Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago$500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final formarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down110
arrow-up1183arrow-down1external-link$500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final formarstechnica.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareChainweasel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·4 months agoWhy won’t anyone make these with a GBA layout? My old GBA was my favorite way to play Gameboy and GBC games because it’s just easier to hold.
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 months agoObviously piracy would be terrible and nobody would do it, but imagine how great GBC games would be on the Steam Deck if such a thing were possible! I’d probably play those pretty regularly!
minus-squareToribor@corndog.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoPlaying GBA games on the Steam Deck and then going back to a real GBA is kind of hilarious. The GBA screen is even worse than I remember.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoNostalgia based marketing.
minus-squareretrieval4558@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAnbernic has some GBA layout ones, although I’m pretty sure they’re not aluminum
Why won’t anyone make these with a GBA layout?
My old GBA was my favorite way to play Gameboy and GBC games because it’s just easier to hold.
Obviously piracy would be terrible and nobody would do it, but imagine how great GBC games would be on the Steam Deck if such a thing were possible! I’d probably play those pretty regularly!
Playing GBA games on the Steam Deck and then going back to a real GBA is kind of hilarious. The GBA screen is even worse than I remember.
Nostalgia based marketing.
Anbernic has some GBA layout ones, although I’m pretty sure they’re not aluminum