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Palmer Luckey’s Nostalgic Gaming Side Hustle Is About to Become a Unicorn

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One might know Palmer Luckey as the 33-year-old CEO of Anduril, the defense tech company with close ties to the U.S. government, or as the prodigy who sold Oculus VR to Facebook at just 21. Luckey’s entrepreneurial journey began even earlier—with ModRetro, a venture he launched as a teenager in Long Beach that has grown from an online forum for video game console modifications into a gaming startup nearing unicorn status. ModRetro is in talks fo…

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As a teenager Palmer was Luckey Game-Boy-Modder. From his hobby could now become a billion-dollar startup. The Oculus founder and tech billionaire Palmer Luckey should look for investors for his retro gaming startup Modretro.read more on t3n.de

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The clone of Nintendo's N64 is not yet delivered, since the Oculus founder already plans with large shops.

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Tom's Hardware broke the news on Sunday, March 8, 2026.
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