Xylander 🎧Dec 17
Chris Chapman
Contemplating the last 24 years of incredible advances in silicon, emulation and product design, and how it’s led to this: the ability to play GBA games anywhere we want.
Dec 17 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threadJohn RockefellerDec 17
@retrohistories I felt something similar the other day unpacking the Mister MultiSystem 2. It'll play any game made before 1999.
Show threadGames That I MissedDec 17
@retrohistories <laughing> Yes, but with a much better screen. As I get older, I'm not going to take that for granted.
Show threadMatthew WaltonDec 17
@retrohistories we can carry a lot more of them around with us now! Hurrah for the era of... Oh yes. Choice paralysis.
Show threadChris ChapmanDec 17
@mathw yeah I spent hours picking the one game I was going to play on the plane
Show threadToby JaffeyDec 17
@retrohistories ... with worse battery life (probably)
Show threadChris ChapmanDec 17
@tobyjaffey Never had a real GBA to compare, but for emu of older 2D systems, you can get an easy 10 hours out of this thing.
Show threadToby JaffeyDec 17
@retrohistories Nice. I'm just amused because the original GB/GBA were designed to be very power efficient throughout and I'm not sure we've gone much forwards, we've just got much larger capacity batteries.
Show threadJohn FaulkenburyDec 18
@retrohistories I love it, what hardware is that?
Show threadChris ChapmanDec 19
@jfaulken it’s a Retroid Pocket Flip 2.