@bruhaha@bruhaha The glaringly obvious choice, if you ask the world. The Game Boy had countless competitors over the many years it was sold, several arguably technologically more advanced…but due to a combination of great games, good battery life, and durability, it crushed them all with an iron fist. I still have mine, but I’ve done some mods to it.
@bruhaha@lseeber They included the Neo Geo Pocket Color,the Wonderswan Color, and even the Watara Supervision. I’m sure the omission of Gameboy was intentional.
@thismyusername I still have the one I stole from my brother when we were kids. I also have the Periwinkle Crayola Crayon from his 64 count box. He hasn’t caught on yet
@nolrak Oh, yes, I sure do remember those! So many different choices to buy, too. My game of choice was one where I clubbed dinosaurs on the head, though I’d occasionally steal my brother’s “Power Rangers” one…
@QuietDelusions I probably had five or six of them … I remember maxing out the score on pinball a number of times. They’re all still in a box somewhere in the attic.
@thismyusername The fact that if you already owned the Genesis/Mega Drive meant you probably already owned a huge library of games to play on the Nomad made it very appealing. On the downside, in addition to battery life, it was pretty bulky by today standards.
@DrWorm@thismyusername I’ve always wanted one, but I feel like there’s another downside. A lot of the Genesis/MegaDrive games don’t necessarily lend themselves to portable play, with a lot of the better games being kind of long and without a save or password system.
“I’m going to sit down for some Comix Zone. Will I get to the end before the batteries run out?”
@daveinwarsh YES!!! I know it’s not a system, but i could play this for hours and hours. I went and downloaded a pic of it to upload but you beat me to it.
@daveinwarsh That was the first handheld game I ever played, back when I was young. I can still here those damn chirp-beeps from every time I got tackled!
@Tubascuba The worst part about the analog-to-digital TV switch is that this and the Game Gear version no longer work. I wanted a Game Gear just so I could look like hot shit watching baseball games in public on my Game Gear.
I like my Neo Geo Pocket Color! I got it around 2005 on eBay for under $40 with 4 or 5 games. It would’ve been amazing if it was released in 1994, but it was released in 1999 and the GBA came less than 2 years later. And SNK was a financial mess even before it was released, so it was doomed from the start.
Game boy will always have my heart. I remember about wearing out my copy of Bart vs. The Juggernauts on family road trips. I couldn’t afford games so it was just me and Bart for miles and miles.
/giphy Bart juggernauts
And they left out the Game Boy on purpose, just to foment outrage.
Also, look up Parker Brothers Merlin, or the Way-ahead-of-its-time (1979!) Milton Bradley Microvision. It came with a rotary controller built-in, and the game cartridge snapped onto the front of the unit.
I owned neither as a kid, but I remember one friend showing me how you could extend Donkey Kong playtime on a GameBoy with dead batteries by turning it off and rotating them. Battery magic.
It was later that I was impressed by glorious Sonic color portable game’s obvious superiority. Different friend, different place.
If Cybiko is in the list, I did have a couple Palm devices that I treasured. Read pirated books on them, text, doc, rtf, maybe the odd pdf or html.
Threads like these make me want to construct a kind of personal handheld game and computer hardware museum. That would be dumb. There’s no room here for shelves of chunky, now-irrelevant hardware ordered by target market and release date… I bet they would all still work, too.
@InnocuousFarmer My dad had a Handspring that he only used for Euchre. It had a row of distinct scars across the bottom of the screen, where the player’s hand was displayed.
@InnocuousFarmer@whogots
I had a Palm Z31 PDA (2009 or so?) that was mostly used to play an electronic version of Acquire (‘AckWire’), my favorite of the 3M bookshelf games. Maybe my favorite board game of all.
/image Acquire classic game
@Couraged My kids were gifted their older cousin’s original Gameboy and GB Advanced, plus cartridges. That’s how they became introduced to the Pokémon universe (and gaming in general).
Like so many of you, I am little surprised that not one incarnation of Gameboy made the list. (Original, Pocket, Light)
GameBoy Advance SP was not only a big step forward from the original, it also had backwards compatibility. But if the cut-off point for “classic” was 20th century, it would miss the cut, being introduced in 2001.
These were my “Game Boy” growing up! Mine got played so much that the buttons were rubbed blank (other than the 2nd player of the basketball game…didn’t have any friends, so unless Dad would play, I was always in one player mode)
@tohar1 That’s what I was going to go with too. Remember how exciting it was when version 2 came out and you could backstep?! They’ve also re-released them over the years.
