by Shawn Wilkins | Jan 30, 2025 | News
Retro handhelds are no stranger to weird, unique, and sometimes outright baffling designs. One of the earliest retro handhelds to gain a somewhat cult following was the W1 Mini, a retro handheld designed to look like a baby chick wearing sunglasses. The bulbousness of...
by Shawn Wilkins | Jan 30, 2025 | News
The RG34XX has become one of retro handheld’s most ambitious consoles to date. Not for its feature set, but for its overall design and capability to improve upon what the original GBA offered gamers in 2001. One of the main highlights of the RG34XX is its screen. It...
by andrew | Jan 26, 2025 | Features, News
Welcome to the latest edition of Retro Handhelds Weekly. This week saw a bunch of news in both 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 | Jan 25, 2025 | News
Most of the time, when you buy a horizontal retro handheld, you just play your games in that orientation. There are a few oddballs (Retro Tech Dad comes to mind) that also enjoy shmups to the point that they would turn something like the AYANEO KUN into a vertical...
by andrew | Jan 24, 2025 | News
Can you believe it’s been more than three months since the AYANEO 3 was first teased? Since then, we’ve started a whole new year, a bunch of us went to CES, and somehow, Powkiddy has released more new handhelds than Anbernic. Well, after subtly throwing...
by andrew | Jan 21, 2025 | News
It’s been a few months since the Retroid Pocket Mini was released, and since then, a lot of things have happened. However, missing in everything was the release of Android 13 for the Pocket Mini. Thankfully, the wait is finally over, as you can now download and...