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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."

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  1. Game gear by LordBafford · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  2. No love for NEC by brywalker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about the TurboExpress? It was by far the best portable of it's time...