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  • The Enterprise Lost Two of Her Own: Remembering Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart

    Some weeks land harder than others. On Sunday 25 October, Walter Koenig died at his home in North Hollywood, aged 90. Three days later, on Wednesday 28 October, Sir Patrick Stewart died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 86. Two men of the Enterprise, three days apart. William Shatner called it “a heartbreaking week”,…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Amstrad CPC Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. The machine itself — the British third Amstrad launched the CPC 464 in 1984, two years after the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 arrived in British shops in 1982. It was an unusual…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Arcade Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. The machines themselves — boards, not consoles Arcade games were not written for a machine you could buy. They were written for coin-operated circuit boards, swapped into cabinets in seaside arcades, chip shops and…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Commodore 64 Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks Every device here is dispatched from the UK. Prices are correct on the day this was written. The machine itself — sound and sales Commodore launched the Commodore 64 in 1982, the same year Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum arrived in British shops. The two machines divided the decade between them: the Spectrum…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Game Boy Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks The value pick, in the Game Boy’s own shape: BATLEXP G350 — from £94.90. A small vertical handheld that slips into a pocket, tested and configured on its replacement dArkOS firmware to run Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, shown on the same sharp 228 PPI 4:3 panel as dearer…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Sega Mega Drive Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks The value pick: BATLEXP G350 — from £94.90. The Mega Drive library runs at full speed on the G350’s RockChip RK3326 chip, tested on the device itself, on a 3.5″ 4:3 panel the Mega Drive’s picture fills edge to edge. It is the best-stocked device I sell, in stock across every…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Amiga Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks The value pick: BATLEXP G350 — from £94.90. The classic Amiga library runs at full speed on the G350’s RockChip RK3326 through the AmiBerry emulator on its replacement dArkOS firmware, tested on the device itself, with games set up to boot straight into play. It is the best-stocked device I sell,…

  • Best Retro Handheld for ZX Spectrum Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks The value pick: BATLEXP G350 — from £94.90. The ZX Spectrum runs at full speed on the G350’s RockChip RK3326 through the fuse emulator on its replacement dArkOS firmware, and its 256×192 play area — exactly 4:3 — scales precisely onto the sharp 228 PPI 4:3 panel. It is the best-stocked…

  • Best Retro Handheld for Game Gear Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks The value pick: BATLEXP G350 — from £94.90. The Game Gear’s full library runs at full speed on the G350’s RockChip RK3326, tested and configured on its replacement dArkOS firmware, and shown on the same sharp 228 PPI 4:3 panel as devices costing twice as much. It is the best-stocked device…

  • Best Retro Handheld for PC Engine & TurboGrafx-16 Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks Best-built PC Engine handheld I sell — final units: Anbernic RG405M — from £199.90, a 4.0″ 4:3 panel that suits the PC Engine’s near-4:3 picture, an aluminium body with drift-resistant Hall Effect sticks, and a UNISOC T618 chip that treats the platform as a warm-up. It is the best-built 4:3 device…