In 1991 Sega entered the portable gaming market with the Game Gear. It was touted as a portable Master System but it had arguably better graphics due to the larger color palette. It was superior to the Game Boy with it’s color screen and TV Tuner.... 

Nintendo released the original Game Boy in 1988 and although technically inferior to the back-lit and color Sega Game Gear, the Game Boy dominated, and still continues to dominate the market, with nearly 100 million units in circulation. Other pretenders... 

This is actually pretty amazing and I wish it would have been released stateside. It is a fully functioning portable Famicom (Japanese NES) which will play NES games with an adapter. The screen is backlit and they games look really crisp and colorful... 

Released in 1989 the Atari Lynx became the first color portable gaming system. The machine was developed by Epyx and was called the Handy before being bought by Atari. Before releasing it they changed the internal speaker and removed the thumb-stick... 

Nintendo released the successor to their popular NES in 1991, two years after Sega entered the “Next Generation” with their Genesis. Even though Sega had a head start when the 16-Bit days came to an end Nintendo had all but caught up and... 

The Sega Master System (S.M.S.) was released in 1986 just after Nintendo released the N.E.S. and it’s hardware was actually superior to that of the N.E.S. What kept Sega from overtaking them was Nintendo’s aggressive 3rd party contracting... 

The TurboGrafx-16 was release in 1989 about 6 months before the Sega Genesis and was a good upgrade to the aging Nintendo. They marketed it as a 16-Bit system but only the graphics chip was 16-Bit, the CPU was an 8-Bit chip so that was misleading. Unfortunately... 

The Neo Geo AES was released in 1990 and was much more powerful than it’s competitors the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. At the time of it’s launch it was marketed as “The First 24-Bit System” but in reality it was just a 16-Bit... 

Coleco (COnneticut LEather COmpany) released the ColecoVision in 1982 and had their sights set on taking some of the video game pie that was currently owned by the Atari 2600. Their technology was heads and tails above the Atari and Intellivision in... 

The Atari Jaguar was released in 1993 and was proclaimed the “First 64-Bit System.” Interesting enough this system started out as a 32-Bit system code named “Panther” but that was scrapped as Atari wanted to leap-frog the competition....