Atari And Technos Super Pocket Retro Gaming Handheld Preorders Are Lit With 65 Classic Games
Feeling nostalgic for the games you played growing up? There are numerous ways to re-experience classic games from your childhood and/or earlier eras, from PC emulators to newfangled consoles with built-in titles. The Atari Super Pocket falls into the latter category in the handheld form factor, and it's available to preorder alongside the Technos Super Pocket.
These are the newest Super Pocket systems by Blaze Entertainment. Starting with the former, the Atari Super Pocket comes preloaded with 50 classic arcade and Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, and Lynx games, including Asteroids, Basketbrawl, Berzerk, Centipede, Kung Food, Haunted House, Missile Command, Pong, Tempest, Yar's Revenge, and a whole bunch of other titles.
What's also nifty is that the handheld sports an Evercade cartridge slot on the back. This expands the catalog of games to more than 500 titles across 60+ released collections.
The system itself is a compact handheld with a 2.8-inch IPS display (320x240 resolution), various buttons, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB-C port for charge it (cable included). It purportedly boasts a battery life of four hours or more.
You can preorder the Atari Super Pocket for $59.99 on Amazon; it releases next Thursday, October 22.
The other retro handheld that's up for grabs is the Technos Super Pocket, which is also priced at $59.99 at Amazon and releases on the same day as the Atari Super Pocket (October 22). It's similar in concept and style, albeit in a blue and white colorway and obviously with different games baked in.
It doesn't sport as many preloaded titles as the Atari Super Pocket—'just' 15 instead of 60—but they're generally higher quality games, at least in terms of graphics and gameplay. They include the following...
- Double Dragon
- Double Dragon (8-bit)
- Double Dragon (8-bit handheld)
- Double Dragon II: The Revenge
- Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone
- Super Double Dragon (16-bit)
- Block Out
- Crash 'N' The Boys: Street Challenge (8-bit)
- Minky Monkey
- Mysterious Stones: Dr John's Adventure
- Renegade
- River City Ransom (8-bit)
- Super Dodge Ball
- Super Spike V'Ball
- The Combatribes
The primary appeal here is to relive older Double Dragon titles. Like the Atari Super Pocket, the Technos Super Pocket sports an Evercade cartridge slot on the back, with over 45 cartridges available to expand the catalog of games to over 600 titles.
While you're checking these out, also have a gander at previously released retro gaming handhelds, and specifically the Taito Super Pocket ($59.99 at Amazon) and the Capcom Super Pocket ($59.99 at Amazon).
