PocketStar is a handheld console so small it’ll make you feel like a giant holding a Game Boy

The PocketStar (from €35) is a tiny handheld console. We mean really tiny. It’s pocket-sized in the sense it’d fit in the coin pocket of most jeans, with room to spare – or would make a good bed for a Lego minifig. But this diminutive device nonetheless includes a D-pad and two buttons, a micro-SD card slot, a 96×64-pixel 16-bit OLED display, and the same chip that powers the Arduino Zero. We’re told a single charge will get you through up to three hours of gaming on bespoke titles such as Pocketman, Tiny Invaders, Pocketris, and Snake. Just don’t come crying to Stuff when your thumbs have seized up after a marathon session on this absurdly small games machine.

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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Mobile apps and games, Macs, iOS and tvOS devices, Android, retro games, crowdfunding, design, how to fight off an enraged smart saucepan with a massive stick.