Best non-Nintendo handheld

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I'm considering starting another handheld collection. Right now I own a Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP; non-Nintendo handhelds I have are the Game Gear and the Nomad.

Now that I'm only 28 games away from a complete Genesis collection. I have been buying up games for other systems. And Im considering starting a handheld collection, and I've thought about collecting for a few. Anyway I just wanted to know what everyones favorite was and why.

Also isnt there a handheld of the Turbografx-16?

[bust3dstr8]

Would have to be the PCE GT. You just can't beat the massive library and it has the non-edited Splatterhouse, for ya.

[ApolloBoy]

Normally I'd say the Game Gear, but I voted for the Lynx since it's (obviously) my favorite on the poll.

[ecresto]

id have to say neo geo pocket , i just wish i wouldnt have sold mine .

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Normally I'd say the Game Gear, but I voted for the Lynx since it's (obviously) my favorite on the poll.

The reason I didnt put the Sega Game Gear in the poll is like I said in the topic post. I want to start another collection, within my collection, by collecting for another hand-held console. And I already have a Game Gear. So I didnt put it in the poll since I already have one, and collect for it.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Would have to be the PCE GT. You just can't beat the massive library and it has the non-edited Splatterhouse, for ya.

PCE GT???

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Oh, definitely the Neo Pocket. Not even a split second of hesitation. Even if all the other systems not on the list were added (there's lots like the TurboExpress, WonderSwan, GP32, etc.), it'd still be the Neo Pocket over all of them.

Even among Nintendo's systems, I really think the GBA is the only one I'd vote above the Neo Pocket. The Gameboy and now DS have huge libraries, so there's bound to be some good games in there, but the Neo Pocket with it's tiny little library has so many amazing high quality games that I just have to respect it.

Plus, it is bar-none the best *DESIGNED* handheld ever, no question about that.


...word is bondage...

[Tommy]

No love for the Gizmondo???LOL

Neo Geo Pocket would be what I would get

[ApolloBoy]

The reason I didnt put the Sega Game Gear in the poll is like I said in the topic post. I want to start another collection, within my collection, by collecting for another hand-held console. And I already have a Game Gear. So I didnt put it in the poll since I already have one, and collect for it.

I know that, that's why I voted for the Lynx.

[CosmicMonkey]

NeoGeo Pocket Color, no contest really.

Although the GT/Express does play the same Hu Cards as the home machine, which means it has a huge library of games. If you're looking for a semi-portable PC Engine though, go for the ultimate variation that is the PCE LT. You'll need to be near a power socket when you want to play it (no battery option), but there's the potential of sneaking a full Super CD Rom2 system into your office in your briefcase.... ;P

I have a soft-spot for the Game Gear too.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I was leaning toward the purchase of the Neo Geo Pocket because I thought that would be a cool handheld to have and collect for. Plus I figured with only 32 (correct me if I'm wrong) games I could probably find em all in a year or so. Even quicker if I just use Ebay.

I dont know why, I just want to have a complete collection. I think its because I've been collecting between five and six years. Now finally I only need 28 Sega Genesis games to have a complete collection, so I think I'm just geting anxious, and what to say I have a complete SOMETHING!

[DigitalSpace]

FAIL. If you didn't put the Game Gear in there because you already own one, you should have made a thread titled "what Non-Nintendo handheld should I get next?"

[Barbarianoutkast85]

FAIL. If you didn't put the Game Gear in there because you already own one, you should have made a thread titled "what Non-Nintendo handheld should I get next?"

Sorry

[grolt]

The N-Gage.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

The N-Gage.

I didnt think, or consider the N-Gage. I dont know a whole lot about it, I've always been given the impression that it wasnt very impressive.

Anyone dig the N-Gage?

[zektor]

I didnt think, or consider the N-Gage. I dont know a whole lot about it, I've always been given the impression that it wasnt very impressive.

Anyone dig the N-Gage?

