5:40 - Talking about media appearances, the Lynx also has a small cameo in the 1991 horror movie Child's Play 3. In the scene where Andy is getting his hair cut by the military academy barber, there is another kid in a chair playing on a Lynx: he gets the focus in a couple of shots so you get a proper look at it too.
i found a lynx and a box of games alongside a genesis model 2 in my parents garage about 15 years ago. they don't know where they came frm but that discovery launched my retro game addiction!
Awesome! They must have owned one. Whatever the case it’s great to hear it survived. I got rid of all my games after the earthquake. Lost a lot and sold what I could carry out to raise money. But I kept the Lynx. The only thing I could never part with. I still pull it out every Xmas vacation and play.
The Lynx was pun intended a beast! That was the first handheld I truly wanted back in the late 80s / mid 90s, mainly due to so many great arcade ports. In terms of power, the Lynx was the Neo Geo AES of portable video game systems.
@@GTV-Japan Yeah, I actually never bought an Atari Lynx even though I really wanted one at the time. The mighty GBA ended up being my first portable system (not counting some Nintendo Game & Watches I had as a child or much later the Genesis Nomad) since I completely skipped the original Game Boy and Game Gear.
I wanted one too, but looking at the games list, I don't see any games that I would have wanted it for. Most of them were already available on systems I actually had. Of course, I never left the house so the portable aspect was meaningless to me lol.
I loved mine! I have had people tell me way back when, gameboy fans, that yeah the Lynx was powerful but the gameboy was still better because the cartridges were faced label side out so you could show others what you were playing and the Lynx didn’t! Boy that kool aid must be strong
The power of the Lynx certainly was impressive and it's surprising it didn't do even better given the consideration for ease of development (for Amiga developers at least), control scheme options (love that left and right side d-pad idea) and it's access to well known brands (the latter being why any handheld competitor outside of the Game Boy and Game Gear struggled at the time). Then again, 3 million+ sales and 3rd place isn't too bad, particularly when your company decides to drop support rapidly in the 3rd/4th year and focus on a new game system... which made significantly more mistakes than the Lynx did. Really cool brief history lesson on the Lynx and lovely to see many of it's games get shown off on screen.
I play the modern games, however the retro ones are always in my heart, unforgettable, anyways, they are the montar bed of where the modern games evolved from, absolutely amazing. What a great channel you have friend, and thanks for sharing the gold times with retro games. My eyes are peeled for your next video. Have a good weekend
Thanks Mr. Nasty! Actually I let the next video, already finished out accidentally and some smart people found it 😂 but I’m sure you’ll like it when the proper time comes.
I mean I could let it out now but then there’s be a long gap until the next one and I was able to finish some before I was forced to go on vacation and this way it’s all smoothed out and doesn’t look like I ever stopped wink wink
I’m like 90% sure the Lynx pops up in an episode of Full House called trouble in twin town . This pair of twins won’t let Michelle have a turn at playing. Awesome videos by the way keep ‘em coming love the Shill legends spoof
No way! Now I do remember the Full House ep. where Stephanie goes to a therapist because she’s so scared of earthquakes after the big one CA had in 89, probably a relatable episode for many families, and she asks the doctor “do you have the Nintendo game boy with super Mario bros?” And the doctor says no. Boy talk about asking for some furnishings!! Parker Lewis was very gamer. His dad owned a video store! The set designers truly knew their stuff.
I loved it. I had the Lynx 2, although it virtually never worked and it ate through those AA's like a fat kid on Christmas... but I still loved it. ❤🕹PAH PAW PAW PAW!! 👍
I was just messing around and the box game is was and always will be so fun because of the randomness of how you land. And as you saw 2 seconds later I fell over doing nothing
Toki and Road Blasters are "arcade perfect" ports on the system. Very impressive. I think the machine would have done better as a full console instead of a handheld. Toss the expensive backlit screen, maybe add a better sound chip, with higher resolution and slightly better color capabilities, it would have *trashed* the existing Megadrive and the upcoming SNES. Performing like a budget NEOGEO.
Yeah I have to agree. I’m sure they were thinking they couldn’t take on the NES and had to go in a new area which was a smart move in a way. The Amiga was going to be a game so I’ve heard but ended up not being so. so maybe they learned from that. 🐆🐆
Uh, no. It could not have compete with either the genesis or the SNES. By the time you are redesigning the video and audio chips, is it even still the same console? It wasn't even the best handheld of its time. The Turbo Express was superior to the Lynx in every way. It shows with the games. I like the Lynx and own several of them and many games. it's a fun system. It's way better than a game boy in terms of the look. Sound is probably better too.
I mean that rather than compete with the nes and super nes they went to the portable space which at the time handy was conceived as an idea the only competition were LCD games.
@@tarstarkusz This is purely a what if, what could have been if Atari had a better strategy. The Lynx ran on the same CPU as PC Engine. If it was designed for a console form factor from the get-go and not a low energy handheld environment, I have no doubt it would have been a serious 8-16bit contender. In fact, with a gentle overclock it would have towered above the competition even if had to push x3 the pixels. Just compare the unreleased versions of Road Riot on Lynx with the SNES and Megadrive versions. You can tell there was a monster in there.
@@Holammer Atari lacked the focus and money, not so much the strategy. if they had the money, they wouldn't have needed to drop support of the Lynx to try the jaguar. As I understand it, the CPU in the TG16 is modified and is a custom chip.. In what ways I don't know. But it is true the Lynx runs it a lot faster at 16mhz That Road Riot proto show the Lynx in a very good light. Excellent use of the hardware. It's very well suited to that type of game. In the end, I think it's a shame they sold it to Atari and not someone else who had the money to push it. Had it had a 1000 plus games made for it, the hardware could have really been pushed. They should have included a built in replaceable rechargeable battery, though in 1989 or even later with the Lynx 2, the only real option was a low end nicad. A good (but expensive) nicad pack could have given it a decent run time. I run mine only on the wall-wart. But I do have a bunch of eneloops. I should try testing it to see what kind of time I can get.
Yeah I wonder too. But at the time there’s no way a Japanese developer would ever make a game for an American machine. At best it would get licensed and programmed elsewhere like rygar and ninja gaiden did. But a Megaman or castlevania would have been fun and gathered a larger base for sure🐆🐆🐆
also there's apparently a new 'atari 50th anniversary' collection releasing soon, and for the first time ever it'll have both jaguar AND lynx titles! pretty sure it's on switch as well, so if you want the closest experience to the real thing that would be the way to go, haha. never had the system originally so I may look up that collection to see if there was anything fun I might have missed!! great content as always.
