Atari Lynx

[Van_M]

I still have my old lynx (1st version) somewhere around my parents' home. It had a very Amiga'ish internal design. Its main CPU wasn't a very powerful one (I think it was just a 6502 at 8MHz). It had a very powerful blitter chip that was pulling through with the graphics. It was the most effects-capable portable for many-many years.
Most of it's games were Amiga ports (Shadow of the Beast, Rygar, Toki etc). Some other original titles are either utter crap (Kung Food) or breathtaking masterpieces (Zarlor, Blue Lightning).
There is still an active community for the Lynx of 500+ users circulated around the Atariage website. new games are still being produced by Songbird Productions and Duranik, and they are pretty good. Especially Alpine Games by the second. It has some really impressive snowflake effects running on portable (well not really :lol: ) hardware of 1988. Of course Atari, once again gave the impression that they actually TRIED to screw the platform over!      :-x

EDIT: corrected typos

[Van_M]

The Game Gear was far-far below Lynx in terms of processing capabilities. Have a look here and here.
Lynx had fewer colors but it sported a 16 bit blitter (named "Suzy" in a genuine Amiga fashion), math co-processor (allowing vector graphics- sadly no game in it's heyday used vectors), drew less power and, allowed for left handed gaming and in general, was a much more sopisticated design. Game Gear was actually a Sega Master System with double the colors. :-P
Get the handy emulator (if you get to use a PC) and try out Blue Lightning, Zarlor, Alien vs Predator (prototype), STUN Runner. You will be STUNned!
Lynx Rules    :ponder: