I couldn't see another thread on this, so here goes. Forgive me, if it's a redundant thread.
Does anyone know much about the Atari Lynx? I got one very cheap off of craigslist ($5) and I'm having trouble getting it to work. I have the AC adapter and batteries, but I can't get the system to turn on. It came with 11 games so if nothing else, I can sell the games to get my cash back.
Basically, use this to discuss the Lynx and hopefully any potential solutions to my problem.
In case anyone is curious, the games it came with are:
Toki
Batman Returns
A.P.B.
Blue Lightning
Zarlor Mercenary
Xenophobe
Electrocop
Klax
Ninja Gaiden
Pit-Fighter
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Thanks.
Posts
Steam, PSN, XBL, Xfire and everything else JamesDM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neo-Geo_Pocket_Color_games
Atari Lynx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_Lynx_games
Steam, PSN, XBL, Xfire and everything else JamesDM
http://DocumentingLaziness.blogspot.com/
I need one of those.
However, I have an NGPC and a Game Gear.
Erm... More of a head held.
I only have The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Star Wars on it. Still works though.
I guess the same thing's probably happening in schoolyards these days, with the DS and PSP.
Yeah, it was huge and not exactly portable, but it had a surprisingly good color screen. The only games we had were Columns and some awesome RPG that I remember playing for hours, but don't remember the name of anymore.
Anyone know what the game is? (I'm too lazy/tired to Google at this hour)
- Don't add me, I'm at/near the friend limit
Steam: JC_Rooks
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JiunweiC
I work on this: http://www.xbox.com
Get Switchblade 2.
Get Switchblade 2.
Get Switchblade 2.
Get Switchblade 2.
I've owned an Atari Lynx for years.
By the way, get Switchblade 2.
---
I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
I think I only ever had 2 games, Batman Returns and Dirty Harry-ish game.
If you lived in the US, I would sell you mine.
I sold all the games a while ago, and I kind of regret getting rid of Card Fighters Clash
Although I'm one to talk because I got a NGPC second-hand and lost it. I suck.
My biggest gripe with the system was that Card Clash 2 was never translated for an English version. What a kick in the teeth that was...
how much are you talking? I live in the UK, but international post works too
PSN ID - S-Starwind (Playing Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Gundam Battle Ops)
Final Fantasy XIV - Masamune Server (Moving to Sargantanas) - Rykosho Hoshikaze
Steam ID - The Starwind
edit - Found it. Kung Food.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
I really think you need to give people more to go on than "some awesome RPG".
The only RPGs I can think of for the Game Gear offhand are Shining Force and whatever the name was of its Beyond Oasis tie-in.
Anyway, I loved my Game Gear, but it was a really stupid idea on Sega's part. The technology for a feasibly portable Master System just wasn't there at the time. I mean, if the thing were just huge, it'd be one thing, but it also took six AA batteries, and they only lasted four hours.
I saw a Nomad at a local secondhand store, but while I was mulling over whether to buy it, some other guy walked up and got it.
I'd really rather get a CDX, though.
Slimeworld, for instance, is just insane and... Chips Challenge wrecks souls
I really wish I remembered more about the game, other than "awesome RPG". I'm looking through Wikipedia now, but have no luck. I fear the awesomeness that is in my head is mostly the typical hype that gets concocted whenever you reminisce about any old game. I want to say it was Crystal Warriors, but I'm not positive.
As for the battery thing, yeah it was rather lame. For a "portable system", I never took it out of the house. That thing was heavy too ...
- Don't add me, I'm at/near the friend limit
Steam: JC_Rooks
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JiunweiC
I work on this: http://www.xbox.com
Or a Turbo Express.
If you think of an SMS as battery-guzzling zomghuge portable SMS (which it is) why would you want a battery-guzzling zomghuge Genesis?
And the Lynx was a really good system. I mean, it suffered the same issues with battery life and being zomghuge, but it came out at a time when Atari was really publishing some great titles. XYBots was hot shit in the days before Wolfenstein... and most of those titles weren't otherwise available except through ports of inconsistent quality for home computers.
Edit: and fucking STUN Runner, bitches. (Though I admit to never actually playing that one except in the arcades.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I don't know where all the nostalgia for the Lynx comes from, because nobody was playing the damn thing back when I had one. It boasted that it could link up to 8 players at once in some games, but I swear I was the only young bloke in England with one. That said, I did see a mong on the train with one a couple of years back, it was covered in badly aged sticky tape (about 6 rolls of the stuff it seemed) and he was clutching it like a teddy bear. Only decent use of the thing I've ever seen.
The draw of the Nomad is that the battery case detaches from the system, so its not super huge when plugged in to the wall/car outlet. And, let me tell you, when I was around 11 or 12 playing that on long road trips made them far easier to bear. It might be a huge, battery sucking, portable Genesis, but it's still a freakin' portable Genesis. That's always cool.
Xenophobe was at its most awesome in multiplayer, when you could be the big nasty alien. Until everyone else figured out where you were an annihilated you with grenades.
The football game I had for it was hilariously broken. You could fake a punt and score a touchdown on almost every play.
My Nomad's AC plug is fine, but the cartridge slot is kind of loose, so if the game wiggles a bit it will freeze sometimes. Those tall EA games are terrible for it, and don't even try putting a game on Sonic & Knuckles.