Out of all listed, the N-Gage is the best non listed handheld! Yep, it is good..despite the bad press.

On an off note, how come there are so many polls here lately?

[Aussie2B]

The correct answer is Neo Geo Pocket Color. All other answers are null and void. :P

I'm just considering normal handhelds, though, not ones designed to be portable home consoles. After NGPC, I'd probably go with the WonderSwan.

[MrRoboto19XX]

Neo Geo Pocket (Color) my friend, hands down.

Two Words: Cardfighter's Clash.

[bangtango]

For non-Nintendo handhelds, I've only played the Game Gear (which isn't in the poll) and the Game.Com

Game.Com has a good built-in version of Solitaire, albeit black and white. I also enjoy the Williams Arcade Classics cart a little and Wheel of Fortune is fairly good. Otherwise, I think the games for it are garbage.

Game Gear has a decent sized library, so even though there are a pile of bad games, you should be able to find some you like. What games do you already own for it?

If it were me, I'd get the Atari Lynx next. Of course this is coming from someone who hasn't played it before but I've never been excited about getting a Neo Geo Pocket Color (which I haven't played either).

One of these days, I'll post a WTB thread on the forum and get both the Lynx and NGPC. As for the other non-Nintendo handheld systems, I don't really care.

[otaku]

neo geo pocket color is easily the best. The games are mostly quality and play very well (especially fighters its like the only handheld that plays fighters well) also battery life is tottally kick ass! I had a complete collection but have been selling it off still have some stuff left though if your interested

[tom]

I vote Lynx, but yes, N-Gage rocks (small but excellent library of games):

http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album311

[Wolfrider31]

I vote Lynx, but yes, N-Gage rocks (small but excellent library of games):

http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album311

N-Gage rocks? Are those two words even allowed in the same sentence? :P I'd go with Neo-Geo PC. It's bootyful.

[Shinichi Chiba]

I vote for the Neo-Geo pocket that thing ruled as does everything Neo-Geo.

[Jimid2]

Out of all listed, the N-Gage is the best non listed handheld! Yep, it is good..despite the bad press. This is so wrong... the N-Gage is as third rate as you can get! With a library made up of mediocre Java ports (there were a few exceptions: Pathway to Glory, High Seize, Ghost Recon and Rayman 3 were the only ones I thought were very good, and I had 30 games for mine at one point), a tiny screen, lousy buttons (decent D-Pad, though) and abysmal battery life that makes even the PSP look good, the N-Gage never, ever lived up to anything near its considerable potential... I sold mine a couple years ago, and I don't miss it in the least. Of the systems not listed, the PC Engine GT/TurboExpress and/or Wonderswan are far, far better systems to collect than the N-Gage, imho...

The Neo Geo Pocket is definitely the best listed system to collect - there were 29 "official" North American releases, and something like 45 European releases... Most people collecting the North American games also want to pick up Cool Borders, Cotton and Falselei! for their collections as these are really stand-out games that never enjoyed an official North American release... Check out the master lists for the NGPC at http://www.neo-geo.com/ for details. The Neo Geo Pocket probably has the highest ratio of Triple-A titles of any system ever released! The library of games is small but excellent...

The Lynx is a lot of fun to collect as well, and most of the games are available pretty inexpensively, but the overall quality of the software doesn't come anywhere near the NGPC's library. Sadly, with the exception of the Epyx-developed titles and some latter day releases like Alpine Games, most of the Lynx library is pretty mediocre...

The Wonderswan was an exclusively Japanese system that boasted a number of excellent RPGs that are pretty much unplayable unless you can read Kanji, but the games on it that are accessible to a western audience - such as Gunpey, Rhyme Rider Kerorican, Makaimura (Ghouls & Ghosts), Mr. Driller, Klonoa and Guilty Gear Petite, among others - are generally above average, a quality this system shares with the NGPC. Of course, it's harder to collect for because you pretty much have to go to Japan for anything you want...

