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However, Nintendo already had the Game Boy in the works, so Epyx ended up in bed with Atari.The Lynx is notable for being the first handheld game console to feature a back lit, full-color screen ...

Among the Atari Lynx's many forward-looking features ... LCD also supporting 4,096 colors but the ability to show 146 on screen. Perhaps of note, Palmtex offered the Super Micro in 1983 with ...

We’re talking, of course, about the Atari Lynx. Main image credit ... Its specs trounced Nintendo’s offering: it had a backlit 3.5in screen, reversible controls for left-handers, 64KB of RAM, ...

then uses an unpublished feature of the Atari Lynx to upload data to a Lynx cartridge. Designers develop levels in an easy Windows screen, then send it via an included cable to their Lynx system ...

Unlike the Game Gear and Atari Lynx's use of a backlit LCD screen, the Nintendo solution was a front light to cast illumination over the existing TFT screen. The front light used less battery ...

If you’re a retro gamer, it’s hard not to ignore the Atari Lynx. The first color hand-held it might have been, but its small library of games (under 100 official titles) and general ...

While the Atari Lynx and the Game Gear had the screen in the middle and buttons on the side, the compact Game Boy had its buttons positioned underneath the screen. This enabled easy ...

Released in 1989, the Atari Lynx was a portable gaming device way ahead of its time. As the world’s first portable gaming device to boast a color display, the Lynx packed a host of other ...