Neither Nintendo Switch 2 nor Steam Deck: the new Atari console at CES 2025 reveals revolutionary controls

Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch 2 style portable consoles are in fashion, and the truth is that they are all quite similar. The same cannot be said for the new Atari Gamestation Go from My Arcadeequipped with controls never seen on a laptop: trackball, spinner, numeric keypad, physical buttons on the screen…Crazy!

In reality, what My Arcade proposes at CES 2025 with the new Atari Gamestation Goit’s quite logical. It is a Nintendo Switch 2-style portable console, but it is used to play retro games, so it integrates the buttons and controls that were used in arcade machines and computers from 30 or 40 years ago.

Even so, they had never been seen on a portable console. It will surely attract the attention of players who want to play retro games from the last century with its original controls, in portable version.

This is the new Atari Gamestation Go, and its peculiar controls

My Arcade is a company that, in recent years, has commercialized miniature replicas of emblematic recreational machines.

However, in recent times it has been testing portable versions of classic games, and consoles that can be connected to the TV.

Atari Gamestation Go It is an improvement of the Gamestation Portable, customized for Atari. Here you can take a first look, before its official presentation at CES 2025:

At first glance it looks like a Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch 2 style portable console. But a closer look reveals its curious controls, in a combination that is not found on any other machine.

On the left side we can see a spinner knob, a spinning wheel which was used in the legendary Atari game Pong. Also a classic D-pad to control the character, and a trackballa ball that is rotated with the finger, widely used in some games of the recreational in the 80s.

On the right we have the A, B, X, Y buttons of modern consoles, and…A numeric keypad! Classic computers Atari They had a keyboard like this.

Finally, at the top of the screen we can see four physical buttons: Start, Select, Settings and Creditto insert coins into the recreational machines. There are also four triggers on the top and back.

It is clear that the new portable console Atari Gamestation Go from My Arcade is designed for use with emulators for arcade machines, retro games, and Atari computers and consoles.

The video also shows an HDMI output and several USB-C connectors for connecting controllers, so can be used to play on television. Great news for those who prefer to play retro games as they were designed, on the big screen.

At the moment nothing is known about its price or the games it will include. These data will be revealed in CES 2025. With its unique controls, the Atari Gamestartion Go from My Arcade is going to become a highly coveted collector’s item among fans of retro games.

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