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HANDHELD
GAME CONSOLE
encyclopedia vol.1(?)
CONTENT
Letters from readers sent to video game magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Article: 1990 - CD - ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Page Break-Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Atari Lynx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Article: Tips & Tricks on the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Game.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Article: DVD: No Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
GP32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Gizmondo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
N-Gage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Video Game lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
4 • LYNX - Console
B button A button
Battery compartment
6 AA
Cartridge slot
Brightness Control
B button A button
Power Indicator LED
B button A button
Cartridge slot
Battery compartment
6 • LYNX - Ninja Gaiden
Rampage 7.3
Developer Atari
Publisher Atari
Release date 1990
Genre Action
Mode 1 (-4) Player(s)
Rampart 8.8
Developer Atari
Publisher Atari
Release date 1992
Genre Puzzle, Strategy
Mode 1 (-2) Player(s)
SFX
Developer Carl Forhan
Publisher Songbird Productions
Release date
Genre
1998, 2018
Tool
Ouragan
Mode 1 Player Developer Vince
Release Sold on cartridge Release date 2012
Genre Shooter
SFX is a audio tool for the Atari Lynx first
Mode 1 Player
released in 1998 in a limited cartridge run Release Download only
by Songbird Productions, before being re-re- Download link 👍🆗
leased in 2018.
Ouragan (meaning hurricane in French) is an
SFX allow users direct control over the four unfinished Tempest clone. It uses an anaglyph-
audio channels available on the Lynx. It’s pur- ic display, so users need 3D (red/blue) glasses
pose is to help hobby developers experiment to play it properly.
with the Lynx’s audio features in real time.
Users can adjust volumes, frequencies, wave- ccc
forms, and more.
The tool is not a full
music synth, and does
not allow one to chain
a series of notes to-
gether to play a song.
Pong 4 Fun
Developer Bjoern Spruck
Release date 2001
Genre Action, Sports
Mode 1 (-4) Player(s)
Release Download only
Download link 👍🆗
1998 Release 2018 Release
This is a pong game for up to four players.
Each player gets one (three and four players)
or two (two players) paddles in their color. In
Othello singleplayer mode players get all four paddles.
The positions are randomly distributed.
Developer Anata
Release date 2005
Genre Board
Mode 1 Player
Release Download only
Download link 👍🆗
Peg Solitaire
Developer Jasper van Turnhout
Release date 2011 Poker
Genre Board
Mode 1 Player Developer Team Jaguar
Release Download only Publisher Team Jaguar
Download link 👍🆗 Release date 2010
Genre Cards
Peg solitaire (or Solo Noble) is a board game Mode 1 Player
for one player involving movement of pegs on Release Sold on cartridge
a board with holes. Poker features large on-screen graphics, a va-
riety of options, and an assortment of anima-
tion and sound effects.
PokerMania
Developer Markus Wuehl
Publisher MW Software
Release date 2003
Genre Cards
Mode 1 Player
Release Sold on cartridge
This is basically the Poker Solitaire portion of Poker 110 / Nezumi kun to POKER shiyouyo
the Atari 2600 game Casino or the game Poker
Developer EXCEED, Pastel Spirits
Squ♠res ported to the Atari Lynx. Release date 2005
The object of the game is to place twenty- Genre Cards
five cards out of fifty-two on a grid five rows Mode 1 Player
Release Download only
wide and five rows deep to form the best poker
Download link 👍🆗
hands possible, horizontally, vertically and di-
agonally. The better the poker hands, the more Poker 110, also referred to as Manga Poker, is
points are earned. a poker game.
The game also appears on the Mega Pak 1 car-
tridge.
14 • LYNX - Unreleased / Prototypes / After Market / Demo Games
Diagnostic Cart
Developer Atari
Daemon’s Gate Publisher Atari
Genre Tool
Developer Imagitech Design Release Available on cart and as a download
Publisher B & C ComputerVisions Download link 👍🆗
Planned release 1991
Genre Role-playing This is a diagnostics cart used for testing an
Mode 1 Player Atari Lynx system functionality. It can check
Release Available on cart and as a download the system, LCD, joystick, speaker, stereo and
Download link 👍🆗 ComLynx functional-
Daemon’s Gate, while incomplete, may have ity of the console.
