Retroid 5
I’ve dabbled in retro gaming a couple of times. I have a Raspberry Pi 3B (I’m pretty sure?) (in a bitchin’ case ) running RetroPi somewhere, and this past holiday season I setup an RPi 5 8GB , again with RetroPi, to host some Castlevania sessions and to play old school classics like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Xevious and Raiden . But now ... A random news article about the impact of Trump’s tariffs bumbling on retro gaming hardware vendors prompted my idle investigation and adding some $60 or so RG35XX devices to my Eternal Shopping Cart™, and then a chance encounter with a friend at a bar where he was raving about a similar device, and I decided to get serious and pull the trigger. Research led me to seriously consider the Retroid 5 , which can boot into Linux and has a full Android stack as well. (It’s probably overkill for the games I want to play on it today, but it leaves open the door for newer stuff down the road.) So that’s what I picked up, apparently in ...