The Analogue Pocket is more than just an old-school gaming device, it is a retro gaming library. It is the goal of the Pocket to curate and present as much information about the games you're playing as possible, including manuals, reviews, and other technical documentation to upload and supplement your collection. Therefore, each game will be embellished with box art, screenshots, publishers, and other metadata, all in an organized fashion to make it feel like you have complete, hard copies of everything.

"At its heart, AnalogueOS is purpose-built for exploring and celebrating all of video game history, said Chris Taber, Founder of Analogue. "Designed to be the definitive, scholarly operating system for playing and experiencing the entire medium. Our vision is total, absolute, and yes, AnalogueOS will be on every future Analogue system."

Rather than simply play cartridge games, the Pocket and future hardware will tap into a library that provides all the useful data surrounding a game, ranging from the box art and publisher data to guides. Pop in a cartridge and you'll learn about that particular version of a game. You might know if you scored a Nintendo World Championship cart or a bootleg, for instance. That database, in turn, will help you browse your library and even create playlists to share with fellow nostalgic gamers.

Analogue wants to make its hardware not just the best way to play retro games on modern devices (like high-definition TVs, which old consoles weren't designed for) but also a complete resource for history and collector data on the games themselves. Not all the information will be available right off the bat, as the database is still under construction, but Taber confirmed that the goal is to integrate as much of this as users choose. As most of this data is text, it can easily be integrated directly into the OS with minimal storage cost. "You stick a game cartridge in and it will be able to read exactly what game it is," he said.

(All information was provided by TechCrunch)