OMG i had no idea!!! (Atari LYNX related)

[Kronos]

I though Commodore=mother of all fuckups by wasting the Amiga 1000A which any other company would have become the next IBM if they werent as stupid as Commodore but...

the LYNX or Epyx handy was built a year later and it had SNES still sprite scalling ETC!! jesus christ if Atari had launched that in 87 there would be no gameboy no way...wot a bunch of total noobs!!

[grue]

I though Commodore=mother of all fuckups by wasting the Amiga 1000A which any other company would have become the next IBM if they werent as stupid as Commodore but...

the LYNX or Epyx handy was built a year later and it had SNES still sprite scalling ETC!! jesus christ if Atari had launched that in 87 there would be no gameboy no way...wot a bunch of total noobs!!

If it launched in 87 the batteries would die by pressing POWER

[Dio]

Lynx was too large, too fragile, too expensive and had rubbish battery life - even in 1991. Same problem with Game Gear. Nintendo focused on the most important things - price, toughness, 24 hr battery life - and made a winner.

[leekfiend]

Same problem with Game Gear.

But the Game Gear has "two players on one Game Gear" Micro Machines, and, as such, wins the Internet and is best of all the handhelds.

[Space Cowboy]

I though Commodore=mother of all fuckups by wasting the Amiga 1000A which any other company would have become the next IBM if they werent as stupid as Commodore but...

I dunno, Acorn squandering their technical lead with the Archimedes strikes me as a pretty major fuck up.

[Kronos]

lynx was the size it was because they used a focus group to find out what size to make it, remember there were no handheld consoles in 1986/7!!

battery life etc was down to atari to solve not the original designers who were screwed out of their machine when epyx was desperate for cash.

and the original gameboy was a complete pile of shit and the same size as a gamegear more or less so nerr!!

[corrosive]

It all looks so easy from here, doesn't it?

I really doubt the battery problem could have been solved so easily as you seem to think, especially if they'd launched in 86/87 - have you gone and found what battery technology was used in 86/87? How much was the power drain on the Lynx?.

And I really don't think the Amiga would have beaten IBM; it wasn't really the sort of machine most businesses wanted back then.

[romanista]

Same problem with Game Gear.

But the Game Gear has "two players on one Game Gear" Micro Machines, and, as such, wins the Internet and is best of all the handhelds.

micromachines on the gameboy had this too!

[guythp]

And I really don't think the Amiga would have beaten IBM; it wasn't really the sort of machine most businesses wanted back then.

"Have you got that report I asked for?"

<sniff>"Computer says 'guru meditation'. " (cough)

[Dio]

and the original gameboy was a complete pile of shit and the same size as a gamegear more or less

I had both at the time and regularly used a Lynx in the shop I worked for. You could have played cricket with the GG or the Lynx.

[WhiteSpy]

Nintendo focused on the most important things - price, toughness, 24 hr battery life

... and Tetris

[skab]

Hmm... just think "Atari 7800".

Atari had actually 2 options in 84-85: Release the quite powerful 7800 or licence the Famicom. They scrapped the Nintendo deal and shelved the 7800 till 87-something. Now that's what I call stupid.

Tramiel-stupid. CBM never recovered from the spirit of stupidness their founder injected into that company.

But then Nintendo scrapped a deal with Sony about a CD-add-on themselves. That thing became the PS1. Oh well...

[guythp]

But then Nintendo scrapped a deal with Sony about a CD-add-on themselves. That thing became the PS1. Oh well...

Ah, so what I was told was true. thanks!

[Potts]

I dunno, Acorn squandering their technical lead with the Archimedes strikes me as a pretty major fuck up.

Yes, and they're complete nobodies now.

[Baboonanza]

But then Nintendo scrapped a deal with Sony about a CD-add-on themselves. That thing became the PS1. Oh well...

Yeah, because the MagaCD was a real triumph wasn't it? They made the right decision at the time IMO. Nobody would have predicted Sony making a console and having such ludicrous success.