Pocketchip was the portable hardware device they made so you can play Pico-8 games. I picked one up and unfortunately I don't recommend it.
I think they screwed up the design and feel of the buttons, and it's actually very difficult to play the games (especially the D-Pad) or program directly on the device as a result.
They needed something closer to keys on a graphic calculator, actually, and a proper d-pad, and I might have used it more than the two times since I got it a year ago. I was actually hoping it'd be like a TI calculator but dedicated for gaming, but alas, I had a better device for ultra portable game development 23 years ago.
I still play the Pico-8 games on the computer though and there's some really cool ones out there. I have a game that's almost complete myself (basically just a demake of my most popular game that I often use as an exercise to learn a new system), but I got distracted by other shiny things. Maybe I'll get back to finishing it sometime in the next six months.
I think they screwed up the design and feel of the buttons, and it's actually very difficult to play the games (especially the D-Pad) or program directly on the device as a result.
They needed something closer to keys on a graphic calculator, actually, and a proper d-pad, and I might have used it more than the two times since I got it a year ago. I was actually hoping it'd be like a TI calculator but dedicated for gaming, but alas, I had a better device for ultra portable game development 23 years ago.
I still play the Pico-8 games on the computer though and there's some really cool ones out there. I have a game that's almost complete myself (basically just a demake of my most popular game that I often use as an exercise to learn a new system), but I got distracted by other shiny things. Maybe I'll get back to finishing it sometime in the next six months.