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- From: savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video,alt.games.lynx
- Subject: Re: Next generation handhelds
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 17:46:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.075155.27799@tc.cornell.edu>, orb@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Randolph Turner) writes:
- >
- >
- > I've been following this thread and others relating to the Handheld scene
- > and there's a few things that need to be said.
- >
- > First of all, I own a Sega Game Gear and have nothing but good things to
- > say about it, so I may be a bit biased (but hopefully that will not detract
- > from the points I am about to make).
- >
- >
- > 1. The Gameboy is trash. Let it die.
-
- The Gameboy may not be the best technology going these days
- but it does have it's points:
-
- 1. The Game libraries are more extensive than other
- handhelds and alot more inexpensive.
- 2. Most games I've played have taken me a very long time
- to finish. If I get a game and can finish it in a few
- days, it wasn't worth the money I payed for it. (Granted
- I prefer RPG's which do take a long time to play).
- 3. While it does need light to be played (easily remedied
- by a $10 unit to put on the Gameboy), it is still by
- far one of the easiest games to see. I've played the
- Game Gear in stores and IMHO, it is trash. The colors
- are always washed out, I can never what's going on
- around the central character, and no matter how I hold it
- it never gets better.
- 4. The size and battery life of the Gameboy is much better than
- that of the other units. One person I talked to had a Lynx
- and told me that he could only get about 2 hours of solid
- playing time before his batteries were too weak to play anymore.
- On the same flight from Boston to Florida, he could only play
- his Lynx for 45 minutes while I played with my Gameboy for
- 3 solid hours (2 months later, I'm still using the same
- batteries). Also, the Lynx was HUGE (not exactly my
- definition of handheld. The Gamegear is at least about
- the same size as a Gameboy. Regardless, my Gameboy fits
- into any of my coat pockets for play anywhere.
- >
- > 2. Unless you want to pay twice as much for your handheld (see Turbo
- > Express), you will be saddled with a non-active-matrix LCD Screen which
- > will need to be viewed at a proper angle or you get washout.
-
- See number 3.
- >
- > 3. [Stuff about LCD's deleted]
-
- I'm not sure of the point you are trying to make here. In one sentence
- you are saying that LCD's can't handle what is needed for them to do
- and in another you say that LCD screens are sufficient.
-
- >
- > didn't seem to be selling as well. Maybe a pattern developing?
-
- Probably not. I must admit that I don't see as many Lynxes
- around (Electronics Boutique is the only place around here)
- but I don't see to see alot of GameGear stuff either. Personally,
- as much as I like the Gameboy, I can't see it being around
- more than a couple of more years either. The console markets
- are getting all the attention these days so unless Nintendo
- manages to come out with something new in the handheld
- area, I think they'll eventually just maintain the Gameboy
- division until the next handheld upswing and then bring out
- something new.
-
- > Randy
-
- Rick
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