TL;DR — the picks Best-built Master System handheld I sell — final units: Anbernic RG405M — from £199.90, a 4.0″ 4:3 panel that the Master System’s exactly-4:3 picture fills edge to edge, an aluminium body with drift-resistant Hall Effect sticks, and a UNISOC T618 chip with more power than this platform will ever ask for.…

TL;DR — the picks Best-built Neo Geo handheld I sell — in stock: Anbernic RG405M — from £199.90, a 4.0″ 4:3 panel that suits the Neo Geo’s arcade picture almost exactly, an aluminium body, and a UNISOC T618 chip that runs the Neo Geo library at full speed with the arcade conventions — credits, insert…

TL;DR — the picks Best Mega Drive handheld I sell — in stock: Anbernic RG405M — £199.90, a 4.0″ 4:3 panel that fills the screen edge to edge with the Mega Drive’s picture, an aluminium body, and a UNISOC T618 chip that runs the full Mega Drive library at full speed. It is the best-built…

TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. What actually makes a good PSP handheld The PSP is an unusual entry in this series, because it is the one platform where the screen is the whole story — and it inverts the…

TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. What actually makes a good N64 handheld Like the Dreamcast before it, the Nintendo 64 is a 3D console, and a 3D console asks more of a handheld than the 2D platforms earlier in…

TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. What actually makes a good Dreamcast handheld Of the platforms in this series, the Dreamcast is where the most things have to line up at once. For the Game Boy Advance the screen was…

TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. What actually makes a good Game Boy Advance handheld This is the platform in the series where the answer is the most counter-intuitive, because the GBA is the easiest thing any of these devices…

TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices and stock are correct on the day this was written — a couple of these are selling through their final units, and I note where that’s the case. What actually makes a good Nintendo DS handheld This is the one platform in…

TL;DR — the picks All three are in stock and dispatched from the UK. Every price is live on the day this was written. What actually makes a good SNES and NES handheld Here is the part most guides skip, and for SNES and NES it is the opposite of what you might expect. The…