The Analogue Pocket is the only retro gaming handheld worth taking seriously. It uses FPGA hardware to play original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges with zero emulation. Pop in a cartridge and it just works, exactly how it did on the original hardware, down to the timing of every pixel.
The screen is absurd for a device this size. A 3.5-inch LCD running at 1600×1440 with 615 pixels per inch. For context, that’s sharper than most phones. Analogue built in display modes that recreate the look of original Game Boy and GBA screens, complete with the subtle LCD grid lines and color tones. It sounds like a gimmick until you see Tetris rendered with the original green dot matrix look on a screen this crisp.
With separate cartridge adapters, it also handles Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Atari Lynx, and TurboGrafx-16 games. There’s a built-in Nanoloop synthesizer for music creation, a 4,300mAh battery good for 6-10 hours, and a dock accessory that outputs 1080p over HDMI with wireless controller support. The whole package is designed with the kind of care you rarely see in gaming hardware outside of Nintendo.