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Analogue’s 8 Retro-Colored Pocket Handhelds Are Perfect Stocking Stuffers

12.14.23 | By
Analogue’s 8 Retro-Colored Pocket Handhelds Are Perfect Stocking Stuffers

Nostalgia is one helluva drug. It’s especially true in the realm of gaming, where many once young gamers still harbor warm recollections of countless hours curled up with their favorite title slotted into their Nintendo Game Boy. It’s a memory openly tapped by boutique handheld and console gaming maker, Analogue through their various incarnations of clone gaming machines. The brand’s latest drop is one literally colored in nostalgia, with eight new hues inspired by the Game Boy Advance, tinting the Classic Limited Edition Pockets as possibly the gift to get for the gamer (and color lover) in your life.

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in green with Croc game on its screen

If you’re not already acquainted with the Analogue Pocket, it’s basically an updated Game Boy equipped with a 3.5″, 615 ppi, 1600×1440 resolution LCD screen that plays back all of your fave retro titles at 10x the resolution of the original Game Boy. And you’ll have more than enough options to choose from, noting Analogue’s gaming machine is compatible with more than 2,780 Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance titles, not to mention the ability to play Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Atari Lynx games with optional adapters.

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in purple with Buffy the Vampire Slayer game on its screen

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in Pumpkin Spice with Grand Theft Auto game on its screen

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in blue with WWF Attitude game on its screen

The handheld also supports up to 4-multiplayer gameplay, comes equipped with a built-in synthesizer and sequencer, and furthermore, can be docked to play on an even larger screen: your TV!

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in pink with Hello Kitty game on its screen

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in red with X-Men Mutant Wars game on its screen

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in silver with Mega Man II game on its screen

Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket in yellow with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves game on its screen

Available in blue, green, indigo, pink, red, silver, yellow, and an autumnal spice orange, the entire Classic Limited Edition Pockets was color matched to their inspirational source – the Game Boy Advance.

All 8 Analogue Classic Limited Edition Pocket handheld gaming machines displayed in a layered line. Left to right, shown in silver, purple, orange, pink, blue, green, red, and yellow, each with a different retro gaming title on their screen.

Check out all 8 colors over at the Analogue online shop, but note there’s a 2 units per order limit of an already limited $250 release.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, hiking, tide pools, and road trips, a selection of his adventures and musings can be found at gregoryhan.com.