Lynx II with Asteroids and Battlezone
2000
Lynx II with Asteroids and Battlezone
2000
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. Video61
is now selling Othello, an all new Harry Dodgson game for the Lynx.
Several other developers, especially Carl Forhan of Songbird Productions
has been the hot ticket developer as of late with several new releases
for the Lynx as well as titles for the Atari Jaguar. 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.
The original Lynx 1 Handheld with 11 Lynx
Game Pins:
Block Out, Hockey, NFL Football, California
Games,
Checkered Flag, Ishido, Shanghai, Klax,
Pac-Land,
Scrapyard Dog and Stun Runner.
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Atari
Lynx Handheld
Message
Board
"Atari
Lynx: One 1 Winner"
The Atari Lynx Handheld Video Game System,
multiple players but only 1 winner
"Atari
Lynx: Sounds so Real"
The Atari Lynx handheld, sound effects
so real...
"Atari
Lynx: Option Switch"
The Atari Lynx has an option switch, you
so can play at twice the speed!
"Atari
Lynx: Bathroom"
Boy heads to bathroom to "Lynx-up" with
other friends for multiplayer video game