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20 Years of Handheld Console Evolution

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-darwin-in-gorgeous-8-bit-action dept.

marcellizot writes "It has taken a while for handheld consoles to crawl from the primordial 8-bit slime to today's apex predator polygon juggling brutes. To illustrate just how much things have advanced over the last 20 years, Pocket Gamer has pulled together a few facts and figures in pretty chart form. Pitting the vital statistics of the critical handhelds of today and yesteryear against one another, there are some interesting facts to be gleaned from this infotainment extravaganza."

4 of 74 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Comparative by toolie · · Score: 2, Funny

    They could have just asked me about the Game Gear, because I still got mine and it's functional and I got a few games.

    I'm sure you were at the top of the 'call them because they still have a Game Gear and a few games' list, but just didn't get around to calling you. They did say if somebody sent the information in that they'd update the charts, though.

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  2. Re:Comparative by The+Orange+Mage · · Score: 3, Funny

    They could have just asked me about the Game Gear, because I still got mine and it's functional and I got a few games. They would have, but they assumed your Game Gear would run out of batteries a few minutes into the questioning.
  3. Re:Game gear by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love my Game Gear. In fact I'm playing Sonic on it rig-
    Wait, I've got to find some batteries
    -ght now, and it's one good gam-
    more batteries...
    -e for the time. I'm amazed at how they sho-
    another set of batteries
    -ved the guts of the Sega Master Sys-
    this thing needs better battery life
    -tem into a handheld. They even ma-
    this is getting real old real fast
    -de a TV addon to watch stuff whi- ...
    -le waiting for more games to come out.

    You know, I think I've heard about something like that recently...

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  4. Re:Microvision by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah, you youngsters and your LCDs and your pixels. In my day, we had LEDs and we liked it that way!