In Pictures: 3 decades of hand-held game systems

Three decades after the debut of Milton Bradley's Microvision, here's a look at how handheld video game systems evolved, from early flops like the Atari Lynx to the gaming innovations of the iPhone.

Atari Lynx (1989)

Like the Game Boy, the Atari Lynx turned 20 this year. The world's first handheld game console equipped with a color LCD display, it originated as the Handy Boy--an engineering project at game developer Epyx--before Atari acquired and released it in 1989. Though the Lynx never fared well in the marketplace, Atari in 1991 released a smaller, lighter version, the Lynx II.

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