Subj : Retro gaming
To   : Nightfox
From : GenFx
Date : Mon Aug 26 2024 17:29:29

  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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