Atari Lynx

The first color handheld console, and a victim of overreaching.

The Lynx was released in 1989, with specs similar to a TurboGrafx-16, far beyond Nintendo's Game Boy. Its screen was not only color like the later Game Gear, but backlit. However, the Lynx cost twice as much as a Game Boy and ate six AA batteries in four hours. The Game Boy won hands down. Atari re-released the Lynx with a lower price and a much smaller size, but to no avail.

Processors

 * CPU: MOS 6502, 4 MHz
 * GPU: Custom "Suzy" 16-bit graphics processor with blitter and math coprocessor

Memory

 * 64K RAM
 * Cartridges up to 512K

Display

 * 160x102 resolution
 * 16 colors per scanline from a 4096-color palette

Sound

 * Four channels, 8 bit

Games

 * A.P.B.
 * Alpine Games
 * Awesome Golf
 * Baseball Heroes
 * Basketbrawl
 * Batman Returns
 * Battle Wheels
 * Battlezone 2000
 * Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
 * Block Out
 * Blue Lightning
 * Bitchy
 * Bubble Trouble
 * California Games
 * CGE 5th
 * Championship Rally
 * Checkered Flag
 * Chips Challenge
 * Crystal Mines II
 * Crystal Mines II: Buried Treasure
 * Cybervirus
 * Cyberball
 * Desert Strike
 * Dinolympics
 * Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop
 * Double Dragon
 * Dracula the Undead
 * Dragnet
 * Electro Cop
 * European Soccer Challenge
 * Fat Bobby
 * Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge
 * Gates of Zendocon
 * Gauntlet: The Third Encounter
 * Gordo 106
 * Hard Drivin'
 * Hockey
 * Hydra
 * Hyperdome
 * Ishido: The Way of the Stones
 * Jimmy Connors' Tennis
 * Joust
 * Klax
 * Krazy Ace Miniature Golf
 * Kung Food
 * Lemmings
 * Lexis
 * Loopz
 * Lynx Casino
 * Lynx Othello
 * Poker
 * Malibu Bikini Volleyball
 * Marlboro Go!
 * Ms. Pac-Man
 * NFL Football
 * Ninja Gaiden
 * Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
 * Pac-Land
 * Paperboy
 * Pinball Jam
 * Pit-Fighter
 * Poker Mania
 * Ponx
 * Power Factor
 * Qix
 * Raiden
 * Rampage
 * Rampart
 * Remnant
 * Road Blasters
 * Robo-Squash
 * Robotron: 2084
 * Rygar
 * Scrapyard Dog
 * SFX
 * Shadow of the Beast
 * Shanghai
 * S.I.M.I.S.
 * Sokomania
 * Steel Talons
 * S.T.U.N. Runner
 * Super Asteroids & Missile Command
 * Super Off-Road
 * Super Skweek
 * Switchblade II
 * T-Tris
 * Todd's Adventures in Slime World
 * Toki
 * Tournament Cyberball
 * Turbo Sub
 * Viking Child
 * Warbirds
 * World Class Fussball / Soccer
 * Xenophobe
 * Xybots
 * Yastuna 1 - The Alchemy of Cubes
 * Yastuna 2 - The Space Incident
 * Zaku
 * Zarlor Mercenary