My first ever video game machine was a version of this piece of crap!

Great read. 10/10 experience.

I had one of these circa 2003 or 2004. It had the form factor of a giant SNES controller and th screen flipped up out of the middle.

I want to say that mine only claimed 99 games.

There's another version of the newer game that has square tiles. I got one and it's brilliant.

I had one of these in the late 90s, although mine was smaller, and folded up like an old clamshell flip-phone. It was surprisingly good for what it was. I used to fantasize about just how complex of a game one could make with it, especially if the centers and outlines of the individual blocks could be controlled independently.

I had a similar one as a kid, and I'm feeling weirdly nostalgic about it.

Wonder if someone has an emulator somewhere of them...

What a coincidence! Just 2 days ago (Saturday) I was on a flea market and saw this grey one. Almost purchased it for the memories, but it was in a really rough state. These were actually "real" games with a LCD display; a huge step up from the Game & Watch clones.

I had one. Still remember the startup jingle it had.

One of the games was Tetris, but with square blocks only. That was enough challenge for my four year old brain.