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ModRetro Chromatic review: an arms dealer’s Game Boy is among the best ever made


Mag alloy chassis, sapphire crystal, and politics.

(Luckey was an early Trump booster and took flak for funding a single Hillary Clinton-trolling billboard; Mark Zuckerberg denied he was fired for his political views at the time; some Meta execs have since apologized for his ouster.) But where each of these companies can plausibly say “It’s just business” as they defend their cloud servercontracts or when their CEOskissthering, and it’s very hard to escape Big Tech’s orbit, this is a fun but unnecessary product from a man with a specific point of view on weapons, war, and politics. Every Chromatic comes with a new copy of Tetris,and you can already order 10 more titles, including a new version of Toki Tori and Tales of Monsterland, sequels to Traumatarium and In the Dark, and my personal favorite, the grindy JRPG Dragonyhm with some excellent tunes and pixel art.

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