by Ban | May 28, 2025 | Features, Reviews
How small would you want your handheld? Miyoo Mini? RG Nano? Maybe a Funkey S if you’re feeling flippy. What if you could go smaller? Take out the emulation, take out all the excess, take out anything extra, and what are you left with? The Thumby. And in today’s... 
by Dan W | May 27, 2025 | Features
The Knulli team has announced its latest release, this time christened Gladiator, causing no end of Retro Gamers to stand to their feet as one and cry, “Are you not entertained?” Knulli is a fork of Barocera. However, while Batocera is designed to only support devices... 
by Nick | May 27, 2025 | Features
If you grew up in the North American video game market in the 80s and 90s, chances are that you’re very familiar with the console wars that occurred between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega Genesis. Genesis supposedly did what Nintendon’t — blast processing,... 
by andrew | May 25, 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 | May 24, 2025 | Features, Guide
It’s been a little while since the Anbernic RG557 was released, and since then, we’ve seen a few updates arrive that seemingly solved the original performance issues many were having. With that out of the way, we figured it would be a good time to put... 
by Ban | May 23, 2025 | Features, Reviews
The low-end market of handhelds has been primarily dominated by one of two chips. The RK3326 and the RK3566. Both of which have been seen in handhelds dating back to 2022, or 2020 for the 3326. In that time, the most we’ve seen out of those chips is new firmware and...