An endearing piece of kit that strips the format down to the basics, this offers a trip down memory lane for the more mature gamer. It’s pre-loaded with 20 games from Sega, including Golden Axe, Sonic & Knuckles and Ecco. That’s your lot, but there’s a wire so you can plug it into your telly if you wish, and it’ll set you back less than £30. Bargain!

This is a very small (4.92 x 2.17 x 0.59in) Chinese handheld. It’s mainly of use as an aid to open game development, though usefully it’ll also support music and film playback, pick up radio and read ebooks. It’ll cost less than £100, and looks enough like a PSP to have Sony’s lawyers twitching.
 

Another slice of handheld nostalgia, the Wiz is an open-source console from South Korea that will let you play ‘emulations’ of classic games. Retro games from the Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amiga, Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance will be available as downloadable emulators. And because it’s open-source, you can even design your own.

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