The $199 Chromatic might be the best Nintendo Game Boy ever

This is true. photo is proof — and today, he’s revealing his own take on the ultimate cartridge-playing Nintendo Game Boy, which you can actually buy for $199.

Shipping in this holiday, Moderetro Chromatic Looks incredible: magnesium alloy case, sapphire crystal cover glass, PBT buttons, a pixel-perfect IPS screen at the same size and resolution as the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color, color-matched to the Game Boy Color screen – with “over a thousand” nits of brightness so you can play in sunlight.

Not only does it have an FPGA inside (as praised Analog Pocket) will be able to play original Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges as if you were playing them on a Nintendo original, but Lucky also said it will come with a genuine copy. Tetris As the original Game Boy often did. It A brand new, fully licensed Tetris game Developed internally by the team at Lucci, featuring a “reimagined version of the iconic Tetris theme song” and true link cable multiplayer.

Because yes, the Chromatic has a link cable port as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack and USB-C for “lugless” video out. Lucky tells me it runs up to 24 hours on three standard AA batteries. Although it will likely come with alkaline, there will also be an optional lithium-ion pack – and he says you can recharge its NiMH AA batteries using a USB-C charger, too!

Audio is mono, like the original Game Boys, featuring a “custom ultra-loud speaker module”.

Speaking of custom, Luki tells me the entire design is in-house, including the custom screen – which is so shiny because it’s based on displays used in aviation. He says ModeRetro isn’t doing anything unique like making its own chips, but in general, the team did their best rather than making business decisions.

By the way, the ModeRetro team won’t just sell handhelds: you can also buy original “Chromatic” cartridges with new games. By the way, the Chromatic handheld doesn’t use ROM, not even in the roundabout way that the Analogue Pocket does. Lucky says it’s cartridge-only, unless you provide your own flashcart.

Lucci says he’s not sure how long he’ll fund this hardware project, hinting that quantities will be limited — though GameStop will also carry an unknown number of them. “I’m going to make as many as I need to fulfill preorders,” he told me. “But this thing is too crazy to make forever.”

“I don’t see this as a way to make money, I see it as a way to pay the world’s best tribute to the Game Boy, something I’ll be proud of for a very long time.”