Help me find the perfect Christmas present....

[tblake05]

For my little niece and nephew.

their mom, my sister, is into vintage gaming. The games we used to play growing up. I gave her a firstick preloaded with some old roms a while back and her kids loved it.

so now I was thinking about getting them each their own hand held console as the game boy form factor. Just like my sister and I opened on Christmas in the early 90’s.

hopeing someone has some experience with something that will play 8-bit and maybe 16-bit games and be easy to load roms onto, decent quality, and a fairly good backlit lcd screen. Am I asking too much of 2021 technology as compared to 1996

any suggestions?

thanks!

~Tim

 

[tblake05]

Bueller?

 

[daver2]

Does this fit the bill? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNrpVhP8fDc.

Dave

 

[Hak Foo]

I enjoyed getting an Odroid-Go Super for this sort of thing. The fun part is it's sold as a knocked-down kit so you can probably build it yourself (if you don't break up the analog stick connector trying to open it and wreck the mainboard doing so). The specs are fairly ambitious, and you can get canned "emulator in a box" Linux images for it. You can literally load it by turning on the wi-fi and SFTPing in!

It will emulate up to the PS1 pretty well.

[Edit] I think the one that's sold as a kit is the Odroid-Go *Advance*. The Super was the replacement that was announced like a week after I got my Advance. It adds a second analog stick, a bigger screen, and subtracts Wi-Fi. It only comes assembled to my knowledge.