Nintendo Handhelds From Best to Worst

Looking at all eight handhelds & Portables Nintendo released, I give you my list of how I rate from best to worst. Your list might be different from mine, I would love to see it. Comment below and thank you for watching!
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[renegarza]

Same here, the original Gameboy is my nostalgic portable handheld. Now, I never possessed, purchased, or held all the newer Nintendo portable handhelds. Additionally, I owned the NES, SNES, and N64. I stopped purchasing gaming consoles, because I got back to PC gaming and building...Anyway, currently, my family and I own the Nintendo Switch. 😎🤟👍🙌👊😁

[Videogamelover]

As much I love the GBA, the Gameboy will forever be the legendary handheld. It was the handheld that started it all and it made handheld gaming REALLY take off.

[robinprwood]

John, my whole family enjoys your videos. My wife and I are very nostalgic for those old games. And we have gotten our children into collecting and playing old Nintendo and Sega games, and we have hadso much fun. Its brought us closer together being able to enjoy those old games as well as watching your awsome vids. Thank you very much for being family friendly and doing a great job making your videos. I highly recommend your channel to others. Thanks again my friend, and keep it up!! 👍👌

[YutubesAlgorithmDuckingSucks]

The original Game Boy and the SP were always my favorites. The SP was more practical with the backlit screen and the backwards compatibility was great too.

[mjdxp]

I love so many Nintendo handhelds that picking a favorite is incredibly hard to me... I think I'd put either the 3DS or the Game Boy Advance at the top. When I was young I loved the GBA's library and spent so long playing it. When I got a bit older I fell in love with the 3DS, I probably have spent more time on the 3DS than any other console I own. I have a soft spot for the original Game Boy as well, it's amazing what some developers were able to do with it considering how limited it was. But I can't forget the DS either, a great console with so many awesome games. The Switch is also pretty great, while I think it has a lot of untapped potential that Nintendo is refusing to unleash, console games on a handheld is so cool.

number 2 on my list is the virtual boy,

[brentbieber]

Thank you for your kind words about the virtual boy.

[bf]

My favorite is the DS lite especially since I was high school kid / college kid then and how versatile it was. Playing co-op Contra 4 with a friend was amazing! Everyone had a DS and it was great like you said.

[wadereardon]

I can't believe I used to own a virtual boy, so many head aches

[davev]

As a kid growing up in the 90s, the Gameboy color was truely life changing. To be able to play all the pokemon games in color was unexplainably addicting. Also the Harry Potter game was so much fun as well. I could not put my Gameboy color down

[trevormorgan]

#1) Nintendo 3DS. Amazing library of quality games that you can pick up anytime. I think the 3DS library will withstand the test of time and be easy to revisit for many years to come. With so many versions of the 3DS and 2DS hardware, you almost can't-not find a version that fits your style....

#2) The Nintendo Switch Lite. Built well, obviously has the wonderful backing of the ever-growing Switch library behind it and just very good execution on Nintendo's part bringing the idea of the Switch into a strictly hand-held device. It's a solid, sturdy, comfortable device and it's my preferred way to play Switch games.

#3) Game Boy Advance. While the GBA SP is highly preferred by most and it was great when I was a kid 15 years ago...but its a bit cramped for even my small hands now, so I prefer the original horizontal layout. I do have both an SP and an OG with IPS screens and having a back-lit screen on the original GBA just makes it that much more appealing. I still remember seeing Super Mario World (my favorite game of all time) ads for the GBA. I can't tell you how excited I was to play that game in portable! Fantastic console, great library. *I have never owned or used a GB Micro*

#4) Nintendo DS. I put a lot of time into many games on the DS. I got an original DS with the Metroid Prime Hunters Demo when it first came out, put a LOT of time into Mario Kart DS, Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros. among many others. It's a great console, but was severely behind in graphical capability to the PSP of it's time and it can be visually difficult to go back to today. A lot of fun at the time, though. I do have a DSi now and I do prefer to use that for DS games over the Lite or Original for the little bit that I do play DS games.

#5) Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket - My GB Pocket was technically the first handheld that was ever solely mine. For that, it holds a soft spot in my heart, and we all know that the GB and its library was legendary, but doesn't personally warrant a higher spot for me. I had my brother's original GB and my GB Pocket for all these years since we got them way back when and I can't tell you the last time I used either of them. If I'm going to play an OG GB game, it'll likely be on the GBA or through the GB Player on the Gamecube.

#6) Game Boy Color. While the GBC was a step in the right direction for the GB line, it wasn't a big enough step. And because it came out in '98, and the GBA came out in '01, it only seemed like a forced stop-gap between the GB and GBA. Had it come out in '95 or '96 along-side the N64 instead of the GB Pocket, it might not have been so bad. The lack of true stand-out exclusives shows how forced and out of place it really was.

#6 Virtual Boy. Had one. Played it. Displayed it. Stored it. Sold it. I feel like the concept of what they were trying to create in it's time was revolutionary, I just feel like the technology wasn't quite there enough yet to make the execution practical. I do wish they would have recreated some of the games like Mario Clash and Wario Land for the 3DS in modern 3DS graphics. Definitely a missed opportunity there...could have been cool.

[gametournyever]

I loved it. I hope we can get one of these for Sony, Sega, Microsoft, Atari, Nec, and NeoGeo.

[YayJess]

I haven't watched in a while (no reason, just off of youtube) and WOW congrats on the camera quality upgrade! Also great list, I've recently gotten into restoring my old original handhelds (mostly cleaning & dead screen fixes, wanting to keep them as close to their original states as possible) so this was great timing for me :)

[matthewstephens]

I personally would put Virtual Boy into a separate "table top" system category. It doesn't play off of a TV, but it's definitely not a handheld. I would group it with the Adventure Vison and Vectrex systems.

[DiRF]

You got a GBA on day-one? I knew a Japanophile who helped me import a Japanese one well before the US release. Played the heck out of Super Mario Advance and Wai Wai Racing. Still have my JP-import copy of Super Mario Advance.

[cbeckdoeswork]

The GBA SP should definitely have a place on this list. It was a true game changer once I got my SP after having the original GBA.

[BobbyS]

I completely agree with your ranking. My original GameBoy is and always will be top of the list. I loved your story about buying your Advance. I didn’t wait in line but as soon as it became available to preorder at my local Best Buy, I was there money in hand.

I still play them from time to time and so do my boys, who each have a a flavor of DS as their own. One new Nintendo 3DSxl and one 2DS.

[EugenioAngueira]

I have the GBA and the DS and I like them both. I did just upgrade the screen on my GBA, though, and it looks gorgeous now.

[videogameenjoyment]

My number 1 portable system is the switch light because I really like being able to use a pro controller with it in tabletop mode which is my favorite way to play games on it and it is a portable mode I think most people forget to include. Then the game boy advance SP because of the back lit light and the game boy, game boy color and game boy advance games which I enjoy equally as my 2nd place.

3. 3DS
4. Nintendo DS
5. game and watch
6. Virtual boy

[trevorwiant]

I love the Virtual Boy BECAUSE it's such an anomaly. These days I've been strangely drawn to the "so bad it's good" category of retro gaming (3D GBA games are my jam). The VB is the poster child for that scene. Mine will forever be proudly displayed in my home.

[EternalDarknessAboveTheBlueSky]

Crystalis, Dragon Warrior remakes, Shadowgate, and the Capcom Zelda games made the GBC interesting.