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riddle me this if a doy VR nerd turned

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controversial arms dealer were to make a game console what game console would he

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make Wonder no more for I have the answer inside this basic Jan Sport

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backpack it is the mod retoch chromatic from Palmer lucky perhaps best known for

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his role in the creation of the Oculus Rift its features include enjoying a

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family of newly created games on chromatic cartridges as well as

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remastered versions of your favorite classics it is compatible with original

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Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges

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and it has a bright enough screen that you can use it yes my friends outside

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but before we get to this I want to have a look at this Lisa Frank esque tiger

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folio oh wow that's their review guide

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Lisa Frank that's that brand that made the super bright colored stationer back

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in the 90s is that correct yeah okay hi

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there we hope this feels like Christmas morning when you were a kid how old is

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Palmer lucky is he even old enough to have had a Game Boy as a kid the history

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of gaming grade level 6th to e8th grade this is a very cute reviewer guide they

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don't really expect me to do all this work though do they all right is there

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anything else in here does it come with this backpack is that part of the whole like first edition

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thing okay well we're not sure let's

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have a look at this thing it's bundled with chromatic Tetris which is apparently a recreation of the original

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Tetris and it comes with a sapphire glass display cover I mean that does

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feel markedly higher quality than the scuff plastic that was on the original

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Game Boy wow the chassis ooh it is

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amazing how the material Choice affects the feel of a device okay so you go from

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cheap devices which use plastic and are kind of down here to like oh premium

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devices which use stainless steel or aluminum and feel like this to more

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exotic metals that feel more like plastic it uses a magnesium alloy

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chassis that makes it I wouldn't say

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light because anytime you've got three ablea

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batteries and something it's not going to be especially light but it feels

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lightish and it's not cold to the touch you've got a USBC port at the bottom as

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well as a headphone jack this USBC Port apparently supports video out and

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speaking of video one of the most special things about the device is that

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the resolution of the display matches the original Game Boy meaning that

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you're not going to get any approximations of the original pixel art

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it should be absolutely perfect we've got support for the Link cable which is

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possible because they're using an fpga Recreation of the original processor

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we've got a couple of wrist strap Loops here depending on whether you prefer to apply it on the left or the right hand

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side we've got a volume button there's a menu button on the side right here your

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traditional AB select start and d-pad

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d-pad feels pretty good up at the top we got our power switch as well as an IR

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transceiver so it's kind of a mashup of original Game Boy features and Game Boy

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Color features so if you want to trade your Pokemon it'll I guess depend on

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what generation of gain you're using oh there is one thing I didn't mention

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under the battery cover these are rechargeable batteries oh they're not it

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comes with alkaline battery really at this price it comes with alkaline

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batteries it's funny Palmer says that

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this was a passion project he's losing money on this thing but at 220 bucks I

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don't know anyway appar if you replace these with nickel metal hydrides they

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can charge inside the device using the USBC Port which is actually kind of a

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nice feature oh that's a really nice rubber battery retention thing it does

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feel very premium the issue is that it also cost premium we've got some

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comparison devices we're going to be looking at in a moment here anyway

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inside we've got chromatic Tetris which looks an awful lot like a Tetris cart

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made in Mexico as well as a cute little Tetris um complication isn't that what

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Apple calls the like cute little uh things yeah charms

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charms that's the word I'm looking for Charming oh look at that there's a quick

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start guide there let's fire it up and let's also meet the

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link in the video description all right what do we got here we got the original

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game boy boy does it ever look bulky compared to well everything else we've

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got a Game Boy Pocket okay oh it's a little bigger than the pocket uh We've

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also got the analog pocket I can't tell you who's going to win but uh it's going

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to be the pocket and then we've got uh oh what was this thing called again

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funny playing game boy this was that one that we built here on ShortCircuit with

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the little kit all right what do we start with I mean I guess we got to

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start with their included Tetris game let's give a shot all right apparently

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they worked with cost on color matched headphones but I don't have those so

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we're going to use the built-in speaker

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well the speaker is a lot better than the original game boy I'll tell you that much already without even listening to

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them side by side I don't even know what the different modes mean to be honest

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with you I was never into Tetris which is about to become super

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apparent up yeah so up does that yeah I

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uh don't even really know the controls so there's that uh how do I oh yeah

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there we go uh yeah sure um oh yeah

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sorry button F yeah yeah button F button feel seems

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good uh oh that was not a good move

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Please Don't Judge Me too harshly I need yes yes I need the stick hey there we go

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I'm sorry am I supposed to be making a video Zero complaints nice and

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tactile say what you will about Palmer lucky

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um if he built the device for himself he

