| General and Gaming > Classic Video Games |
| Game Gear vs. Atari Lynx, Who Was #2? |
| << < (5/6) > >> |
| dashv:
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on May 02, 2014, 06:47:40 pm ---I'm another that had never once heard of the Atari Lynx growing up lol I had played the Game Gear, forgot who had it, but I generally liked it, not exactly the most comfortable thing to play, but that would be my #2 cause it seemed to me the Lynx was non-existent lol --- End quote --- I only knew of the lynx and TE because I saw them in Macy's and Sears catalogs. Occasionally I'd see a lynx game review in Game Pro and Game Informer. Never did find out how I got a subscription to Game Informer. It just showed up one day and issues kept arriving periodically for the next 3 years. :-) |
| kamikazekeeg:
--- Quote from: dashv on May 02, 2014, 07:22:25 pm --- --- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on May 02, 2014, 06:47:40 pm ---I'm another that had never once heard of the Atari Lynx growing up lol I had played the Game Gear, forgot who had it, but I generally liked it, not exactly the most comfortable thing to play, but that would be my #2 cause it seemed to me the Lynx was non-existent lol --- End quote --- I only knew of the lynx and TE because I saw them in Macy's and a Sears catalogs. Occasionally I'd see a lynx game review in Game Pro and Game Informer. Never did find out how I got a subscription to Game Informer. It just showed up one day and issues kept arriving periodically for the next 3 years. :-) --- End quote --- lol I just simply don't remember anything about the Lynx at all growing up. I had the catalogs, of course going through them every Christmas, in particular Sears and JcPenny's, and I think I got a gaming mag every so often, but that one I never knew about till the past few years with Youtube and review places and seeing collections by the the Angry Video Game Nerd or Pat the NES Punk. |
| burningdoom:
I remember seeing ads for Lynx and Game Gear mostly in comic books. |
| pceslayer:
--- Quote from: thecrypticodor on May 01, 2014, 05:58:24 pm --- --- Quote from: theflea on May 01, 2014, 08:03:34 am --- --- Quote from: dreama1 on April 30, 2014, 04:33:49 pm ---Hey what about TurboExpress? Come on --- End quote --- If your gonna compare the TurboExpress with something it's gotta be with the Sega Nomad. Both are portable versions of the their 16-bit console counterpart. --- End quote --- The Game Gear is really nothing but a portablized Master System. Their hardware is nearly identical to each other. Which is the reason as to why it's capable of playing MS games with the Master Gear Converter. So it's actually not really all that different from the Nomad and TurboExpress. --- End quote --- Kinda sorta... While Master System games do work on a GameGear, the vast majority of GameGear games do not work on the Master System(Emulated or via a Everdrive). The biggest issue is the GameGears massive 12bit 4096 color palette vs the Master Systems 6bit 64 color palette. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_palettes |
| Jakandsig:
People here seem to think gg was more available, yet there strong evidence otherwise and we dont have accurate sales numbers for either. Especially Europe. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |