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Features

  • Compatibility - Enjoy seamless compatibility with Game Boy®, Game Boy Color®, and Chromatic game cartridges, ensuring a versatile gaming experience that bridges classic nostalgia with modern innovation.
  • Authentic Display - Featuring the world’s only 160x144 pixel backlit display, perfectly readable in sunlight, offering unparalleled clarity and vibrant visuals for an optimal gaming experience anywhere you go.
  • The Power of Sapphire - Equipped with an ultra-durable sapphire front crystal, this display boasts superior scratch resistance, ensuring your screen remains pristine and clear through countless hours of gameplay.
  • Video Out! - Capture and share your most exciting gameplay moments effortlessly with the USB video out feature, allowing you to connect and display your amazing gaming adventures.
  • Indestructible Shell - Encased in a robust magnesium alloy thixomolded shell, this device offers exceptional strength and durability, combining lightweight design with superior protection for all your gaming needs.
  • Multiplayer Action - Enjoy thrilling multiplayer gameplay through a link cable, enabling you to connect with friends for exciting and competitive gaming sessions.

Product Description

Embrace nostalgia with Chromatic, the heirloom quality cartridge-based gaming handheld. To celebrate our launch, we're including our new Tetris for Chromatic - free of charge. The ModRetro Chromatic is compatible with Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Chromatic cartridges.

Chromatic Highlights:

  • Compatible with Game Boy®, Game Boy Color®, and Chromatic cartridges
  • World's only 160x144 pixel sunlight readable backlit display
  • Super scratch-resistant sapphire front crystal
  • Magnesium alloy shell
  • Ultra-durable PBT buttons
  • Share gameplay moments with USB video out
  • FPGA-based emulation to play games exactly as their creators intended
  • Tetris ® & © 1985~2024 Tetris Holding

MORE DETAILS:

  • Display
    • 160x144 pixel 2.56" IPS backlit LCD
  • Audio
    • Custom ultra-loud speaker module
    • 3.5mm headphone output
  • Data
    • Backwards compatible link cable port
    • Backwards compatible IR link
    • USB-C lagless video out to PC
  • Power
    • Comes with 3x AA batteries for ultimate flexibility
    • Also compatible with custom lithium ion pack, rechargeable through console
  • Compatibility
    • Compatible with Game Boy® and Game Boy Color® game cartridges
    • Compatible with Chromatic game cartridges
  • Dimensions and Material
    • Console: 5.2x3x1.2 inches, 6.2 oz
    • Magnesium alloy thixomolded shell
    • Sapphire display front crystal
  • What’s Included
    • Chromatic
    • Chromatic Tetris cartridge
    • 3x AA ModRetro batteries

Buy These Must-Play Games with Your ModRetro Chromatic!

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The Ultimate Tribute to the Game Boy

The Ultimate Tribute to the Game Boy


The ModRetro Chromatic pays homage to the stunning design, exceptional craftsmanship, and significant cultural influence of the Nintendo® Game Boy®.

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Faithful Recreation

Faithful Recreation


Features a lab-created synthetic sapphire screen cover, with a fully customized sunlight-readable LCD beneath that accurately replicates the size, resolution, subpixel arrangement, and color balance of the Game Boy® Color, ensuring an authentic representation of intricate pixel art.

Read More
Seamless Gameplay Mechanics

Seamless Gameplay Mechanics


Features a magnesium-aluminum alloy casing, PBT semi-crystalline polymer buttons and d-pad, seamless compatibility with all Game Boy® titles, and includes a complete link cable and IR transceiver setup.

Read More
Tetris Catridge Included

Tetris Catridge Included


Includes a brand-new physical Tetris cartridge, which will be packaged with every Chromatic, similar to the original Game Boy® releases in North America.

Read More
The Best Way to Play

The Best Way to Play


The ModRetro Chromatic is more than just a new way to play your Game Boy® games, it represents the pinnacle of gaming, offering the ultimate experience and a timeless design crafted to endure for years, defying obsolescence. No one can surpass this achievement.

Read More
Embrace Nostaligia with More Game Boy Games

Embrace Nostaligia with More Game Boy Games


Relive those golden moments with some of the best Game Boy games from the past.

