Soulja Boy cranks out another two dodgy consoles

Remember Soulja Boy? It's a name I haven't heard since my year seven disco about 11 years ago, but lately the rapper (responsible for hit single Crank That) has been making waves in the gaming world with a series of bizarre entrepreneurial ideas.

After initially announcing the SouljaGame handheld - something which looked like a cheap (and legally dubious) emulator rebrand - it seems he's back at it again, this time with a further two consoles which don't look a great deal better than the last.

First up we've got the Retro SouljaBoy Mini, which bears something of a resemblance to a Nintendo Game Boy - I don't know, maybe that's just me? Anyway, it comes with an 8GB card with 508 preloaded games, which are a bit of a mystery aside from the images of Mario, Ryu, Metal Slug and Bill from Chinese Contra printed on the instructions booklet.

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