Hardware desk. If it has a cartridge slot, an FPGA board or a weird controller, Hank has opened it up and put it back together — usually better. Writes the gear reviews and hardware spotlights.
THEA1200 was meant to launch in June. Chip shortages, plastic costs, and an unfinished operating system moved it to December 4 — but the price never moved, production is now running, and the full-size Amiga 1200 remake looks worth the wait.
Our Analogue 3D review: FPGA accuracy, 4K output and superb CRT display modes make this the definitive way to play N64 cartridges today.
Nintendo’s smallest cartridge console ever, the Pokémon Mini, gets its due: the tiny library, the collector hunt, and a homebrew scene running Game Boy software on it.
LEGO 72046 recreates the Game Boy at near 1:1 scale for $59.99: pressable buttons, lenticular screens and two brick cartridges. Accuracy meets honest pricing.
It can’t play a single game, it didn’t sell for $100,000, and it’s priceless anyway. The Space World 2000 GameCube prototype, explained.
Nintendo’s correction, in full: the Switch 2 GameCube controller works beyond the Classics app — with honest caveats. The resolution, explained.
A footnote said the Switch 2 GameCube controller would only work with the Classics app. How sixteen quiet words started a very loud argument.
37 Sega games, a proper mini stick and long-lost rarities: the Astro City Mini is a desktop tribute to Japan’s greatest arcade cabinet.
The Game Boy Color retrospective the Retronauts way: instant palettes, Pokémon Gold and Silver, and why the ‘minor upgrade’ was really a five-year second act.
Replicade and Numskull Quarter Arcades shrink Street Fighter II and Galaga into playable replicas. Two philosophies of the miniature arcade, compared.