breaks after three weeks, it doesn't matter how cheap it was, you still just threw money down the drain. Especially when really good budget handhelds like anbernic can be had for 60 euros

[Sno_mando]

I ordered the mid-grade one for my daughter, she’s still young so I don’t trust her with my modded gameboys haha. $12.55 with free shipping isn’t bad

[ZonicMirage]

Very impressed with the purple clone. Especially with whatever they used for the Mega Drive emulator.

[bruwin]

For the price of the most expensive one, you can find a used DS Lite and get an R4 card and have a perfect GBA player with a good screen. The middle one is definitely more bang for your buck. And the cheap one is just a nice little toy to keep around in a travel bag or something. Play it when you get bored, if it gets stolen, who cares? And with the size it's actually perfect for introducing a little kid to video games. They'll be able to hold it easier, and again, so cheap who cares if they break it?

[jdmmat]

I think instead of the last one, the better option for £50 would be a PSP. You can load a custom firmware and have all these emulators, and it plays PS1 games anyway.

[disuko]

aaaand the aliexpress links are dead lmao

[gangsterfish]

the links to buy them are 404 error, that's a shame i wanted the £14 one