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

[dougal]

As the title says, vote for your favorite 80s/90s hand held console.

For some this is an easy question and for others maybe not so much.

My first true hand held console was the Atari Lynx II. A great system by all means, but i preferred the Sega Game Gear, both for the looks of the console and especially because for me personally i much preferred the games on the Game Gear.

I am not a big fan of Missile Command, Robotron, Pac Man and other old arcade games. Much prefare stuff like Sonic, Castle of Illusion and Wonder Boy.

The Game Boy was also brilliant with its huge library of games and long battery life.

Now imagine if there was a hand held Amiga 500

[dougal]

No gamewatch?

Good point. How silly of me, especially due to the fact that i have about 30 different Game & Watch games. :S

Feel free to add it

[dougal]

I loved the Atari Lynx.  It was very Amiga-esque hardware-wise which is not surprising as it was designed by members of the original Amiga team including RJ Mical and Dave Needle.  The games were great - gates of zendocon, California games, ramparts kept me occupied for many hours.  The gameboy was not even in the same league.

Yes the lynx had some very good games, Ninja Gaiden being my favourite along with California Games and Blue Lightning. And the build quality is much better. I still have a Lynx I which works perfectly.

The Game Gear offered more in terms of games from big third party publishers. And I love the TV Tuner. The Master System converter is another big plus. I used to love playing Shadow Dancer on my GG as a kid. And Wonder Boy Dragons Trap has got to be one of the best games on a Hand Held console.

The Gameboy also had it's advantages. Long battery life (10 hours +) and a huge library of amazing games like Links Awakening. Shame about the pea soup green non backlit display but I guess that's how it achieved it's excellent batter life.

[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.

[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).

[dougal]

And who could forget the Tomytronic 3D games? I was always amazed by them as a kid.