Playdate hand-held is associate indie-powered Game Boy for the twenty first century

It has a intrinsical hand-crank. Yes really.


If you long for the great recent days of straightforward games that place fun and imagination on top of everything else, then nowadays is your lucky day, as a result of a replacement indie-focused hand-held is returning from videogame-publisher Panic, the corporate behind Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game, and it aims to bring Game Boy-style charm to the twenty first century.

Revealed nowadays, Playdate may be a tiny, yellow hand-held with an easy directional pad, 2 main face buttons associated an initiate hand-crank that is certain to open up new and exciting gameplay avenues. 

It's also got a high-end black-and-white show that guarantees to be rather more advanced than a Game Boy screen, with Panic telling The Verge that "it has no grid lines, no blurring, is very sharp and clear, and has abundant higher resolution," more stating that, "It sounds odd to mention, but: it’s really a ‘premium’ black-and-white screen.”

A new thanks to receive games
Another innovative component to the Playdate is however you will get games, with Panic explaining that the moveable console plans implement a TV show-style delivery system for its games, with one new title inward on the device per week for a complete of twelve weeks in what it's business 'Season One'. every subsequent season can embrace a replacement assortment of games, and is predicted to incur an extra price.

So far, just one title has been proclaimed for this initial season – Crankin’s Time Travel journey from Katamari Damacy-creator Keita Takahashi – tho' the corporate has unconcealed that its hand-held can embrace new games from celebrated game designers Zach Gage (Typeshift), Bennett Foddy (QWOP) and Shaun Inman (The Last Rocket).

The company plans to stay these games a secret till they arrive on the hand held in a shot to surprise its customers, merely stating that, "Some ar short, some long, some ar experimental, some ancient. All ar fun."


  • Playdate and its initial season of games can launch in early 2020 and can be priced at $149 (around £118 / AU$217).


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