Boy Genius Report has a weekly feature called Throwback Thursday and this week’s was just too good to pass up — the Atari Lynx. For the time, it was pretty advanced, but unfortunately for Atari, it was released the same year as the GameBoy. Even though it had a color screen, it went away.
As the world’s first portable gaming device to boast a color display, the Lynx packed a host of other innovative features — including the ability to be held with the D-pad on the left or right for ambidextrous gameplay.
Killed some serious time with the Lynx back in my Navy days. The color screen was great.
Still have one with a few games it still works.
I wanted one, but the platform had disappeared before I could afford it.
We were reminiscing about this in the office just the other day. Got a serious jolt of nostalgia when we started looking up the games.
I didn’t have an Atari Lynx, but I had – and still have – a Sega Game Gear. Every once in a while I haul it out, pop in new batteries and play it for 10 minutes, then sob myself to sleep reminding myself how old and decrepit I’ve become.