It is coming! Unfortunately we don’t know much about it other than what they’ve shown. But I can finally stop praying that someone updates virtual Jaguar which was never going to happen and I can play cybermorph again! 🐆🐆🐆🐆
I enjoy those little call backs to classic tv shows and comments on common well known things we all did back in the day. It really makes the show feel authentic.
it's crazy that the Game Boy was dominant. The Lynx and Game Gear were way more advanced. And the Game Boy didn't even have a backlit screen until the SP which is insane! Nintendo just had way better marketing and promoting I guess.
They are good at what they do. But a lot of it was strong arming stores to keep competition out. Funny though that everyone says Lynx and GG couldn’t be successful because of shorter battery life but never mention that the gameboy is useless unless you are under direct light. Oh well. And yes I remember shaking my head at the first GBA. Also really hard to play without light
@@GTV-Japan Yeah that's a good point about them getting all the stores on Nintendo's side. They definitely had money and I'm sure that went along way with strong arming stores. Yeah the battery life was an issue but I'd rather change out the batteries and be able to play under the covers as a kid when it was time to go to bed than to be forced to follow the rules because of no back lit screen lol.
Yeah it made no sense. Ahhh only 4 hours?! Noooooo! Like you can’t just change them out. Today switch portable battery life is about the same anyway haha
My cousin, who was on the cutting edge of gaming during the 80s and 90s, got a Lynx when they first released. It blew the mind of 6 year old me and he let me get my fill of California Games. Eventually he just kinda stopped playing it and my the rest of my memories of the system come from coverage in gaming magazines of the time. Still looking back it was incredibly impressive and had a solid library even if I wouldn't call any of the games a killer app.
I just picked up an Atari Lynx model 2 it had an insert game error. I cleaned the carts and it worked again. I wonder if I should get the mode 1 as well sometime.
Great video! I've been busy the last several weeks, so I'm going back and watching all of your videos that I missed now. Maybe somebody can homebrew a Funassyi game for the Lynx.
I recently bought a Lynx 1, saying this handheld is astounding is an understatement. If i had known about it when i was a kid, i would have ditched my game boy in a second!
I know about of lynx about Linx in the mexican edition of egm and only i saw on live once in a flee market, asked the price 1200 mexican pesos about 86 dollars circa 2008, the Game boy it's everywhere and Game gear folllw. Great video camarada saludos
When I’m editing videos on the train, which is where 90% of the work on this channel is done, I don’t have the intel overheating so I’m no longer getting burned! But in the winter it was quite a cold ride haha. Also the new globe key is great for language switching
A great handheld especially if you're into western made games of that time and golden age arcade classics, however I don't like that many games have sound effects only and also a good chunk of them don't scrolls as smoothly as they should.
I think I only saw an Atari Lynx once in my life, it was well after its release, and what caught my attention the most was its left-handed button configuration, still, I like to see material on it, it really seemed very advanced for its time
I guess it depends on where you lived (and when!) to see how common or rare they were. The left handed control was cool but you had to push two buttons at the same time every time you turn it on. It was a bit of a pain. But added to the challenge
I bought my Lynx II around the end of 1993 when a local retailer was desperate to get rid of them. Grabbed a handful of games along with it for dirt cheap and absolutely loved 'em. Being able flip the display and play Klax vertically was mind blowing. That Batman Returns game certainly didn't do the poor system any favours though, what an absolute stinker lol.
I didn't know that this even existed. I would have been 5 when the console already peaked but having grown up in Turkey I thought Sega GameGear was it. Nothing beat Shinobi II, and Sonic in my mind never even knowing Lynx existed. 5-6 hours is amazing compared to what I got out of the GameGear, that thing destroyed batteries.
The one thing about the Lynx you didn't mention which amazes me when I first read about it is the handheld's ability to be played by left and right hand users by turning the device around. I wish more handhelds adopted this design idea.
I only saw the Lynx in one store at my city. I always wanted it because it had double dragon!! But it was totally unnafordable. I don’t know what killed the Lynx: lack of games, the price tag, lot of batteries needed, low distribution points… maybe all of the above.
I personally refuse to consider battery life an issue. Yes it was shorter but it was never a problem. No Lynx game lasted over 4 hours anyways. However it was, I believe, the 1-2 punch Nintendo had of being available everywhere and often the only game in certain stores and having 3rd party support to get 100+ games in stores without really having to do much. Oh and then the general incompetence or apathy Atari Corp had at times.
t's funny how the monochrome GameBoy outlived almost every other game companies' competing portable game machines. Despite it being severely underpowered, especially versus the Lynx.
My personal theory is the Japanese market itself is a good testing ground for new ideas. But repurposing existing hardware for a game system backed by great games (an idea that Nintendo always promoted) could be a major factor too. The 3DS failed at launch coz it was a bit expensive (thanks to it's new 3D feature). Great content as always. Thumbs up.
There are several tiers/tracks in the market and certainly riding out the lowest end is profitable because there’ll always be a 7 year old who wants a video game and parents who won’t invest in that beyond the most basic thing. While the higher end where more seasoned gamers reside demand more. The game boy is just one example. The 2600 and genesis 3 are other good examples where long obsolete tech still made money.
Handy emulator works like a charm! Honestly an old Lynx and it’s old screen doesn’t look as nice as what you see here. Lot of blur. It’s just how it was. Thanks for watching 🐆🐆🐆🐆
They say, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This remains true to why the Game Gear and Atari Lynx couldn't defeat Nintendo's Game Boy.
I refuse to think in these terms that have been set up for modern day analysis. I had a Lynx in the 90s and enjoyed knowing I had the most powerful game around. And if you do want to go there, the Game Gear did make more money than the gameboy by 1993.
I was not notified about this!!? I need a Lynx. I love my Jaguar even though it was light on software. Hey! I have a lead on the Gameboy song. There’s a video on my channel.
I had a Lynx II, picked it up for cheap in a bundle after it was discontinued. It was an odd console. It was huge, it chewed through batteries like crazy, and most of the games felt like they weren't as good as they should have been. Despite the cool features, it was the 90s handheld I played least. I *wanted* to like it more than I actually did.
I happen to be lucky enough to find an Atari Lynx Model II. Found it at a Charity Shop here in Australia for $5AU. Came in a carry case with two games. And it still works perfectly! I even found a means of playing it with a generic power supply, which should save on batteries. Compared to the cost it runs up online nowadays, I consider mine to be a triumph of frugal bargaining.
See, I grew up in the projects and had no money. Things like this were out of my reach still are to this day. I still don't have the latest and greatest make do with what I have. And I'm happy with what I have even though it's nothing literally nothing. I'm a gamer without something to game on
I honestly consider Lynx to have one of the worst libraries of any portable console, but it had a good design and it was very technically impressive considering when it came out. Game Boy obviously had the best library of any handheld console for a while, Super Mario Land alone is better than most games Lynx or Game Gear ever had, but the lack of color and power was obviously a big downside.
