Black Friday 2025 Starts Early: Best Deals on Handhelds, Controllers, and Gaming Accessories

by | Nov 19, 2025 | Features, Shopping | 0 comments

Retro Handhelds Holiday Gift Guide 2024

With the days getting shorter and colder, it can only mean one thing: the 2025 holiday shopping season is upon us. Coming as little surprise, many retailers have kicked off their Black Friday deals early, as we’re still about a week away from the actual Black Friday. On the bright side, we don’t have to wait any longer to find incredible retro handheld deals from Amazon, AliExpress, Best Buy, and others.

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Black Friday Retailer Deals

Amazon

Amazon Black Friday Retro Handheld Deals

Amazon Black Friday Deals

AliExpress

AliExpress Black Friday Deals banner

AliExpress Sales

Anbernic: Save Up to 58%

Anbernic Black Friday 2025 Deals

Anbernic Black Friday

Best Buy

Black Friday at Best Buy

MechDIY: Save Up to 18%

Mechdiy BF-CM Deals

MechDIY Black Friday

OneXPlayer: Save Up to $299

Death Must Die on OneXPlayer

OXP Black Friday

UGREEN

UGREEN Chargers

UGREEN Black Friday

Retro Stocking Stuffers

Thumby and Thumby Color Review - Up Close

  • TinyCircuits Thumby
  • Double-Sided Gamer Decision Making Coin
  • RepliCade Insert Coin Keychain
  • JSAUX Game Card Case
  • Paladone NES Cartridge Retro Drink Coasters

Retro Handhelds

Game_Console_XF35H_Splatterhouse

Anbernic

Anbernic RG476H Review

Miyoo

Miyoo Mini Flip Setup Guide - Stock Firmware

PowKiddy

PowKiddy V90S First Impressions - On Top the Stack

TrimUI

NextUI on TrimUI Brick Hammer

NextUI on TrimUI Brick Hammer

Other

Game_Console_R36T_White_Black

Android Handhelds

AYN Thor First Impressions - 15

Anbernic

Anbernic RG477M First Impressions - Silver and Bronze Button Comparison

AYN

Horizon Chase on the AYN Odin 2 Portal

AYANEO

Donut County on AYANEO Pocket EVO

MagicX / XU Retro

MagicX Zero 40 playing arcade classic Dig Dug in TATE mode

Retroid

 

x86 Handhelds

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Hands-on - 4

AYANEO

Ayaneo 2 on table

GPD

GPD Win 4 with Keyboard Slide-out

MSI

MSI Claw Promotional Image

OneXPlayer

OneXPlayer X1 Air Teaser Poster

Controllers

8BitDo Pro 3 Dpad

Multi-platform

Phone/Tablet

Galaxy Z Fold with the X2S

Galaxy Z Fold with the X2S

First Party

Storage

microSD

NVMe SSD

Portable SSD

Games

Evercade Library

Switch 2

  • Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch 2 Edition)
  • Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch 2 Edition)
  • Mario Kart World (Switch 2 Edition)
  • Super Mario Party Jamboree – Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV

First-Party Sytems/Consoles

Switch 2 Mario Kart World

Mini PCs

AceMagic Matrix M1 Review: Not for Gaming

  • Mac Mini (M4/16GB/256GB)
  • MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro-370 (AI 9 HX 370/96GB/2TB)
  • GMKtec Nucbox M7 (6850H/32GB/2TB)
  • ACEMAGIC Vista V1 (N150/16GB/512GB)
  • Beelink SER5 MAX (6800U/24GB/500GB)

eGPUs

ASUS ROG XG Mobile eGPU 2025 Press Render

 

Keyboards & Mice

Fantech Shooter III Review

Keyboards

Mice

Miscellaneous

Retro Handhelds or DAPs Best for Your Music - Top-down

Find a Great Deal? Let Us Know!

There are thousands of retro handheld deals to be had, and this roundup is only scratching the surface. Did you come across an incredible deal that you don’t see on this list? Drop us a comment and let us know!

In the meantime, we’ll be updating this post as we find new deals, so be sure to check back on a regular basis as we go through the holiday shopping season.

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