Hand held Consoles

In 1979 a hand held console called the Microvision came out that had been designed by Jay Smith the designer of the vertex system, it consisted of a tiny screen and nine extremely delicate button that easily broke, all in all it was a disaster.

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It was in 1980 that the Game and Watch hand held console came out, now the Game and Watch was an electronic hand held that was created by Nintendo, the series was created by a Gunpei Yokoi and consisted of an LCD (liquid crystal display) screen and it also included a clock and an alarm. Most Game and Watch titles came with both an A and a B button, the B button is usually a faster and harder version of the A game.

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In 1989 Nintendo released the Gameboy, it was a plain rectangular hand held, it took four AA batteries but had an OK battery life, it was black and white but unlike earlier hand-helds this one took cartridges making it very popular.

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Atari followed that release with the release of their hand-held the Lynx, this hand-held held the title of the first ever hand-held with a colour LCD display, it also had advance graphics and an ambidextrous layout, unfortunately it didn't meet with much success.

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The SEGA Game Gear was released in 1991 and SEGA made sure it had a variety of games available for it but it was still not as popular as the Gameboy.

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In 1998 the Gameboy colour came out, this console was surprisingly backwards compatible meaning it was able to play games from the earlier versions on the Gameboy giving it a large library of games and it was twice as fast as the original Gameboy.

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The Gameboy Advance was released in 2001 and had better graphics, better sound, it was faster and you could like four GBA's together for multi-player also like earlier GB titles it was backwards compatible.

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Nintendo kept up with the hand-held releases and in 2004 brought out the Nintendo DS, it boasted 2 LCD display panels, separate processors and at least one gigabyte memory.

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In 2004 Sony decided to join in and released it's PSP (playstation portable) and it was said that it was the first ever hand-held that used an optical disc format.

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In 2011 Nintendo brought out its Nintendo 3DS that allowed for argumented reality gaming, was backwards compatible with the DS and was able to capture 3D images and watch 3D films, they also later released a version with a bigger screen called the 3DSXL.

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