Well it turns out that it is possible to move over 100 handhelds to a new continent in a suitcase. Even if it does mean that the trauma of doing so leaves one unable to blog for almost six months!
Sorry about that.
Anyway, having relocated from SE Asia to Europe, I can report that surprisingly little attention was paid to my suitcases stuffed with obscure handhelds. I can also report that Bucharest airport is not a place you ever want to try and bring handhelds through in your carry-on luggage.
While most reasonable airports ask you to remove your laptop for inspection, the surly neanderthals who joylessly operate Bucharest airport's x-ray machines require you to remove every single piece of electronic equipment from your hand luggage and, when done asking you "Why do you have all these things?", then proceed to toss them about all over the place leaving you with a Gameking II that looks like this!
Sorry about that.
Anyway, having relocated from SE Asia to Europe, I can report that surprisingly little attention was paid to my suitcases stuffed with obscure handhelds. I can also report that Bucharest airport is not a place you ever want to try and bring handhelds through in your carry-on luggage.
While most reasonable airports ask you to remove your laptop for inspection, the surly neanderthals who joylessly operate Bucharest airport's x-ray machines require you to remove every single piece of electronic equipment from your hand luggage and, when done asking you "Why do you have all these things?", then proceed to toss them about all over the place leaving you with a Gameking II that looks like this!
This is a bit of a bummer, since I previously used this Gameking to take screenshots for the site. Fortunately everything else survived the border control brutality.
Thankfully I have since been able to secure a number of interesting Gameking related devices including the beautiful purple Gameking II replacement below. Of course the first thing I did was remove the idiotic transparency and now I have an even better machine for future reviews (along with another missing multicart for a collection that is now just 3 carts short of complete!).
Thankfully I have since been able to secure a number of interesting Gameking related devices including the beautiful purple Gameking II replacement below. Of course the first thing I did was remove the idiotic transparency and now I have an even better machine for future reviews (along with another missing multicart for a collection that is now just 3 carts short of complete!).
The Timetop goodness didn't stop there though, as I also finally completed the Gameking set by tracking down what is essentially the 2DS of the lineup, the GM-222.
This somewhat pointless device was released after the Gameking III, but is in effect just an original Gameking, oddly branded as a Gameking 2 (with a different, wibbly font). It has no backlight (although thankfully no colour transparency in need of removal) and completes the devolution of Timetop's dpad and control buttons into something resembling a badly sliced pizza and fragmented discuss.
Nothing much else to note about this anachronism of anachronisms other than that (on this model at least) it seems to have visibly worse contrast than the Gameking 1 & 2.
I'll hopefully have some further Gameking joy to share in the coming weeks as well as the lowdown on the fleamarket scene in my new part of the world, which has already unearthed some obscure and interesting treasures.
Hopefully it won't be another 6 months before you get to read about them!
Nothing much else to note about this anachronism of anachronisms other than that (on this model at least) it seems to have visibly worse contrast than the Gameking 1 & 2.
I'll hopefully have some further Gameking joy to share in the coming weeks as well as the lowdown on the fleamarket scene in my new part of the world, which has already unearthed some obscure and interesting treasures.
Hopefully it won't be another 6 months before you get to read about them!
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