11/6/2022 0 Comments Old 90s pc game lose your marbles![]() All of these are small things of course, too. It's an odd thing to dislike in a handheld, as most of the time you obviously want them to be as light as possible to carry around, but there's a difference between light, and lightweight, and the Playdate leans slightly towards the latter. The body is entirely plastic, which surprised me - I was expecting some kind of metal, given the premium pitching of it - and that makes it feel incredibly light. There's also a slight creakiness to it, especially near the top of the console. At the same time, although this is the "final hardware" version of the Playdate it is still a pre-release one, so some benefit of the doubt should be reserved for this sort of thing. It's minor but it is noticeable - the actual A and B of my A and B buttons were also, I think, just ever so slightly printed off-centre, as well, which I think annoyed me more than them being uncomfortable to press because this console is all about being a delight to look at, above all, and little imperfections like that can grate. Both the D-pad and face buttons are solid plastic and there's an oddly firm click to pressing them, which means games that have lots of dialogue text or require you to press A repeatedly, like point-and-click-style adventure Saturday Edition, get mildly uncomfortable, quite fast. I was expecting as much and that's just fine, but the buttons themselves aren't actually very comfortable. You can tell that from looking at it because it's small and almost two-dimensionally thin. In terms of simply using it, for instance, it is not the most comfortable thing in the world. The point is there is more than a whiff of style over substance to the Playdate. And envious of this nice mid-century furniture they've perched it on. I'm sad I haven't had a chance to try out the dock yet. If I whipped out a PS Vita on the bus, for instance, people might think, "This man is clearly a genius." The Playdate, I think, suggests a judgement along the lines of "This man is playing a miniature, bright yellow console with a crank, because turning the crank reminds him of twizzling his moustache, or the whirring spokes of the penny farthing he rides to work at the Shoreditch Boxpark."Įverything else aside, the Playdate is supremely pretty, just outrageously nice to look at. Handheld consoles have always relied more on their aesthetic, their vibe, a little more than home ones, because you carry these things around with you in the actual world, where actual other human beings might see you, and form opinions about you based on that weird thing you're holding. Simplicity and charm are very much the point - the basic console is the simplicity, the crank and the colour and the branding the charm - which means they're also the source of everything that does and doesn't work with the Playdate so far.Īt the moment, the charm is doing an awful lot of work. There's a little speaker, a headphone jack, and a USB-C port for charging and presumably downloading the new games when they come out. The crank doesn't charge the console or anything like that - it's another input, the Playdate's version of an analog stick, alongside a simple D-pad, the two A and B face buttons, a menu button and a lock one. And the Playdate itself, of course, has a crank. For a bit more - most prices are again still pending - you can get a smart little cover for the console, or a very snazzy dock that allows the Playdate to look pretty on your desk, and also holds a pen and plays the Poolsuite FM radio station. For $179 (the UK price is still yet to be announced - although we now know you can pre-order it from 6pm BST on July 29th), you get the console itself and 24 games, released two per week for its first 12 week "season" from launch. ![]() The Playdate, of course, is yolk - not yellow - and so in many ways it has already won me over.Īs you might already know, the premise with the Playdate is a little different to your usual handheld console. The colour of friendliness, summer, warmth. ![]() This is the colour that improves burgers and perfects chips, that separates kindly bumblebees from harsh yellow wasps. If you paint your front door yolk I will for some reason assume you and your partner to be really good parents and just totally down to earth. Yolk is a dream, the colour of fried eggs, American cheese, rich and oh-so-saturated fat. Availability: Coming late 2021, pre-order from 29th July 6pm BST.Developers: Chuhai Labs, Sweet Baby Inc.Made by: Panic Inc., Teenage Engineering. ![]()
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