Like the Game Axe the Game Theory Admiral Console is a portable NES but it looks like it is of much better quality. Also like that Game Axe it only plays Famicom games unless you have the adapter but it makes it very bulky since the NES cartridges are... 

In 1998 SNK release the Neo Geo Pocket, a black & white handheld unit which was to compete with the Game Boy. Unfortunately Nintendo had just released the Game Boy Color and suddenly the world just wasn’t interested in a non-color gaming system.... 

NEC released the TurboExpress in 1991 hoping to claim it’s share of the portable gaming market even though the market was saturated with Nintendo’s Game Boy, Atari’s Lynx, and Sega’s Game Gear. What set the TurboExpress apart from the other... 

The Wonderswan Color was released in 2000 by Bandai and is only available in Japan. It is an upgrade to the original Wonderswan which also was never released on these shores. The system is quite compact as the Game Boy Advance is twice as thick, slightly... 

The Sega Nomad was released in 1995 as the world was moving onto 32-Bit gaming. Interestingly, this was never released outside the U.S. so for once we had something cool that the rest of the world didn’t have. The unit had a 3-inch LCD screen... 

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...