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is a little awkward for me to say but do you want to go on a date with me what no

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no not that kind of date a play date it's a handheld console so I don't

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really know how this is supposed to play out because it's unlike anything else

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that I've ever seen before it's like kind of like this game boy kind of thing

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except like half of it's chopped off and it's got a little crank on the side if

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you buy one of these you get games for free well okay it's they're bundled into

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the cost of the system which I think is a 179 us but you get these games drip

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fed to you in like Seasons plus they have an SDK for developers that is

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completely free and open to use it's not the kind of retro console that I'm

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normally used to like this is a retro style console but it's kind of a new

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thing and I I kind of dig it all right let's oh the inside of the Box even has

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like a little cutout so that this doesn't get rattled around in shipping

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that's actually really cool a USB cable it's yellow everything is very yellow

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with this thing actually there is a cover that you can get for it that's

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purple so it's like a Wario themed thankfully I don't think it farts at you

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let's get the console itself out one of the things that people seem to be upset

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about with the play date is that the brightness you see the screen at right

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now that's the brightness that it's ever going to get it's not backlit whatsoever

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let's go ahead and uh

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play date oh well there it is uh we've got games already so we got white water

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Wipeout casual birder settings that's my favorite game my favorite game I'm gonna

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play settings give me settings okay we're already set up the Wi-Fi thank you

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Logistics replay intro that's a good feature to have because we don't we

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didn't see the intro but Logistics did now I want to see what Logistics are oh

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that's cute so it's teaching me the the controls

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just by doing this oh that's really cute

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that's adorable wow the frame rate's really good like this is

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you might think this is ink or something but no this is this is an LCD and just

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doing this because it's nice it's not like super smooth but like it's it's

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better than you might think for something that's like yellow and plastic and not backlit I'm not even playing any

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games yet but that intro like the kind of grin that was on my face the whole

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time is how I kind of feel like these games are going to go really depends on

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the quality of the games I guess okay

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I'm not sure what's happening exactly there's like something that's going to

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hit me here oh I should have gone back

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and sniffed the flower so that it would be yeah

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yeah see this is this is different right

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she just kicking the balls

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so that's this game I don't know how much more there is to it it's difficult

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for me to describe what that game was as

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you move forward the guy moves forward but time is always moving anyway it's a

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strange concept okay so this is pickpack pup I can either use the d-pad like a

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pleb or I can do this okay dock the crank or

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press a to continue okay so let's dock the crank so I guess this game doesn't

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use crank after that yeah the speaker is pretty good like

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yeah those songs

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okay so this is a this is a uh a line matching game

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um I've got like an X-ray camera and I'm going through like the Z depth or

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actually no it's the focus that's another thing that I just I cannot see

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happening with like a traditional console like maybe with the the l r

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triggers I'm not sure what size the battery is in this thing actually let me

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pull the specs real quick Nintendo took a lot of flack for the way the Wii was

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just for like not being HD and honestly

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yeah it was kind of Justified but the reason the Wii was so successful is

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because they sidestepped everything else and this is kind of the same idea I

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think I mean it's not going to take off anywhere nearly as big as the Wii but I

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black and white screen it's not backlit but it is super reflective which seems

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to be the case like the actual screen itself isn't super reflective it's got

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like kind of almost matte finish to it but the backing is reflective which is

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what causes the contrast to be so so the battery is they don't say but 14 days of

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standby clock battery and eight hours of active use which is pretty good I mean

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you're going to get pretty good battery life without a backlight on the LCD yeah

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there's the CPU 168 megahertz cortex M7

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that is pathetic this screen is 400 by

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240 one bit it doesn't have to crunch too much at all it has 16 megabytes of

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RAM and 4 gigs of flash I was wrong at 116 it's four gigs of Flash and honestly

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that's really all it needs this is basically the specs that you might find in like uh not a 90s but like an early

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2000s handheld game console like a gba

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or something except you know the screen is significantly less colorful this

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original gbas are pretty damn those original gpas were just like this they

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didn't have a backlight oh right it's got an accelerometer so you could

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totally do like a like a fishing game if you really wanted to that would be a

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good game I think like obviously it's got enough horsepower to do like scaling

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and rotation and all that kind of stuff with Sprites oh yeah they were behind

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Untitled Goose game and firewatch it is

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interesting to see all of the game cards

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because they're not in color over here you wouldn't know that the puck was

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supposed to be orange brown orange like

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I like how they kind of went with the B cutesy angle of it like it's not super

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Kitty kind of way it's cutesy in like a like a very casual kind of way which is

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what this is all about yeah the developer site let's head over there that's their browser-based editor for

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Playdate uh I need to sign in but you can make a playdate game in your browser

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you can Tinker with it you can do whatever you want with it basically and

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that's the best kind of Hardware it's something that you can basically just

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Tinker with and that's great and especially for I don't know hobbyists or

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even kids like I don't know if this is kind of geared towards kids like the

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name would suggest that it's a very Kitty device it's also just attackable

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and I like that and it this this control scheme too I really like I didn't think

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that I would I thought it would be like a gimmick kind of thing it's kind of

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grown on me very quickly like it's become very intuitive which makes sense

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when you think about it because we we kind of take it for granted these days

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to have a d-pad game like buttons here maybe joysticks but that's after a lot

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of trial and error yeah speaking of which as I'm handling it here it's probably getting ready to take it apart

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this is really rigid I can't even get it to Creek really the only thing I can

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actually do is like accidentally click buttons it's really nice so let's get

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this back panel off here there we go oh wow that's like

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basically nothing so the battery is

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fellow Tech 760 milliamp hour I don't

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really have it habits whatsoever here

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uh-oh it didn't like that oh oh

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there we go okay I'm just gonna put this back together and no one will ever know

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we were inside

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no one will ever know we were ever inside of this thing what it what else

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is there to say but this is a super super simple little device it's not

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meant to be a powerhouse it's not meant to be like the the most amazing game

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console ever it's meant to be like gimmicky and fun and that's kind of what

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you get out of this this yellow color scheme here it's not something you'd

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normally see in your home but I pay 179 dollars for this thing maybe not but

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maybe I'm not the target audience for this this has potential and it has the

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potential to make me want to spend 179 dollars for it 24 games right now though

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is a little bit low I know there are games you can buy on like h.io you know

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you can just side load onto the console with USB and that's another thing too

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like you can develop your own games I don't know I I really like it I'm just

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not sure if I would buy it that's kind of the bottom line for me right now maybe if they had like a game store and

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the price of the hardware was like 99 or something like that then it would

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probably entice me a lot more I know this is their first Hardware project and

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this relatively low volume that's why they're like taking them in waves so

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that is part of the factor for the cost but I mean

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at the end of the day it's your money thanks for watching this ShortCircuit

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take a look at like this not necessarily you know stuff that's been out for a

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while or maybe it may be something that has been out for a while maybe it's flown under our radar or maybe it's a

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