The REAL first handheld game console with color!

[physics223]

I'm just so proud I have finally gotten of this baby after a long time looking! It wasn't cheap, but it was worth it!

This is my beloved baby!

I hope you enjoy the post and the pictures! Leave comments if you can~

[arcadecup]

Congrats! I am surprised the manufacturer didn’t mention color on the box... You would think that would be an excellent marketing key word.

I am interested in the screen technology. Was it true color or were overlays used?.

Very cool find.. Congratulations!. Such a cool feeling finding ones own grails.

[physics223]

I believe it was overlays used. But it is the first handheld with color, preceding the Atari Lynx by six years!

[old_skoolin_jim]

Ha cool, I didn't even know that existed. Nice!
Thanks for the history lesson.

[InsaneDavid]

Cool item.

[physics223]

It's really cool. It was pretty advanced for its age.

[pepharytheworm]

I believe it was overlays used. But it is the first handheld with color, preceding the Atari Lynx by six years!

How does using overlays make this the first color hand held?

[Greg2600]

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Misc/P...SuperMicro.htm

Using overlays is not "color." That said, very interesting console nonetheless.

[Baloo]

Yeah, since this uses overlays, it doesn't really count. Cool obscure item though.

[jb143]

So...wait, does it use overlays or...underlays? It's hard to tell but just from reading the various descriptions online, it looks like the lcd is letting you see the various parts of the "overlay"? Pretty neat concept but I'm still a bit confused as to how it's actually working.

[sidnotcrazy]

Cool item, Looks like it is somehow related to the Microvision.

But yeah, overlays don't really count. If they did the Vectrex would have beaten this to market by a year. Vectrex was releassed in 1982 in November.

[retroman]

nice find...would like to have it in my collection. But, i also agree that its not color...overlays dont count.

[Gunface]

great find, I'm jealous!

[Eyedunno]

Well I say it counts. Just like how the Game Boy is the first color LCD handheld with interchangeable cartridges, as long as you glue some colored cellophane over the screen.

And

the three games that consist its library

SYNTAX ERROR

[Leo_A]

Cool item, Looks like it is somehow related to the Microvision.

But yeah, overlays don't really count. If they did the Vectrex would have beaten this to market by a year. Vectrex was releassed in 1982 in November.

The Vectrex isn't a handheld.

[Greg2600]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYJrodPdlr0

Video I see that physics223 posted a few months ago.

[Arkhan]

The Vectrex isn't a handheld.

It is if you got big hands.

[physics223]

So...wait, does it use overlays or...underlays? It's hard to tell but just from reading the various descriptions online, it looks like the lcd is letting you see the various parts of the "overlay"? Pretty neat concept but I'm still a bit confused as to how it's actually working.

I don't really understand myself. All I am is glad to finally have it, lol.

Cool item, Looks like it is somehow related to the Microvision.

But yeah, overlays don't really count. If they did the Vectrex would have beaten this to market by a year. Vectrex was releassed in 1982 in November.

I really don't think that the Vectrex is a handheld. It's just too big. The same thing goes with the Adventure Vision. They're more of tabletops than handhelds, really.

Well I say it counts. Just like how the Game Boy is the first color LCD handheld with interchangeable cartridges, as long as you glue some colored cellophane over the screen.

And

SYNTAX ERROR

What was wrong with 'the three games that consist its library'? I used 'its' to pertain to the Super Micro.

[Gameguy]

The Vectrex isn't a handheld.

It's still a portable system, that's what the Dutch box says.

[physics223]

The Adventure Vision was portable, too, but it wasn't a handheld. Ah, I don't want to go into semantics, just that I personally think the Vectrex is not a handheld.