Retro handheld gaming meets contemporary design in the Analogue Pocket, a new device for playing old Game Boy cartridges.
American tech company Analogue made Pocket as "a tribute to portable gaming". It plans to release the device next year.
It is designed to play the more than 2,780 titles Nintendo released for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance ? a family of handheld consoles produced from 1989 onwards.

With an adapter, it can also play games from other portable devices synonymous with the 1990s: Sega's Game Gear, SNK's Neo Geo Pocket Color and the Atari Lynx.
The hardware of the time has been given a due upgrade. Analogue promises 10 times the screen resolution of an original Game Boy, at 1600 by 1440 pixels on a 3.5-inch LCD screen and "pro-level colour accuracy". And the device doubles as a tool for music creation. It comes with Nanoloop software pre-installed, allowing musicians to use Pocket as a sequencer and synthesiser.

Pocket is the first handheld device from Analogue, which makes consoles that revive retro games from Nintendo and Sega, with the goal of "celebrating and exploring" the history of the medium.
Analogue founder and CEO Christopher Taber told Dezeen that the company's approach to design separates it from other players in the video game sector.

"Compared to other industries, the video game industry is quite immature in terms of diversity in concept exploration when it comes to design," he said.
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