Jeremy Parish
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Game Boy Works Gaiden: Atari Lynx 1990, Pt. 1 of 3
🕑 Added 2020-08-12 14:00:00 +0000 UTCThis brings us halfway to bringing Lynx's release chronology up to date where we are with Game Boy—a little sad, innit? The system just didn't have all that much software support; going by the title screen credits, these four releases were programmed by most of the same Epyx and Atari folks responsible for the 1989 lineup. That's a lot of games for a few people to handle!
Bearing that in mind, though, these are pretty strong releases. All four are based on Atari Games arcade properties, mostly, and all but Gauntlet are damn fine conversions that make great use of the Lynx's capabilities while working within its restrictions. These and the other eight Lynx releases from 1990 probably weren't really enough to justify owning the system for most kids, but fans of high-energy arcade releases would have found a lot to enjoy about the system.
Provided they had a very large battery budget, of course.
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Zachary Harper
FYI, at 0:36 one of the voiceover lines gets cut off too soon. ...the way Nintendo of America did for all it's licensed 8-bit and 16-bit rele--In short all available...
Jared Blankenship
The Lynx was always something I'd see at Toys 'R Us or Kaybee Toys but I never actually knew anyone who had it or would admit to it. It's always appreciated to learn something new. I never realized how big the damn thing was though! It's worse than the Game Gear!
