If you're the type who looks at the
Pandora and scoffs at the simplicity, you'll find oodles to adore in the Meggy Jr RGB. Deemed the "little sister" of the
Peggy LED display kit, this gaming handheld from Evil Mad Science is only as fun as you make it; in other words, it provides all the incentive you need to sharpen those programming skills in order to craft engrossing pixel-based titles. The portable unit packs a fully addressable 8 x 8 RGB LED matrix display, a lo-fi audio transducer and plenty of buttons for controlling the action. The unit comes pre-loaded with a single game (isn't that sweet?), but from there, it's up to you to put those soldering / coding skills to good use. Claim yours now for $65 to $95 -- just be ready to deal with loads of frustration on your way to homegrown handheld nirvana.
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posted Nov 17th 2008 7:27AM
Looks like oodles of fun.
Looks like a gameboy...
I was going to say 'reinventing the wheel', but maybe it's more a DIY Wheel-kit...
Tetris? That would be fun!
Your mean Testis?
I'm gonna hate myself for that, but...
Can it run Crysis?
I guess that's up to you to code it.
Yes but only at 8 x 8 with all the settings on low.
Yes, it can run Crysis with all settings turn to high. It can also play DOOM, make toast and, of course, blend.
Old and boring just like all the comments above me. Snore!!! If I want 8 bit games I'll run an atari emulator on my psp.
No, this won't even play Pong.
CHECKERS! or chess if you color code the figures...
God.. I can see my PSP hiding in shame after it saw this picture :\
This is cool but the display means it is very limited in what you can do with it. I found this the other day and I think it would offer a lot more flexibility and power: http://www.parallax.com/Store/Sensors/CustomKits/tabid/134/txtSearch/hydra/List/1/ProductID/467/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName%2cProductName
I am thinking hard but can't imagine any game that will be suitable for this screen except for a very low-res Tetris.
8x8 is a size of Atari's Space Invaders... alien sprite! The smallest sprite that I can think of! Even NES Mario sprite is bigger: 16x16.
This thing might sell as hotcakes if they had a child-friendly API with graphical GUI and commands like "move this red dot here, honey... hooray!" to teach the preschool programming.
I smell a super-nerdy version of "Snake". Eat your heart out, Nokia.
whats that game called where you need to make for dots of same color?
Reversi (PC) or Othello (Real World)
connect four?
Watch out PSP!
Some underwhelmed Meggy Jr RGB owner might just kill whomever is pushing your buttons, for your sake.
looks like a handheld lightbright to me.
This is definitely the next-gen portable HD gaming console. =p
HD? ...Huge Dots?