MGA Game Wizard

[Zadoc]

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/MGA/GameWizard.htm

I was just reading about this thing, and I went to look it up in the guide, and it does not appear to be there. Surely, if R-Zone counts as a console, then so does this.

Anyhow, anyone know anything about it? Size of lib, release date, rarity, etc?

[neuropolitique]

/me stabs Zadoc

[Zadoc]

/me stabs Zadoc

Um... Why?

[Blitzwing256]

Theres also a power ranger version of this. I have the "system" and two of the 3 cartridges for it, they were generally packed system + 2/3 games from what I vageuly remeber

[neuropolitique]

Um... Why?

Cause, I collect portables with interchangable cartridges. You have just thrown another system in the pool.

Question. Were carts ever available not bundled with the system?

[rbudrick]

I remember these. They weren't sold that long ago, iirc. There was a bunch of rnadom packs of these systems, each bundled with two different games. I think you had to buy the system ovr and over again to get all the games.

-Rob

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

That looks a lot like another LCD game system I used to have called the Game Child except the Game Child was designed to look like an original Gameboy.

Basically, you swapped the screens, but not the actual game. Each of the different screens played exactly the same, with only the background, "sprite" graphics and theme being different. Though because of the nature of LCD games, they could change the game quite a bit with only the screens. There were at least two Game Child systems sold with what appeared to be different internal games (though I only ever played one of them so maybe the other was actuallythe same). And each came with three swappable screens.

I can't be sure that this Game Wizard thing is exactly the same, but it sure looks it.


...word is bondage...

[Steve W]

I see similar kinds of things out at my local flea market. I never considered them to be real portables, to be honest. I've never seen the games being sold unbundled from their console.

[Technosis]

Basically, you swapped the screens, but not the actual game. Each of the different screens played exactly the same, with only the background, "sprite" graphics and theme being different.
...word is bondage...

Yeah I have something like this. It was a throw with some other handhelds that I bought in a box. It had three or four screens, all with different color plastic borders that you swapped. I suspect it might have been a "dollar store" product as it was so primitive. I see alot of these generic LCD games that come out of China for the novelty market. Usually they are some variant of Tetris or Breakout.

[neuropolitique]

I see similar kinds of things out at my local flea market. I never considered them to be real portables, to be honest. I've never seen the games being sold unbundled from their console.

Thank you. That is a handy reason not to buy one. :-D