A Rare Super Pocket Is Coming, With Banjo-Kazooie On Board

  • Lee Murray
  • Feb 27, 2026
  • 3 min read
  • News

The Super Pocket Rare Edition, a blue handheld with a red faceplate and yellow buttons in Rare's colours, shown front and back with a Battletoads game on the screen.

Introducing the new Super Pocket Rare Edition, which has just been announced by HyperMegaTech and Blaze. It is due this June, coming pre-installed with 14 games.

The biggie with this one is that one of the games included is Banjo-Kazooie, the Nintendo 64 classic, on a little handheld that costs under fifty quid.

I've got the Taito and Capcom Super Pockets, and I reviewed them here not that long ago and rated them highly. They're cheap, feel nice in the hand, and they take Evercade cartridges, so you are never short of something to play. A Rare Edition, though, could surpass the versions I have.

The story of Rare, in one handheld

If you do not know Rare, they are one of the great British studios. They started out as Ultimate Play the Game, run by the Stamper brothers, and they have been making brilliant games for over forty years. What I love about this line-up is that it tells their whole story. There are 14 games built in, and they run right through the decades.

You get the ZX Spectrum classics they made as Ultimate, Jetpac, Lunar Jetman, Atic Atac, Knight Lore and Gunfright. Then the NES years, with Battletoads, R.C. Pro-Am II, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, Cobra Triangle, Slalom and Solar Jetman. There is Battletoads in Battlemaniacs from the SNES, Conker's Pocket Tales from the Game Boy Color, and then the big one.

The Super Pocket Rare Edition shown front and back with Banjo-Kazooie running on its screen, and Banjo and Kazooie posing beside it on a synthwave backdrop.

Banjo-Kazooie on a pocket handheld

Banjo-Kazooie. A full Nintendo 64 3D platformer, running on a little handheld, is an achievement. It's one of the best games Rare ever made, and being able to play it on the go on this belting device is top notch.

I am curious how it will play though. The N64 pad had that analogue stick, and Banjo leaned on it heavily, so I will be interested to see how they map all of that onto a D-pad. Even so, a proper N64 game on a Super Pocket is a nice surprise, and one I did not expect to be writing about this year.

Games included

  • Jetpac
  • Lunar Jetman
  • Atic Atac
  • Knight Lore
  • Gunfright
  • Slalom
  • Cobra Triangle
  • Snake Rattle 'n' Roll
  • Solar Jetman
  • Battletoads
  • R.C. Pro-Am II
  • Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
  • Conker's Pocket Tales
  • Banjo-Kazooie

The specs, and where to get it

It is the familiar Super Pocket shape (which is a good thing!), done up in Rare's blue, red and yellow, the Banjo colours. You get the 2.8 inch screen, USB-C charging, a headphone jack, and around four hours of battery. And as ever it is Evercade compatible, so any cartridges you already own or buy will slot straight in and open the door to hundreds more games.

It is priced at £49.99 and due out in June 2026. You can pre-order it on Amazon, and there is more detail on the official HyperMegaTech site and in the Evercade announcement.

A pocket full of Rare history, with Banjo-Kazooie sat on top of it, for the price of a couple of new games (Lee departs with another 50 quid!).

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