20 years ago today, Nintendo's Game Boy dropped, and it was a wrap. Surriously. There were handheld game systems before that, but nothing was able to catch fire the way this lovable little brick did. 100 million+ units later, it's a legend. And in honor of the happy day, we took...
and that goes double for its handhelds. While it’s true the likes of Sega, Sony, Microsoft, and others have all given Nintendo home consoles a run for their money (and often succeeded), when it comes to handheld gaming Nintendo’s dominance has gone consistently unchallenged since the dawn...
Developed by Sony the very first brand was introduced in 1994 in Japan. We are now up to the PS4 console and we also have a media centre, an online service, a full line of controllers, two handhelds, and multiple magazines. PlayStation is guilty of increasing the interest and popularity...
Which brings us neatly to the present, and the next handheld Zelda. A first for the series, A Link Between Worlds for the 3DS takes place in the same world as Link to the Past - something Nintendo’s previously avoided, preferring instead to transplant familiar characters to new worlds and...
Designed as the almanac of all handheld gaming and the bible of all Game Boys, A Handheld History is a comprehensive guide to every possible portable device the industry has ever known, also stacked with beautiful unique artwork and insightful articles exploring every entry. Well, thanks to the...
“These dragged a whole new audience into the medium, and they kind of really helped set handheld gaming as more of a cultural thing,” Doyle says. The larger playground of possibility in handhelds has long been rife with experimentation. And that has led to some glorious failures and anomal...
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Handheld gaming continued to gain popularity throughout the decade, and of course, the 1990s saw the invention of the World Wide Web, which would revolutionize the gaming industry during the next decade. In the home video market, the 2000s was a decade that was dominated by companies such as...
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All the while, companies saw a future in mobile gaming that they were struggling to tap into. Nintendo continued to hold onto the handheld market with updated Game Boy consoles, and Nokia and BlackBerry tried their hands at integrating game apps into their phones. ...