Thumby Color From TinyCircuits Is A Programmable Tiny Handheld For Your Keychain
How many of you can remember the article we did on the original Thumby? It came from the genius minds over at TinyCircuits, a small team working out of Akron, Ohio. We loved the ingenuity of this thing, and now the team has created its successor, the Thumby Color, a device that takes inspiration from […]
AYANEO Pocket DMG & Micro Indiegogo Launch Dates Announced
If, like us, you live and breathe everything to do with handheld gaming, then you’ll no doubt be eagerly anticipating the arrival of AYANEO’s new Pocket DMG & Micro handhelds. Based on two of Nintendo’s most iconic handhelds, the Game Boy DMG and the Game Boy Micro, these two products make up part of the […]
New Limited Edition Aluminium Analogue Pockets Drop With A Premium Price
Analogue is known for dropping exciting releases on us without any prior warning; one minute we’re waiting for an Analogue Pocket restock (I’m still waiting for that limited edition green to come back), and the next I find a post from them about a brand new set of handhelds dropping that have blown my mind […]
New Startup Playtron Wants To Challenge Valve For A Slice Of The Handheld Gaming Pie
We love our handhelds here at Retro Dodo. Heck, it’s one of the main reasons you guys come to us, to get a measured and honest opinion on tech that we use day in, day out. The team has recently been delving into the retro benefits of the Steam Deck when it comes to emulating […]
FlipOnGo Is A Retro Inspired Handheld Concept Dedicated Entirely To Pinball
If I think of games that instill the very essence of the word ‘retro’, then I picture people gathered around a pinball machine in a dingy arcade, watching one whizz-kid (or a pinball wizard if The Who are in the house) beating a high score. We all love pinball here at Retro Dodo Towers, but […]
PocketMan P1 Metal Handheld Concept Is An Exciting Vertical Gaming Dream
The new PocketMan P1 handheld concept by Twig Studio shows us what a our metal shell vertical dream console could look like. If you’ve been a reader of Retro Dodo for a while, then surely you know how passionate I am about vertical handhelds and metal shells. I wrote an entire article about my dream […]
The New GKD Pixel Aims To Take The Micro Device Crown
The new GKD Pixel has its sights set on the micro device crown, aggressively coming at the Anbernic RG Nano‘s neck. The teasers from GKD about the Pixel have been slow. Starting with appropriately pixelated photos, hiding most of the handheld. But just this past week, GKD has been ramping up the exposure. And we […]
New AYANEO Pocket S Announced And It Looks Incredible
AYANEO has just announced their new insanely beautiful Android-based handheld, the AYANEO Pocket S. And as you can see, this is perhaps one of the most unique and aesthetically pleasing handheld designs in quite a long time. So, while this is yet another AYANEO console on the horizon, this is one we are actually incredibly […]
New Official Lenovo Legion Go Handheld Images Revealed
Just a couple weeks after reports of a brand new Lenovo handheld device had leaked, we now have official images of the Legion Go. And as you can see, this thing is looking much better than the initial reports, which seemed to be using incorrect images. And after seeing these designs, we feel a lot […]
The NucDeck Is The Newest DIY Steam Deck Alternative On The Block
The NucDeck project by Dan McKenzie aka CNCDan is a new DIY Windows-based handheld that aims to offer a unique alternative to the SteamDeck. Much like other DIY projects we’ve covered here on Retro Dodo, like the DIY PlayDate Camera or the DIY Nintendo DS Mod the Xipher DS Slab… The fun in a project […]