| The Atari Lynx was released in 1989 and was the first handheld game console with a backlit color LCD screen. Designed originally by Epyx and later developed and marketed by Atari, the Lynx featured a 160×102 resolution display with support for 4,096 colors. Internally, it used two custom chips: a 65SC02 CPU running at 4 MHz (“Mikey”) and a 16-bit graphics chip (“Suzy”) handling advanced sprite scaling and distortion effects. The console had 64 KB RAM, four-channel sound via a mono speaker, and multiplayer capability via the ComLynx port. Despite its technological edge, it struggled in the market against the Nintendo Game Boy, selling around two million units before being discontinued in 1995. | |||||
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