GamerCard® - Grab & Go Raspberry Pi® Gaming
£125.00
GamerCard® is a ready-to-play handheld gaming computer—engineered in the shape and size of a retail gift card with a Raspberry Pi® and a high resolution (254 PPI) 4” square screen sandwiched inside. Ultra-thin, ultra-light, and ultra-convenient, it brings high-performance arcade action to your pocket, with no setup, no cables, and no packaging waste.
Sinclair Innovation. Driven by Raspberry Pi®
Premium build quality, with hardware based on Raspberry Pi®, GamerCard® combines cutting-edge design with open-source flexibility. It comes preloaded with challenging multilevel games and supports thousands more through emulators* and creative tools like PICO-8™. Whether you're a gamer, maker, tinkerer or educator, GamerCard® delivers instant entertainment and endless possibilities in a truly revolutionary pocketable form.
Next-Gen PCB Sandwich Body Construction
Patented invention abandons traditional casing and wasteful manufacturing processes, creating a thinner, lighter, and tougher handheld device. GamerCard® is 80% smaller and lighter than the immensely popular original Gameboy™ handheld from Nintendo®.
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Pre-loaded Games—Ready to Play
Straight off the peg, GamerCard® comes preloaded with two challenging, multilevel action games, originally released by indie developers on the Nintendo Switch™ store—now specially adapted and optimized for GamerCard®. These include Bloo Kid 2, a pixel-perfect action platformer packed with levels, swimming stages, and boss battles, and AstroBlaze DX, a hypercharged, rhythm-based space shooter bursting with neon thrills and upgrade mayhem. These aren't just demos—they’re full-featured adaptations, fine-tuned for the high-res square-screen GamerCard® experience..
Emulation Powerhouse—Get Inspired
GamerCard® is capable of playing thousands of high quality: Arcade, Home-Console, PC and Handheld, classic hit games across a wide range of platforms, using popular emulator* apps such as Recalbox, RetroPie, and Lakka. Such emulation offers users a unique opportunity to get inspired by a massive back-catalogue of classic games—ideal for exploring game history, design, and digital culture before starting your own creation.
Ideal for Game Creation with PICO-8™
Compatible with PICO-8™ (sold separately)—the fantasy console app for making, playing and sharing mini retro-style games. GamerCard’s 1:1 square display is a perfect match for PICO-8’s native resolution, delivering pixel-perfect visuals. Students can code, create and play full games within a single lesson—making it a powerful, compact learning tool for game design, logic, and creative coding in the classroom or at home. Completed games can be uploaded to PICO-8s Splore Game browser for everyone to enjoy and share worldwide.
Compressed Hardware. Ultra thin form factor
A powerful Quad-core Raspberry Pi Zero 2W board, Hi-res 4" square IPS display, stereo amps/speakers, and a battery all compressed into the size and shape of a retail gift card. An integrated radiator heat sink ensures cool, stable overclocking of the processor whilst tactile snap-dome buttons and silicone navigation discs deliver arcade-style responsiveness.
Ideal for existing install base of 70 Million+ Raspberry Pi® Users
A must have for the ever-growing Raspberry Pi® community, GamerCard® is a fully programmable device that supports a range of coding environments—MicroPython, C, C++, BASIC, and more. It’s ideal for homebrew developers, EdTech classrooms, and anyone wanting to learn or teach physical computing and game design. Fully expandable with Qwiic®, USB-C®, and HDMI™ ports – add peripherals to transform it into a complete Raspberry Pi-based PC.
TECH SPEC
Audio
2x sub-miniature loudspeakers, 2x monoblock amps with audio codec IC for stereo sound.
Construction
Sealed PCB sandwich construction with Zytel® layer.
Controls
Front: 8x silicone control pads using tactile snap-dome micro push buttons.
Back: L+R silicone shoulder-style buttons with tactile snap-dome switches.
Other: Micro push buttons for START, SELECT and POWER-ON.
Cooling
Ultra-thin passive heat sink radiator integrated into the Zytel® layer, sits on top of the processor. Helps reduce internal heat build-up and supports potential overclocking.
Display
4-inch IPS display with high resolution (254 ppi), high speed (60 fps), and flush-fit sapphire glass protective layer.
Expandability
Fully expandable via HDMI™ for HDTV etc, USB-C® for keyboard and mouse, and Qwiic® port for breaking out and modifying using the Qwiic® system.
Power Supply
Built-in 1600 mAh Li-Po battery, rechargeable via USB-C® port.
3x micro LEDs for battery recharge status.
Processor
Raspberry Pi Zero 2W pre-welded inside. Specification:
Custom RP3A0 system-in-package. 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1 GHz, 512 MB SDRAM, Bluetooth 4.2 and Wi-Fi.
Microcontroller Interface
Arduino® MCU interfaces USB-C® hub to Pi Zero 2 W, control pads, and audio codec IC.
Storage
32 GB internal memory (expandable via Micro SD slot—sealed inside, accessible by carefully removing front PCB).
Dimensions & Weight
Length: 128 mm. Width: 88 mm. Thickness: 6 mm. Weight: 92 grams.
DELIVERY DATES
Now shipping. Deliveries estimated 8-10 weeks.
MEDIA
“My latest product - GamerCard takes inspiration from a retail gift card form factor, making it the most compact gaming PC ever created. Free from bulky packaging, it’s an instant grab-and-go experience—just grab it off the hook and play.” Grant Sinclair
LEGAL *
GamerCard® is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo or the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Nintendo Switch™, Game Boy™ and all related marks are trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd. Raspberry Pi® is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
It is the responsibility of the individual user to ensure they are complying with all applicable copyright laws and to verify the legality of downloading, owning, or using emulators or game files in their country or region. For further guidance on legal and ethical use, users are encouraged to consult resources such as MagPi magazine and other official Raspberry Pi publications.
All game titles shown or referenced are used with permission from their respective developers.