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ANBERNIC has been busy lately, making retro handhelds in every shape you can think of. There’s the clamshell. The slider. Earlier this year, the brand even launched a wireless controller with a built-in heart rate monitor. But the RG Rotate might be the company’s most fun design yet, because at first glance, you’d never guess

ARTICLE – Nobody buried the Virtual Boy. Nintendo’s red-and-black tabletop console from 1995 simply vanished on its own, barely lasting twelve months before becoming the company’s most talked-about hardware misfire. Three decades of distance made it look like Nintendo preferred the whole chapter stayed forgotten. Price: $24.99, $99.99 Where to Buy: Nintendo That silence broke

ARTICLE – Most phone controllers are designed for horizontal play, using a wide grip that puts controls on both sides of the screen. GameSir’s Pocket Taco takes the opposite approach. It’s built for portrait gaming instead, with a clamp on design that sits under your phone and puts the controls below the screen. Price: $34.99

ARTICLE – Nintendo built these colors in the ’90s, tested them with real consumers, then buried them. Not concept sketches or Photoshop mockups: actual injection-molded consoles with matching controllers, fully functional, sitting in storage until former employees started selling them to collectors years later. Extreme Green, Ocean, Ghost, Glacier, Atomic Purple. They all worked. They