/vr/ - Retro Games

This thing, a console you hold in your hands that plugs into the TV, I remember from the mid-late 90s. It plays Atari 2600 games.

This company which distributed the console in the UK, Systema, which I gather is a British one, also sold handheld LCD games. Some of these were branded with things like Doctor Who and the Daleks, Lemmings, WCW, and given they distributed the TV Boy I'm not sure they had agreement to do this.

I remember the TV Boy from the Argos catalogue- it was sold at a major high-street retailer. Another pirate console that got sold in chain stores, and also got TV exposure was the Scorpion, a Mega Drive hardware clone (possibly manufactured in the UK?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_0g8zHhzd8

You can play games from all regions and switch between PAL/NTSC, but games play at different speeds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz3yzcYPfo