![]() The design of the Bittboy is cute, resembling a miniaturized Game Boy with a Famicom color scheme. It was a cash grab that roped a lot of people into paying fifty bucks for what amounted to a bad emulator in a shell coated in lead paint. Not to mention it being legally suspicious since I doubt the company selling this had license to any of the games on display here. Mario 10 for example was just Mario 1 where you had ten lives, bringing the actual number of unique games closer to the range of about a hundred. The games were all Famicom/NES games, and most of them were not unique, being variations of one another. The controller was cheap plastic garbage. They had it displayed on a CRT television hooked up via RCA cables, so I gave it a shot. But the most perplexing product I saw that year was something that looked like a Nintendo 64 and touted a thousand games. ![]() In the mall they had these little kiosks where they would sell impulse items that changed throughout the year. I remember the first Christmas I ever worked in a mall at an EB Games, getting geared up for the holiday and ready to lose our minds at the absolute insanity of Boxing Day that was to come.
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