Comments on: 20 Years of Handheld History: 11 Portable Gaming Consoles

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:29:39 +0000

TRY TO READ, 11 OF THEIR FAVORITE, NOT A LIST OFF ALL HANDHELDS

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:05:14 +0000

I see the Nintendo DS, and the DSI…forgot the DS Lite.

By: AssultTank

AssultTank — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:41:35 +0000

There was one Zelda game I played, can't remember the title, but everything was done with the touch screen. Movement, attacking, talking to people, solving the puzzles, ect… About the only things you didn't use the touchscreen for were pausing, and changing what item you had equipped.
If you're looking for a game that uses the touch screen, that may be the one for you, if only I could remember the name…
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin has the option to use the touchscreen or the buttons for everything as well.

As for the PSP, I haven't found any games that hold my interest very long.

I guess for me, the DS is better.

By: hans

hans — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:44:59 +0000

haha owned @Z_W

By: Z_W

Z_W — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:41:28 +0000

1979-2009 is 30 years, not 20.

By: 16bit

16bit — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:11:42 +0000

what about turbo graphics 16 portable.

By: RPK

RPK — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:34:23 +0000

You forgot the virtual boy

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:32:15 +0000

All I need to know is that the PSP doesn't have endless "family" bullshit like "nintendogs", or hilariously awful "test your reaction speed!" crap which is constantly advertised. It's actually embarassing that people would make games like that, a game to show off the quirks of the touch screen rather than the genuinely decent graphical hardware in the thing (which NO game that I've seen on the DS has actually utilised to its full potential…)

I'm no Sony fanboy, but I for one much prefer the PSP to the DS, because it has much better hardware, homebrew capabilities, and using it makes you actually feel like a serious gamer, playing something because it's a good, modern, technically advanced game, rather than somebody doing it for the nostagia of playing (yet another) addition to an ancient nintendo game franchise, or somebody doing it for the cute looking anime characters or little dogs running around the screen, following the stylus and eating virtual dog food.

So in my opinion, the DS holds nothing against the PSP.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:49:48 +0000

I had a Sega Game Gear. It was the shit. Too bad it wieghed 10 pounds and has 6 AA batteries :(

By: easybutton

easybutton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:07:23 +0000

I see someone likes JRPG'S and turn based strategy.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:29:22 +0000

If I included all the Game Boys, Nintendo would dominate the list. The Sony set would find me and murder me.

In all seriousness, I was hoping the original would speak for the others, because the functionality didn't change much from one to the next.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:07:58 +0000

he never said this was a list of every handheld console, just his favorites. that being said, not sure why the N-Gage was included.