When you’re paying $92.45 for a video game in a fancy collectors’ package, your expectations probably run pretty high. It’s a stupid amount to pay for a non-essential item, but…
Bootleg Gaming : The Secrets of the Family Pocket Retro Handheld
When you break the $20 barrier or bootleg handheld consoles, you have two specific expectations : real games, and lots of them. The Family Pocket, aka FC 3000, aka Empire…
Bootleg Gaming : The M3 Game Box & The Szdiier Windboy
It’s hard to break the under-$20 barrier when it comes to finding a miniature game console that doesn’t suck, and the more you play and collect, the more the sameness…
Bootleg Gaming : The K5 500-in-1 Retro Portable
The quest for garbage gaming continues, but it’s mostly just more of the same in an even funkier package. From the seedier depths of eBay and AliExpress comes the K5…
TV Games Plug & Play Showcase : Marvel Madness
Were you to ask someone completely unfamiliar with pop culture which member of the animal kingdom had inspired the most expansive and successful superhero franchise of all time, they probably…
TV Games Plug & Play Showcase : DC Comics Diasasters
Video games based on DC Comics are almost always terrible. Most Jakks’ Plug & Play games don’t really change the landscape, but one moves the needle.
TV Games Plug & Play Showcase : Star Weirds
Behold the the Plug ‘n’ Play : small consoles, usually completely contained with in a single controller, which included four or five simple games. Pop in some batteries, plug it into the A/V ports in your TV, and you’re set.
Bootleg Gaming : Datafrog Mini Retro 89-in-1
Part of an endless quest for self-imposed miseries to distract from the even-more-crushing miseries of real life is my constant pursuit of terrible little retro video game systems, because there’s…
Bootleg Gaming : The Unreliable PXP3
There are many versions of the PXP3… and this one totally sucks.
