by Ban | Sep 17, 2025 | Features
In the days and ages of handhelds that play every system from Atari 2600 to Nintendo Switch, you may find yourself having a harder and harder time deciding what to actually play. Only to end up spending more time scrolling through your lists or tinkering with your...
by Jim Gray | Sep 15, 2025 | Features, Interview
At the dawn of the new millennium, every company was scrambling to come up with a competitor to Tony Hawk’s wildly successful first entry in his Pro Skater series. MTV Sports knew they needed a big name to attach to their upcoming entry in the skate game wars....
by andrew | Sep 14, 2025 | Features, News
Welcome to the latest edition of Retro Handhelds Weekly. This week, we saw a bunch of news in the world of hardware and software. Our writing team continues to be on an absolute tear, and there’s even a surprise or two sprinkled in! So sit back, grab a cup of coffee,...
by andrew | Sep 13, 2025 | Features, Guide
It had about five years since the PowKiddy V90 was released when its successor, the PowKiddy V90S, finally arrived. In that time, the V90 became a fan favorite, despite all of its flaws, as it was one of the first and only available clamshell retro handhelds. Now that...
by Dan W | Sep 11, 2025 | Features
In their 2024 advertising campaign “This is an Xbox”, Microsoft sought to blur the lines in consumers’ minds between what counted as a gaming device and what didn’t. It almost felt like the whole Retro Handheld scene could respond to this campaign with the simple...
by Jim Gray | Sep 10, 2025 | Features
SNK Corporation went bankrupt in 2001, and by 2004, their legendary NEO•GEO console had received its last game, a whopping 14 years after its home debut. For the rest of the decade, SNK went through a number of restructures, legal battles, and acquisitions, resulting...
