![]() ![]() In screenshots, the Lynx games can look VERY impressive, and emulators will not have the issues with blurring that the actual device has. Spoiler: I won’t be playing that in eight player mode. Only one such game was ever made that maximizes the player count: Todd’s Adventures in Slime World. Handy Game was rechristened THE ATARI LYNX to highlight the console’s ability to link eight units together for multiplayer. Sega also declined, but they found a willing customer in Atari. They weren’t aware that Nintendo had already finished work on the platform that would destroy them: the Game Boy. This was in 1986, and by time Handy Game had completed its three year development cycle, Epyx was so strapped for cash that they offered Nintendo the device. Mical and Dave Needle (who sadly passed away in 2016) sketched the Lynx out on a cocktail napkin after Epyx, the company behind the California Games franchise (and defendants in the most important video game lawsuit of all-time), asked them to design a portable game console. So, what exactly is the Atari Lynx? Well, it started development as Handy Game. He did coffee table book full of his photos called The Game Console 2.0 that I just bought because it looks awesome. ![]() And man, he is GOOD at snapping pictures of gaming history. When you go to Wikipedia and see pictures of game stuff, it’s usually his work. I want to take a moment to thank the great Evan Amos for his work photographing game devices. ![]()
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