Of course, you could always just by a Sega Nomad, and then you would only have 28 games left to complete your latest handheld collection, as well. ;)

http://web.ncf.ca/fl475/pockets/handhelds.jpg

[zektor]

Well, the N-Gage did a whole lot more than any other handheld I ever used, which is why I said what I said. It had some great games, ran all Symbian apps and games (emulators, music and movie players...just so much), and it was my phone to boot...which gave good reason to have it on you at all times. Don't get me worng, the Neo-Geo Pocket was a great handheld, but I was not floored over the games really, and it didn;t do much else except for that little calendar thing.

[Dreamcast]

I think a gizmondo is the best

[zektor]

I think a gizmondo is the best

Hehe..actually, Gizmondo was pretty damn good :)

[suppafly]

I voted for the lynx. It was soo cool back in the early 90´s

I could mop the floor full of nintendo gameboy fanboys everytime I showed them BLue lightning running on my lynx :D

[Xexyz]

Guess I can't vote since my favorite non-Nitnendo handheld isn't a voting option (PSP slim).

[jwm2]

Imo its the Turbo Express or the Sony PSP. Also the atari lynx would be up there as well. I've never really cared for nintendos handhelds personally.

[Damaramu]

My favorite non-Nintendo hand held? The Sega Nomad. If I had to pick another...probably the PSP.

If you're looking for something cool and collectible, just go with the Turbo Express or NGP Color. Just like everyone before me said.....

[Steve W]

I voted for the Lynx, from my own love of that ol' machine from back in the day.

The N-Gage QD and the Gizmondo would be pretty decent selections too, just from their quirkiness. The N-Gage is a tiny little oddball device but had a good assortment of games, plus there's already a few emulators for machines like the Commodore 64 and NES available for it. The Gizmondo was a pretty good handheld, with massive amounts of possibilities (global positioning, Wi-Fi, and a built-in camera) but the machine's reputation is in the toilet due to the cocksuckers who used it to scam investors out of millions. But now that they're gone and the developers that got burned don't care if their games got leaked to the internet, you can find most of the games floating around out there. Some games, like Katapult and Agaju used the camera in unique ways, plus Colors and Geo-Xtreme would have used GPS in a way that had never been tried before. The Gizmondo was an exercise in lost potential.

[DJGeki]

I enjoyed (and still enjoy on occasion) my PCEngineGT (Japanese version of the Turbo Express). It's fat, a battery eater, plays all of my PCE games, and it's got an absolutely beautiful, color screen. Note that not all of those things are pros ^_^. Choosing from the ones on the list, however, I went with the NGPC. I've got a nice collection of games for the system, including some off-the-wall Japanese slot-machine games (not pachinko...those would've been more fun). The Wonderswan Color/Crystal was a GREAT system as well, and I wish it would have taken off in the states, but the screen blurred so badly when there was on-screen motion of any kind that I have to rank it a step below the NGPC. So, I suppose my rankings for handhelds (non-Nintendo) go as follows:

1. PCETG/TurboExpress
2. NGPC (this is almost a tie with first...and if this list had more than just classic systems, PSP would be up here, too. SOOO hackable!)
3. WonderSwan Color
4. Game Gear
5. Lynx

[Hwj_Chim]

My vote will go toward the Neo Geo pocker color. I think that every one should own at least one of these

[PingvinBlueJeans]

I was leaning toward the purchase of the Neo Geo Pocket because I thought that would be a cool handheld to have and collect for. Plus I figured with only 32 (correct me if I'm wrong) games I could probably find em all in a year or so. Even quicker if I just use Ebay.

There are 32 U.S. games total but two of them (Faselei! and The Last Blade) exist as cart-only, and two titles (Cardfighters Clash and Dive Alert) have two versions available...so yes, there are essentially 32 games, but only 30 unique titles.

