The Game Boy returns

Hi, hi, hi. If you find yourself dreaming of days gone by, you’ll love today’s product highlight where I cover a new GameBoy for the modern age. But first…

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Since founding Oculus VR and eventually selling it to Meta, Palmer Luckey has continued experimenting with unusual tech, like this VR headset that could kill you if you lose a game. Now, he's focusing on a much safer and fun project: the ModRetro Chromatic.

The ModRetro Chromatic is a handheld console designed to run any Nintendo Game Boy cartridges. While it retains the nostalgic look of Nintendo’s handheld gaming era, the Chromatic features several modern enhancements aimed at bringing the childhood console into the modern era

It’s housed inside a magnesium alloy case and sapphire crystal cover glass, which keeps the original Game Boy’s size, resolution, pixel structure, and color balance. With 1,000 nits of brightness and an outdoor-friendly LCD screen, you can game to your heart’s content in most lighting conditions. 

The ModRetro Chromatic’s FPGA technology allows it to play any official Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, just like the original devices. Additionally, each console includes an officially licensed version of Tetris, featuring updated versions of the iconic theme song and Link Cable multiplayer support. It also comes in a number of fun color options and a USB-C port to charge the AA batteries needed to power it. 

This isn’t the first reimagining of classic handheld devices. The Analogue Pocket has been a fan favorite for gamers everywhere since it dropped. Where the two differ, according to Luckey, is in the fine details: “The color temps are actually right, the clock rate isn’t slightly off, the pixel structure isn’t totally wrong in a way that ruins subpixel aware sprites, etc,” he told The Verge.

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