We are talking about Game Boy, Game Gear and Atari Lynx, three consoles that fought an unequal battle for portable supremacy
In the late 80’s, early 90’s, technology and the market were fully prepared for the portable video game, something that all the great ones understood, ready to conquer an appetizing virgin territory full of sales potential. Nintendo with its Game Boy, Sega with its Game Gear and Atari trying to be reborn from its ashes by allying itself with Epyx and launching an ambitious Lynx, which in the end could not compete for a host of circumstances.
Portable war
Given the global position of Sega and Nintendo as the new powers of the video game, it promised to be an even fight like Mega Drive and Super Nintendo would be, but the machine designed by Gumpei Yokoi ended up sweeping the world in an early demonstration that Power was not synonymous with success in sales, a lesson that would become a fundamental pillar of Nintendo’s philosophy when thinking about the architecture of its machines since then. While in the table market, advertising and users clearly revolved around features and games, other considerations such as portability, autonomy and a catalog designed for more diverse audiences with a greater range of ages entered the portable market.
Today, the team of the retro Meripodcast meets to talk about that time and those three machines (plus some invited ones like Nomad or Turbo Express), the catalogs, the sensations of that time, our preferences, our favorite games for each console. and how we first discovered them. All with the informal tone that characterizes us and with the intention of sharing with you a good time talking about those we are passionate about: the video game and its history.
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