{"id":267,"date":"2007-01-29T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/267"},"modified":"2007-01-29T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T18:03:31","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-lynx-only-9995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/267\/retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-lynx-only-9995","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Atari Lynx, Only $99.95"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/lynx99_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/lynx99_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari Lynx Advertisement\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Once upon a time, in another age, there was a handheld console war brewing.  The fighters in this epic battle were Nintendo, with its modest Game Boy; Sega, with its sleek Game Gear; NEC, with its ultra-expensive TurboExpress; and Atari, with its unwieldy Lynx.  Despite being the least powerful system and the only one without color, the Game Boy triumphed over all, most likely thanks to its respectable battery life and <em>Tetris<\/em>, the ultimate handheld gaming killer app.<\/p>\n<p>But this scan isn&#8217;t about the Game Boy.  It&#8217;s about the Atari Lynx, that weird, large, oblong battery guzzler of a handheld that was seemingly designed by a team of monkeys with three arms.  And at the point in time captured in this scan (1991), it was &#8220;only&#8221; $99.95, which was a lot of money back then.  Nonetheless, I wanted one anyway &#8212; we all wanted one.  But the only person I knew that had one was a rich kid from school.  I eventually did get my (two) hands on a redesigned Lynx 2 model around 1994 for about $70 with two games.  I (or more properly, my parents) bought it through the mail from a kid who called my BBS at the time.  It was a great system to have, but I didn&#8217;t have any games for it that were any fun.<\/p>\n<p>Much more could be said about the Lynx, but that tale will have to be saved for another day.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, in another age, there was a handheld console war brewing. The fighters in this epic battle were Nintendo, with its modest Game Boy; Sega, with its sleek Game Gear; NEC, with its ultra-expensive TurboExpress; and Atari, with its unwieldy Lynx. Despite being the least powerful system and the only one without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}