Atari Lynx (1989 – 1995) | Museum of Obsolete Media (original) (raw)
Introduced in 1989, the Atari Lynx was a colour handheld game console.
In 1991, the Lynx II was introduced, with improved hardware and battery life, and a sleeker look.
It was outsold by competitors such as the Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Game Gear, and discontinued in the mid-1990s as Atari focused efforts on the Atari Jaguar. Fewer than 500,000 were sold in its lifetime.
Game cards were initially flat, but as this caused problems extracting them from the console, later cartridges had two tabs, followed by a curved lip in the final redesign. Most game cards contained either 128KB or 256KB of ROM, but with bank-switching it was possible for them to contain up to 512KB.