@cinoclav No, I didn’t even know there was a second edition. Forward was the only option in my game…Any idea how many years in between the two versions?
@tohar1 The original came out in 1977 while Football 2 came out in 1978. Besides running backwards you could also pass the ball. I had the baseball, basketball, and hockey games too.
@cinoclav I might have to find one for nostalgia’s sake! I know I’d still enjoy it, even though the technology is that old! Like I said, I played the original until it was worn out!
@cinoclav@tohar1 That backward button adds a whole new dimension to the game. V2 is an incredible game, and I’m about to play a game on it right now! They’re still for sale, I think.
Wat? No OG Game Boy? Say it ain’t so!
/image game boy
@bruhaha a big old duh, right?
@bruhaha @Mack Right! How could they leave this off the list?
@bruhaha I looked under the screen to see if such an obvious choice could be located there.
The youts.
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@bruhaha @bruhaha The glaringly obvious choice, if you ask the world. The Game Boy had countless competitors over the many years it was sold, several arguably technologically more advanced…but due to a combination of great games, good battery life, and durability, it crushed them all with an iron fist. I still have mine, but I’ve done some mods to it.
@bruhaha Which begs the question, how young are the people running this place??
@bruhaha @lseeber They included the Neo Geo Pocket Color,the Wonderswan Color, and even the Watara Supervision. I’m sure the omission of Gameboy was intentional.
@bruhaha Now I don’t feel as bad about when I voted for a new poll writer earlier this month.
@bruhaha Absolutely! Gameboy gets the vote!
@bruhaha @Limewater Yeah… prob so. But I don’t know what those others are. My kids are the ones that had the gameboy. Not me.
@Limewater @lseeber The use of GBA on PSP as the image for the poll adds insult to injury!
Cell phone, cause has all the emulators and I can bluetooth pair replica controllers for non handheld systems, and mirror to my TV.
The Gameboy of course. I would love to get a Nintendo DS, though. :hint hint:
Runner-up: Playstation portable (PSP).
@JT954 I’d hardly call a PSP a classic right now
@heartny I played with one of these recently, I was pretty impressed considering how long ago it was made. (it was 1981 if anyone wondered
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@thismyusername I still have the one I stole from my brother when we were kids. I also have the Periwinkle Crayola Crayon from his 64 count box. He hasn’t caught on yet
Dang kids and your fancy game boys
@nolrak Oh, yes, I sure do remember those! So many different choices to buy, too. My game of choice was one where I clubbed dinosaurs on the head, though I’d occasionally steal my brother’s “Power Rangers” one…
@QuietDelusions I probably had five or six of them … I remember maxing out the score on pinball a number of times. They’re all still in a box somewhere in the attic.
What no Genesis Nomad love?
@thismyusername
/giphy winner winner chicken dinner
@thismyusername I love mine, but it was atrocious on batteries. Better fill the fridge!
@thismyusername The fact that if you already owned the Genesis/Mega Drive meant you probably already owned a huge library of games to play on the Nomad made it very appealing. On the downside, in addition to battery life, it was pretty bulky by today standards.
@thismyusername THIS IS THE CORRECT ANSWER.
@DrWorm @thismyusername I’ve always wanted one, but I feel like there’s another downside. A lot of the Genesis/MegaDrive games don’t necessarily lend themselves to portable play, with a lot of the better games being kind of long and without a save or password system.
“I’m going to sit down for some Comix Zone. Will I get to the end before the batteries run out?”
@Limewater no problem! just use the av-adapter cord and get some controllers and presto it’s just like a normal genesis! what a deal!
Think you missed one there chief
The games on this were totally bad ass
The only one I’ve owned, and still the best:
@daveinwarsh win. I still play mine. The kids are impressed, but probably not as much as I think they are.
@daveinwarsh YES!!! I know it’s not a system, but i could play this for hours and hours. I went and downloaded a pic of it to upload but you beat me to it.
@daveinwarsh You’ve gotta go head to head if you’re going LED football, don’t you?
@daveinwarsh That was the first handheld game I ever played, back when I was young. I can still here those damn chirp-beeps from every time I got tackled!
@daveinwarsh they are selling these at walmart new… in full sized and mini versions.
@daveinwarsh Amazing how much fun a few LED lights and some beeps could be…
I still own this in pristine condition.
@mfladd oh my god yes, the folding game and watch games … I still have my bomb sweeper somewhere
@mfladd Ate batteries like they were Pringles, and it was worth every one of those little cell batteries. Great game.
