For several years, we are starting to see more retro game consoles being released. And I think companies are testing the limits of what kind of consoles and games can be offered.
With the retro games console, “Game Stick Lite“, what you have is a stick with a 128 GB card. Connect one micro USB to the stick and the other to a USB powered device. Then the HDMI adapter to the stick itself to make an extender (so you don’t have to connect the stick directly to your monitor/TV).
And then you get two PS2-like controllers which take two AAA batteries and you can play over 20,000 games.
The games range from MAME games (about 1,702 games), Famicom (about 6,300 games), Gameboy (about 3,720 games), Gameboy Advance (1,120 games), Gameboy Color (about 170 games), Sega Master (about 1,900 games), Super Famicom (about 5,000 games), Playstation (about 40 games) and Atari (about 20 games).
The fact I was able to play some of the Japanese games I grew up with again, was pretty cool. The games play right at the start and play rather smoothly.
But not all is perfect.
There are a few caveats that I’ve noticed. When I was playing “Tennis no Oujisama Gold” on GBA, the green tennis court was black. Another was when playing the shmup “DoDonPachi Dai”, the screen is automatically set to wide and there was no way to make it 4:3, so it made it hard to play (and that game was one that I was hoping to play the most).
I was connected to an adapter to stream, so there was a 15 second audio lag, but I doubt the lag will be evident when connected to a TV or monitor.
But for the most part, I was impressed that the NeoGeo games are featured. Again, these are based off Japanese MAME, and are not the newer Hamster versions which have QoL additions such as ie. level editing and coin editing. These are the games that play as is at the arcade.
Personally, I rather play the Hamster remastered versions but to each their own.
If anything, you are getting a ton of games for the price and the fact that these are not on a hard drive is a plus. It’s literally plug and play and ready to go. But the fact that there are over 20,000 games especially those games that you grew up playing in the arcade, it does make this retro game console enticing.
If you are into Retro Game Consoles, then this one may be for you!
