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Lenovo’s Game Boy Is Real and Reportedly Stuffed With Ill-Gotten Games

Lenovo makes a Game Boy. Well, actually, it’s complicated. The name of the world’s largest PC producer by market cap is attached to a janky retro handheld called the Lenovo G02. You can buy one through AliExpress for around $73. But you probably shouldn’t. The Lenovo G02 doesn’t land anywhere close to the beastly power of the company’s existing handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go 2, which now costs $2,000. The Game Boy-like device is running on a Rockchip RK3326 CPU with 1GB of RAM. It features a 4.5-inch IPS display that hits a resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels (though the AliExpress tech specs claim it’s 1,024 x 600 pixels). It looks just like many other devices in its class, with a D-pad, four face buttons, and a single analog stick. On paper, it could play games from the early Game Boy era and maybe even some titles from the GameCube era. Retrododo bought one, unboxed it, and found that the Lenovo logo appears on the splash screen when you boot it up. In fact, Lenovo’s China site lists the handheld as one of the company’s own products. What’s even more odd is how the handheld can come with an SD card full of games, including “thousands” of classic Nintendo titles preloaded onto

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Lenovo’s Game Boy Is Real and Reportedly Stuffed With Ill-Gotten Games

Lenovo makes a Game Boy. Well, actually, it’s complicated. The name of the world’s largest PC producer by market cap is attached to a janky retro handheld called the Lenovo G02. You can buy one through AliExpress for around $73. But you…

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Lenovo’s Game Boy Is Real and Reportedly Stuffed With Ill-Gotten Games

Lenovo makes a Game Boy. Well, actually, it’s complicated. The name of the world’s largest PC producer by market cap is attached to a janky retro handheld called the Lenovo G02. You can buy one through AliExpress for…

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