Hyperkin just opened pre-orders for new colors of the SupaBoy Portable Retro Console, and the two new options getting the spotlight are the SupaBoy Crimson and the SupaBoy Prime. TechPowerUp has the announcement, and it's a fun little drop for anyone who keeps a retro handheld in rotation.

If you're not familiar, the SupaBoy is Hyperkin's portable take on the Super Nintendo that plays original SNES cartridges on a built-in screen. It's been a favorite in the retro scene for years because it uses real carts instead of relying on ROMs, and as I've said before, keeping old games accessible matters more to me than any fancy remaster.

The specifics, per reporting from outlets like Mashable and RetroDodo: the new colors are expected to ship this fall, and pre-orders are live at Amazon for $129.99, a figure also confirmed by Cheap Ass Gamer and Nintendo Wire. That's real money for a colorway refresh, but retro hardware has always been its own category of spending.

The news is mostly cosmetic, but cosmetic news for retro hardware lands differently than a new skin in a live service game. Colors on a device like this are personality, and collectors notice when a company like Hyperkin keeps expanding the lineup. It says the product line is alive, and after watching games get delisted and hardware get quietly discontinued, a company still investing in retro portables deserves a small round of applause.

Retro handhelds have honestly become their own little corner of the gaming community. Jump into any retro gaming Discord and you'll find people comparing screens, battery mods, and shell swaps the way raid groups argue about DPS checks. New official colorways feed that whole ecosystem. Somebody out there is already planning a shelf photo with all of them lined up, and that person is living their best life.

One caveat from personal experience only, your mileage may vary: Hyperkin's special editions seem to move fast when they drop, at least from what I remember chasing previous releases. If you're eyeing a specific color, a fall ship date means pre-ordering now beats refreshing a stock tracker in November.

Is anyone in your crew still holding onto original SNES carts? This feels like the kind of thing that turns a box in the closet back into a weekend plan.