been the most advanced RPG on the Lynx and
would have provided a huge world for play-
ers to explore. Taking place in Tormis, the
capitol of the Civilized Lands, players would
interact with inn keepers, guards, store own-
ers and townsfolk. Address the “Amulet of
Knowledge” to get answers to questions. Kill
monsters and collect money by looting private
hoards located in various town buildings. Mix
herbs and magic ingredients to create magic Dragnet
potions. Visit distant lands such as Anchor,
Point Jornuli, the prison-city of Atteia and Developer Bastian Schick
more. Publisher Bastian Schick
Release date 1995
The prototype features a built-in map which Genre Demo
offers up to 48x magnification of the large re- Release Available on cart and as a download
gion included on the cart. Download link 👍🆗
Ejagfest Slideshow
Dungeon Slayers Developer Luchs Soft
Publisher Luchs Soft
Developer Atari Release date August 5, 2017
Publisher Atari Genre Demo
Planned release 1990 Release Sold on cartridge
Genre Role-playing
Mode 1 Player This is a demo cartridge that feature a slide-
Release Unreleased show as an homage to the yearly ejagfest, a
Dungeon Slayers would be a port of Dungeon non-commercial annual festival for Atari and
Master, originally developed and published by retro gaming fans from all over Europe. It is
FTL Games for the Atari ST in 1987. comprised of pictures from the past 16 years.
A prototype exists but has not been made avail-
able online and source code currently resides
with Harry Dodgson.
TARI
TTACK
There’s never been a better
time to own a Lynx or think A tari have unleashed a new-style
Lynx at the recent Consumer
Electronics show in Las Vegas.
fered at the phenomenally low
price of $99 (that’s around £50)!
The drawback is that you don’t get
about getting one. With 17
The technical specifications for a free copy of California Games
blockbusting games avail- the mark II Lynx remain the same: or an AC adaptor. A second pack-
able (and a further 16 due in 3.5-inch (160 by 120 pixel) colour age, costing $149.95 (around £75),
the next few months) and a LCD display, 16 onscreen colours includes the new Lynx, free game
new low-cost Lynx about to from a palette of 4096, 4MHx 6502 and AC adaptor.
be launched, you’d be mad to processor and four-channel sound. So far there has been no official
plug into anything else However, cosmetically and ergo- announcement as to UK availabil-
nomically things have changed ity or pricing of the new Lynx, but
dramatically. one source at Atari commented:
The new Lynx is much more “the $99 US package will probably
LYNX GAME LIST compact compared to the original - translate to around £70 over here.”
There are now 17 Lynx titles avail- an inch has been shaved either side That’s still excellent value and
able with a further 16 promised this and the corners squared off. All makes the monochromatic Game
year. Here are the games presently
the buttons, dials and ports of the Boy look vastly overpriced. At a
available:
original are still in place. However, guess, the new Lynx will be avail-
Blue Lightning £29.99 there’s the addition of a Backlight able this easter.
California Games free
Chip’s Callenge £29.99 button which, obviously, toggles There really is no justification
Electrocop £29.99 the LCD backlight on and off. The at even contemplating any other
Gates of Zendocon £29.99
Gauntlet £34.99 advantages of this is tremendous; portable gaming system. Atari
Klax £29.99 during daylight and in well-lit ar- have listened to the criticism lev-
Ms Pac-Man £29.99
Paperboy £29.99 eas it’s possible to play the Lynx elled at the original Lynx and set
Rampage £29.99 without having the backlight on. everything right: size, battery life
Road Blasters £29.99
RoboSquash £29.99 The battery saving is enormous. and price.
Rygar £29.99 But here’s the best bit. In the
Shanghai £29.99
Slime World £29.99 States, the new Lynx is being of-
Xenophobe £29.99
Zarlor Mercenary £29.99
On/OFF button
Speakers
Screen:
A button
2-bit 3.5” reflective
B button
grayscale LCD
C button
8 Way D button
Digital D-Pad
Menu button
Sound button
Pause button
Stylus
AC adaptor jack:
DC 9V Com port
Cartridge slot
Reset button
Backup Battery
compartment
Headphone jack:
3.5 mm
Contrast Volume
the console - Game.com • 19
Main Menu
The Main Menu screen displays the following options:
- Cartridge
- Phone Book
- Calendar
- Calculator
- High Score
- Solitaire
Solitaire:
Calendar: Built into the console is a special touch screen
version of the card game Solitaire. The game is
Users can view any month of the calendar from
played by touching each card the players wish
1991 to 2099.
to move and then touching the location where
they want it placed.
