Because prison visits and social mingling have been curtailed recently as part of Covid-19 precautions, the New York City Department of Corrections have decided to buy 5500 handheld gaming machines at a cost of $15 each to try and give inmates at the cityâs prisons something else to do.
As the Daily News reported last month, the handheldsâwhich look like Game Boys but most definitely are notâwere purchased in March from a distributor for a total of $82,500, and came in red, blue and yellow variants. Theyâve been handed out to the 3800 prisoners still in detention at places like Rikers Island (many inmates on minor sentences have been freed as part of prison systemâs attempts to curb the spread of Covi-19 in jails).
Theyâre clearly a version of those shitty â1000-in-1″ systems that include a bunch of pre-loaded stuff, but interestinglyâfor Nintendoâs lawyers if nobody elseâevery version Iâve seen matching this case design online is also advertising that itâs loaded with a bunch of bootleg Nintendo/Capcom/Konami games.
