Playdate, the hotly anticipated handheld video game system from Portland tech company Panic, sold all 20,000 of its initial manufacturing run in just 20 minutes Thursday.

Playdate is a throwback to small handheld video game systems from the 1980s.

Instead of incorporating the latest graphics and sharpest graphics, Panic equipped Playdate with an old school directional pad, a black-and-white screen and a crank on the side.

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