Yeah. Worst of the three I suppose! I did like Mario land but I thought most games on gameboy weren’t so great. Too blurry and too short. I guess if you were familiar with NES games then the GB was a good fit. The game gear was great. It was the perfect plan. Sms on the go while the genesis was at home. I think Atari was geared to an older set by then who still frequented arcades and appreciated that kind of gameplay. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
@@GTV-Japan Game Boy had its share of clunkers, yeah, and the blurriness was a problem too. But Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc is just hard to compete with. Sega definitely earned second place, it had a ton of Sonic games and also had its exclusuve Shinobi and Golden Axe, not to mention interesting "demakes" of games like Streets of Rage.
@@GTV-Japan May I suggest the original Red & Blue from the mid 90's (not the remakes)? There's a quaint charm to them I think you'd appreciate even without having played them in your youth, although I think nostalgia helps a lot with liking Pokemon moreso than most Nintendo games.
No demos of or even a passing reference to Chip's Challenge, the cult classic that was made specifically for the nascent Lynx? (The inclusion in the print ad you show at the end doesn't count.) Your material and presentation is always great, but this is a huge oversight!
@@GTV-Japan Well I consider myself lucky. I found an Atari Lynx Model 2 at a local Charity Shop here in Australia. It came in a carry bag with two game cards inside. And for $5AU, this was an opportunity I could not resist! It now goes for hundreds of dollars locally, and I got it for $5!
Yeah, a friend had a LYNX growing up. It was very cool. And it was ambidextrous. The games were kinda like little cards. He didn't have any fun games, but I remember wanting it really badly! It was color for Pete's sake!!!!!!!
Atari should,ve kept the name handy for it’s handheld aa i think that was a better name for it considering that handheld was made with left & right hand feature in mind,that’s pretty sad they didn’t.
Yes! Very true but with everything Japanese oriented it wasn’t happening. There were efforts by Sega to change the ride and it worked. It used to INFURIATE me to no end seeing a video game ad for nes/snes/game boy/genesis/game gear, usually acclaim, saying “for all systems” woah woah hold on not true!
Leave it to Atari to mess up something great that was given to them. They should've stuck with the Lynx instead of shitting the bed with the toilet that was the Jaguar and Jaguar-CD...the thing literally looked like a toilet.
It all really deals with the difference of opinion Sam and Jack had on games. Sam was a gamer, Jack wasn't and just wanted cheap but powerful computers. In the early 90s Sam was running things, you could see his influence and effort in gaming but he killed off the Falcon, then sometime after the Jag was released he had a heart attack and Jack came back to take over the company and basically erased all the progress they made. Then the company was sold. They already made inroads into windows games but I think they health scare made Sam sell off the company.
4096 possible colours? Etm no, it allowed game designers to choose from a palate of 4096 possible colours. Clever coding routines in games like Awesome Golf, got 40+ colours on static screens.
I always thought this and the game gear where very interesting because i love handheld gaming but i want to try out handhelds not from Nintendo but sadly i can't find a working lynx or game gear i have a bunch of broken ones but my game boys are tougher and still work fine after all these years. And i am terrible at repairing electronics this is another reason why i am stopping with game collecting it seems that as these retro consoles get older they start breaking down so i need to learn basic soldering if i want to keep playing my retro consoles.
If you can find a working Lynx and the mcwill screen kit, you’ll be amazed! But sadly that’s the way it is. Things get old break down die and get forgotten. 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
I should've known you had the information I needed! Don't tell anybody that I do research in part from your videos and I'll buy you a sandwich one day... Oh shoot this post! I outed myself again. Well I'll be fine if I don't hit enter
The Amiga guys. With each new device they created the less successful each became with the M2 not being released. Though it's no fault of their own. They were great at creating tech. Lynx failed because Atari didn't have enough money and couldn't convince 3rd parties to make games for it. 3DO failed because it was super expensive cause manufacturers didn't make money from games. The M2 was never given a chance. I do wonder how well the M2 would have been had it been released in 1997/8. Panasonic was one of the few electronic companies as popular as Sony at that time, especially in Japan. I do wonder if Trip Hawkins stayed as CEO of EA if they would have became the first party developer for 3DO and M2. It could have been a similar relationship between Hudson and NEC.
I don’t like using “the f word” especially because back then especially if you were a kid in your own bubble you had no idea what was a success or not. Sure not as popular but you could walk into a store month after month for a good 5 years and always have something new to buy. Thanks for watching 🐆🐆🐆
I absolutely love the lynx i didn't get one untill 2004 and of course already had a gameboy advance and a neogeo pocket color with only 3 games that got little to no use. I am a huge snk fan just not for thr pocket. Anyhow when i got it i totally missed out in my childhood i had only heard of it never seen one in person at all not even a screen shot. I had gauntlet ms pacman xybots crystal mines 2 steel talons. When i played xybots i was confused as to what i was seen. This is the graphics of the lynx? Why did this fail i still day xybots stun runner and especially rodblasters feel. Almost arcade level it may be on a smaller screen but man i have 30 go to lynx games these daya as my taste changed i honestly wouldn't be intrested in these games as a kid wasnt my thung till my teens i changed over and absolutely loved fadt paced hard arcade games from 80s 90s. I ended up selling it as i had no knowledge of games for it then and. Never bought ebay those early days so i never seen much available but i know most people will choose mario and sonic over games like pit fighter stun runner pacland rygar. As a child id do the same. Anyhow i always knew one day we wod have portable consoles on psr with home ones or nearly. I felt that wat of the ds psp especially 3ds. However looks like i missed that opportunity in my youth. I hope in the future we see nore homebrew arcade lynx games mk1 demo on lynx very impressive id definitely play 2 button street fighter on the lynx maybe oneday.
The Jag resembles the Lynx in many ways. Unified memory. Outdated CPU . It was modified to work well with fast-page mode memory and caches, which became common due to the increased transistor count. And the cartridge went from 1 bit to 32bit as if Atari had to compensate for the mistake.
@@GTV-JapanAs simple as the Tramiel's not having the resources to support more than 1 system at a time. Panther was originally planned to have simultaneous launch with Lynx.. Falcon and Lynx dropped to launch Jaguar, plans to return to both after Jaguar was a commercial success, which never happened, putting paid to to those plans.
I think this would have been better if Atari made it a home console than messing around with with the 7800 & XE. Would've competed with Nintendo & Sega Better.
