Introducing THEC64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld from HyperMegaTech and RetroGamesLtd
Coming October 2026, pre-orders now open! £109.99 | $129.99 | €129.99 each
Collector’s Editions available from Funstock with a dedicated hard shell case and an exclusive Crash/Zzap!64 Magazine! Limited to 2000 units!
Other than the form factor, why is this needed? There are tons of cheap linux handhelds that play these games. And if you like the form factor, there have been C64 and ZX emulators for the Nintendo DS for ages. Emulators that are old enough to drive at this point. I mean, if the price point was closer to $40, I could see it. $60 would be pushing it.
Plus, it tics one of my pet peeves of having a 16:9 screen for a specifically 4:3 media.
Having labeled dedicated run/stop, F1, F3 and F5 keys is a huge lifestyle update for certain C64 games.
The C64 keyboard was literally built in and so always present, so some game devs gave no thought to how their game would function without a keyboard
Edit: I’m not saying that’s worth the price, of course!
But I think it’s cool. If I had million million wishes, I would spend one on this device.