Handheld generation
With Pocket, Analogue, maker of high-end retro consoles, has finished its mission. This handheld, which is due for release next year for $199, will play Game Boy and Game Boy Advance game cartridges, and Neo Geo Pocket Color, Game Gear and other systems with an adaptor. “I’m just struck every day, thinking, ‘This is it, this is the end of this whole category, just the most elegant, total conclusion to portable gaming’,” founder Christopher Taber claims.
They’re brash words. But he’s talking about a project Analogue kicked off in 2014 with the release of the NES-based Analogue Nt and carried through to the Super Nt and Mega Sg, which are easily the best way to play Super Nintendo, Master System and Mega Drive games on modern TVs. With Pocket, then, Analogue will have covered most major 8bit and 16bit gaming systems. But there’s more to it. For a start, Pocket won’t be restricted to running software for Nintendo’s first generations of handhelds, since it has a chip which can be flashed with configurations for a multitude of other systems, making