Maybe so but it was evident at the time that Nintendo was invincible and unstoppable. Look what Sega had to do to get anywhere sales wise. The Tramiels would have never done that
Sorry, but Lynx wasn't the most powerful, it's never that simple. Both GB and GG had higher screen resolutions. The Game Gear could run 2D platformers upto 60 fps, the Lynx around 15 fps.
@@GTV-Japan I tend to look at things in term of what else was available at the time, at retail. These 2 were the competition the Lynx faced. The handheld PC Engine, also boasting higher resolution, did an awful lot of things in software, the Lynx did in hardware.
Putting aside the fact that "16 bit graphics" is basically meaningless, I think we can agree what you MEANT when you said it had 16 bit graphics. That is, graphics for a next generation machine. But it really doesn't have that. It is decidedly an 8-bit system. For comparison, the Turbo Express, a handheld contemporary of the Lynx is in fact an 8 bit system that has actually has 16 bit graphics. They are not comparable in any way. BTW, unlike you, I actually own and occasionally use a Lynx.
Back in the '90s or even the '80s if something was $179 that wasn't super pricey considering they wanted close to $700 in that same time period for a Panasonic 3DO and not to mention the Neo Geo those were pricey and the games too almost 2 to $300 for the games in the '90s
I had a friend in high school whose dad was a doctor and this guy had a neo geo and a 3do! We actually played that stupid plumbers don’t wear ties game everyone gawks over except it was actually new at the time. He also had a TurboGrafx with CD player and turbo express! Not to mention the Nintendo stuff and a new, zero mile car and basically an open wallet any time he wanted. He didn’t have any Sega or Atari stuff though because he had no interest in them but he could have easily had them. Unfortunately he never took care of anything and it all wound up broken. I do think 179 is getting up there. Especially when 99 was the barrier for many things not just games. But hey it cost what it cost. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
Q: How many colors can the Lynx display?
4096 according to the vid!
4096? I promise, I watched the whole video! :)
16 million!
Lynx have 4096 according to GTV. You should check his videos sometimes
@@Bole_ZG you’re right! I guess I’ll have to watch this video again! “The more I know!” :D
Man. To this day, I still wonder if anybody anywhere EVER got eight Lynx players together for a gaming session, at the time of its release.
Yes! Atari set up promo booths at the time of release to demonstrate it but as far as 8 friends who all had a Lynx and that game? Noooooo.
I did it at a retro game convention
I had 2 Lynx’s and enough friends to play with 8 Lynx’s.
Most I had were four at once on a long family car ride. Also required a split adaptor for the cigarette lighter to power all them.
@timcoats wow! Amazing!! Thanks for sharing
I sold all my NES games buy buy one of these back in 1989. I was a super Lynx fanboy--absolutely loved it.
Awesome! Game on!
Me too, I had a Lynx 2 as a kid, after I had had a Gameboy. Never looked back. It was like having a home console in your hand.
5:40 - Talking about media appearances, the Lynx also has a small cameo in the 1991 horror movie Child's Play 3. In the scene where Andy is getting his hair cut by the military academy barber, there is another kid in a chair playing on a Lynx: he gets the focus in a couple of shots so you get a proper look at it too.
Oh see that what I get for not watching it! Thanks for the tip!
i found a lynx and a box of games alongside a genesis model 2 in my parents garage about 15 years ago. they don't know where they came frm but that discovery launched my retro game addiction!
Awesome! They must have owned one. Whatever the case it’s great to hear it survived. I got rid of all my games after the earthquake. Lost a lot and sold what I could carry out to raise money. But I kept the Lynx. The only thing I could never part with. I still pull it out every Xmas vacation and play.
The Lynx was pun intended a beast! That was the first handheld I truly wanted back in the late 80s / mid 90s, mainly due to so many great arcade ports. In terms of power, the Lynx was the Neo Geo AES of portable video game systems.
You have to wonder how they fit all that in there! And really it was the champ until the gameboy advance came along and was finally out powered. 🐆
@@GTV-Japan Yeah, I actually never bought an Atari Lynx even though I really wanted one at the time. The mighty GBA ended up being my first portable system (not counting some Nintendo Game & Watches I had as a child or much later the Genesis Nomad) since I completely skipped the original Game Boy and Game Gear.
Well that’s fine. I was perplexed by how long the game boy lived. And actually still am.
Always wanted a lynx as a kid. It looked so bad ass
It still is!🐆
I wanted one too, but looking at the games list, I don't see any games that I would have wanted it for. Most of them were already available on systems I actually had. Of course, I never left the house so the portable aspect was meaningless to me lol.
Gaming with the tv on!
I never had a Lynx but always wanted one. Of course, what I wanted most of all was a Turbo Duo.
Those are still around. Nothing but good memories!
i recently got a lynx. i can see why people admired this handheld.. its so fucking cool
I loved mine! I have had people tell me way back when, gameboy fans, that yeah the Lynx was powerful but the gameboy was still better because the cartridges were faced label side out so you could show others what you were playing and the Lynx didn’t! Boy that kool aid must be strong
The power of the Lynx certainly was impressive and it's surprising it didn't do even better given the consideration for ease of development (for Amiga developers at least), control scheme options (love that left and right side d-pad idea) and it's access to well known brands (the latter being why any handheld competitor outside of the Game Boy and Game Gear struggled at the time). Then again, 3 million+ sales and 3rd place isn't too bad, particularly when your company decides to drop support rapidly in the 3rd/4th year and focus on a new game system... which made significantly more mistakes than the Lynx did.
Really cool brief history lesson on the Lynx and lovely to see many of it's games get shown off on screen.
I don’t know what’s more amazing. The tech it had or that Atari Corporation did something competent for more than half a day🐆🐆🐆
I play the modern games, however the retro ones are always in my heart, unforgettable, anyways, they are the montar bed of where the modern games evolved from, absolutely amazing.
What a great channel you have friend, and thanks for sharing the gold times with retro games.
My eyes are peeled for your next video.
Have a good weekend
Thanks Mr. Nasty! Actually I let the next video, already finished out accidentally and some smart people found it 😂 but I’m sure you’ll like it when the proper time comes.
@@GTV-Japan cant wait to see buddy ! Retro forever in our memories
The next one is the annual hulk hogan manga show!
@@GTV-Japan amazing ! Love that
I mean I could let it out now but then there’s be a long gap until the next one and I was able to finish some before I was forced to go on vacation and this way it’s all smoothed out and doesn’t look like I ever stopped wink wink
I’m like 90% sure the Lynx pops up in an episode of Full House called trouble in twin town . This pair of twins won’t let Michelle have a turn at playing. Awesome videos by the way keep ‘em coming love the Shill legends spoof
No way! Now I do remember the Full House ep. where Stephanie goes to a therapist because she’s so scared of earthquakes after the big one CA had in 89, probably a relatable episode for many families, and she asks the doctor “do you have the Nintendo game boy with super Mario bros?” And the doctor says no. Boy talk about asking for some furnishings!! Parker Lewis was very gamer. His dad owned a video store! The set designers truly knew their stuff.
