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.
Specs
Processors
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