TECH NEWS – Atari hasn’t had much to say about hardware since CES 2024, but it’s making up for lost time at this year’s event.

Atari announced a handheld device at least a year ago. It was at CES 2024 that we first heard about the Gamestation Portable, which the company said at the time could be released by the end of the year. That didn’t happen, but that hasn’t stopped Atari and My Arcade from continuing work on the device, which has a new name and a slightly different look.

In the video embedded below, we didn’t find out what games will be playable (hence the question mark in the news title, as it’s not clear yet if the Steam Deck will get a competitor or if Atari will make a weaker device), as that hasn’t been revealed yet. What has been revealed is what the Gamestation Go looks like and how it works. It seems to have a mixture of modern handhelds and the controls needed to manage old arcade titles (there are even numeric keys…?).

Modern accessories include the D-pad, buttons and triggers on the top of the device, as you’ll find on almost any modern handheld console or controller. The Atari’s twist is a paddle, a Trak-Ball, and even a full keypad under the buttons to the right of the screen. These are all elements that hint at exactly what games from Atari’s past will be in the Gamestation Go library. The paddle means Breakout, one of Atari’s most famous creations, a version of which we’ve almost certainly played, even if the name doesn’t ring a bell.

As for the Trak-Ball, although other companies have used versions of it, the feature is so Atari-centric that the spelling we use is the studio’s own trademarked version. Its inclusion here almost guarantees that Centipede and Missile Command will be playable on Go. The keypad is a feature that has confused even some retro gamers, but there are games from Atari’s past, such as Codebreaker, that take advantage of it when it’s included in the playlist. Atari now also owns the old Intellivision catalog, and almost all of its games required a keyboard.

It will be an interesting device.

Source: TheGamer

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