Kotaku
Dr. Ashen's review of the cheap Nintendo DS knock-off, the Neo Double Games, has sparked a lot of interest in the cheap plastic homunculii of portable consoles designed specifically by Taiwanese crap engineers to bilk sweet but credulous grannies out of their birthday present budgets. 4 Color Rebellion has a look at a similar product, the Compact G, and as this quoted exchange proves, it isn't just gummy octagenarians who are being fooled:
Little Kid: Mom! Look at this it's a DS! And it's very cheap! Mom: I don't know about that.. Little Kid: But it looks just like a little DS! Mom: I don't think it's the same.
Jeez, kid, what's wrong with you? You're being corrected about a gaming system by your Mom?
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That photo looks like the inside of a SkyLark, a common Family Restaurant in Japan. They sell all kinds of cheap toys at the cash register for kids to bug their parents about at the last minute. Many a drunken night was spent at SkyLark, and I think I might have bought a few of those crazy Taiwanese wonders in my stupor myself.
ho·mun·cu·lus (h-mngky-ls, h-) n. pl. ho·mun·cu·li (-l) 1. A diminutive human. 2. A miniature, fully formed individual which adherents of the early biological theory of preformation believed to be present in the sperm cell. Oh, okay. So you stuff one of those in a womb and a proper DS grows.
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