In a nutshell: Atari is teaming up with retro gaming firm My Arcade on one of the peculiar handheld sport programs in latest reminiscence. The Gamestation Go, teased in an X publish forward of CES, is all about management. The hand-held – which seems to be a revised model of the Gamestation Moveable teased round this time a 12 months in the past – encompasses a conventional D-pad on the left aspect flanked by a trackball under and a paddle / spinner knob above.
On the alternative aspect, you have obtained 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 machine. 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 change, 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 seem like backlit or outlined with mild, and a pair of USB-C ports on the rear seems to help wired controllers. All it appears to be lacking is the crank management from the Playdate. Cooling vents and a kickstand can 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.” Further particulars, resembling bundled video games and pricing, stay a thriller for now. With so many baked in management sorts, the machine may doubtlessly help a variety of platforms – as long as the inner {hardware} and emulation is up for the duty.
Final 12 months’s Gamestation Moveable 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 round that very same mark.
CES is simply days away, so we’ll possible get all the lacking particulars then. The annual commerce present formally kicks off in Las Vegas on January 7 and runs by means of the tenth.
