2024 marks the thirty fifth anniversary of Nintendo’s Game Boy, and it stays probably the most influential and fashionable handhelds of all time. In 2021, the Analogue Pocket was launched as a method to give trendy avid gamers a brand new choice to play their Game Boy video games in addition to video games from different discontinued handhelds. Now, Analogue Pocket has a brand new competitor within the type of ModRetro’s The Chromatic, and it could be much more attractive to Game Boy followers.
Meet: The Chromatic.
A handheld recreation console designed with trendy tech, however with retro soul. Appropriate with all traditional Game Boy®. and Game Boy®. Colour cartridges.
First-edition handhelds can be found for pre-order. Bundled with Tetris®. for Chromatic within the field.
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Game Boy was bundled with Tetris at its launch, so it is solely becoming that The Chromatic may even be launching with Tetris included. The Chromatic will be capable of play video games particularly made for this handheld, along with the entire traditional Game Boy and Game Boy Colour video games. ModRetro additionally went out of its method to pay tribute to the unique Game Boy and its successor with a customized LCD display screen that has “similar pixel construction, similar format, similar decision, and dimension to the Game Boy Colour,” based on the accompanying video. Even the colours are correct to the best way they had been displayed on the Game Boy Colour.
The Chromatic is available in a magnesium-alloy shell that can be obtainable in six completely different colours. Preorders are already live on ModRetro’s official site, and the worth of the hand held is $199.
Moreover, ModRetro introduced that GameStop would be the official retail associate for The Chromatic, which can launch in the course of the vacation season later this 12 months.