[ he's a closet gremlin, okay! though the gremlin-ness is about to pop out as itaru excitedly gives the giant handheld a once-over, pressing the buttons that are bigger than his hands and checking out the back for batteries.

sure enough, it's empty. ]

They're real tiny. Palm-sized. This big boy needs at least four of 'em too.

[ kinda surreal that they're using batteries for a console-sized handheld but itaru certainly can't complain. he just can't contain his excitement over seeing a piece of gaming relic at this point. ]

But it'd be useless without cartridges to play games with. Uh, they're like these wide plastic things that you slot in at the top? There are thousands of those game cartridges in circulation back in the day, but I'm not sure if this shop even has those anymore.