You can definitely collect them all loose in a year, but boxed is another story. I put my collection together back when the sealed NOS games were still plentiful. You hardly ever see them now. I still need 3 boxes to complete my collection myself.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

IMO, the only thing that NGPC had over the LYNX was size and battery life.

Other than it's awful battery life, and expansive size, I absolutely love the LYNX.

It's game catalog, graphics processor, sound engine, network (linking) capabilities are all tops in my book.

Don't get me wrong, I have a NGPC also and I think that's a swell alternative to Gameboy Advance ... but it's one of those systems that's just too saturated with "modified" (scaled down chibi'ed 8-bit-ified) versions of it's Neo-Geo MVS big brother's games, where the LYNX ports are SO much more faithful to the arcade games of it's era (Road Blasters, Xenophobe, Rampart, Hydra, Xybots, Cyberball...all nearly arcade perfect).

Love my LYNX.

Love it.

Wonder what ever happened to EPYX?

[sidnotcrazy]

Wow, I am shocked to see so little love for the Atari Lynx. The Neo Geo Pocket (color) is a great system, with a great collection of games, but the Lynx is just so much more compelling IMO. You have a great lineup of classic arcade ports with the Lynx, and some really entertaining original software. Plus collecting games for the Lynx is pretty easy, only a few titles are truely expensive.

[sonoranreptile]

Neo Geo is the best of the ones listed on the poll. Great graphics, battery life, and the games are fun and easy to pick up and play. On a side note I love golf games and Neo Turf Masters is far and away the best handheld golf game out there....

[CosmicMonkey]

On a side note I love golf games and Neo Turf Masters is far and away the best handheld golf game out there....

I've always had a thing for portable Golf games too. So much so, I've recently taken up playing it for real. But anyway, I always liked the original Mario Golf on the GB, but NTM on the Pocket is incredible. Best handheld golf game ever.

[tom]

I like my NGpC too, except for the screen, can't see anything, not as bad as original GBA, but close. NGpB&W screen is slightly better.
So for me the Lynx has an excellent visible screen and therefore comes first. Plus 'Awesome Golf' is a first ace golf game.

[djbeatmongrel]

you fail fail fail fail fail fail fail fail!!!!!!

no mention of wonderswan!?

shame on you.

the wonderswan is the bees knees of import only systems. its a unique design for a handheld (depending on the game it may be played rotated 90° CCW). power wise it is on par with the GBA. although theres a shit ton of rpgs, theres a bunch of english friend games and a good chunk of them are solid puzzle titles.

wonderswan > all other handhelds

[Pantechnicon]

Another vote for Lynx. It's got a lot more depth than people give it credit for with respect to game titles. Naturally it has the best ports of some great late-period Atari coin-ops like Roadblasters, Cyberball, Paperboy and Gauntlet. Sports titles like Awesome Golf(!) and Hockey are really difficult to put down once you get to playing them. Puzzlers like Rampart and Block-Out will also burn up several hours of your day.

The color scheme and sound system of the Lynx are top-notch for their day, and the link system is criminally underappreciated. It's worth the money to actually invest in two Lynxes to take advantage of this (2-player Warbirds FTW).

I like NGPC too, but I think a lot its titles are derivative of one another and that you'll have a more diversified gaming experience with the Lynx.

[PapaStu]

There are 34 U.S. games total but two of them (Faselei! and The Last Blade) exist as cart-only, and two titles (Cardfighters Clash and Dive Alert) have two versions available...so yes, there are essentially 32 unique games.

You can definitely collect them all loose in a year, but boxed is another story. I put my collection together back when the sealed NOS games were still plentiful. You hardly ever see them now. I still need 3 boxes to complete my collection myself.

No, there are 32 total games, not 'esentially 32 + 2 tweaks'.

