First of all, happy whatever you celebrate!

Like most people we didn't get a NES Mini for Chrimbus. But we did get another equally nice little console in the form of this dinky little PC Engine from our friends at Japanyouwant.

Unfortunately, being dunderheads we blew up the mains adaptor by not properly checking the voltage so will now have to wait a week to start playing it, while a new one wings its way to Obsolete island!

​That's not too bad though as another parcel arrived from Spain bringing with it a whopping 12 new GameKing titles (via 3 multicarts), including one of the most audacious Street Fighter 2 "ports" we've ever seen. Review coming soon because it really does deserve it!

I also managed to track down another elusive  Mega Duck title on ebay and my New Years Resolution is to get that section of the website up to speed by reviewing the backlog of games I've recently acquired for the little green and white beast.

The Off Licence has also been updated with a new review of the 45-in-1 Game Player (YD-G202), which is a dot matrix style gameplayer similar in technology to the GameKing.

Have a great New Year and we'll have more new reviews and content to come as we continue to celebrate the defunct videogames of the past all through 2017!

Well the colour transparency (fake background image) in my new Gameking II was really beginning to annoy me. I read online that it was easily removed and so today I began the process of dismembering the unit to get it out.
​Despite some rusty and stubborn screws I was able to get the thing open and succesfully yank out the silly background image.

The screen now displays exactly as I had hoped it would, like a proper backlit GameKing with nothing getting in the way of the original picture.
I've already started using it to take screenshots for reviews, something I've always struggled to find online. That means that the Gameking review archive, which had stalled somewhat, should now be moving again. 
I've added two new mini-reviews today, for Drifter and F1-2004 Racing and plan to add more throughout the week.

In addition I've also been playing some Supervision this week and have new reviews up in that section for Thunder Shooting and Magincross...both of which are predictably dire! However a third game, Po-Po Team turned out to be a bit of a hidden gem!

Keep checking back for more reviews and new content over the cming weeks. If you read an article/review and like it, please leave a comment or follow the site on Twitter @obsoleteworlds. It's nice to know that someone else is out there sharing these low-fi adventures in gaming!