Palmer Luckey’s Chromatic is the Final Recreation Boy

Anybody who has had a hankering to play with a brand new and improved Nintendo Recreation Boy this vacation season is in luck. Palmer Luckey, the person who created a VR headset that will literally kill you is engaged in a brand new, extra enjoyable, and completely non-lethal challenge.

On June 2, Luckey formally introduced his new ModRetro Chromatic — a console that Luckey claims can run any Nintendo Game Boy cartridges on the market — is able to be pre-ordered from the ModRetro website and shall be shipped in time for the vacations. The bonus right here is that whereas Luckey has put his Chromatic right into a bundle that appears like a throwback to the golden age of Nintendo handheld gaming, the gadget is a souped-up model that might feel and look a bit higher than the unique.

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In his product announcement, Luckey revealed that the ModRetro Chromatic has been a labor of affection for nearly twenty years. The $199 handheld, obtainable for preorder now and set to be delivered in December, has undergone quite a few iterations and checks to make sure it is not only a Recreation Boy clone, however a real homage to the console’s distinctive allure.

The ModRetro Chromatic boasts a magnesium alloy case and a sapphire crystal cowl glass, providing the identical measurement, decision, pixel construction, and coloration stability as the unique Recreation Boy and Recreation Boy Colours. With a brightness of 1,000 nits and an LCD display designed for out of doors use, the Chromatic ensures a seamless gaming expertise, even beneath the solar.

As a result of the ModRetro Chromatic has an FPGA, it should enable customers to play any official Recreation Boy and Recreation Boy Coloration cartridges as if you have been enjoying them on the unique units. However Luckey has added a little bit of a particular deal with with every console. An formally licensed and specifically designed model of Tetris that features “reimagined variations of the enduring Tetris theme track” and Hyperlink Cable multiplayer must you and a buddy every buy a replica.

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Luckey goes all out on ensuring that his Chromatic evokes the sensation of the unique Recreation Boy and Recreation Boy coloration whereas providing a couple of new options which are solely obtainable within the trendy period. For many who need to reside within the extra trendy period, the hand held will can help you cost the AA batteries it runs on utilizing a USB-C cable.

For many who need to keep retro, there’s a extra conventional headphone jack for taking part in in non-public. To that finish, ModRetro can also be promoting particular Porta Professional headphones that may be color-matched to the Chromatic model you select. To tie all of it collectively, ModRetro is providing up a number of of its personal video games on cartridges, simply in case you did not grasp onto your previous Recreation Boy carts.

In line with Luckey, you aren’t going to have a lot time to resolve if the Chromatic goes to be in your Christmas checklist. In his weblog put up, he made it clear that provides are restricted and that whereas the corporate will make different merchandise, they are not making a number of runs of those.