With the Analogue Pocket, gaming fans have a pristine new way to experience chunky old handheld games. The experience is so good using the Pocket, that it makes many games that are a quarter-century old (or older) feel crisp and new. This is thanks to the pocket’s solid construction, responsive inpu…
With the Analogue Pocket, gaming fans have a pristine new way to experience chunky old handheld games. The experience is so good using the Pocket, that it makes many games that are a quarter-century old (or older) feel crisp and new. This is thanks to the pocket’s solid construction, responsive inputs, and dazzling display. Put as simply as possible: If you have a substantial Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge collection, you need this device. The Analogue Pocket is available now (kind of) for $200. You can get it with a dock to connect to a television for another $100. As with everything else on Earth, however, enthusiastic consumers are encountering delays as supply struggles to meet demand. I will not go over every feature of the Pocket in this review. You can see the system in action along with most of its features in the video at the top of the page. Instead, let’s talk about what I like, what I don’t, and why. The star of this show is that screen. Analogue brilliantly decided to implement a 3.5-inch 1600-by-1440 panel. While that might seem like Analogue is committing overkill, it works here because that is exactly 10-times the resolution of the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color. This means that Analogue can integer-scale those original games up to fit perfectly onto this screen.
