Atari, Lynx up my heart!

IT IS THE NINETIES AND THERE IS TIME FOR KLAX. AND LYNX.

So once upon a time Atari launched a handheld, a year after the Game Boy and two years before the Game Gear. Which would put it somewhere! An absolute beast, featuring sexy pantsu full colour backlit graphics that put the Game Boy's green and black display to shame and made it look like some kind of garbage truck that'd fallen over and spilt garbage in your eyes. The sound was just as impressive, it could go ultra loud and pump out some pretty addictive bleeps and bloops. It even had a weird option for left handed gamers that confused me. It'd let you flip the screen upside down so that you could use the dpad with your right hand and buttons with your left. I'm left handed, and this is the most awkward thing ever. TOO BAD THE MACHINE WAS DOOMED TO FAILURE. So sad.

Possibly had something to do with virtually no third party support, I think there were like around seventy games released for it in its lifetime, most of them by Atari themselves. Or maybe! MAYBE! Maybe it was because of its crazy hunger for batteries. Chewed six of those bastards up quicker than the Game Gear, you'd be looking at around an hour of battery life if you were lucky. IF YOU WERE NOT LUCKY YOU MIGHT HAVE WALKED INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC. But who cares, the Lynx was still chock full of awesome! Due to the whole Atari/Midway arcade thing going on, the bulk of its library was made up of awesome arcade ports.



This is my lover. It's the smaller (yes) redesigned version, because the original was ultra gigantic ugly. When I got my Lynx it came with Shanghai packed in, but I lost it in a move years ago. What an ultimate crisis. What have we got here, there's uh, Kung Food. You fight carrots and stuff in a fridge. HAHA GET IT? KUNG FOOD. The game is awful. The story is that you've stolen some shrinking ray from work, then it accidently zaps you because you've decided to set it up right in front of your face and then pressed the button (ACCIDENT), then you somehow end up in the fridge. THEN like magic, the fridge gains like fifty shelves.

Paperboy, Double Dragon, Xybots and Dessert Strike are all pretty great conversions. Xybots even has the fake 3D effect thing happening. And a two player death match, TAKE THAT 1950'S SOCIETY. Hard Drivin' however, just shouldn't have existed on the poor little guy. It's ALMOST UNPLAYABLE, stuttering around slower than a dead cat glued to a skateboard in a sand trap.



YES. This is STILL the greatest portable version of the game. It broke your hands a bit though, you'd have to play it holding the Lynx on its side (because of the loooong display needed). Pretty much arcade perfect, including the award winning WUUUUAAAAAH noise when you lost a block. The only thing it's really missing is two player, but I don't think anyone on Earth actually owns the Lynx multiplayer cable anyway.

One day I hope to come across these three titles;



AND CONSUME THEM. Apparently the Lynx version of Ninja Gaiden is unique to the system. Maybe they just mean it's retarded, but who knows? DO YOU? It's the unofficial Lynx appreciation thread of the entire internet, so go forth! Appreciate! Or not! And so on!

SO BIG~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Except I linked to it in my first post.

And that's a pity, Luxo! Lynx is still a lot of fun with no games!



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Haha I dunno, the terrible state the new age Atari's in, if they were to release a modern version it'd probably do worse than the Virtual Boy and N-Gage combined. ;__;

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yes! It's Klax value will just continue to get higher as they continue to bugger up other portable versions! Since the Lynx release, Game Boy, Game Gear, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and PSP have all had Klax, broken Klax!

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Someone should figure out a way to combine all three. Imagine sidetalking with your virtual boy COMPLETE WITH LEGS while somehow playing KLAX at the same time. AWESOME OVERLOAD.

Maybe it could project KLAX WAVE holograms!

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AA batteries. It's crazy. ;_; I suspect a CAR BATTERY or something might bump the playtime up by another half an hour.

Package deal, Bart? No dice!

I was speaking idiomatically.