Oh yeah I did just sign on with a new sponsor so expect that to show up end of September or beginning of October!!!
I loved it. I had the Lynx 2, although it virtually never worked and it ate through those AA's like a fat kid on Christmas... but I still loved it.
❤🕹PAH PAW PAW PAW!! 👍
Haha yeah I used to eat a lot at Xmas myself
That double flip around 0:35 was epic I can’t believe you landed it. Haha.
I was just messing around and the box game is was and always will be so fun because of the randomness of how you land. And as you saw 2 seconds later I fell over doing nothing
Audio, Video, 3-D-O.
Brilliant.
Toki and Road Blasters are "arcade perfect" ports on the system. Very impressive.
I think the machine would have done better as a full console instead of a handheld. Toss the expensive backlit screen, maybe add a better sound chip, with higher resolution and slightly better color capabilities, it would have *trashed* the existing Megadrive and the upcoming SNES. Performing like a budget NEOGEO.
Yeah I have to agree. I’m sure they were thinking they couldn’t take on the NES and had to go in a new area which was a smart move in a way. The Amiga was going to be a game so I’ve heard but ended up not being so. so maybe they learned from that. 🐆🐆
Uh, no. It could not have compete with either the genesis or the SNES. By the time you are redesigning the video and audio chips, is it even still the same console?
It wasn't even the best handheld of its time. The Turbo Express was superior to the Lynx in every way. It shows with the games.
I like the Lynx and own several of them and many games. it's a fun system. It's way better than a game boy in terms of the look. Sound is probably better too.
I mean that rather than compete with the nes and super nes they went to the portable space which at the time handy was conceived as an idea the only competition were LCD games.
@@tarstarkusz This is purely a what if, what could have been if Atari had a better strategy.
The Lynx ran on the same CPU as PC Engine. If it was designed for a console form factor from the get-go and not a low energy handheld environment, I have no doubt it would have been a serious 8-16bit contender. In fact, with a gentle overclock it would have towered above the competition even if had to push x3 the pixels.
Just compare the unreleased versions of Road Riot on Lynx with the SNES and Megadrive versions. You can tell there was a monster in there.
@@Holammer Atari lacked the focus and money, not so much the strategy. if they had the money, they wouldn't have needed to drop support of the Lynx to try the jaguar.
As I understand it, the CPU in the TG16 is modified and is a custom chip.. In what ways I don't know. But it is true the Lynx runs it a lot faster at 16mhz
That Road Riot proto show the Lynx in a very good light. Excellent use of the hardware. It's very well suited to that type of game.
In the end, I think it's a shame they sold it to Atari and not someone else who had the money to push it. Had it had a 1000 plus games made for it, the hardware could have really been pushed.
They should have included a built in replaceable rechargeable battery, though in 1989 or even later with the Lynx 2, the only real option was a low end nicad. A good (but expensive) nicad pack could have given it a decent run time. I run mine only on the wall-wart. But I do have a bunch of eneloops. I should try testing it to see what kind of time I can get.
GTV Japan is s-tier gaming! I really enjoy the channel.
Thanks for supporting the channel!! I’m working hard to reach that SSS rank 🐆🐆🐆🐆
Love the Lynx and it's excellent arcade ports.
I wonder what Capcom and Konami could have done with the hardware.
Yeah I wonder too. But at the time there’s no way a Japanese developer would ever make a game for an American machine. At best it would get licensed and programmed elsewhere like rygar and ninja gaiden did. But a Megaman or castlevania would have been fun and gathered a larger base for sure🐆🐆🐆
@@GTV-JapanAtari did send Bill Rehbock to Japan to try and get Capcom on board for the Jaguar. Got nowhere.
OK a high five bro for saying Gameboy was green. Finally someone said it.
It is! It was never black and white! 3 shades of green and then clear. Basically.
And the background screen/material was also green. The circuit board inside was also green!
@@GTV-JapanDamn right
also there's apparently a new 'atari 50th anniversary' collection releasing soon, and for the first time ever it'll have both jaguar AND lynx titles! pretty sure it's on switch as well, so if you want the closest experience to the real thing that would be the way to go, haha. never had the system originally so I may look up that collection to see if there was anything fun I might have missed!! great content as always.
It is coming! Unfortunately we don’t know much about it other than what they’ve shown. But I can finally stop praying that someone updates virtual Jaguar which was never going to happen and I can play cybermorph again! 🐆🐆🐆🐆
I enjoy those little call backs to classic tv shows and comments on common well known things we all did back in the day. It really makes the show feel authentic.
We are all Parker!
it's crazy that the Game Boy was dominant. The Lynx and Game Gear were way more advanced. And the Game Boy didn't even have a backlit screen until the SP which is insane! Nintendo just had way better marketing and promoting I guess.
They are good at what they do. But a lot of it was strong arming stores to keep competition out. Funny though that everyone says Lynx and GG couldn’t be successful because of shorter battery life but never mention that the gameboy is useless unless you are under direct light. Oh well. And yes I remember shaking my head at the first GBA. Also really hard to play without light
@@GTV-Japan Yeah that's a good point about them getting all the stores on Nintendo's side. They definitely had money and I'm sure that went along way with strong arming stores. Yeah the battery life was an issue but I'd rather change out the batteries and be able to play under the covers as a kid when it was time to go to bed than to be forced to follow the rules because of no back lit screen lol.
Yeah it made no sense. Ahhh only 4 hours?! Noooooo! Like you can’t just change them out. Today switch portable battery life is about the same anyway haha
@@GTV-Japan Yeah that's true. I make sure to bring my charger with me anytime I take it somewhere lol
Back in the old day I had a set of rechargeable batteries from radio shack. They were bright purple and I must have used them 1000 times
My cousin, who was on the cutting edge of gaming during the 80s and 90s, got a Lynx when they first released. It blew the mind of 6 year old me and he let me get my fill of California Games. Eventually he just kinda stopped playing it and my the rest of my memories of the system come from coverage in gaming magazines of the time. Still looking back it was incredibly impressive and had a solid library even if I wouldn't call any of the games a killer app.
Yeah there wasn’t a game that set the world on fire. And back then California Games was really popular. And of course it was and still is great! 🐆🐆🐆
Just like the elusive cat, the Lynx gaming system is one to add to the gaming handheld collection
absolutley!
I wish I still had my lynx
It's ok. hardware dies, the games live on!
I just picked up an Atari Lynx model 2 it had an insert game error. I cleaned the carts and it worked again. I wonder if I should get the mode 1 as well sometime.
