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I'll start with four-ish, from popular to not so much:
Sega Game Gear - the tech capabilities of this thing never cease to impress me. The Treasure stuff, the Aleste games, PD Mini, a bunch of others I'm forgetting. It was/is awesome.
Atari Lynx - graphics capabilities of it are still pretty cool in a lot of cases, though there are very few titles with any depth at all (that one homebrew RPG is kind of cool though). I break out the Lynx 2 on occasion for the arcade ports but that's mostly it. I can't help but wonder what devs could have done with the hardware if they had really tried, though.
Bandai Wonderswan (Color) - an IPS-modded system runs on a single triple-A battery for longer than most others run on 4 or 6. Lot of really solid games as well, though, yeah, they're in Japanese. The auto-TATE functioning is fun also. I'm not gonna spend $2,500 for an original copy of Judgment Silversword but $60 for a repro is still fun.
Tiger Game.com - I am fascinated by this thing. I managed to get one with no lines, and I have all of the library other than Quiz Whiz (which is a weird case, there are like three versions), and I keep coming back to it. Sonic, MK, RE2, Fighters Megamix, Indy, they're all bizarrely bad in their own ways but I still like trying to make progress in them (no I don't whip my own back) and the fact that they exist is just so odd. Batman, the game show games, Jurassic Park, also oddly compelling to me. It's a bad system with bad games but I can't help but keep trying it/them. I think I'd consider the Game.com the CDI of handhelds. Oh, and it kills 4 batteries in around 90 minutes max.
Sega Game Gear - the tech capabilities of this thing never cease to impress me. The Treasure stuff, the Aleste games, PD Mini, a bunch of others I'm forgetting. It was/is awesome.
Atari Lynx - graphics capabilities of it are still pretty cool in a lot of cases, though there are very few titles with any depth at all (that one homebrew RPG is kind of cool though). I break out the Lynx 2 on occasion for the arcade ports but that's mostly it. I can't help but wonder what devs could have done with the hardware if they had really tried, though.
Bandai Wonderswan (Color) - an IPS-modded system runs on a single triple-A battery for longer than most others run on 4 or 6. Lot of really solid games as well, though, yeah, they're in Japanese. The auto-TATE functioning is fun also. I'm not gonna spend $2,500 for an original copy of Judgment Silversword but $60 for a repro is still fun.
Tiger Game.com - I am fascinated by this thing. I managed to get one with no lines, and I have all of the library other than Quiz Whiz (which is a weird case, there are like three versions), and I keep coming back to it. Sonic, MK, RE2, Fighters Megamix, Indy, they're all bizarrely bad in their own ways but I still like trying to make progress in them (no I don't whip my own back) and the fact that they exist is just so odd. Batman, the game show games, Jurassic Park, also oddly compelling to me. It's a bad system with bad games but I can't help but keep trying it/them. I think I'd consider the Game.com the CDI of handhelds. Oh, and it kills 4 batteries in around 90 minutes max.
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