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cared about it oops I might have created

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another dependency but I got got it I got it right away I can't wait for the

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comment section on this video to just be like is L St a gamer the answer is no uh

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oh my God they come so fast I need the stick yes I got the stick it's too

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hard that's the best I could do great

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button feel um the sound even though I

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had it turned down is awesome compared to the original Game Boy dude very very

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playable let's try their weird Recreation cartridge in another console

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okay what are the odds this works cuz clearly if it's an fpga device

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it should be basically functionally a Game Boy but it also clearly isn't

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functionally a Game Boy it's got the menu button it's got the IR thing and

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stuff so remember when I said the speaker was

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better on the mod retro you can kind of make it out I

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don't remember the game boy being this bad I think our game boy is uh has seen

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better days which is honestly part of the reason that devices like this are so

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popular because even if you wanted the original experience it's degraded so

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much in some cases that that original experience might not really exist um

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it's shocking to me how much better the speakers can sound firing down into your

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palm as opposed to toward your face but

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really can really really can okay so

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that's the Game Boy um that's clearly not winning our challenge today um why

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don't we try this guy all right funny

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playing you're up all other things being equal I would absolutely take the

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chromatic but all other things are not equal and the chromatic is uh over

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double the price if I just wanted to Tool around and play Game Boy games

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because I think I think that's something that we have to kind of be honest with

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ourselves are we going to sit down and

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like play this game like the way we used

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to when we were kids where we're going to play it for hours every week

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no probably not some people yes

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obviously there's people that are still very very into Tetris but most people

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this is a this is a novelty purchase you know what I mean the screen is another

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drawback to this device it's definitely not as bright it's not as vibrant

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however once again is it vibranter and

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brighter enough that I'd be willing to pay

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double for the chromatic that's

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tough oh my God yep block out okay you

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know what I want to see the chromatic at Max brightness real quick

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here dude one of the design goals was

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apparently to make it playable outside which is something that the original

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Game Boy really struggled with man I'm

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usually kind of a just emulate guy but I

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got to say the resolution matched display really does make the old pixel

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art look better I was not expecting to notice that big of a difference again

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whether we're talking brightness or button feel or whatever double the price

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that's a tall order but it is better let's go for something a little more

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different it looks like it's like artificially smoothed or something you

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know yeah it really does not look as good now I could fix a lot of what looks

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kind of nasty about this filters but

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it's not the same it's never going to be quite the same let's try some filters on

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this display it's high enough resolution that theoretically that should more

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closely approximate the original console the buttons also still aren't as good

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that's something that the mod retro team absolutely nailed the buttons they are

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really really good with that said am I

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actually having any less fun right now

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no yeah so far man there's no real

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question for me at this price I would

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just get an analog pocket because then I can play more than just Game Boy and

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Game Boy Color games did I mention that this thing only plays Game Boy and Game

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Boy Color games and then you know some re-releases they say there's some new

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releases coming games that were like cancelled toward the end of the life of

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the original game boy okay how about the original

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pocket man that sound it is cool that these work in the original consoles

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which I guess is pretty cool for someone who wants to buy the re-releases and

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then actually play them in a Game Boy man it really doesn't help that it's a

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little chilly in the studio you can see when I move it down it's like the poor

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LCD is like let's try a different game

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what do we want to play what should I play all right Super Mario Land let's

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go that's a it's not a very good interface it says 3 to

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one as the opposite of whatever it is that you like you you can't tell if

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you're three to oneing anything

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wow you can see it actually like slows down a little bit sometimes just like

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the original Hardware would authentic leg whatever I got this

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easy and I'm

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dead time for a Game Boy Color game oh

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man this uh this little nubbin on the back I understand why they had to do it

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because this is made of metal so you can't just have a little like flexible tab but that sits like right where I

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want my finger or my pinky I mean I could work around it I could work around

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it but it's not not my

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favorite looks real good I'm not really sure what else there

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is to say about it at this point if what you want is a machine that does

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absolutely nothing but play Game Boy games and Game Boy Color games with much

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greater Fidelity than the original game boy or Game Boy Color then that's pretty

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cool you can get one of these it's as true to the original consoles while also

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being better than the original consoles as you can get thanks to that display

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however if you're willing to compromise on a few things and you like getting

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benefits for that the analog pocket really is a way more compelling option I

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mean it's got a bigger screen it's also very bright even if it's not quite as

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bright it's got compatibility for way more game systems including original

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cartridge compatibility which is one of the things that's nice about the mod

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retro and if you want to spend half as much this is a very compelling option

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too from funny playing like I'd play on this does it really matter

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not to me to you it might subscribe to ShortCircuit