The model 2 is better. You’re not missing anything on the model 1
@@GTV-Japanonly play on my model 1 ...thé second one had thé worst joypad possible.
Great video! Loved the Lynx… 6 AA batteries giving 4 - 5 hours of gameplay is probably it’s biggest flaw.
But seriously did anyone sit for 5 hours straight and get screwed out a game because of that? I always used the ac adaptor at home anyway
I loved the Atari Lynx 2 as a kid, way more than the Gameboy
Great video! I've been busy the last several weeks, so I'm going back and watching all of your videos that I missed now. Maybe somebody can homebrew a Funassyi game for the Lynx.
Oh my lord! Well maybe just rework Toki goes Apespit! 😂 🍐🐆
Kudos for the vertical and multiplayer gaming experience in the console excusive gauntlet the third encounter
Klax too!
My brothers best friend had a lynx when it came out it blew my mind seeing those graphics on a handheld way back then
Very cool!
I used to love my Atari Lynx, miss the good Ole days. Ninja Gaiden was my favorite Lynx game 😢😅
Me too I loved all of them! What happened to it? Did it die out? 😢
I still have a clear memory of seeing this in a store when it came out. I was enamored. But it was way out of my budget at the time as a teenager.
It was an odd pricing. Yeah it was 179$ but those things separately wood have cost as much. But as an entry price it’s too much
@@GTV-Japan yep.
I recently bought a Lynx 1, saying this handheld is astounding is an understatement. If i had known about it when i was a kid, i would have ditched my game boy in a second!
Woohoo!
I know about of lynx about Linx in the mexican edition of egm and only i saw on live once in a flee market, asked the price 1200 mexican pesos about 86 dollars circa 2008, the Game boy it's everywhere and Game gear folllw. Great video camarada saludos
That’s pretty good deal. They are usually over 100 us and in japan there’s some demand among collectors and they are pretty valuable 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
This is gonna be a banger. Congrats on joining the M1 Club! How are you finding the feel of it?
When I’m editing videos on the train, which is where 90% of the work on this channel is done, I don’t have the intel overheating so I’m no longer getting burned! But in the winter it was quite a cold ride haha. Also the new globe key is great for language switching
Great work Sir thank you
You’re welcome 🐆
I had quite a few games for this system. Some of the best were Gauntlet and Blue Lightning. Great times.
I ended up with about 20. Hardly any bad ones.
@@GTV-Japan The Lynx was way before its time.
Atari: Let's make a powerful 16-bit handheld to rival Nintendo.
Nintendo: Let's make its monochromatic with no backlight to keep the cost down.
I always wondered how much the inclusion of the left-handed controls increased manufacturing costs.
Probably not too much. Just 2 extra buttons and a programs in the software to flip the screen.
Tramiel was a notorious skinflint, so it probably cost nothing or it would have been removed in the lynx model 2
A great handheld especially if you're into western made games of that time and golden age arcade classics, however I don't like that many games have sound effects only and also a good chunk of them don't scrolls as smoothly as they should.
Hey Amerigo! My good friend welcome back!🐆
I think I only saw an Atari Lynx once in my life, it was well after its release, and what caught my attention the most was its left-handed button configuration, still, I like to see material on it, it really seemed very advanced for its time
I guess it depends on where you lived (and when!) to see how common or rare they were. The left handed control was cool but you had to push two buttons at the same time every time you turn it on. It was a bit of a pain. But added to the challenge
I bought my Lynx II around the end of 1993 when a local retailer was desperate to get rid of them. Grabbed a handful of games along with it for dirt cheap and absolutely loved 'em. Being able flip the display and play Klax vertically was mind blowing.
That Batman Returns game certainly didn't do the poor system any favours though, what an absolute stinker lol.
No movie game has ever been great. But the fact that they went for such an exclusive license showed their determination. Thanks for watching 🐆🐆🐆
I didn't know that this even existed. I would have been 5 when the console already peaked but having grown up in Turkey I thought Sega GameGear was it. Nothing beat Shinobi II, and Sonic in my mind never even knowing Lynx existed. 5-6 hours is amazing compared to what I got out of the GameGear, that thing destroyed batteries.
The one thing about the Lynx you didn't mention which amazes me when I first read about it is the handheld's ability to be played by left and right hand users by turning the device around. I wish more handhelds adopted this design idea.
I didn’t say that? I thought I did! Doh
@@GTV-Japan Maybe I missed it but while you talked about what controls the handheld had you didn't talk about the alternate way to play it.
He mentioned
@@lucasgs4 Really? Do you have a timestamp, I guess I missed it?
@@pferreira1983 he mentioned briefly as part of the features
I only saw the Lynx in one store at my city. I always wanted it because it had double dragon!! But it was totally unnafordable.
I don’t know what killed the Lynx: lack of games, the price tag, lot of batteries needed, low distribution points… maybe all of the above.
I personally refuse to consider battery life an issue. Yes it was shorter but it was never a problem. No Lynx game lasted over 4 hours anyways. However it was, I believe, the 1-2 punch Nintendo had of being available everywhere and often the only game in certain stores and having 3rd party support to get 100+ games in stores without really having to do much. Oh and then the general incompetence or apathy Atari Corp had at times.
Nice work sir
Thanks 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
t's funny how the monochrome GameBoy outlived almost every other game companies' competing portable game machines. Despite it being severely underpowered, especially versus the Lynx.
It was very perplexing to me
My personal theory is the Japanese market itself is a good testing ground for new ideas.
But repurposing existing hardware for a game system backed by great games (an idea that Nintendo always promoted) could be a major factor too. The 3DS failed at launch coz it was a bit expensive (thanks to it's new 3D feature).
Great content as always. Thumbs up.
There are several tiers/tracks in the market and certainly riding out the lowest end is profitable because there’ll always be a 7 year old who wants a video game and parents who won’t invest in that beyond the most basic thing. While the higher end where more seasoned gamers reside demand more. The game boy is just one example. The 2600 and genesis 3 are other good examples where long obsolete tech still made money.
Now I kinda wanna play one. Wonder if I’ll ever get the chance!
Handy emulator works like a charm! Honestly an old Lynx and it’s old screen doesn’t look as nice as what you see here. Lot of blur. It’s just how it was. Thanks for watching 🐆🐆🐆🐆
I made the Gameboy book back in the day from Parker Lewis Can't Lose. :P
Nice!
They say, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This remains true to why the Game Gear and Atari Lynx couldn't defeat Nintendo's Game Boy.
I refuse to think in these terms that have been set up for modern day analysis. I had a Lynx in the 90s and enjoyed knowing I had the most powerful game around. And if you do want to go there, the Game Gear did make more money than the gameboy by 1993.
