Today you can play stunningly immersive HD games on your smartphone. But the popularity of this object here reveals a hankering for a simpler, more tactile gaming experience.

The Thumby Color, by open-source hardware company TinyCircuits, is a diminutive gaming console with a 16-bit color display, a 128x128 resolution and physical controls. There's a tiny 4-way directional pad, A/B buttons, shoulder buttons and a menu button. It's basically a Game Boy Advance that's only 2" wide.

The USB-C-chargeable device comes with five games, and the company says more are on the way, free to download on their website.

To get it into production, the company held a Kickstarter seeking $25,000; at press time it had blown past $110,000, with 19 days left to pledge. Buy-in starts at $50.