History Of Portable Gaming Discussed

Posted by simoniker on Monday October 6, 2003 @02:34AM from the hurrah-for-snoopy-tennis dept.

Thanks to Boomtown for the first part of their ongoing series, discussing the early history of handheld videogames. They start off with the Milton Bradley Microvision, which "actually arrived ten years prior to the release of the Game Boy", in 1979, and then discuss "Nintendo's famous line of simple portable LCD video games", the Game & Watch series, before covering the classic original Nintendo Game Boy, and "the world's first color handheld", the attractive but ultimately doomed Atari Lynx.

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Geez, it's like the 70's never existed. by Rimbo · 2003-10-06 05:48 · Score: 3, Interesting

Remember that old football game? The same line of games also had basketball, baseball, and at one point they came out with Super Football that allowed you to pass!

And then of course was Parker Bros' MERLIN from 1978. That was one of my favorite road-trip toys ever.

Remember all of the little portable Pac-Man and Space Invaders type games?

I think there's an entire generation grown up now who think that every video game and cartoon ever made was done in Japan.