Review: Playdate console offers pocket-sized gaming, a hand crank and nostalgia

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"I love unboxing a new console. The feeling of sliding a pocket knife through neatly taped packaging, the plastic cover that glides off the spotless black screen, new joysticks that haven't yet grown slack with use. It's an intimate experience, unwrapping a device that will occupy a significant portion of your days.

Unpacking my Playdate, the new handheld console by developer Panic, brought me instant joy. I grinned from ear to ear after carefully shimmying it out of its packaging, and as I booted it up for the first time, a sunshine-yellow device smiled back at me (literally)".