In late October of 2022, I received my PlayDate, which I had preordered over a year earlier. The PlayDate is a very small, black and white indie handheld console. It mostly looks like a small Game Boy, with it’s D-pad and two face buttons, but it has a unique control twist. On the side is a crank that you can turn to do different actions in games. I was pretty excited for it, it seemed like a very unique new thing. But after a few weeks of goofing off with the included games, I kind of just put it down and forgot about it.

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