I thought it was so cool, but I never got one. I really wanted to get the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden
I didn’t know there was one at the time. You should have seen my confusion. Thanks for watching 🐆
The 3DO was named after its ability to create 3 dimensional objects. That is also what their 3 shapes stand for as well.
I know. It’s just a joke.
@@GTV-Japan
Alright...
I was not notified about this!!? I need a Lynx. I love my Jaguar even though it was light on software. Hey! I have a lead on the Gameboy song. There’s a video on my channel.
oh really? I'll have to swing by.
My favourites were electrocop , gauntlet and Roadblasters
Nice!
I had a Lynx II, picked it up for cheap in a bundle after it was discontinued. It was an odd console. It was huge, it chewed through batteries like crazy, and most of the games felt like they weren't as good as they should have been. Despite the cool features, it was the 90s handheld I played least. I *wanted* to like it more than I actually did.
I can see that reasoning. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions 🐆
I happen to be lucky enough to find an Atari Lynx Model II. Found it at a Charity Shop here in Australia for $5AU. Came in a carry case with two games. And it still works perfectly! I even found a means of playing it with a generic power supply, which should save on batteries. Compared to the cost it runs up online nowadays, I consider mine to be a triumph of frugal bargaining.
Great to hear!!
See, I grew up in the projects and had no money. Things like this were out of my reach still are to this day. I still don't have the latest and greatest make do with what I have. And I'm happy with what I have even though it's nothing literally nothing. I'm a gamer without something to game on
I was jealous of the man who had shoes for I had none. Until I saw the man with no feet.
Awesomeness have a great day
Very nice!
Thank you LGR!
I honestly consider Lynx to have one of the worst libraries of any portable console, but it had a good design and it was very technically impressive considering when it came out.
Game Boy obviously had the best library of any handheld console for a while, Super Mario Land alone is better than most games Lynx or Game Gear ever had, but the lack of color and power was obviously a big downside.
Yeah. Worst of the three I suppose! I did like Mario land but I thought most games on gameboy weren’t so great. Too blurry and too short. I guess if you were familiar with NES games then the GB was a good fit. The game gear was great. It was the perfect plan. Sms on the go while the genesis was at home. I think Atari was geared to an older set by then who still frequented arcades and appreciated that kind of gameplay. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
@@GTV-Japan Game Boy had its share of clunkers, yeah, and the blurriness was a problem too. But Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc is just hard to compete with. Sega definitely earned second place, it had a ton of Sonic games and also had its exclusuve Shinobi and Golden Axe, not to mention interesting "demakes" of games like Streets of Rage.
@@GTV-Japan By the way, thanks for the video. Maybe you can do some more Nintendo manga videos, Pokemon perhaps?
Oh yeah. I forgot about Pokémon. I’ll have to play one of those someday.
@@GTV-Japan May I suggest the original Red & Blue from the mid 90's (not the remakes)? There's a quaint charm to them I think you'd appreciate even without having played them in your youth, although I think nostalgia helps a lot with liking Pokemon moreso than most Nintendo games.
With the specs of the lynx there may be a chance to get doom running on this thing even if it needs to be simplified
I can see that! The scaling would be great
No demos of or even a passing reference to Chip's Challenge, the cult classic that was made specifically for the nascent Lynx? (The inclusion in the print ad you show at the end doesn't count.) Your material and presentation is always great, but this is a huge oversight!
I guess it’ll be a deleted scene for the Blu-Ray 😬
I wanted one back in the day. I just could not afford it. Cool to emulate it in the future.
Couldn’t afford $99? I’m sorry 😢 yep. We live in the future so emulate away!!!🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
@@GTV-Japan $99 was a lot in 89 and I was 15. :)
Well I had a paper route so I guess I was richer than most kids. Though I was often outside in the cold after school making that money
@@GTV-Japan Well I consider myself lucky. I found an Atari Lynx Model 2 at a local Charity Shop here in Australia. It came in a carry bag with two game cards inside. And for $5AU, this was an opportunity I could not resist! It now goes for hundreds of dollars locally, and I got it for $5!
That’s a steal!
Had ATARI added a way to play on TV, the LYNX may have been successful.
It’s not possible. The resolution is different than a tv
In a time of Gameboy this was alien tech
Or maybe to the Atarian, the gameboy was!
What if Atari and Warner Bros. released an Atari Lynx Classic (Mini) console?
That would be awesome! You’d probably get most of the games too since it was almost all Atari making the games
GTV, I'm in!!!!!!
Yeah, a friend had a LYNX growing up. It was very cool. And it was ambidextrous. The games were kinda like little cards. He didn't have any fun games, but I remember wanting it really badly! It was color for Pete's sake!!!!!!!
What games did he have if you recall?
Atari should,ve kept the name handy for it’s handheld aa i think that was a better name for it considering that handheld was made with left & right hand feature in mind,that’s pretty sad they didn’t.
Yeah I think so too. I guess it didn’t test well. Lynx sounds cool but eh. What didn’t Atari Corp ruin?
If the Lynx had of had third party games it would have destroyed the competition.
Yes! Very true but with everything Japanese oriented it wasn’t happening. There were efforts by Sega to change the ride and it worked. It used to INFURIATE me to no end seeing a video game ad for nes/snes/game boy/genesis/game gear, usually acclaim, saying “for all systems” woah woah hold on not true!
Spent so much money on the batteries 🤣😂🤣
Radio shack rechargeables to save the day!
Got 15 of these rotting in an attic
Why not sell them?
Leave it to Atari to mess up something great that was given to them. They should've stuck with the Lynx instead of shitting the bed with the toilet that was the Jaguar and Jaguar-CD...the thing literally looked like a toilet.
It all really deals with the difference of opinion Sam and Jack had on games. Sam was a gamer, Jack wasn't and just wanted cheap but powerful computers. In the early 90s Sam was running things, you could see his influence and effort in gaming but he killed off the Falcon, then sometime after the Jag was released he had a heart attack and Jack came back to take over the company and basically erased all the progress they made. Then the company was sold. They already made inroads into windows games but I think they health scare made Sam sell off the company.
4096 possible colours?
Etm no, it allowed game designers to choose from a palate of 4096 possible colours.
Clever coding routines in games like Awesome Golf, got 40+ colours on static screens.
I always thought this and the game gear where very interesting because i love handheld gaming but i want to try out handhelds not from Nintendo but sadly i can't find a working lynx or game gear i have a bunch of broken ones but my game boys are tougher and still work fine after all these years.
And i am terrible at repairing electronics this is another reason why i am stopping with game collecting it seems that as these retro consoles get older they start breaking down so i need to learn basic soldering if i want to keep playing my retro consoles.
