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Shenzhen Holide's HM-1303: the latest gaming PMP

Retro games with your portable video player? Yes please

Shenzhen Holide's HM-1303: the latest gaming PMP
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What is it with Chinese personal media players (PMPs) and retro games emulators? Apart from them seemingly not worrying too much about pesky legal restrictions, of course.

Shenzhen Holide is the latest Chinese firm to make a PMP capable of playing all manner of vintage games. In this case these include titles from NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Mega Drive, SNES, Neo Geo and a host of other formats.

The immediate point we'd make looking at the photo of the device is we're not sure how suitable the buttons are for gaming. But anyway, the device has a three-inch screen and is more than capable of handling any music, video, photos and even e-books you throw at it.

Alas, we're 99.8 per cent sure it will never come out here in the UK. So if you're popping to Hong Kong on a business trip soon, pick one up for us, will you?

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)