This $69.99 Game Boy Clone Plays Real Cartridges. The First 20 Sold Out.

FunnyPlaying's FPGB Mini skips the Game Boy Advance and Game Gear support that Analogue's $239.99 Pocket has.

A handheld that takes original Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges went up at $69.99, and the entire first run was 20 units. FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance upgrade kits, announced the FPGB Mini, The Verge reported on September 18, 2026. The company hasn't announced a date for a second batch.

So if you've got a shoebox of cartridges in a closet and about seventy dollars to spend on them, you weren't in that batch. Twenty units, discounted from a $89.99 list price, gone quickly.

The case against Analogue's Pocket here is mostly arithmetic. The Pocket sells for $239.99 after recent price increases, The Verge reported, which is more than three times the discounted FPGB Mini and still more than twice its regular price.

What the cheaper one gives up is breadth. Its cartridge slot handles Game Boy and Game Boy Color only, while the Pocket also takes Game Boy Advance and Sega Game Gear carts. Both machines use field-programmable gate array chips instead of software emulation, which is how the Pocket plays Nintendo's old games with the accuracy of the original hardware, and the FPGB Mini uses the same approach for its two supported formats.

The attributes FunnyPlaying has put out for the FPGB Mini, as reported by the outlet:

• A 2.98-inch LCD at 800x720 pixels.
• An 1,800mAh rechargeable battery.
• A microSD slot for saves, screenshots and ROM files, which run through emulation rather than the cartridge path.
• Multiplayer and trading between units over a USB-C cable.
• A body barely wider than the cartridge sticking out of it.

That last one costs something. Cartridges built with rumble motors or other extra hardware inside won't work here, because there's nowhere for them to go. Everything else is the trade a buyer can see before paying: two systems instead of four, a link cable instead of wireless, and a price that isn't in Analogue's neighborhood.

The 20-unit run reads less like a launch than a test, and the follow-up is where the actual product decision sits. Retro Dodo, which has had a unit for a few days and reported it's impressed with the design and what the thing does, said FunnyPlaying may build more after some hardware improvements.

No second batch has been priced.

Source: theverge.com, retrieved September 18, 2026.