History of video games/Platforms/Elecrow Crowbits

Development
Elecrow Industries is a company based in Shenzhen, China. The Crowbits were designed by Richard Lee.

The Elecrow Crowbits are a series of educational learning kits for learning electronics. One such kit, the master kit, included instructions for a game console. Marketing for the console showed gameplay of a game very similar to the NES version of Super Mario Bros..

On June 1st, 2021 an Indigogo crowdfunding campaign for the product was successfully completed. A Kickstarter campaign was also held.

The Crowbits won a 2021 Red Dot design award.

Launch
The cost of the Master Kit was between $149.90 and $139.90.

Technology
The master kit game console makes use of a Crowbit module containing an ESP32 and a TFT display.

The Crowbits were also unofficially compatible with Lego bricks.