This gaming handheld is the complete opposite of Steam Deck – but no less compelling

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It is still feature-packed though and comes with a selection of full colour games preinstalled.

TinyCircuits has been doing great things with tech – making its own fully working, retro-style gaming handhelds and televisions, but in miniature. It already offers a playable Game Boy-alike in keychain size – now it’s in the crowd funding phase for a follow-up.

That’s less than a quarter of the size of aSteam Deck.

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Unlike most retro gaming handhelds available today, its size means it is not capable of playing the best classic games through emulation. Indeed, asThe Vergepoints out, its 16MB flash memory could barely fit three SNES games, let alone a catalogue of titles.

Developers are encouraged to make new games for the console, so there could be more to download in the future too.

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The device is currentlyundergoing crowd funding on Kickstarter, but has more than doubled its funding target with 32 days still to go (at the time of writing).

TinyCircuits is offering backed versions from $49 (around £39) and claims it will ship from November to “anywhere in the world”.

The standard colour is purple, like the original Game Boy Advance, but there are also clear plastic and black variants available to back. These might cost a little more.

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