Palmer Luckey just revealed his modern reimagining of the Nintendo 64

Palmer Luckey teased the coming ModRetro M64 earlier this week.
ModRetro
Palmer Luckey
unveiled his new take on the Nintendo 64, which he said will include new and never-before-seen video game titles.
The ModRetro M64 faced tariffs and manufacturing concerns, Luckey wrote on X, but the price will remain $199.
Luckey is an avid video game collector and previously released a ModRetro handheld device that can play Game Boy games.
Palmer Luckey is a gamer at heart — and he just dropped something new.
The
Oculus
cofounder first made his mark on gaming by changing the VR landscape. Then he began releasing new gaming designs and modern versions of retro consoles.
Luckey is back with another design that was just unveiled: his take on the
Nintendo 64
.
The ModRetro M64 was fully revealed on Black Friday after Luckey teased the release in an X post with a video. Consumers can join a waitlist for the console on the ModRetro website.
“Much has changed since we launched early bird pricing at $199 earlier this year, things like inflation, component shortages, tariffs, and more,” he wrote on X.
The ModRetro M64 hardware is getting a full reveal on Black Friday – features, colors, our incredible new controller, cutting-edge
@AMD
hardware, etc.
Much has changed since we launched early bird pricing at $199 earlier this year, things like inflation, component shortages,…
pic.twitter.com/T8MLilyweh
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey)
November 25, 2025

These changes haven’t increased the price, Luckey shared in a piece of “great news.”
“ModRetro can keep the price at $199 not just for early signups, but for Black Friday and beyond,” he wrote. “Get ready to see what a couple Benjamins can still buy you.”
The ModRetro M64 will feature some of the Nintendo 64’s classic graphics, 4K graphics powered by
AMD
, and additional gaming titles coming soon, according to the teaser video.
It will be available in purple, green, and white.
The ModRetro M64 is powered by AMD.
ModRetro
Luckey’s “ModRetro” device collection also includes the Chromatic, a portable console that runs
Game Boy cartridges
. The device quickly sold out after its release
in 2024
.
Luckey frames his ModRetro devices as being compatible with Game Boy or Nintendo 64 games, but not exact replicas. Although it resembles the original console in appearance, the Chromatic doesn’t feature Nintendo or “Game Boy” branding on the device itself.
Responding to a
Fast Company
story from 2024 that included an analyst questioning the legality of the Game Boy cartridge-playing device, Luckey wrote
on X
at the time that the “entire point of our patent system is to trade eventual free use for time-limited exclusivity,” and that “1989 was a long time ago.”
The
Anduril
cofounder is an avid video game collector. When the world’s largest video game collection went on auction in 2014, Luckey put in
an early bid
, before bowing out.
In an interview with
Bloomberg’s Emily Chang
one year ago, Luckey described a
secret location
for his video game collection.
“I put that in one of my missile bases, 200 feet underground,” he said.
The ModRetro M64 will have “new, re-released, and never-released” games.
Screenshot via Palmer Luckey
On
Joe Rogan’s podcast
in October, Luckey showcased his personal ModRetro Chromatic, which he described as “even nicer than the ones we normally sell.” He said the device was an Anduril special edition, made from the same alloys the company uses in its attack drones.
On the X teaser, one commenter asked why they would buy Luckey’s M64 product and not a rival game console from Analogue. Luckey
responded
by citing lower latency, open-source hardware, better compatibility with modern TVs, and the device’s relative affordability.
“It’s better by every objective measure,” he wrote. “That’s without even getting into how much better our controller is, or our library of new, re-released, and never-released N64 titles we are about to launch.”
Read the original article on
Business Insider