Not too long ago we were all wondering who MagicX were and trying to discover whether they had any affiliation with Powkiddy, and now they're going full speed ahead with new and exciting handhelds that will hopefully stand out above the rest and not fall into the 'disappointing review pile'
Bit of a tangent, but a thing that has absolutely rekindled that sense of exploring a thing at a time instead of being frozen by choice is Retroachievements.org.
Not only is tracking progress and having leaderboards inherently promoting that in the first place but they have a bunch of community events pointing people at interesting stuff. And they add game coverage one by one, so just looking at the “what’s new” space is a surprisingly fun tool for discovering things you missed, although I imagine jumping in today does that less, since they have almost full coverage of older platforms at this point.
Still, if that’s an issue you feel you’ve been having, I recommend messing with it for that purpose.