the G155 mobility gaming station. Should
you ever have the desire to travel with your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 Slim, you
can get one of these and you can game on the go. I am have it all packed up
inside here and ready to demo, but I just want to show you guys the outside of this case. I did an unboxing already,
so you can check that out if you want to see it. But, uh, we'll just sort of
recap for the sake of anyone who hasn't already watched that video. So, on the
top, you've got your manufacturer logo, which is G A E M S. I guess it's meant
to be pronounced games, like as in spelled wrong, but still would be
pronounced games. Okay, so it's the G155. Okay. On this side, you find a
clip, which can have a shoulder strap attached to it by the look of things. It
could also have a lock attached to it, whichever you prefer. I don't think that's going to work as a shoulder
strap. Let's go with lock. So, you can lock the one side, you can lock the
other side. Okay. On the bottom, you find three rubber nonslippy things. On
the bottom, you find more rubber non-slippiness. So, whether you put it
down this way or whether you put it down this way, it shouldn't slip and it
shouldn't fall over. Now, the unit was unstable when I put it on the table in
my unboxing. But, see, look. Look how stable it is. Now, the reason is that
it's meant to have a game console loaded in it in addition to the LCD monitor
that's already in there. So, that's why it was leaning to one side quite easily
when it didn't have a console inside. So, I'm going to go ahead and put this
down. This is the game I'm going to run on it right here. Uncip both sides. Oh,
yeah. The carrying piece. So, metal, robust rubber here, very
strong. All right, let's open this bad
boy up. And inside we
find our HD LCD monitor, including a
power button, volume control, brightness
up, brightness down, menu, and two headphone jacks, an HDMI input, and a
power input. This two headphone jacks thing is critical because you're
probably not going to be playing with like four players on something like this. But it'd be pretty cool if you
were traveling around and you had your your Xbox 360 and you could, you know,
plug in one pair of headphones to get your friend to plug in a pair of headphones and then you could use the
two controllers that can be stored in the little pouch on the side here. So,
I've got two Xbox 360 controllers there. You could also take out the power plugs,
which I'm going to go ahead and plug in. So, I'll need two. So, I'll go one
there. And then I'm going to pull out the Xbox Whoops. 360 power brick. And
I'm going go ahead and take that around there. So, this is the setup that you
will have to do. The reality of it is you need to uh two power plugs and all
that in order to get the unit running. So, you know, hopefully you can live
with that. I'm going to have to unplug one of my lights in here. So, hopefully it's not too bad. Is it okay? Okay. All
right. So, that's what I had stored in there. Now, I wasn't able to find any
additional room for games, but I guess you could probably get away with like one game here or something like that.
But, you can see how the Xbox 360 is strapped in. So, this pad on the bottom
protects it. It's very, very soft. You can flip it over the other way for the
PS3 Slim or for the Xbox 360 slim. And then what you do is you take these
straps, you strap in your console, and it is not going anywhere. So, I have it
plugged in. Let's go ahead and power it on. I've actually not yet turned this
thing on before. And I hope I have batteries in
my Xbox 360 controller. I do. All
right. Okay. Give me a sec here, guys. I'll wait for it to boot up. Sorry about
that, guys. Okay. So, we have the G155
gaming station. I've got it all set up and the Xbox 360 is booted up. And I
also have a helium balloon. So, I'm feeling pretty
lightheaded right about now. Oh, that's better. Okay. So, I just want to show
you guys basically how it works in terms of the viewing angle, in terms of any
sort of ghosting or motion blur that you're going to see on this particular
screen. So, uh I mean I think you pretty much got the point. Here's something
that it bears noting. Uh, it's really
hard to move around once it's deployed because of the rubber grippy things on
the bottom, which is good. You don't want it to just sort of randomly move
around. But, um, all your ventilation holes at the back have ample room
between the back of the Xbox and the screen. Your ventilation holes here are
not Did I just do something? Oh, I just ejected the game. Whoops. Um, are not
too obstructed by the straps. And then the ones on the bottom are also not that
obstructed. So, your Xbox 360 shouldn't run into any more uh overheating
problems than normal uh when you're using the
G155. Now, in terms of the speakers that we're equipped with here, I guess uh
give me a sec to get the game booted back up now that I now that I broke it,
and then we can uh we can listen to the speakers. So, just a sec. So, here's the
viewing angles, you guys. It is a TN panel, so it's not going to be perfect
by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm so far away at this point that uh
really realistically, you're not going to be playing with four people on something like this. So, if you got two
people, you're sitting at a reasonable distance. You got kind of person one
here, it's going to look about like that. And then you got person one here,
and it's going to look about like that. So, uh that's pretty much how it's going
to go down. Now, in terms of the volume, let's go ahead
and crank this up. I mean, I don't want you guys to
have unrealistic expectation. Okay, we're probably not going to crank that
all the way up because it's getting pretty loud to be perfectly
honest. So, go ahead and start the game. Continue
story. So, here, why don't I just kind of leave this here, and I'm going to go
ahead and adjust the screen. No, apparently I can't do that. Okay. So,
what I could do is I could put a game box
here and I could put that
there. So, it is a glossy screen, so you are going to get a little bit of
reflectiveness. So, I'm going to go ahead and kill the light that's right
behind it. And the other light. There we
are. Hand to hand gives you the ability to execute. Okay. Whoops. Okay. I
haven't really used the Xbox much, so uh
I'm not an expert. Is it loading right now
or? There we
go. Come on. Sooner we get this loaded up, the sooner we get it to the
Americans at the airport. Sooner we do that, the sooner we get paid.
Oh, was that a guy? How we doing?
Yeah, no kidding. Any idea what's in the big box?
Okay. Apparently, they didn't notice that.
I've actually never played a Splinter Cell game. A to jump. Oh, that one.
Okay, there we go.
Here we go. Left trigger to drop. Left.
Oh, wow.
Cool. And they didn't notice that somehow. I think they're even facing
over there.
Okay. Well, the general point of that was that the speakers are pretty loud.
Definitely a satisfactory gaming experience. So, thank you for checking
out my uh first look and gameplay video
with the G51 portable gaming station, and I hope
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You know what? Just to give you guys some idea, it looks better in person than it looks on the camera. There's a
lot of reflectiveness that the camera's catching and that you really can't see
in person. I'd say this zone kind of right here is representative of how the
screen actually looks. Because with that light behind me, it looks fine. Yeah,
it's just the lens is having the camera's having a hard time adjusting to
the uh the back lit screen. So, I'd say the color is sort of more like this than
like this at all. This is This is more like it.