Available for sale around the world
…but not always for $10. These units were spotted in Nicauragua by Geoff Galgon, where they were briskly selling for about $25. Notice the ridiculously scary light-gun? Yeah, that’s what we call “pedagogically suspect.” We’ll leave that thing out of our units, thank you very much!
The cheapest we’ve ever found 8-bit TV-computers? About $8, or 55RMB, in China (thanks Newsclan!). All of these computers are mutually compatible with 60 pin cartridges, and all usually come with educational games and BASIC programming.
Speaking of China, Newsclan, who is leading the Playpower working group in Hangzhou, just translated our website into Mandarin- www.playpower.org/cn
Interestingly, the 8-bit TV-computer supports Mandarin Chinese text, which means it can handle just about any character set. So, if you’d like to see the world’s most inexpensive home computer in your native language, let us know!