"Palmer Luckey's gaming company just dropped the M64, and honestly, I'm torn about the whole thing. The guy's built actual VR headsets that changed gaming, sure, but he's also neck-deep in military contracting through Anduril, which makes autonomous drones and surveillance tech for the Department of Defense. So when he teases a translucent purple Nintendo 64 clone on X with a note saying "no peeking until Christmas," I'm simultaneously hyped about the hardware and deeply uncomfortable about where my $200 might end up."
"You can sign up for the waitlist now and get priority when it goes on sale, though if the Chromatic's instant sellout taught us anything, that waitlist notification better ping your phone fast. The price point matters because $200 puts this squarely in impulse-buy territory for people who've been sitting on a stack of N64 cartridges since 1998, waiting for something better than janky software emulators or hunting down original hardware with failing capacitors."
The M64 is a translucent Nintendo 64-inspired console from ModRetro offered in purple, green, and white colorways with matching wireless trident controllers that replicate the original's three-pronged ergonomics. The $200 device uses AMD-powered FPGA technology, includes four controller ports, a power button, a menu dial, and an eject button, and confirms both hardware and software as open-source. The menu dial suggests system-level features such as scanline filters, aspect ratio toggles, or overclock options. The release timing coincides with Analogue 3D shipments and a waitlist is available for prioritized purchase, placing the M64 in impulse-buy territory for cartridge owners.
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