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so today we're unboxing kind of a unique product it is the retro bit retro gen retro product retro unboxing today so as you may or may not be able to tell by the name of a product this is a retro product which is not to say it as an old product it is a new product but it is designed for you to play old Sega Genesis games so this is a handheld console and let's go over a couple brief features before we open up the box here first of all you've got AV out so that means you can run your old games on your new TV should you desire it but one thing to be aware of is that you can't use an additional controller so you're going to be looking at single-player games only it is cartridge compatible and something that I should mention is that these guys are talking about releasing a developer cartridge that would allow you to use an SD slot to run like homebrew games or develop your own stuff very cool feature next you've got a lithium ion battery and it is USB enabled now this but wait there's more 262 color graphics and 2.8 inch color LCD screen now I've actually I'm being a little bit ironic here but the facetious sorry not ironic but the 2.8 inch color LCD screen from my understanding is actually quite excellent so we will find that out I may have to do a gameplay video later if the batteries are not charged but let's get this thing open so first of all we have a piece of foam okay and there you go there's there's not a whole lot of leading up to it there that's it that is the retro gen so it comes with this snowboarder sticker so let's peel that off and have a look at the screen itself so I'm actually gonna get up and get a better position here so I can start to show how you hold it but you've got a d-pad over on the Left feels ok it's a little bit spongy feeling and it seems like you won't be able to sort of know which direction you're pressing but actually it's it's quite it feels quite nice on your thumb you've got a reset button up here start button over on the right-hand side of the unit and then you've got a B C X Y Z for your buttons for your left thumb and those actually feel pretty good as well it's easy to hit ah I'd say all of them actually are quite well positioned for your thumb so up on the top of the unit you've got hmm I guess one of these is the AV out and one of them is going to be the headphone jack this is probably the headphone jack because here is your volume control that was pretty straightforward you've got a little knot here where you can attach a wrist strap and then you've got a USB port on the bottom now Oh down here is your on/off switch so you can see that labeled right there it is off right now and oh that's kind of hard to press but should be okay and I don't know what this one does but I'm gonna just flick it just for fun okay on the back you can see this past the QC test excellent that's very good and then right there that's where the magic happens so that's where you insert the Sega Genesis cartridge so now let's get a little bit further into the box here and find out what else we have so there's a little paper protective thing and then there's a oh okay oh there's a manual the Quick Start Guide kind of thing so this tells you what all of the different buttons are so we can find out what that one on the bottom is cuz I'm curious now oh it switches it between pal and ntsc so depending whether the game is designed for one format or the other you can actually switch it that's pretty cool okay so then how do you turn off the game play okay so this one side it is pretty straightforward there's not a whole lot of substance there but it should help you if you're having trouble getting started with your retro gen here we have a USB a two mini B cable so that's for charging the unit and then here's your AV out so it's oh that's a mono audio out so you've got your video and mono audio it does not support stereo out via this method so in theory we should be able to turn this thing on if it has a charge there's our power indicator and it's on so it comes with a few pre-loaded games jubal magic curling 2010 Mays 2010 awesome why don't we turn it off and I will grab a game so in my tickle Tron here I have a few classic Sega Genesis games including World Series baseball Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and toejam and Earl in panic on funkotron naturally we are gonna go with Michael Jackson okay and let's get that in there and see I just want to see how the screen looks and demonstrate that so we've loaded the cartridge in you can see it sticks up a little bit off the back you can see the label there so let's turn this baby on and there we go so it's booting up and let's have a look at how that screen looks the power is on on the bottom do I have to press Start we have sound but no video at this time okay well we might have to do a separate video to show the screen playback but thank you for checking out my video blog on the unboxing of the retro Gen