The More You Know Gaming: The Atari Lynx!

In 1989, Atari Corporation had the most powerful game machine around! (More below...)

Episode Information
GTV 134 "The More You Know Gaming: The Atari Lynx" Season 7 Episode 12
Original Airdate: August 12, 2022
Produced July 25-26, 2022
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my all new 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, which my job paid for, but apparently, not for much longer...

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[GTV-Japan]

Q: How many colors can the Lynx display?

[husbandbulge]

Man. To this day, I still wonder if anybody anywhere EVER got eight Lynx players together for a gaming session, at the time of its release.

[kapparomeo]

5:40 - Talking about media appearances, the Lynx also has a small cameo in the 1991 horror movie Child's Play 3. In the scene where Andy is getting his hair cut by the military academy barber, there is another kid in a chair playing on a Lynx: he gets the focus in a couple of shots so you get a proper look at it too.

[thecunninlynguist]

Always wanted a lynx as a kid. It looked so bad ass

[iansmith]

GTV Japan is s-tier gaming! I really enjoy the channel.

[orkoto]

Kudos for the vertical and multiplayer gaming experience in the console excusive gauntlet the third encounter

[Unquestionable]

My cousin, who was on the cutting edge of gaming during the 80s and 90s, got a Lynx when they first released. It blew the mind of 6 year old me and he let me get my fill of California Games. Eventually he just kinda stopped playing it and my the rest of my memories of the system come from coverage in gaming magazines of the time. Still looking back it was incredibly impressive and had a solid library even if I wouldn't call any of the games a killer app.

[darktetsuya]

also there's apparently a new 'atari 50th anniversary' collection releasing soon, and for the first time ever it'll have both jaguar AND lynx titles! pretty sure it's on switch as well, so if you want the closest experience to the real thing that would be the way to go, haha. never had the system originally so I may look up that collection to see if there was anything fun I might have missed!! great content as always.

[KaptainKlassic]

it's crazy that the Game Boy was dominant. The Lynx and Game Gear were way more advanced. And the Game Boy didn't even have a backlit screen until the SP which is insane! Nintendo just had way better marketing and promoting I guess.

[daisukegori]

OK a high five bro for saying Gameboy was green. Finally someone said it.

[Juvi]

I’m like 90% sure the Lynx pops up in an episode of Full House called trouble in twin town . This pair of twins won’t let Michelle have a turn at playing. Awesome videos by the way keep ‘em coming love the Shill legends spoof

[TSDT]

This is gonna be a banger. Congrats on joining the M1 Club! How are you finding the feel of it?

[JolliAllGenGamer]

I just picked up an Atari Lynx model 2 it had an insert game error. I cleaned the carts and it worked again. I wonder if I should get the mode 1 as well sometime.

[infernal_monkey]

I bought my Lynx II around the end of 1993 when a local retailer was desperate to get rid of them. Grabbed a handful of games along with it for dirt cheap and absolutely loved 'em. Being able flip the display and play Klax vertically was mind blowing.

That Batman Returns game certainly didn't do the poor system any favours though, what an absolute stinker lol.

[Sinn]

The 3DO was named after its ability to create 3 dimensional objects. That is also what their 3 shapes stand for as well.

[dieinfire]

I only saw the Lynx in one store at my city. I always wanted it because it had double dragon!! But it was totally unnafordable.
I don’t know what killed the Lynx: lack of games, the price tag, lot of batteries needed, low distribution points… maybe all of the above.

[AfterTheFirstNever]

Now I kinda wanna play one. Wonder if I’ll ever get the chance!

[IllusionSpyer-IS]

Is there any place where I can get the Atari Lynx? This thing seems to be so incredibly hard to find and I'm really sad because this thing looks so cool. 😢

[johneygd]

Atari should, ve kept the name handy for it’s handheld aa i think that was a better name for it considering that handheld was made with left & right hand feature in mind, that’s pretty sad they didn’t.

[chrisrj]

What if Atari and Warner Bros. released an Atari Lynx Classic (Mini) console?