Baseball Stars Color
Biomotor Unitron
Bust-A-Move Pocket
CardFighters Clash: Capcom Version
CardFighters Clash: SNK Version
Crush Roller
Dark Arms: Beast Busters 1999
Dive Alert: Becky's Version
Dive Alert: Matt's Version
Faselei!
Fatal Fury: First Contact
Gals Fighters
King of Fighters R-2
Last Blade: Beyond The Destiny
Magical Drop Pocket
Metal Slug: First Mission
Metal Slug: Second Mission
Neo Cherry Master
Neo Dragon's Wild
Neo Geo Cup '98 Plus
Neo Mystery Bonus
Neo Turf Masters
Neo 21
Pac-Man
Pocket Tennis Color
Puyo Pop
Puzzle Link
Puzzle Link 2
Samurai Shodown 2
Shanghai Mini
SNK vs. Capcom: Match Of The Millennium
Sonic Pocket Adventure

Getting them all in a year is questionable as well, unless you arn't caring about region versions and then you'll be able to stumble into the few US titles that come along infrequently like that. Most people wont care about the region (being the European or US version) as long as the game is in english and since they play the same not mattering on the system you use thats fine for many.


For the choices by the OP NGPC I feel is the best bang for buck system to get next. Pretty much all of the games are great, and among portable fighters, there are no better than whats on this system. Not forgetting the action Metal Slugs or the RPGish Dark Arms or the Dive Alerts. Hell even the card/slot/casino game NGPC games are all good.

[Single Player Gamer]

I'm a big fan of the neo geo pocket so there's my vote. Some really fun games on the system. A good collection to go for.

[fishsandwich]

I have a NGPC with a good collection of games but I NEVER play it. I am spoiled by backlit screens. I might play the Lynx if I had one... the games look really cool.

That being said, I like the N-gage a great deal. It is small and some of the games suck (mostly the early ones... the later ones are GREAT) but it runs really nice emulators for a variety of 8-bit platforms and I have spent many, many hours with the little device. I suggest the 1st model over the 2nd one.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Don't get me wrong, I have a NGPC also and I think that's a swell alternative to Gameboy Advance ... but it's one of those systems that's just too saturated with "modified" (scaled down chibi'ed 8-bit-ified) versions of it's Neo-Geo MVS big brother's games, where the LYNX ports are SO much more faithful to the arcade games of it's era (Road Blasters, Xenophobe, Rampart, Hydra, Xybots, Cyberball...all nearly arcade perfect).
Don't be fooled by the graphics, though, most of the arcads "ports" on the Neo Pocket play almost identically to the arcade versions despite having SD graphics. Hell, Match Of The Millenium plays *BETTER* than any of the arcade Capcom vs. SNK or SNK vs. Capcom games. The lynx arcade ports may look more like the arcade versions, but rarely do they play as well.


I like my NGpC too, except for the screen, can't see anything, not as bad as original GBA, but close. NGpB&W screen is slightly better.
So for me the Lynx has an excellent visible screen and therefore comes first. Plus 'Awesome Golf' is a first ace golf game.
I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I never have a problem with the unlit screen on the Neo Pocket, but I think the blur on the Lynx screen makes a lot of games pretty close to unplayable.

Don't get *ME* wrong, though, I actually do think the the Lynx is a pretty cool system, but nothing touches the Neo Pocket!


The Wonderswan Color/Crystal was a GREAT system as well, and I wish it would have taken off in the states, but the screen blurred so badly when there was on-screen motion of any kind that I have to rank it a step below the NGPC.
I actually never played it, but I thought that was what the SwanCrystal was supposed to address. Not enough, though?

The main thing I don't like about the WonderSwan is the design of the "dpad" and its placement. Four separate buttons is really tough to get used to and that little pyramid in the middle...what, were they trying to make it painful to play? And putting it and the actions buttons way way down on the bottom corners so that you can't get any kind of grip on the system whle playing only makes it more painful.


...word is bondage...

