There's thousands of Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games worth playing, but the handhelds required to play them stopped being sold long ago. However, retro hardware company Analogue is going to breath new life into them, and cartridge sales on eBay, by releasing a brand new unofficial Game Boy.
As The Fast Company reports, it's called the Analogue Pocket, was designed in conjunction with independent design studio Kenyon Weston, and it's capable of playing cartridges from the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Atari Lynx, but you'll need to buy separate adapters for the non-Nintendo carts.
Although it looks like a modern take on the original Game Boy, the Pocket will allow cartridge games to be enjoyed using the advantages of modern hardware. That means a 3.5-inch display with a resolution of 1,600-by-1,440 (615ppi), a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB-C charging, stereo speakers, micro SD card slot, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It can be connected to a TV through HDMI when placed in the Analgoue Dock, and a separate controller can be linked via Bluetooth.
The Analogue Pocket doesn't support digital downloads or the running of game ROMs, it's purely about offering the best experience for legal cartridges. However, the handheld also doubles as a music maker through the use of a built-in app called Nanoloop.
At $199, the Pocket certainly isn't cheap, but it supports so many long-dead handhelds and will allow a lot of classic games to be played on-the-go while looking and sounding better than ever before. Because of that, the Pocket is sure to be an instant hit.
If you need reassuring about how good Analogue's hardware is, look no further than Analgoue's website. It's already given us the Mega Sg for Sega Genesis, Mega Drive, and Master System gaming, the Super Nt for SNES gaming, and the Nt mini for NES gaming, all of which boast zero-lag 1080p experiences.
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