Game-800 has camera, media player, retrogaming … and text-to-speech ebook reading!
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Game 800 has camera, media player, retrogaming ... and text to speech ebook reading! in suagrmob

It plays Sega Megadrive, NES, SNES and Gameboy games, has a wimpy camera, and can do the tunes. Chinagrabber’s Game-800 even reads plain text files out loud, perfect for those upset by Amazon’s kill-switched Kindle 2.

You bring your own games to the machine via SD card (“You can freely expand your library of emulated games by downloading new ones,” the sellers naughtily declare) and there’s a TV-out function, too. The display is 320×240, perfect for the old raster stuff from the 1980s. It’s offered in a bunch of virulent colors.

The only downer would be those controls—I can’t imagine beating any high scores with ‘em, even if it is just $70!

Product Page [China Grabber via technabob and Nexus 404]

Update: Here’s what you want, Rob:

Game 800 has camera, media player, retrogaming ... and text to speech ebook reading! in suagrmob

Doug Aamoth says it can play “NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy Advance, Neo-Geo, and certain Capcom arcade systems”, plus it’s just under a hundred bucks shipped. (Which actually seems a bit spendy and the 340 x 240 pixel screen is probably junk, but at least it has a proper D-pad.)

Game 800 has camera, media player, retrogaming ... and text to speech ebook reading! in suagrmob
Game 800 has camera, media player, retrogaming ... and text to speech ebook reading! in suagrmob

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