Can I Fix It? Barcode Battler fix, demo and interesting story.

Another retro repair... 1991 was a great time for video games and also budget handheld devices for us poor people who couldn't afford Gameboys.
I bought this off eBay for £7.99 boxed but no cards or instructions. It was listed as 'doesn't turn on'.
But we can repair it and go one better, get it playing and using a barcode from the most unusual source... my ARM?!

The Barcode Battler was a forerunner to Digimon and Pokemon. If you were lucky enough to be Japanese you could even link it to your Famicom or Super Famicom!

Here's a link to the book I mentioned, Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood. I'm in no way affiliated with them, I just LOVE this book.
UK:
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Curio...
US:
https://www.casemateipm.com/978139907...

I'm an absolute novice/noob so please don't ever take any of my videos as instructional, rather as inspiration to tackle your own repairs. If I can do it, you can too, you almost certainly know more!

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