{"id":748,"date":"2025-07-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/playdates-second-season-sucked-me-back-into-the-little-yellow-handheld\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:00:00","slug":"playdates-second-season-sucked-me-back-into-the-little-yellow-handheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/playdates-second-season-sucked-me-back-into-the-little-yellow-handheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Playdate\u2019s second season sucked me back into the little yellow handheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Vjeran Pavic \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23396640\/vpavic_220415_5149_0017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The Playdate is easy to forget about. It&rsquo;s colorful and weird, but it&rsquo;s also <em>tiny<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/10\/26\/3494628\/status-symbols-game-boy-micro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like the Game Boy Micro before it<\/a>, sometimes I toss it in a bag and then can&rsquo;t remember where I put it. But over the past few weeks, the yellow handheld has been in constant rotation in my house, despite being up against big distractions like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games-review\/684518\/mario-kart-world-review-nintendo-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mario Kart World<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games-review\/690468\/death-stranding-2-review-ps5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Death Stranding 2<\/em><\/a>, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.date\/games\/seasons\/two\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/play.date\/games\/seasons\/two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playdate&rsquo;s now-complete second season of games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The seasonal structure is one of the unique aspects of the Playdate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23025390\/playdate-handheld-portable-gaming-console-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When the handheld first launched in 2022<\/a>, owners got access to a curated selection of 24 games that were released over time. It was a great introductio \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games-review\/705348\/playdate-season-2-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Playdate is easy to forget about. It&rsquo;s colorful and weird, but it&rsquo;s also tiny. Like the Game Boy Micro [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}