Today we dive into the Anbernic RG34XXSP, a clamshell handheld that channels the Game Boy Advance SP’s “special” design. Priced at $60 and shipping from a U.S. warehouse starting May 16, it adds dual recessed thumbsticks under the D-pad and face buttons. It runs Game Boy through Sega Game Gear flawlessly, and can handle select Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast titles.

Available in four colors—including classic GameCube purple and banana yellow—it comes with 64GB of pre-loaded emulators and games, plus room for a microSD card. Compared to its RG35XXSP sibling, the RG34XXSP doubles the RAM to 2GB, while both use an H700 quad-core ARM processor. The 3.4-inch, 720×480 screen’s 3:2 aspect ratio can make later 4:3 games look squashed. As Retro Game Corps’ Russ Crandall notes, “that’s less of a problem” on other models—though they lack joysticks.

Despite quirks, Gizmodo calls it a contender for the “perfect device my pockets are opening in anticipation” of—until someone builds an Analogue Pocket SP with FPGA support.
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