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Oh, the [[Wonder Swan]]. [[Bandai]]'s entrant into the handheld console market that never received a release in the United States. In style it looks like somebody crossed an iMac of the era (Bondi Blue!) with a [[Game Boy]]. It came in a multitude of colors, and eventually got an upgrade with the [[Wonder Swan]] Color, and another upgrade with the SwanCrystal. It was the brainchild of [[Gunpei Yokoi]], father of the [[Game Boy]], who was unhappy with being [[Kicked Upstairs]] at the [[Nintendo|Big N]] after the failure of [[Virtual Boy]] and accordingly left for their main competitor. Unfortunately, after Yokoi's untimely death in a car crash, the project kind of lost momentum -- and it was when Nintendo was releasing its hugely successful [[Game Boy Advance]], which eclipsed it quite quickly, and in the end it [[No Export for You|never reached western shores]]. Notable for having quite a few popular ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games ported to it.