This was great - even turned into a tv with the giant tuner adapter.
@Tubascuba The worst part about the analog-to-digital TV switch is that this and the Game Gear version no longer work. I wanted a Game Gear just so I could look like hot shit watching baseball games in public on my Game Gear.
Ngage, the side talker
I like my Neo Geo Pocket Color! I got it around 2005 on eBay for under $40 with 4 or 5 games. It would’ve been amazing if it was released in 1994, but it was released in 1999 and the GBA came less than 2 years later. And SNK was a financial mess even before it was released, so it was doomed from the start.
Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo DS!!! Nothing else matters.
Excalibur Electronics handheld games in the 90’s and early 21st Century. Notably Chess
Game boy!!
My Dad gave me this because he really enjoyed the one my Mom have him.
Game boy will always have my heart. I remember about wearing out my copy of Bart vs. The Juggernauts on family road trips. I couldn’t afford games so it was just me and Bart for miles and miles.
/giphy Bart juggernauts
Original GameBoy, of course!
3DS XL
And they left out the Game Boy on purpose, just to foment outrage.
Also, look up Parker Brothers Merlin, or the Way-ahead-of-its-time (1979!) Milton Bradley Microvision. It came with a rotary controller built-in, and the game cartridge snapped onto the front of the unit.
Sorry, never had one of the classics. We had a non-video one, I think called an Einstein. Who remembers?
Speak & Spell.
Gotta go for hooking you on electronic games as a toddler!
GAME.COM!Heheh. “Another one.”
I owned neither as a kid, but I remember one friend showing me how you could extend Donkey Kong playtime on a GameBoy with dead batteries by turning it off and rotating them. Battery magic.
It was later that I was impressed by glorious Sonic color portable game’s obvious superiority. Different friend, different place.
If Cybiko is in the list, I did have a couple Palm devices that I treasured. Read pirated books on them, text, doc, rtf, maybe the odd pdf or html.
Threads like these make me want to construct a kind of personal handheld game and computer hardware museum. That would be dumb. There’s no room here for shelves of chunky, now-irrelevant hardware ordered by target market and release date… I bet they would all still work, too.
@InnocuousFarmer My dad had a Handspring that he only used for Euchre. It had a row of distinct scars across the bottom of the screen, where the player’s hand was displayed.
@InnocuousFarmer @whogots
I had a Palm Z31 PDA (2009 or so?) that was mostly used to play an electronic version of Acquire (‘AckWire’), my favorite of the 3M bookshelf games. Maybe my favorite board game of all.
/image Acquire classic game
Of course the OG Gameboy! Played a few hours of Pokemon on one of those back in the day…
@Couraged My kids were gifted their older cousin’s original Gameboy and GB Advanced, plus cartridges. That’s how they became introduced to the Pokémon universe (and gaming in general).
Like so many of you, I am little surprised that not one incarnation of Gameboy made the list. (Original, Pocket, Light)
GameBoy Advance SP was not only a big step forward from the original, it also had backwards compatibility. But if the cut-off point for “classic” was 20th century, it would miss the cut, being introduced in 2001.
These were my “Game Boy” growing up! Mine got played so much that the buttons were rubbed blank (other than the 2nd player of the basketball game…didn’t have any friends, so unless Dad would play, I was always in one player mode)
@tohar1 That’s what I was going to go with too. Remember how exciting it was when version 2 came out and you could backstep?! They’ve also re-released them over the years.
@cinoclav No, I didn’t even know there was a second edition. Forward was the only option in my game…Any idea how many years in between the two versions?
@tohar1 The original came out in 1977 while Football 2 came out in 1978. Besides running backwards you could also pass the ball. I had the baseball, basketball, and hockey games too.
@cinoclav I might have to find one for nostalgia’s sake! I know I’d still enjoy it, even though the technology is that old! Like I said, I played the original until it was worn out!
@cinoclav @tohar1 That backward button adds a whole new dimension to the game. V2 is an incredible game, and I’m about to play a game on it right now! They’re still for sale, I think.
/image tiger street fighter 2
/image tiger paperboy handheld
Game Boy FTW
If you’re going to leave Game Boy off the list then you can’t expect us to take this poll seriously.
@kittykat9180 Meh polls are serious business.
How did the Gameboy get left off the list?
Say…where did the Gameboy option go?
I know this has been said a lot, but definitely the original GameBoy. I did not have one, but I played one.