GP2X “The Wiz”
Posted by Jon | Filed under Casual Gaming, Video Gaming
Emulator gaming has always been exciting and fun for me, but who wants to play SNES games on their computer? Its always been preferable to play using emulators on consoles, but sometimes we want to have portable gaming with lots of options. Gamepark has been making emulator handhelds for a long time, and their vastly popular GP2X has just been upgraded with the GP2x Wiz version. The original was a bulky unit, and 233 Mhz…
The new one sports an ARM9 533MHz Processor overclockable to 800Mhz, a touchscreen, and 1 GB of built in storage. But it doesn’t stop there… Its equipped with an SD card slot for additional storage, functions as an e-book reader, calendar, and voice recorder. It also plays movie files including MPEG4, Xvid and DIVX formats.
You can play Atari ST games, Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NeoGeo, Flash Games.. its all open source, so you can visit plenty of home-brew pages to further expand its usefulness.. with a 320×240 crisp QVGA screen and 64 MB of video ram, it is blindingly fast and still provides 7 hours of continual use. Behold the GP2x Wiz…
available for 179.99 from ThinkGeek
