So today we're unboxing kind of a unique product it is the Retro bit Retro genen
Retro product retro unboxing today so as
you may or may not be able to tell by the name of the product this is a retro
product which is not to say it is an old product it is a new product but it is
designed for you to play old Sega Genesis games so this is a handheld
console and let's go over a couple brief features before we open up the box here
first of all you've got AV out so that means you can run your old games on your
new TV should you desire it but one thing to be aware of is that you can't
use an additional controller so you're going to be looking at single player games only it is cartridge compatible
and something that I should mention is that these guys are talking about
releasing a developer cartridge that would allow you to use an SD slot to run
like Homebrew games or develop your own stuff very cool feature next you got a
lithium ion battery and it is USB enabled now this but wait there's more
262 color graphics and 2.8 in color LCD
screen now I've actually I'm being a little bit ironic here but the uh fous
sorry not ironic but the 2.8 in color LCD screen for my understanding is
actually quite excellent so we will find that out I may have to do a gameplay
video later if the battery is not charged but let's get this thing open so
first of all we have a piece of foam okay and there you go there's uh there's
not a whole lot of uh leading up to it there that's it that is the Retro gen so
it comes with this snowboarder sticker so let's peel that off and have a look
at the screen itself so I'm actually going to get up and get a better
position here so I can sort of show how you hold it but you've got a d-pad over
on the left uh feels okay it's a little bit spongy feeling and it seems like you
won't be able to sort of know which direction you're pressing but actually
it's uh it's quite it feels quite nice on your thumb you got a reset button up
here start button over on the right hand side of the unit and then you've got a b
c XY Z for your buttons for your left
thumb and those actually feel pretty good as well it's easy to hit uh I'd say
all of them actually are quite well positioned for your thumb so up on the
top of the unit you've got H I guess one of these is the AV out and one of them
is going to be the headphone jack this is probably the headphone jack because
here is your volume control that was pretty straightforward you've got a
little Notch here where you can attach a wrist strap and then you've got a USB
port on the bottom now oh down here is
your onoff switch so you can see that's labeled right there it is off right now
and oh that's kind of hard to press but should be okay and I don't know what
this one does but I'm going to just flick it just for fun okay on the back
you can see this past the QC test
excellent that's very good and then right there that's where the magic
happens so that's where you insert the Sega Genesis cartridge so now let's get
a little bit further into the box here and find out what else we have so
there's a little paper protective thing and then there's a oh okay oh there
there's a manual the quick start guide kind of thing so this tells you what all
of the different buttons are so we can find out what that one on the bottom is
cuz I'm curious now oh it switches it between pal and ntsc so depending
whether the game is designed for one format or the other you can actually
switch it that's pretty cool okay so then how do you turn off the game player
how do you okay so it's one-sided it's pretty straightforward there's not a
whole lot of substance there but it should help you if you're having trouble
getting started with your retrogen here we have a USB a to mini B cable so
that's for charging the unit and then here's your AV out so it's uh oh that's
a mono audio out so you've got your video and mono audio it does not support
stereo out via this method So in theory
we should be able to turn this thing on if it has a charge there's our power
indicator and it's on so it comes with a few preloaded games duel magic curling
2010 maze 2010 awesome why don't we turn
it off and I will grab a games so in my
tickle trunk here I have a few classic Sega Genesis games including World
Series Baseball Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and Tow Jam and Earl in panic
on funkatron naturally we are going to go with Michael Jackson okay and let's
get that in there and see I just want to see how the screen looks and demonstrate
that so we've loaded the cartridge in you can see it sticks up a little bit
off the back you can see the label there so let's turn this baby on and ah there
we go so it's booting up and let's have
a look at how that screen looks the power is on on the bottom do I have to
press Start we have sound but no video at this
time okay well we might have to do a separate video to show the uh screen
play back but thank you for checking out my video blog on the unboxing of the
Retro genen