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Welp, I ordered one. I'm fairly certain I'm in the first 20,000 orders, so I should get one later this year. Follow along to see what I think of it when it gets here. Any other Playdate owners-to-be here?

Good news, Panic Playdate fans!

*crickets*

THE PLAYDATE IS HERE!!!!!

*tumbleweed blows by*

Hey, but seriously, I got my Playdate in the mail today. It's charging now, but I'll try to update this thread with my thoughts as time goes on.

What exactly is it?

This is a good question. It's a hipstery little portable gaming device made by Panic that just shipped. It features a small b&w screen and a crank on the side that is utilized as a controller in some of the games. It comes with 24 games which are downloaded onto the device 2 at a time over 12 weeks.

My initial impression is to agree with a lot of the reviews that the screen visibility is an issue. It's not backlit for some reason, so if you're inside, it looks like dogshit unless you're directly underneath a lamp. If you're outside and the sun is shining, it looks pretty great. I have a feeling I'll mostly be using it on a bench in my front yard.

I've been looking forward to the Playdate for months, but tbh I'm pretty depressed right now and that's not conducive to enjoying such a whimsical device.

Golgo 14 wrote:This is a good question. It's a hipstery little portable gaming device made by Panic that just shipped.

This makes sense now. When I first read the title, I thought you had bought it in a panic...

Well, I do a lot of things in a panic.

Resurrecting this thread to say that I also finally got my playdate. I'm in week 3 of the season. 2 games a week.

I'm having an absolute blast with it. Some real creative games in there. I'm going to wait until the end of the season to post kind of a round up of the Playdate, but I'm pretty stoked on it.