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GBAX.com Playpal & Megadrive Portable Review, Mar 17th 2008. In the box: Console & Manual. Hello everyone, Craig here, Yes yes, you all remember the tragic late 80's. By then cars were getting smaller but computers were getting much MUCH bigger. Sega in their wisdom decided this should extend to things you have to carry too, thus the GameGear was born. About as portable as a house brick and working though 6 AA batteries faster than a chainsaw. It was not entirely a success. Then they learnt nothing and did it all over again with the Nomad in the 90's. It was the Ian Duncan Smith of handhelds. Flash forward almost 20 years. Now we have these cool little creatures, the, um 'PlayPal' (Sega Master System) and 'Megadrive Portable'. They run on 3AAA batteries, come with 20 licenced games each built in (no dupes) and are about the size of a mobile phone. This is a very nice step forward. As you can see you can't put the old catridges in these (they are little bigger than an old cartridge), they are stand alone machines (I'm sure they could be hacked however). They have a 2.4 backlit TFT LCD, Dpad, headphone port, volume control etc. the screens seem to be slightly lower res than the original systems thus sometimes text is hard to read, but the games are fully playable. Oh and they fit in your pocket at last. As for the games you might think they would have licenced a load of cheap games you have never heard of, but the quality is good. The classics are here for both systems, Sonic and Knuckles, Columns, Altered Beast, Fantasy Zone, Alex Kidd, Golden Axe, Revenge of Shinobi, Kid Chameleon, Ecco etc. etc. I'm not sure if these systems really contain Z80 and 68K chips or if they are running an emulator on a cheap SOC but either way the games seem pretty damned perfect. The build quality is actually really nice, smooth plastic and proper Dpad controls which are pretty much the same size as the original controllers, infact you might want to imagine your old SMS or Megadrive controller with an LCD in the middle of it! You can also plug these in to a TV set and then use the system as the joypad which works really well seeing as they are about the size of the original pads, I've also tried plugging them in to a car navigation system and they worked, something not to keep the kids happy (unless they like the classics) more to keep me happy when waiting in the car :) I've spent the most time playing 'Astro Warrior' on the SMS, such a perfect little arcade shoot em up for 5 mins of play as are many of the bundled games. Battery life seems very long, I bought a cheap 24 pack of AAA batteries and after a few hours neither system has run them down yet, and the good news is that rather than just crash the system when the batteries are getting low the LCD fades first so you have a warning. These are certainly collectors items and they are very cheap making perfect presents for the geek who thinks he has everything. You can get them here. -Craig