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Before he , before he founded , Palmer Luckey was a Nintendo Game Boy modder. It’s true. There’s photo evidence — and today, his own take on the ultimate cartridge-playing Nintendo Game Boy, one that you can actually buy for $199.

Shipping this holiday, sounds incredible: magnesium alloy case, sapphire crystal cover glass, PBT buttons, a pixel-perfect IPS screen at the same size, resolution, and pixel structure as the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color, color-matched to the Game Boy Color screen — and with “well over a thousand” nits of brightness so you can play out in the sunlight. 1 / 12 1 / 12 Not only does it have an FPGA inside (like the lauded ) to play genuine Game Boy and Game Boy Color carts as if you’re playing them on the Nintendo original, but Luckey also says it will come with a genuine copy of like the 1989 original famously did in most countries. It’s internally developed by Luckey’s team, which features “reimagined versions of the iconic Tetris theme song” and genuine Link Cable multiplayer.



1 / 7 1 / 7 Because yes, the Chromatic has a Link Cable port as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack and USB-C for “lagless” video out. It lasts 24 hours on three standard AA batteries, Luckey tells me.

While it’ll probably ship with alkalines, there’ll be an optional lithium-ion pack, too — and he tells me you can even recharge your NiMH AA batteries over USB-C! Speaker audio is mono, like the original Game Boys, with a “custom ultra-loud sp.

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