They say nothing lasts forever, and that absolutely applies to the Game Boy and its copycat clones. Over the years, I've rescued various retro gaming handhelds from the pits of hell (the local dump), and despite acting like a nerdy version of George Clooney in a weird retro ER, I still end up with casualties.
It's for that reason I'm glad that the Modretro Chromatic, a robust FPGA homage to the Game Boy Color, is now permanently back in stock. The timing couldn't be better too, as I just spent a chunk of my Saturday trying to fix one of my emulation-based clones, the GB Boy Colour. The copycat handheld in question was manufactured 16 years ago, and despite being kept pretty pristine in its original box, its screen apparently couldn't withstand the test of time.