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Don't be fooled by the graphics, though, most of the arcads "ports" on the Neo Pocket play almost identically to the arcade versions despite having SD graphics. Hell, Match Of The Millenium plays *BETTER* than any of the arcade Capcom vs. SNK or SNK vs. Capcom games. The lynx arcade ports may look more like the arcade versions, but rarely do they play as well.


I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I never have a problem with the unlit screen on the Neo Pocket, but I think the blur on the Lynx screen makes a lot of games pretty close to unplayable.

Don't get *ME* wrong, though, I actually do think the the Lynx is a pretty cool system, but nothing touches the Neo Pocket!


I actually never played it, but I thought that was what the SwanCrystal was supposed to address. Not enough, though?

The main thing I don't like about the WonderSwan is the design of the "dpad" and its placement. Four separate buttons is really tough to get used to and that little pyramid in the middle...what, were they trying to make it painful to play? And putting it and the actions buttons way way down on the bottom corners so that you can't get any kind of grip on the system whle playing only makes it more painful.


...word is bondage...

What do you mean "don't be fooled"?

I own both a NGPC and a LYNX, and I own plenty arcade ports for both.

I've played and compared both, and while there's nothing wrong with the "modified" versions of Capcom Vs. Snk or Metal Slug on the NGPC when judging them on their own accord and not making a graphical comparison to their arcade counterparts ... the moment you do so, you're faced with this :

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/kof/kofr2-1.png

NGPC version

http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/XBox/king-fighters-2002-2003/king-fighters-2002-2003-2.jpg

Arcade version (via XBOX port)

whereas, on the LYNX, you have this :

http://www.atariage.com/Lynx/screenshots/s_RoadBlasters_5.png

LYNX version

http://www.klov.com/images/11/1181242156265.png

Arcade Version

Now ... granted the graphics on the portable versions of both are blown up nearly 200%-300% of their original size for comparison, where the arcade versions are reduced about the same ...

but, it's hard to argue that the NGPC version of King of the Fighters bears anything more than a resemblance to it's arcade brother.

I'm not saying that it doesn't play well. It does, it plays fine ... but to claim that the LYNX versions of their arcade counterparts don't play equally as well is a bit of a stretch.

In fact, even games with arcade cabinet setups like analog, steering wheel, spinner, multi button, and/or trackball controls like Rampart, Xybots, Xenophobe or Xybots perform rather well on a 2 button control scheme.

There's no "fooling" to be done. Both are compitent portables that happened to flounder in the US market ... and neither have the genuine empty promises and flim-flam-foolery quality that systems like the Game.Com or the N-Gage did coming right out of the gate.

[InsaneDavid]

You can't do comparison screen shots of handhelds via emulation - the color depth and trueness is nowhere near how they look on the original hardware.

I love my Lynx II but Lynx games have always looked slightly washed out - it's just the technology of the time. Having the only port of S.T.U.N. Runner makes up for this, of course. I also have the smaller second version Japanese NGPC (in camouflage blue as shown in a picture in a previous post) and I love it as well - it's amazing how nice the screen looks even without a backlight - the control stick is also an excellent design. However I still like my Wine Red SwanCrystal more. It still feels and looks ahead of its time and when I finally find a damn copy of Final Lap Special it will never leave my grasp.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

No, there are 32 total games, not 'esentially 32 + 2 tweaks'.
My mistake...I miscounted, it has been corrected.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Thanks for all the information guys! I was leaning toward a Neo Geo Pocket before I made this poll and thread. Then the poll just sealed the deal. So Saturday (Or was it Sunday?) I went to the pawn shop and picked up a complete Neo Geo Pocket, its in great shape, has all the paper's and manuals in the box. It's the blue model. I picked up Metal Slug: 1st mission, and so far I'm very happy with the investment.

