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Life & fun · October 17, 2019

Analogue Pocket

A modern hand-held for playing old GameBoy gamees

Analogue Pocket launched on October 17, 2019 with 182 votes, #100 of 3,363 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

A portable handheld. A digital audio workstation with a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A tribute to portable gaming. Out of the box, Pocket is compatible with the 2,780+ Game Boy, Game Boy Color & Game Boy Advance game cartridge library

A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workstation with a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A tribute to portable gaming.

Transform Pocket's display into the display on an original GB, GBC, or GBA. Quirks and all. Pocket's 615ppi display allows astonishingly accurate recreation of original hardware display characteristics like backlight LCD effects, pixel grid patterns and LCD subpixel patterns. Pocket is the ultimate tribute to portable gaming. We designed four unique portable video game system based cartridge adapters that allow you to play your original game cartridges on. Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket & Neo Geo Pocket Color, TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine & SuperGrafx & Atari Lynx. Each adapter includes several Original Display Modes specific to each system. So you can explore portable gaming history with no…from analogue.co

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