In 1989 Atari, Corp finally managed to do one of the first intelligent
moves. It purchased a portable video game system from
a financially strapped game company called Epyx. Epyx which
had primarily focused in the past on making video games for several computer
and video game platforms had formed a new hardware division and with a
team of Ex-Amiga engineers went to work on creating an all new powerful
and feature rich portable video game system. What they
had created was the Portable Color Entertainment System which became known
as the Atari LYNX. The Lynx was impressive, a 16Mhz
6502 system with built hardware scrolling and zooming, excellent sound
and more importantly an easy to program networking language called com-lynx
for up to 8 Lynxs to be networked together for multi-user players.
It had been mentioned and hoped that the Atari Jaguar 64 would use the
Atari Lynx as a high-end interactive video game controller with such high
hopes as being the motion tracker for Alien Vs. Predator or even a Tricorder
for a hoped for Star Trek game. Unfortunately this never
came to happen. Telegames
has just recently released 2 new games for the Lynx and several other developers
are working on Lynx games for the Lynx is far from dead, in many ways people
sometimes feel the Lynx has more life left to it then the Atari
Jaguar 64.
This was one of many comparision charts done for the Atari Lynx
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