[cyberfluxor]

You made a good choice. Some quick pick-ups:
Bust-A-Move Pocket
CardFighters Clash: Capcom Version
CardFighters Clash: SNK Version
Magical Drop Pocket
Metal Slug: First Mission
Metal Slug: Second Mission
Neo Turf Masters
Pac-Man
Puyo Pop
Sonic Pocket Adventure

Well, that's my opinion anyhow. I'm not too much of a fighter player but there's a good number of those too. I was talking to someone the other day about Dive Alert and apparetly if you pour a few hours into the game it picks up and gets good. I never looked at it seriously before but now I might be tempted to get it one day.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

You made a good choice. Some quick pick-ups:
Bust-A-Move Pocket
CardFighters Clash: Capcom Version
CardFighters Clash: SNK Version
Magical Drop Pocket
Metal Slug: First Mission
Metal Slug: Second Mission
Neo Turf Masters
Pac-Man
Puyo Pop
Sonic Pocket Adventure

Well, that's my opinion anyhow. I'm not too much of a fighter player but there's a good number of those too. I was talking to someone the other day about Dive Alert and apparetly if you pour a few hours into the game it picks up and gets good. I never looked at it seriously before but now I might be tempted to get it one day.

I already got the complete list of the 32 Neo Geo Pocket games. Most of the games you listed, I already knew I wanted, what I'm trying to do with this collect. Since it's so small I wanted to see how quickly I could come up with all 32 games complete. (excluding the 2 games that exist as cart only) So I guess I'll see, It's been two days so far I got the console and one game. So I only need 31 games yet. Almost as close as I am to a complete Genesis collection. 31 games to complete Neo Geo Pocket collection, and 28 games from a complete Genesis collection.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Don't ignore the import and B&W games either, though.

There's a lot of good ones, but these are the ones I think no Neo Pokcet collection should be missing:

King Of Fighters: R-1
Cotton
Ganbare Neo Poke-kun
Delta Warp
Cool Boarders Pocket

If you like baseball games, Dynamite Sluggaer and Neo Poke Pro Yakyuu are also both a lot beter than Baseball Stars (which sort of sucks, unfortunately) and if you can't get enough of the first Cardfighters games, there's also Cardfighters Clash 2.


...word is bondage...

[cyberfluxor]

I already got the complete list of the 32 Neo Geo Pocket games. Most of the games you listed, I already knew I wanted, what I'm trying to do with this collect. Since it's so small I wanted to see how quickly I could come up with all 32 games complete. (excluding the 2 games that exist as cart only) So I guess I'll see, It's been two days so far I got the console and one game. So I only need 31 games yet. Almost as close as I am to a complete Genesis collection. 31 games to complete Neo Geo Pocket collection, and 28 games from a complete Genesis collection.
Okay, just be sure to get Evolution (EU) complete too. I lost my only chance a long time ago and haven't seen it since. I got outbid on eBay but oh well, would have been nice if no one else knew about it. :-/

And I was just listing the games I already own or really want to add to my NGPC collection. I don't need all of the games just a good handful.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

You can't do comparison screen shots of handhelds via emulation - the color depth and trueness is nowhere near how they look on the original hardware.

I love my Lynx II but Lynx games have always looked slightly washed out - it's just the technology of the time. Having the only port of S.T.U.N. Runner makes up for this, of course. I also have the smaller second version Japanese NGPC (in camouflage blue as shown in a picture in a previous post) and I love it as well - it's amazing how nice the screen looks even without a backlight - the control stick is also an excellent design. However I still like my Wine Red SwanCrystal more. It still feels and looks ahead of its time and when I finally find a damn copy of Final Lap Special it will never leave my grasp.

True, but any game on any system (portable or otherwise) that's been screen capped and formatted for web viewing or for print is going to be an inaccurate representation of how it looks in person on a portable system screen, PC monitor, tube TV, LCD, Plasma, or Projection System.

I wasn't comparing for the sake of graphical clarity, I was only comparing the aesthetic differences between how dramatically re-formatted the NGPC games are in terms of colors and graphics.

The Lynx games retain a much more accurate look to their arcade counterparts pixel for pixel.