Calculator:
The calculator performs all basic calculations Cartridge:
functions. The information will be stored in The cartridge option activates the cartridge in-
memory, even when the system is turned off. side the system.
20 • Game.com - Batman & Robin
7.4
Centipede
Developer Handheld Games
Publisher Tiger Electronics
Release date (na) 1999
Genre Shooter
Mode 1-4 Players
Furbyland
Developer Tiger Electronics
Publisher Tiger Electronics
Turok
Developer Tiger Electronics
Publisher Tiger Electronics
Genre First-person shooter
Her Knights
Developer Byulbram
Publisher Gamepark
Release date (ko) April 19, 2002
Genre Beat-’em-up
Mode 1 Player
Kimchi-Man
Developer Spearhead
Publisher Gamepark
Release date (ko) February 2002
Genre Platformer
Mode 1-2 Players
Little Wizard
Developer Gamepark
Publisher Gamepark
Release date (ko) November 23, 2001
Genre Fighting
Mode 1-2 Players
Mill
Developer Article Seezak
Publisher Gamepark
Release date (ko) 2003
Genre Beat-’em-up
Cutey Fatty
Developer Wecom
Genre Shooter
Capcom Titles
Cutey Fatty is a Korean devel-
oped vertical shoot ‘em up re- Capcom gave Gamepark the rights to produce sev-
leased in arcades. It also had a eral of their own titles for the system. GamePark
planned GP32 release with a hoped that this would make it easier to sell the
scheduled for release in early system to foreign markets. Most of the games had
2003. a planned release date of early 2002.
The game would be played by In the end, Capcom (along with several other de-
holding the G32 vertically. velopers) stopped supporting the system, most
likely in favor of developing software for the
Players take control of a girl
GameBoy Advance.
named ‘Cutey Fatty’. She
weighs over 100kg but really GP32 ports that was announced for release;
wants to be a super model. To • Breath of Fire III
fight her obesity, she will have
• Hello Kitty Tetris
to literally fight her biggest
• King of the Fighters
enemies, namely hamburgers,
chocolate cakes etc.. • Rockman (Mega Man) X5
• Street Fighter Zero 3
Tales of Windyland
Developer AIM Technology, Moongkle
Genre Action-adventure
NeoPanzer
Developer GamePark
Genre Action
Interstellar Flames 2
Developer XenGames
Publisher XenGames, Gizmondo Games
Release date (eu) September 30, 2005
Genre Shooter
Mode 1 Player
Point of Destruction
Developer Gizmondo Studios Manchester
Publisher Gizmondo Games
Release date (eu) August 5, 2005
Genre Shooter
Mode 1 Player
SSX 3
Developer Exient Entertainment, Electronic Arts
Publisher EA, Gizmondo Games
Release date (eu) August 31, 2005
Genre Sports
Mode 1-2 Players
Sticky Balls
Developer Gizmondo Studios Manchester
Publisher Gizmondo Games
Release date (eu) May 24, 2005
Genre Puzzle
Mode 1 Player
Chicane:
Jenson Button Street Racing
Developer Gizmondo Helsingborg
Publisher Gizmondo Games
Genre Action, Real-time tactics
Mode 1-2 Players
City
Developer Gizmondo
Publisher Gizmondo Games
Mode 1 (-) Player(s)
Conflict: Vietnam
Developer Coyote Development
Publisher SCi, Gizmondo Games
Genre Tactical shooter
Mode 1 Player
6.3
SSX Out of Bounds
Developer Exient Entertainment
Publisher Electronic Arts
Release date (eu) January 19, 2005
Genre Sports
Mode 1-4 Players
8.0
System Rush
Developer Ideaworks3D
Publisher Nokia
Release date (na) September 20, 2005
Genre Racing
Mode 1-2 (4) Players
StuntCar Extreme
Developer Fathammer
Publisher Vasara Games
Release date (na) 2004
Genre Racing
Mode 1 Player
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TechWars
Developer StormBASIC Games
Publisher Nokia
Release date (eu) 2005
Genre Action
Mode 1 (-) Player(s)