Gamate

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Early units
Handheld game consoles
See Microvision and Handheld electronic games
Nintendo handhelds
Game & Watch \| Game Boy (Pocket \| Light) \| Game Boy Color \| Game Boy Advance (SP \| Micro) \| Nintendo DS (Lite)
Bandai handhelds
WonderSwan \| WonderSwan Color \| SwanCrystal
GamePark/Holdings handhelds
GP32 \| GP2X \| XGP \| XGP Mini \| XGP Kids
SNK handhelds
Neo Geo Pocket \| Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sega handhelds
Game Gear \| Nomad \| Mega Jet
Sony handhelds
PocketStation \| PlayStation Portable
Other handhelds
Atari Lynx \| Gamate \| Watara Supervision \| Mega Duck \| Game.com \| Gizmondo \| N-Gage \| TurboExpress \| Pepper Pad \| GameKing \| iRiver G10 \| Ez MINI \| OQO Model 2
Comparison

Gamate and 3 games

The Gamate, known as 超級小子 (chaoji xiaozi, literally "Super Boy") in Chinese-speaking countries, is a handheld game console manufactured by Bit Corporation in the early 1990s, and released in Australia, parts of Europe and Asia, and possibly other regions.

It never sold in numbers comparable to the Game Boy or even the Watara Supervision, and as a result information on the console and its games remains scarce - no emulator or ROM dumps exist. However, over 50 games are known to have been produced for the system, and a colour version was rumoured to have been released in Asia.

1 Tech info
2 Game List (incomplete)
3 Expansion
4 Source
- 4.1 External links

[edit] Tech info

CPU 8 bit (possibly a Z80 or even a PIC microcontroller) around 2.12MHz
Size : 16,7 x 9,7 * 3,3 cm (6,58 x 3,82 x 1,3 inches) in grey plastic
Keys D-pad, A, B, START y SELECT
Screen LCD in 4 greyscale, 128 x 96 pixels
Sound internal ear mono, external stereo headphones
Soporte ROM card, very similar to My Card (Sega SG1000) and Sega Card (Sega Master System) 19x2 pins
Input/Output
- Cartridge Slot
- Stereo headphones
- Power
Power: four AA, 6V batteries