Which is your favorite 80s/90s hand held?

[_ThEcRoW]

Game gear here. Also Wonderboy Dragon's Trap was awesome!!!

[nicholas]

I had both a Lynx and a Neo Geo Pocket Color and both were excellent, but the NGPC was the best out of the two.

[commodorejohn]

Gameboy - the one, the only. An absolute classic.
Nomad - a terrific idea, except for the part where the battery life is half an hour if you're lucky. Oh well...
Wonderswan - had some really great games (now if only they'd ever been translated!) Also, points for being the only handheld to be based on the 8086, because I value quirkiness.

[AmigaNG]

I was one of the daft kids that got a Supervision, ( http://www.consoledatabase.com/consoleinfo/supervision/ ) Shame it died off very quickly so only ever had four games for it, still got it today. It was pretty cool bending its head. But otherwise avoided the hand held market after that until I got a cheap second hand psp which I must say is a great hand held console.

[Crisisdog]

Lynx all the way. Damn, now I'm itching to go home and scrounge through the closet to find the thing and see if it works still...

[dougal]

Game gear here. Also Wonderboy Dragon's Trap was awesome!!!

Agreed. Wonderboy Dragon's Trap is enough reason alone for the Game Gear to be my number one.

To be honest, although a great system and my first hand held, Lynx comes 3rd after the Game Gear and Gameboy respectively.

The Gameboy comes second because of its amazing games and battery life.

[Rebel-CD32]

I inherited my friend's Lynx after he became bored with it after about half a year, and got himself a Gameboy. He only had one game for it though, so I got some more of my own. That first game was Scrapyard Dog, and I really loved it. I was envious of my friend up the coast who had a GameGear though, and sometimes we'd swap our handhelds for a few days to have a go of the games on the other system. I wanted games like Wonderboy in Monsterland, one of my favourite Amiga and arcade games, on a portable system, and the GameGear was the only one here that had it (we didn't get NEC consoles in Australia).

I still like the Lynx the most though, and I'd love to develop a new game for it some day. Thankfully the Lynx development system is an Amiga so I'll be right at home.

[XDelusion]

Lynx all the way!

The next best thing to a handheld Amiga.

[swoslover]

I loved my Game Gear.

Although I do remember using it more with the mains than on the go.

Batteries were so damn expensive to a kid and the Master System PSU did the trick.

[orb85750]

Never really used any of them, except for Gameboy for a few minutes.  Not really into such tiny screens and I'm not so addicted to video games that I would need mobile access!

[blakespot]

My first blog, centered on the Philips Nino, circa 1998:

http://www.blakespot.com/nino

(Kind of an archive, now -- long abandoned...)





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[TheGoose]

I never had any of those.

But did have a Coleco's Head to Head Football! And it was awesome!

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[Retro_71]

I had a game gear and Lynx (still have the Lynx). I love the game gear more for its games too bad i lost it somewhere...

[Marcb]

I love the Lynx & Neo Geos, I still play on them every now and then but - and I know I'm showing my age - my first all time favourite was the Donkey Kong Game & Watch:

[Drummerboy]

The mine its not in the Poll.

Casio MG200 Turbo Drive  - 1983

I still Have! .

The best Handheld Game Ever!!!

Just imagine Test Drive, but Handheld! in 1983.

[dougal]

I notice there are a lot of you listing the fixed LCD games (like the Nintendo G&W series) as your favorites.  

They were great and i agree that they should be listed. I did not list them in the vote because i was kind of referring more to consoles with cartridges. But since they are so popular i'm glad they are in the discussion

My favorites.. Hmmm well my first was a Tom & Jerry game by Gakken. I was probably about 3 years old at the time. Also great games are Donkey Kong JR (Game & Watch) and Super Mario Bros (Game & Watch).