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Playdate: the handheld console with a crank

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Panic Playdate handheld console with its yellow crank

PLAYDATE is the new mobile gaming platform developed by the PANIC team. It is of a special size for your pocket and has a luxurious industrial design and a nice black screen, a bright yellow color and it also has a crank. A crank as well.

Close-up of the Playdate console's crank and A and B buttons

PANIC is famous for its software development, especially for the Mac OS and iOS platform over the years; programs such as CODE, TRANSMIT are very popular among developers. But the truth is that the PANIC team loves video games and that is what they always wanted to do.

And they went a little further with the creation of almost their own console.

But PLAYDATE is more than a console; the handheld includes 12 games with it that were developed exclusively for PLAYDATE, and many of them have special gameplay for using the Crank.

Yellow Playdate console held in one hand

PLAYDATE will be available during 2020 with its 12 games included, and the cost will be $149, which is quite affordable. It is a different proposal and for another type of casual gamer, who is interested in independent and different games. You can visit their website to follow them and find out more. https://play.date/

This article is a machine translation of the Spanish original.

  • Video Games
  • Hardware
  • Design

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