handhelds
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This Game Boy-Inspired Handheld Is Exactly What I Wish Nintendo’s New Handheld Had Been
The release of the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. seems to confirm that Nintendo has no plans to revive or revisit the Game Boy as it did with its NES and SNES throwback consoles. It’s time to move on because there are other companies happy to indulge your Game Boy nostalgia. With a matching…
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The Best Controller of All Time Has Been Turned Into a Handheld That Can’t Actually Play GameCube Games
The problem with most handheld gaming systems is that they sacrifice ergonomic controls for portability, but the RetroBlock2 could change that. It’s designed from the ground up around the much-loved Nintendo GameCube controller, and will soon be hitting Kickstarter.
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This Powerful Retro Handheld Almost Puts the N64 in Your Pocket
It didn’t take long for the handheld emulators coming out of China to get powerful enough to finally play N64 games, which is impressive ” N64 is a notoriously challenging console to emulate. The RK2020 is among the first batch of portables that can play classics like Super Mario 64, and while it doesn’t emulate…
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This Upgraded NES Gamepad Doesn’t Actually Need An NES Console To Play Games
One-upping Nintendo’s efforts to shrink the original NES console, Taylor Burley sacrificed a tiny arcade cabinet to upgrade an old-school NES gamepad with not only a screen, but a small collection of retro titles that don’t need cartridges or even a console to play.