In a nutshell: Atari is teaming up with retro gaming firm My Arcade on one of the vital peculiar handheld sport techniques in latest reminiscence. The Gamestation Go, teased in an X put up forward of CES, is all about management. The hand held – which seems to be a revised model of the Gamestation Transportable teased round this time a 12 months in the past – encompasses a conventional D-pad on the left facet flanked by a trackball under and a paddle / spinner knob above.
On the alternative facet, you’ve got acquired customary A B X Y buttons organized within the acquainted structure with a quantity pad under. Bodily buttons labeled begin, choose, settings, and credit score are additionally current on the entrance of the gadget. R1 R2 and L1 L2 shoulder buttons are positioned alongside the highest fringe of the hand held, the place we will additionally see a microSD card slot, an influence swap, a house button, a quantity rocker, an HDMI-out port, a USB-C energy connector, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Many of the controls look like backlit or outlined with gentle, and a pair of USB-C ports on the rear seems to be to help wired controllers. All it appears to be lacking is the crank management from the Playdate. Cooling vents and a kickstand will also be discovered on the reverse.
An icon, reimagined. 🕹️ @MyArcadeRetro#Atari #GamestationGo #CES2025 pic.twitter.com/AvqTLuegR2
– Atari (@atari) January 2, 2025
Atari’s teaser is accompanied by the tagline, “An icon, reimagined.” Extra particulars, similar to bundled video games and pricing, stay a thriller for now. With so many baked in management varieties, the gadget may probably help a variety of platforms – as long as the inner {hardware} and emulation is up for the duty.
Final 12 months’s Gamestation Transportable was to launch by the tip of 2024 for $149, so it’s in all probability protected to imagine the Go variant will are available in round that very same mark.
CES is simply days away, so we’ll seemingly get the entire lacking particulars then. The annual commerce present formally kicks off in Las Vegas on January 7 and runs by way of the tenth.