If you can find a working Lynx and the mcwill screen kit, you’ll be amazed! But sadly that’s the way it is. Things get old break down die and get forgotten. 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
I had the original model. I was irritated that the Lynx made little impact compared inferior Gameboy.
Yeah it was a shame. It never stood a chance. One issue of Nintendo power alone reached more eyes than all Lynx advertising ever did. 🍺
@@GTV-Japan I guess marketing beats quality, most of the time. 😐
@FatNorthernBigot true. Good marketing parts a fool and his money. Quality ensures a long investment
I should've known you had the information I needed! Don't tell anybody that I do research in part from your videos and I'll buy you a sandwich one day...
Oh shoot this post! I outed myself again. Well I'll be fine if I don't hit enter
What is the info exactly? You’re welcome anyway
@@GTV-Japan no I was just doing research on the lynx and your video popped up
The Amiga guys. With each new device they created the less successful each became with the M2 not being released. Though it's no fault of their own. They were great at creating tech. Lynx failed because Atari didn't have enough money and couldn't convince 3rd parties to make games for it. 3DO failed because it was super expensive cause manufacturers didn't make money from games. The M2 was never given a chance.
I do wonder how well the M2 would have been had it been released in 1997/8. Panasonic was one of the few electronic companies as popular as Sony at that time, especially in Japan. I do wonder if Trip Hawkins stayed as CEO of EA if they would have became the first party developer for 3DO and M2. It could have been a similar relationship between Hudson and NEC.
I don’t like using “the f word” especially because back then especially if you were a kid in your own bubble you had no idea what was a success or not. Sure not as popular but you could walk into a store month after month for a good 5 years and always have something new to buy. Thanks for watching 🐆🐆🐆
The lynx was a good system. Too bad it failed but I can see why it failed.
Oh no no. We don’t use the F word round here! 🙉
There are also 2 Lynx cartridges for the Evercade. So you can play the Lynx games even on a portable today.
I absolutely love the lynx i didn't get one untill 2004 and of course already had a gameboy advance and a neogeo pocket color with only 3 games that got little to no use. I am a huge snk fan just not for thr pocket. Anyhow when i got it i totally missed out in my childhood i had only heard of it never seen one in person at all not even a screen shot. I had gauntlet ms pacman xybots crystal mines 2 steel talons. When i played xybots i was confused as to what i was seen. This is the graphics of the lynx? Why did this fail i still day xybots stun runner and especially rodblasters feel. Almost arcade level it may be on a smaller screen but man i have 30 go to lynx games these daya as my taste changed i honestly wouldn't be intrested in these games as a kid wasnt my thung till my teens i changed over and absolutely loved fadt paced hard arcade games from 80s 90s. I ended up selling it as i had no knowledge of games for it then and. Never bought ebay those early days so i never seen much available but i know most people will choose mario and sonic over games like pit fighter stun runner pacland rygar. As a child id do the same. Anyhow i always knew one day we wod have portable consoles on psr with home ones or nearly. I felt that wat of the ds psp especially 3ds. However looks like i missed that opportunity in my youth. I hope in the future we see nore homebrew arcade lynx games mk1 demo on lynx very impressive id definitely play 2 button street fighter on the lynx maybe oneday.
Sounds like you had a good time! Thanks for sharing your story!
Made no sense dropping the Lynx in favor of the Jag.
Agreed
The Jag resembles the Lynx in many ways. Unified memory. Outdated CPU . It was modified to work well with fast-page mode memory and caches, which became common due to the increased transistor count. And the cartridge went from 1 bit to 32bit as if Atari had to compensate for the mistake.
And they were both black! And named after cats! What are the odds.
@@GTV-JapanAs simple as the Tramiel's not having the resources to support more than 1 system at a time.
Panther was originally planned to have simultaneous launch with Lynx..
Falcon and Lynx dropped to launch Jaguar, plans to return to both after Jaguar was a commercial success, which never happened, putting paid to to those plans.
I think this would have been better if Atari made it a home console than messing around with with the 7800 & XE. Would've competed with Nintendo & Sega Better.
Maybe so but it was evident at the time that Nintendo was invincible and unstoppable. Look what Sega had to do to get anywhere sales wise. The Tramiels would have never done that
... Odysee, huh?
Yah
@@GTV-Japan I haven't been watching an alt-right crypto bro this whole time, have I? 😅😅
I don't know what this means.
@@GTV-Japan Well, that's honestly a good thing if you don't know what that means 😅
Well I always want to be what’s good!
Sorry, but Lynx wasn't the most powerful, it's never that simple.
Both GB and GG had higher screen resolutions.
The Game Gear could run 2D platformers upto 60 fps, the Lynx around 15 fps.
Well. At the time the Lynx was first created the gameboy and game gear didn’t yet exist so it winds in that regard by default
@@GTV-Japan I tend to look at things in term of what else was available at the time, at retail.
These 2 were the competition the Lynx faced.
The handheld PC Engine, also boasting higher resolution, did an awful lot of things in software, the Lynx did in hardware.
Well I do think color wins out over b/w but in the end games and marketing won the day I say
Putting aside the fact that "16 bit graphics" is basically meaningless, I think we can agree what you MEANT when you said it had 16 bit graphics. That is, graphics for a next generation machine. But it really doesn't have that. It is decidedly an 8-bit system.
For comparison, the Turbo Express, a handheld contemporary of the Lynx is in fact an 8 bit system that has actually has 16 bit graphics. They are not comparable in any way.
BTW, unlike you, I actually own and occasionally use a Lynx.
What? I own a Lynx! I still play the same one I have owned since 1991!
@@GTV-Japan Well, I noticed the video was only emulation.
Well how else could I record games cleanly? Even in old magazines they just photographed the screen and the quality was awful.
@@GTV-Japan Fair enough.
Video,, .. 3do
3 dollar discs!
Fake footage is bad.
Yeah it is
Back in the '90s or even the '80s if something was $179 that wasn't super pricey considering they wanted close to $700 in that same time period for a Panasonic 3DO and not to mention the Neo Geo those were pricey and the games too almost 2 to $300 for the games in the '90s
I had a friend in high school whose dad was a doctor and this guy had a neo geo and a 3do! We actually played that stupid plumbers don’t wear ties game everyone gawks over except it was actually new at the time. He also had a TurboGrafx with CD player and turbo express! Not to mention the Nintendo stuff and a new, zero mile car and basically an open wallet any time he wanted. He didn’t have any Sega or Atari stuff though because he had no interest in them but he could have easily had them. Unfortunately he never took care of anything and it all wound up broken. I do think 179 is getting up there. Especially when 99 was the barrier for many things not just games. But hey it cost what it cost. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