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Tec Toy Puts a Sega Genesis in Your Pocket, Cheer in Your Soul
Posted by Haroon Malik at 10:45 PM on November 18, 2007
The Sega Genesis may well be the greatest gaming platform, ever. Who cares about online gaming, does anything beat a session of Sonic 2? Tec Toy knows the Genesis console rocked, so they are shrinking it and making it kinda pocket sized.
The device, packed with retro gaming orgasmic material, will retail for around $100, but will only be available to those lucky Brazilians. The twenty games that are loaded on will include Alex Kidd, Golden Axe, Ecco and obligatory Sonic titles (among others). It is not all good news though; there is no way to add new titles, $100 is a little steep and you could probably get an emulator to carry out a similar task. What the hell, these novelty devices cannot but help to put a smile on our faces, and a little cheer in our cynical souls. We'll look past the non-rechargeable 3 x AAA batteries included and dream of all the good times, when we were 3"0' tall and battling a blue superhero hedgehog through the Green Metropolis. A blue superhero hedgehog...how high were they? [Retro to Go]
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Neceros
Posted 8:14 AM 18/11/07
I enjoyed Sonic when I was younger as much as the next guy, but $100?
Neceros
AndersonBMX
Posted 10:21 AM 18/11/07
you call us lucky Brazilians?
damn. as i said before, wii here cost around: R$ 2.399,00 Por: R$ 1.799,00 or $ 1200,00 [www.americanas.com.br]
AndersonBMX
Drew
Posted 9:28 AM 18/11/07
I liked it better when it was called the Nomad. And supported all Genesis games. And was made by Sega. And, oh yeah, was released like 12 years ago.
Still neat, I suppose.
Drew
izim1
Posted 9:14 AM 18/11/07
I still have my sega game gear. WITH removeable games, including sonic 2.
izim1
Scuba Steve
Posted 11:10 AM 18/11/07
Get a PSP.. seriously, it's perfect for this sort of thing. And it's got decent games, too.
Scuba Steve
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:33 AM 18/11/07
Hey, they were fighting a fat mustachioed plumber and his dumb brother at the time!
They needed something creative and different...and succeeded.
strider_mt2k
korymatthew
Posted 10:30 AM 18/11/07
3 inches 0 feet tall...hehe (;
korymatthew
izim1
Posted 10:29 AM 18/11/07
@Drew:
haha "the nomad" i had forgotten about that huge monstrousity! it actually played actual genesis games :P battery would last like 20 minutes. it was awesome. i remember beggng my pareents to get me one becuase my sega game gear was "outdated". just not hip anymore. sadly they refused :( aaaaaaa those were the days.
izim1
AndersonBMX
Posted 10:25 AM 18/11/07
1.00 USD = 1.74300 BRL today... so this wii is $ 1032.00
AndersonBMX
Keebler
Posted 12:16 PM 18/11/07
Golden Axe ftw!
Keebler
MalzyWheels
Posted 1:05 PM 18/11/07
SEGA!
MalzyWheels
slingblade
Posted 1:02 PM 18/11/07
Get a DS. Why play ugly looking old games, when you can play new shiny ugly looking games?
slingblade
mettleh3d
Posted 12:45 PM 18/11/07
when you were 3 inches tall 0 feet.
mettleh3d
DirkusMaximus
Posted 2:23 PM 18/11/07
@korymatthew: @mettleh3d:
Bah. Beat me to it. Apparently Haroon is even more of a old-school gamer than the rest of us, he was apparently working on his d-pad callouses when he was still in the womb.
I told you he was hardcore.
DirkusMaximus
abadomaX
Posted 2:22 PM 18/11/07
me wants the pretty
abadomaX
ashkan101
Posted 3:35 PM 18/11/07
if that's 100 bucks why not just spend the extra 60 bucks and buy a GP2x which is touchscreen and will let you play any gAme for any emulator. It just doesn't make sense to buy that.
ashkan101
hughjass
Posted 3:22 PM 18/11/07
@gokor:
There's also no point in getting your undies in a bundle over jokes about stupid little mistakes.
hughjass
chillarmadillo
Posted 3:08 PM 18/11/07
I had the Nomad before my first gameboy. Jeez, six AA batterys is too many for 20 minutes of play. The AC adapter was a good purchase.
chillarmadillo
Rhainor
Posted 3:03 PM 18/11/07
@Drew: I still have my Nomad...even if it is broken. Man, that thing went through batteries like nobody's business, unless you plugged it into the wall. Ah, good times.
I still *kinda* want one of these, simply because I yearn for handheld classic 2D Sonic, and I have some great rechargeable AAAs.
Rhainor
gokor
Posted 2:57 PM 18/11/07
@hughjass: Yeah, it's a joke at a simple grammar mistake that people make all the time. There's no point in making jokes over stupid little mistakes that are easily overlooked.
gokor
hughjass
Posted 2:45 PM 18/11/07
@gokor:
He was just making a joke. Don't get your undies in a bundle.
hughjass
gokor
Posted 2:40 PM 18/11/07
@korymatthew: It's a friggin' mistake, get over it.
gokor
hughjass
Posted 2:26 PM 18/11/07
"Who cares about online gaming, does anything beat a session of Sonic 2?"
Haroon, for the love of all things grammatically correct, please work on your punctuation. Yours makes me weep bitterly and occasionally contemplate suicide.
hughjass
djdare
Posted 4:33 PM 18/11/07
yah no road rash is a deal breaker imho
djdare
Shane
Posted 3:47 PM 18/11/07
Ill just get a Game Gear...or get the Sonic games for GBA.
Shane
calaverasgrandes
Posted 3:46 PM 18/11/07
Is it just e or did playability go away with the 16 bit game generation. Sega Genesis and the Turbografix had excellent, playable games. Then the Playstation/N64 came out and it was okay to have marginal playability if you had stunning (for the time) graphics. Its dragonquest all over again.
NES 43v3r
calaverasgrandes
Viakenny
Posted 5:33 PM 18/11/07
here in Brazil we have too much taxes, probably in order to protect the NES-clones from the attack of the PSWii60s.
Viakenny
Drew
Posted 12:58 AM 19/11/07
@izim1: @Rhainor:
Yeah, friend of mine still has his Nomad. Thing is HUGE, and does indeed eat batteries. I never had one, I had a Game Gear though, still do. I thought that thing was big, but the Nomad is even bigger.
I'll agree to the suggestion of getting a PSP for this type of thing. Even if you don't do homebrew, there's perfectly legal ways to play most if not all the games the Tectoy does. There's the Sega Classic Collection for the Sonics,Golden Axes and I think Ecco. Might not have Alex Kidd though. Somebody mentioned Road Rash, there's an EA Games compilation that has all 3 of those, PLUS, the most underrated Genesis game of all time, Haunting! Starring Polterguy! Damn I had fun with that game back in the day.
Drew
Kevin1a
Posted 1:16 AM 19/11/07
I loved the Genesis...well at least until my little cousin stepped on it! I use an emulator on my Pocket PC to play all my old games. For all I'm concerned Sonic the Hedgehog, the original, is still the greatest game ever made.
Kevin1a
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:21 AM 19/11/07
@hughjass: Which is nothing like when your alternative music is wrapped up in a hobo pack.
THAT would be getting your indies in a bindle.
strider_mt2k