The Chromatic from ModRetro has a pixel-perfect display that matches the Game Boy Color. Source: ModRetro
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Hands-on with the newly resupplied ModRetro’s Chromatic | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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ModRetro announced yesterday that its Chromatic handheld game system is back in stock and ready to ship starting at $200.

It’s a labor of love, created by retro-minded people like Palmer Luckey — yep, the creator of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and now founder of defense contractor Anduril.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.