World’s Most Prolific Handheld Producer Wants to Make the Game Boy Mainstream Again

Anbernic makes retro handhelds, practically an avalanche of retro handhelds. The company is known for pushing so many products out the door each year, customers can barely keep up. Now, the handheld maker seems to be one of the few pushing into the direct U.S. market in an effort to offer customers one of the bare few avenues of gaming for cheap. Going mainstream has a few costs—not just in price—but in what the company needs to do to avoid scrutiny over its promotion of legally murky game emulation. Gaming deals hunter Wario64 first picked up on Anbernic’s move into the mainstream. The device maker now offers a select few products on Best Buy, specifically the company’s more powerful handhelds like the RG 556 with its 5.5-inch display and the RG406H with the 4-inch touchscreen. The RG 406V is a Game Boy-style handheld with a smaller display, but all of these devices run on Android compared to Anbernic’s usual stock software. These devices are also far more expensive than if you buy d ... Read full article.