Re: Retro gaming
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Aug 25 2024 19:48:09
> Re: Retro gaming
> By: Nightfox to All on Tue Sep 14 2021 09:14 am
>
> > Who else is into retro gaming?
>
> I know we discussed this already in #synchronet, but ... I thought I'd
> mentioned here before that I bought a retro gaming handheld (the Powkiddy
> RGB10 MAX 2) a couple years ago and was super impressed at what you can get
> for the money these days. I even bought a couple as gifts.
>
> My teenage daughter sort of took ownership of my RGB10 MAX 2, so today I
> bought myself (for a long flight) a Miyoo Mini Plus (for $59 on Amazon),
> which has a smaller, little bit lower res screen, and is in the vertical
> (Gameboy) layout, but mostly the same game/emulation support as the Powkiddy
> I own. I was also pondering the Anbernic RG35XXH (horizontal) or RG35XXSP
> (flip), but liked the look of the Onion OS option for the Miyoo better and
> it was about $10 cheaper <shrug>.
>
> There are *so* many options (hardware, "OS") in the retro gaming handheld
> space. I do think I'd like something that played all (or most) N64 games
> well, but that's getting into the multi-hundo price range. The ports to
> these platforms of course run well on all of them, but volunteer devs can't
> (or won't) do that for most old console games (though, someone did it for
> the Super Mario 64). I see the Powkiddy RGB10 MAX 3 is out and there's other
> updated larger screen/wide devices and some super small form factor ones
> too. Fun stuff!
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