RH Picks: Best Prime Day Deals of 2024

As another year brings us Amazon’s Black Friday in July, the RH deal gnomes have been hard at work scouring the depths for the best Prime Day deals on handhelds, accessories, and various doodads that we, the tinkering folk, enjoy. So come show your appreciation for our deal-digging friends and see if there’s something that you can’t live without on this celebration of consumerism.

Prime Day Deals on Handhelds/Consoles

We should preface this by saying that many of these devices are available for less through international marketplace vendors like AliExpress, but we understand that there are people out there who don’t necessarily feel like dealing with some of the headaches that can go along with navigating some less than reputable sellers (lightbulbs anyone?). Prime Day gives us some good prices with short shipping times and a hassle-free return policy.

Kinhank

If you follow our YouTube channel at all, then you may be familiar with this company from Zu’s hilarious hard drive reviews. As far as I’m concerned if Amazon so chooses to sell these devices on the largest retail platform on earth, then it’s sure ok for you and I to be enjoying them. Any moral quandaries aside, these are some genuinely well-made and curated collections that have come a long way since their earlier devices, and the drives are all plug-and-play for PC.

Prime Day Deals on Storage

One need that absolutely goes hand-in-hand with the Retro Handhelds hobby is storage. The SD cards that come packed in and preloaded from manufacturers are not of a quality that you’d ever want to depend on, and bootleg cards are infecting vulnerable retail outlets. Avoid any headaches and look into deals with trusted manufacturers.

Prime Day Deals on Controllers

Galaxy Z Fold with the Galileo G8

I’ve been writing a series on budget controllers lately, and we haven’t quite made it far along enough to get to the good stuff, but needless to say there are a few choices available today that I would have no problem recommending. Amazon’s own Luna controllers make a great Bluetooth option that works great outside the intended ecosystem, and 8bitdo and Gamesir have consistently exceeded my expectations in the price category to become my favorite controllers in a collection of many.

If you’re not ready to take the plunge with a retro handheld, maybe you can check out some great phone/tablet controller options to transform powerful hardware you might already own into an emulation powerhouse. In his March review, our writer Andrew wrote that the X2S was a “practically perfect” phone controller option, and after having purchased one myself after his review, I’m inclined to agree.

Prime Day Deals on Accessories

All those little PC bits and bobs that go along with all the things that we enjoy here at RH. Might you need a card reader for that new 1.5TB SD card you picked up to transfer Roms? Or maybe a retro-inspired Commodore 64 Bluetooth keyboard to tell us how much you enjoy the channel and website in our Discord Server?

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* We will continue to update this article throughout Prime Day as new deals continue to come in, so make sure to keep checking back right here at RH!