Peteykins

Selling controllers for a console that doesn't exist sure is an interesting business model!

Phil says he has meetings "all the time." About what?!?

Sad end to his career. Appropriate end to Tommy's.

I have one of those strange "GB Boy Colour" handhelds from several years ago that plays original cartridges as well as a bunch of pirated roms built in. It's kind of pointless but works great. This one looks too small. Overall, I don't think anything beats well-modded original Game Boy Advance hardware for this purpose.

None of the Zool games are all that fabulous. They're OK.

The Retro Collective in Stroud did a restoration of one of these.

Oh no, if they keep this up, we might go a whole day without a new handheld announcement.

Eh, it's a bundled development deal. I wouldn't expect much, if anything, to come of it. Maybe one movie.

@Bot_Bot_69 You should never, ever buy one because there will always be an ever-so-slightly better one right around the corner!

"If we push aside all the ethical issues of AI and forget they exist"

Uhhhhhhh.

A GBA dock really is such a nice idea. Bluetooth controller support sounds like a great option.

Cursed as I am to be a copyright professional, I'm not even slightly surprised.

This has similar vibes as when those dudebros bought Jodorowski's Dune book and thought they had bought something other than just an expensive book.

I have the Taito Super Pocket and it's neat, but I just don't love playing console games on itty bitty screens. Your mileage may vary.

Sounds like another big smoke-n-mirrors sale. This market is so, so corrupt.

Well, as long as the arcade games are real, the AI use is distasteful but not really a deal breaker. Of course, like most (most! Not all!) other attempts to open retro arcades, this one will probably last two years at the longest.

Counterpoint: with that title, maybe it would have sold better?

And it keeps lumbering along, with John Alvarado and Phil Adams continuing to pretend they are going to manufacture controllers, etc., and releasing a handful of low-wattage shovelware titles. Incredible that they're still acting like it is a thing.

A new form factor. Wow. This will change everything.

@mariteaux Hear hear!

If you use somebody else's property, you are willingly putting yourself in their hands.

Looks like a Herman Miller price for a chair made in China.

If anybody wonders why Nintendo never did this, it is because clear plastics are always, always more fragile and brittle than opaque plastics, making them particularly unsuitable for the DS/3DS form factor.

@TV4Fun
How did you know I was referring to you?

Anybody who admits to using this garbage loses me instantly and forever.

Need that spinner!

I can't help but wonder how many people are going to buy a book about Ridge Racer? And as a copyright professional, I also wonder if startups like this are aware of how much time and money they're going to spend on rights clearances (or how much they're risking if they don't think they need to do it).

Anybody who buys this truly deserves to own it.

Yeah, if these were made with latex or rubber, there's no way they could have survived as anything other than gooey blobs of literally tar and feathers.

I don't think these things ever even registered as a blip on the radar in the United States.

Didn't their design partner, Teenage Engineering, produce some kind of flop "ai assistant" type of device?

"Nothing in the world exists in a vacuum. There's nothing wrong with discussing how global politics impacts our everyday lives. That's healthy conversation."*

*Unless it has something to do with Donald Trump, in which case comments will be disabled."

I'll pass, thanks!

Of all the games that doesn't need a "next gen facelift".

New gimmicky form factors in a desperate attempt to stand out in a wildly oversaturated market! Yay!

"I know this is wrong but I'm going to do it anyway." Such a brave soldier!

Definitely a no thanks from me!

I wonder if he took a look at the NES Arkanoid controller to figure it out?

All those Chupa Chups logos are the closest we'll ever come to having a Salvador Dalí video game (he designed their logo).

Garbage company.

Off topic but it seems kind of strange that Time Extension isn't covering John Hancock getting rid of his huge collection? Is it because he's American? Or because some people have big issues with him? Seems like something this website would cover.

Love the Super Pocket, but that is a very small screen for Banjo! I have the Taito one, and it's kind of great, but the screen is just too small for a lot of the games.

Kind of a baffling device. Is the knob also a joystick? If so, it doesn't look fun to use. Also: "knob" isn't nearly as hilarious to Americans as it is for British people.

Oh no, Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2 are such rare, hard to find games!

LMAO, so many people are going to strenuously insist that the Virtual Boy is great and they love it. And then maybe a month later it won't be spoken of again.

Place looks wonderful, and if they've been open 8 years, they've obviously figured out what so many other "in business for two years, max" arcades didn't. I wonder what the secret sauce is?

Does it really play from the cartridge or does it just rip the ROM and then emulate it?

"...already been talked about to death" is extremely accurate.

@KayFiOS
Easily explained! transparent plastics are always more fragile and brittle than opaque ones.

Good for them, but playing Doom on an Evercade doesn't seem like a great way to play it.

The copyright professional in me says, "Wow, clearing all the rights must have cost a fortune," but the realistic side of me knows that they didn't clear anything and are using the "cross your fingers" technique, LOL.