Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Analogue Pocket
A modern hand-held for playing old GameBoy gamees
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Analogue Pocket launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…
2025 · eli.lipsitz.net · its alternatives →
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Palmer Luckey's new startup, a modern Game Boy console
2024 · modretro.com · its alternatives →
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Old school handheld game consoles, fully emulated
2018 · archive.org · its alternatives →
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Retro arcade games you can play on the move
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Delta▲245The first Gameboy emulator approved in the App Store
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Adventures in hardware hacking, low-level software, FPGAs, and more!
2019 · craigjb.com · its alternatives →
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A new compact version of the Nintendo Switch
2019 · nintendo.com · its alternatives →
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A modular and affordable synthesizer 🎛️
2019 · teenage.engineering · its alternatives →
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A wall of sound in your pocket
2018 · teenage.engineering · its alternatives →
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GB Studio▲159A free and easy to use game creator for the GameBoy
2019 · gbstudio.dev · its alternatives →
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Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This fun game it's really a test to the eye.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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