The old greenscreen Game Boy was a beast of a machine.  Not as a graphics powerhouse, of course, but by a combination of being the dominant handheld console of its time plus sheer unrivaled durability.  If you've got one in a sitting in a box these last few decades odds are good you just need to poor out the acidic slush the batteries have melted into, pop in a new set, and get gaming.  The advance of technology turned the Game Boy into the Game Boy Pocket, which was smaller and lighter than its predecessor with a black and light-grey screen instead of pea soup green, and its this iteration that Hyperkin is reimagining as the Ultra Game Boy.

The Ultra Game Boy (not final name, subject to change any second now once Nintendo's lawyers wake up tomorrow morning) is the latest hardware in Hyperkin's line of retro emulation-driven consoles, and while it's not the company's first handheld it is the first one for the Game Boy.  The Ultra is a recreation of the Pocket with several notable improvements, starting with an aluminum shell and only getting fancier from there.  The backlit screen can light up any color you'd like, controlled by a new dial added to the original's volume and contrast controls, and will stay glowing for up to six hours thanks to the rechargeable battery.  While the case design only has the one set of holes on the bottom-right to stay true to the look of the Pocket, it's actually got stereo speakers as well as stereo-out, and one of the system's goals is to target chiptune musicians.  That's actually trickier than it sounds due to the difficulty in getting sound emulation 100% accurate, but could produce very nice results if the audio quality matches the video.

The Ultra Game Boy is still in development and targeting a Summer release.  While the price isn't finalized yet it's aiming to come in under $100.