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20 Years of Handheld Console Evolution
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."
That's an awfully funny way of talking about something that I can still go buy new games for at many stores. The gameboy was a wild success, and still is, 20 years later.
It's really unfortunate the game gear didn't take off better, it was color screen and they even had an adapter to watch TV on it. Game boy just had a better variety of games then game gear did. i still have my original gameboy and it still works just fine.
Today's Tomorrow is Yesterday's Future! --- "Where Ever You Go, There You Are" -- Diablo 1
Hehehe, actually those new 2500mAh NiMH AA cells should work for quite a long time. Back in the day, I only had NiCad, and not rated that high. 1h30 playtime at best...
Now, that I think of it, I should really try it with modern batteries.
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I still remember playing the old Tiger handhelds. They weren't 'console' systems, but they were among my first introduction into portable gaming. They sure were fun ways to pass the time. I still have several of them, like Castlevania, Paperboy, Double Dragon, and Star Trek. Then again, I also remember playing the old Baseball.
What about the TurboExpress? It was by far the best portable of it's time...