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Analogue Pocket, continued: What’s worth adding to retro system’s $220 base?

Time to unwrap this slew of Analogue Pocket add-on boxes and judge what’s inside. (credit: Sam Machkovech) As a dedicated, Game Boy-like handheld, Analogue Pocket offers plenty of self-contained fun for $219. So much fun, in fact, that I was able to write 8,000 words about it earlier this week. Shortly after I finished that […]

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Analogue Pocket review: The greatest Game Boy ever made

Enlarge / Analogue Pocket, running The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening in its Game Boy Color mode. (credit: Sam Machkovech) The Analogue Pocket is a dream of a gaming device, and it begins shipping to preorder customers this week. It’s the most powerful, beautiful, and feature-rich system to revolve around the original Game Boy—and it […]

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Game Boy Advance game gets split-screen multiplayer through new FPGA core

Developer Robert Peip shows off some split-screen Game Boy Advance multiplayer gaming through his new FPGA core. Here at Ars, we’re big fans of situations where emulation creates a classic gaming experience that’s actually better than what you could get with original hardware in some way or another. In the past, that has meant upsampling […]