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Computers and consoles were where you went for the full meal. The Game Boy continued the handheld’s tradition of being a specifically less-powered, sub-version of the hobbyist’s main love it was something gamers would use on the go, with the trade-off of mobility for real power or true depth.Ĭasual, mobile, and handheld gaming was like snacking. In 1989, the same Gunpei Yokoi was the lead designer for Nintendo’s entry into the world of mobile gaming: the Game Boy. With their smash hit Super Mario Brothers, they single-handedly revived home video game consoles and becoming the backbone of the gaming industry. That company was named Nintendo, and they would go on to take the video game world by storm later in the decade with their home console: the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
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Then in 1980, a designer named Gunpei Yokoi, working for a then-obscure Japanese company created a series of handheld games using LCD digital watch-style technology called “Game and Watch.” They were little, repetitive platform games that fit into the palm of a user’s hand. Nintendo corners the mobile gaming market The design and colours of the exteriors of the little units were often more impressive and fun to look at than the games themselves. Coleco put out a fleet of “home-version” of hit arcade cabinets with blinky, fixed-lighted graphic panels. It was enough that the thing just looked a little bit like what it was supposed to represent. Nobody expected small and mobile games to deliver much of a compelling experience.

It was more of a novelty than anything else, a kind of interactive diversion to tide you over until you could get to the real thing again. They used them to remind themselves of the games they enjoyed until they got a chance to get back to the arcades and play them again. Handheld gaming enters the stageīack in the early 1980s, when arcade games were at the top of the gaming food chain, “handheld” electronic games were seen as a kind of hobby placeholder for enthusiasts.

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