Atari’s Gamestation Go Rolls the Trak-Ball, Paddle, and Keypad Controllers Into One Handheld Console

Atari has teased a re-reveal of its handheld console at CES 2025 next week.

In a tweet, below, Atari showed off the GameStation Go device, a portable video game player with extra buttons and a widescreen.

While the Gamestation Go comes complete with the d-pad, face buttons, and shoulder buttons you’d expect on a retro handheld, what makes this stand out is the inclusion of a Trak-Ball and Paddle on the left of the device, and a Keypad on the right.

An icon, reimagined. 🕹️ @MyArcadeRetro#Atari #GamestationGo #CES2025 pic.twitter.com/AvqTLuegR2

— Atari (@atari) January 2, 2025

There’s little else to go on at this stage, but the GameStation Go looks like the final design for a product Atari revealed a year ago. At the time the handheld was called the Atari Gamestation Portable and was due out during the fourth quarter of 2024 priced $149. This earlier version came with the Atari Trak-Ball, Paddle, and Keypad controllers, and we can see a refined design for these in the GameStation Go.

The Atari Trak-Ball is commonly used with arcade classics Centipede and Missile Command, with the Paddle used for the likes of Breakout. Atari games such as Brain Games and Codebreaker use the Keypad. The My Arcade logo is on the bottom of the device, which confirms the maker of the product under official license from Atari.

You’d expect the Gamestation Go to play a long list of retro games bolstered by Atari’s recent aquisition of the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. The purchase included the rights to more than 200 titles from the Intellivision portfolio and the Intellivision trademarks.

That’s all we have for now. Expect more when CES 2025 kicks off from January 7.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].