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ModRetro Chromatic GameStop Exclusive

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Features

  • Compatibility - Enjoy seamless compatibility with Game Boy®, Game Boy Color®, and Chromatic game cartridges, ensuring a versatile gaming experience that bridges classic nostalgia with modern innovation.
  • Authentic Display - Featuring the world’s only 160x144 pixel backlit display, perfectly readable in sunlight, offering unparalleled clarity and vibrant visuals for an optimal gaming experience anywhere you go.
  • The Power of Sapphire - Equipped with an ultra-durable sapphire front crystal, this display boasts superior scratch resistance, ensuring your screen remains pristine and clear through countless hours of gameplay.
  • Video Out! - Capture and share your most exciting gameplay moments effortlessly with the USB video out feature, allowing you to connect and display your amazing gaming adventures.
  • Indestructible Shell - Encased in a robust magnesium alloy thixomolded shell, this device offers exceptional strength and durability, combining lightweight design with superior protection for all your gaming needs.
  • Multiplayer Action - Enjoy thrilling multiplayer gameplay through a link cable, enabling you to connect with friends for exciting and competitive gaming sessions.

Product Description

Embrace nostalgia with Chromatic, the heirloom quality cartridge-based gaming handheld. To celebrate our launch, we're including our new Tetris for Chromatic - free of charge. The ModRetro Chromatic is compatible with Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Chromatic cartridges.

Chromatic Highlights:

  • Compatible with Game Boy®, Game Boy Color®, and Chromatic cartridges
  • World's only 160x144 pixel sunlight readable backlit display
  • Super scratch-resistant sapphire front crystal
  • Magnesium alloy shell
  • Ultra-durable PBT buttons
  • Share gameplay moments with USB video out
  • FPGA-based emulation to play games exactly as their creators intended
  • Tetris ® & © 1985~2024 Tetris Holding

MORE DETAILS:

  • Display
    • 160x144 pixel 2.56" IPS backlit LCD
  • Audio
    • Custom ultra-loud speaker module
    • 3.5mm headphone output
  • Data
    • Backwards compatible link cable port
    • Backwards compatible IR link
    • USB-C lagless video out to PC
  • Power
    • Comes with 3x AA batteries for ultimate flexibility
    • Also compatible with custom lithium ion pack, rechargeable through console
  • Compatibility
    • Compatible with Game Boy® and Game Boy Color® game cartridges
    • Compatible with Chromatic game cartridges
  • Dimensions and Material
    • Console: 5.2x3x1.2 inches, 6.2 oz
    • Magnesium alloy thixomolded shell
    • Sapphire display front crystal
  • What’s Included
    • Chromatic
    • Chromatic Tetris cartridge
    • 3x AA ModRetro batteries

Buy These Must-Play Games with Your ModRetro Chromatic!

Shop All
The Ultimate Tribute to the Game Boy

The Ultimate Tribute to the Game Boy


The ModRetro Chromatic pays homage to the stunning design, exceptional craftsmanship, and significant cultural influence of the Nintendo® Game Boy®.

Read More
Faithful Recreation

Faithful Recreation


Features a lab-created synthetic sapphire screen cover, with a fully customized sunlight-readable LCD beneath that accurately replicates the size, resolution, subpixel arrangement, and color balance of the Game Boy® Color, ensuring an authentic representation of intricate pixel art.

Read More
Seamless Gameplay Mechanics

Seamless Gameplay Mechanics


Features a magnesium-aluminum alloy casing, PBT semi-crystalline polymer buttons and d-pad, seamless compatibility with all Game Boy® titles, and includes a complete link cable and IR transceiver setup.

Read More
Tetris Catridge Included

Tetris Catridge Included


Includes a brand-new physical Tetris cartridge, which will be packaged with every Chromatic, similar to the original Game Boy® releases in North America.

Read More
The Best Way to Play

The Best Way to Play


The ModRetro Chromatic is more than just a new way to play your Game Boy® games, it represents the pinnacle of gaming, offering the ultimate experience and a timeless design crafted to endure for years, defying obsolescence. No one can surpass this achievement.

Read More
Embrace Nostaligia with More Game Boy Games

Embrace Nostaligia with More Game Boy Games


Relive those golden moments with some of the best Game Boy games from the past.

Read More
Shop Games
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Specifications

General

Brand Name ModRetro
Model Number CHROMATIC
GameStop Exclusive true

Features

Features Built-in Speakers, Headphone Jack, Rechargeable

Power

Battery type AA
Number of batteries 3

Connectivity

Connection Type Wireless

Dimension

Product Length 133
Product Width 77
Product Height 29
Product Unit of Measure mm
Product Weight 0.6
Product Weight Unit of Measure lbs