Oh man...
Stunts / 4D Sports Driving both the intro and main menu music.

I also loved the intro music to One Must Fall 2097.... far more than the game probably.

Oh shit, it's the middle of summer and snowing in a place that doesn't even snow in winter. The climate is far worse than I thought... and we have kids now. Hopefully they're not mine, I'm too old to deal with that...

Yeah, the Steam Decks sold by Kogan (as opposed to 3rd parties that are also sold on Kogan) is the safest bet.

I was a little too impatient and bought a 64GB model from a 3rd party on Catch instead. I got it about 1.5 weeks later and it's been pretty great so far (roughly 8+ months). I think I waited about 2 weeks before upgrading the storage to 1TB though...

I wrote a long rambling post that I decided to summarise instead. I love that it's basically a PC laptop with all of the flexibility that comes with it, that's smaller, light and portable enough that I can I take everywhere.

But more importantly, it's gaming focused - the controls are great and it's fantastic for emulation and weird use cases, like running Interstate 76 with 3DFX support and the correct framerate.

I love that I can replace the hard drive or install whatever I want.

Not what you're asking for, but another option is to use a DualShock 4 controller which also supports touchpad (which can be divided in left/right if you want). I've found a pretty decent amount of community support and often use the touchpad (or gyro) for mouse games, though it's not quite as comfortable as the Steam Deck .

(I'm sure Dualsense 5 works just as well but I can only speak to Dualshock 4, which you can find for the cost of a HDMI cable online).