The Arduboy credit card-sized Game Boy now supports multiplayer over USB

The Arduboy FX-C is launching astatine $99 arsenic a effect of tariffs. | Image: Arduboy

After debuting a matchbox-sized handheld called the Arduboy Mini and a banana-shaped version of the original Arduboy, creator Kevin Bates has announced a new exemplary of Arduboy FX called the FX-C with immoderate invited upgrades and caller colour options. For the archetypal time, the recognition card-sized Arduboy present has a USB-C larboard for charging, syncing, and playing multiplayer games with a 2nd instrumentality utilizing an included USB-C cable, oregon immoderate Thunderbolt 3 cable.

A Founder’s variation of the Arduboy FX-C with purple buttons is disposable present done the Arduboy online store for $99 and constricted to 500 units, portion a two-pack, constricted to 100 units, is discounted to $178. Responding to Reddit users commenting connected the accrued price implicit the older $79 Arduboy FX, Bates says that $99 is “actually much than I privation to complaint but the tariff concern means this is the lone mode to enactment successful business.” But helium besides says a somewhat cheaper Standard variation with greenish buttons volition soon beryllium disposable done Amazon with escaped shipping.

The Arduboy FX-C’s specs stay comparatively basal with the aforesaid ATmega32u4 processor recovered connected the Arduino Micro, a 128×64-pixel OLED surface that tin lone amusement achromatic pixels – nary grayscale oregon anti-aliasing – and six buttons. And portion the Arduboy FX included capable retention to clasp 200 preloaded games, the caller FX-C expands that to accommodate 300 titles, making the unfastened root handheld adjacent much accessible for those who conscionable privation to usage it to play games, and not dive into processing their own.