Retroshowcase:oldschool game reference!

Total reviews!

Handheld: 57

16/32bit Computers: 744

8bit Computers: 411

8bit Consoles: 58

16bit Consoles: 78

32/64bit Consoles: 107

128bit Consoles: 28

OnLine members

Currently: 15

Retro Partners!

Best on 8bit micro!

International Karate + - Commodore64
Xyphoes Fantasy - AmstradCPC
Arkanoid II - AmstradCPC
Pang - AmstradCPCPlus
Wrath of the Demon - Commodore64
Night Hunter - AmstradCPC
Barbarian - AmstradCPC
Prince of Persia - SamCoupe
Lemmings - SamCoupe

Best on 16bit micro!

Turrican II - Amiga
Shadow of the Beast - Amiga
Jim Power - Amiga
Agony - Amiga
Turrican 2 - AtariST
Project X - Amiga
Super Frog - Amiga
Flashback - Amiga
Dark Seed - Amiga
Flashback - Archimedes
Warlocks - Archimedes
Cannon Fodder - Amiga
Turrican II - PC
Universe - Amiga
Hurrican - PC
Tyrian - PC
Super Stardust - AmigaAGA
Pac-Mania - X68000

Best on 8bit consoles!

Pac-Mania - MasterSystem
The NewZealand Story - MasterSystem
Pang - GX4000
Batman Return of The Joker - nes
Battletoads & Double Dragon - nes

Best on 16bit consoles!

Jim Power - snes
Donkey Kong Country - snes
Aladdin - snes
Comix Zone - Megadrive
Alien Soldier - Megadrive
Blazing Lazers - pcengine
Raiden - pcengine
Super Star Soldier - pcengine

Best on 32bit consoles!

G-Darius - psone
Super Mario 64 - n64
ISS Pro Evolution - psone
Perfect Dark - n64
Dino Crisis 2 - psone
Resident Evil 2 - psone
Metal Gear Solid - psone
Oddworld: Abe - psone
Klonoa: Door To Phantomile - psone
Medievil - psone
Nights Into Dreams - Saturn
Flashback - CDi

Total hits!

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Hardware information

Atari Lynx	released in 1989
CPU: 8-bit CPU, 16-bit address space MOS Technology 6502 at 3.6MHz MEMORY: 64KB RAM GRAPHICS: Suzy (16-bit custom CMOS chip running at 16 MHz) supporting hardware drawing, unlimited number of high-speed sprites with collision detection, hardware high-speed sprite scaling, distortion, and tilting effects, hardware decoding of compressed sprite data, hardware clipping and multi-directional scrolling and variable frame rate (up to 75 frames/second). Note that it offers a 160x102 standard resolution in a LCD Screen of 3.5" diagonal, 4096 color (12-bit) palette and 16 simultaneous on-screen (more than 16 colors can be displayed by changing palettes after each scan line) SOUND: 4 channel stereo sound (Lynx II otherwise mono), 8-bit DAC for each channel. Capable of generating clear digitized sounds and harmonized music. MEDIA/STORAGE: Cartridge rom - 128, 256 and 512 KB (only three games supported 512k: NINJA GAIDEN 3, PIT FIGHTER, and JIMMY CONNORS TENNIS), up to 2 MB is possible with bank-switching logic.
Atari's Lynx was the world's first handheld color video game console release on 1987 and offered true multi-player competition, built-in fast pseudo-3D and distortion graphic effects, reversible controls, ability of drawing filled polygons with limited CPU intervention and fast arcade gaming action. It was originally conceived by Epyx in 1987 called the "Handy" at that time. Two creators of the system, Dave Needle and R.J. Mical, were also members of the Amiga design team. Atari bought the rights to the Lynx and to Epyx's library of titles, and the rest is history. Epyx no longer has any connection with Atari or the Lynx. On 1990 Atari release the so-called Lynx II which had limited diffs than its predecessor (i.e. stereo sound, better LCD panel's backlighting etc) in order to compete with Nintendo's and Sega new handheld consoles. Lynx's main competitors were Sega's Game Gear (1991), Nintendo's Gameboy (the last being monochrome but later released with color display). Unfortunately Lynx could not compete with the software library of the Game Gear and Gameboy, ALTHOUGH its superior hardware for technicaly way better games (note that Game Gear was a pure 8bit platform of similar architecture with the old 8bit Master System).
The Atari Lynx (default) color palette

12bit RGB 4096-colours palette (16 on screen)