So glad to see my spare Lynx being put to good use. Great video Top Hat Gaming Man and so proud to have been a part of this. Klax was one of my favourite on the system along with Rampage!
@poetycko_o_ksiezycu4 жыл бұрын
@Dominic J A you can borrow it ntsc
@dickrichard626 Жыл бұрын
What a waste. 😆 🤣
@TheRealMentat0016 жыл бұрын
Man, that was classic Jack Tramiel. Make a supplier dependent on him, find some legal loophole to withhold payments, bleed them dry, and when they're at their most desperate, buy them out lock, stock, and barrel for a song!
@segaunited38556 жыл бұрын
Jack "Satan" Tramiel. Not only did he cause the Collapse of Atari and tried to run the game industry into the ground during 1984, he's ALSO why the NES came out. Nintendo approached Atari in '84 about helping distribute Famicom in America as the NAVS(Nintendo Advanced Video System). not only did Tramiel snub Nintendo, he then turned around and STOLE that Moniker for Atari 7800! The Atari 7800 Advanced Video System.
@roberthanthonymartinezrive73837 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, the Lynx sold really well in Japan, at around 100.000 units. I even have a friend from there that he, and many of his buddies do tournaments with it :)
@jackrussell3084 Жыл бұрын
In a country with the pop of Japan, who also herald from a massive consumerist culture, I wonder if 100,000 units can be considered "a success".
@roberthanthonymartinezrive7383 Жыл бұрын
@@jackrussell3084 You'll be surprised how many games back then didn't even crack the 100k mark in japan ;)
@stevew85137 жыл бұрын
My favorite Lynx memory is getting a Model 2 version in 1991 and a Comlynx cable to compliment my original Model 1, and two copies of Warbirds. I would take them in to work with me and I'd play against an actual pilot. And blast him out of the sky almost every time. We spent our lunchtime a couple times a week zipping through the clouds trying to gun each other down. I loved the sound of my bullets hitting his plane coming out of his Lynx, and that great sound as his plane spun out and into the ground. So much fun!
@Xtroletsgo5 жыл бұрын
Played that game for years... one day I randomly found out that you could land in the barns to repair your plane I remember losing my 8 year old mind.
@davidjames5795 жыл бұрын
I'd forgotten how big the Model 1 was. I always think of the Model 2, when I think Lynx.
@MrSilksoul6 жыл бұрын
Main reason I got it as a kid because they were the only one who had the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden.
@Kcalien2 жыл бұрын
Love arcade ninja gaiden
@PixleyLore7 жыл бұрын
this was great dude, love the "round the world" retrospective concept! keep up the great work!
@IgoByaGo4 жыл бұрын
My dad got one of these for me in 1991. I loved playing Rygar, rampage, Batman Returns, and Roadblasters.
@britishskiing7 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that a young Toby McGuire was in the original TV advert!
@BlayzedBlue6 жыл бұрын
britishskiing yup. Unknown to a lot of people.
@davidjames5795 жыл бұрын
On a games related note, he's also in The Wizard. He's always looked younger than his age, as in that Lynx ad he would have been about 14.
@SelfIndulgentGamer6 жыл бұрын
So JACK finally got his own back at Amiga in a roundabout way :)
@johneygd7 жыл бұрын
Atari lynx is the most amezing handheld ever made with tons of games, i own over 21 games including homebrew games, they are amezing. I also own a sd card for it.
@CPS25 жыл бұрын
So... 22 games?
@alexojideagu5 жыл бұрын
The Lynx was great but so was the PC Engine GT
@KJImpakt5 жыл бұрын
I remember Rygar being THE main promotional game advertised for the Lynx in every gaming magazine I read. It would have been nice to see how it compares to the other versions per system since it's release.
@Real1Gaming7 жыл бұрын
Well to be fair mr Top Hat - Atari did AXE the LYNX ;D
@FIXTREME5 жыл бұрын
Real1Gaming Is that a reference to butchering rare animals or something?
@daithiocinnsealach19824 жыл бұрын
Its a reference to deodorants.
@MegaAshWilliams6 жыл бұрын
The Lynx was the Ferrari of 90's handheld systems.
@Diskhate7 жыл бұрын
This was my first portable: my dad bought one (used) in 1992..i was 1 year old at the time; then, when i grew up a bit, i obviously started to play with it, and i really loved it...i still have all of my original cartridges (Gauntlets, Chip challenger, Gates of Zendocon, Crystal mines, Xenophobe, Super skweek, and a couple others) memories...
@helenFX7 жыл бұрын
I had a lynx ! I never got too many games for it though - I think that I had a snes and a1200 at the time and prefered to buy full games for those. I was just learning about programming at the time on my amiga and would jsut wow at the power of the hardware sub-integer scaling on the lynx handheld.
@phrasheekwerk3546 жыл бұрын
I had one of these as a teenager and also learned programming assembly on the c64. The atari lynx IS NOT a 16 bit system. Heres the microprocesssor used in the unit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDC_65C02#65SC02
@segaunited38556 жыл бұрын
Correct, its on par with NEC PC Engine.
@SonicBoone566 жыл бұрын
I never knew that the Lynx was this good.
@RMCRetro7 жыл бұрын
I was impressed with the Lynx at release especially Blue Lightening. I remember it being too expensive compared to the competition, and just as battery hungry. Good effort Atari. RIP
@remykamermans55447 жыл бұрын
personally i think the lynx is atari's best and most fun console. It was quite populair around my neighbourhood, it was either gameboy or a lynx. It had some fun games and even some of the best arcade ports (klaxx, rygar, rampage, toki)
@BlayzedBlue6 жыл бұрын
This guy puts good production into his channel. And a lot of his content is funny. Definitely one of the most underrated gaming channels on KZfaq.
@TheChurchHistoryChannel6 жыл бұрын
That kid in the ad at 3:50 (who so gracefully pulls out that brick from his pocket and then, in a bathroom, has it somehow wired up somewhere) looks like the guy who played the original Spider Man movies in the 00's.
@brucewayne-px4lv7 жыл бұрын
Top quality once again.
@strain427 жыл бұрын
One of my personal favorite Lynx games, even if I'm not sure if it'll make the Top 50 is Pinball Jam. For a 1990's handheld, it does a really good job of recreating a couple of classic pinball cabinets, including one of my favorite pinball machines ever, Elvira and the Party Monsters. It still stands out to me as a really good pinball game, especially when compared to others at the time.
@joshdieckmann5957 жыл бұрын
I always dreamed of owning a Lynx, but sadly, still have never tracked one down. I should just bite the bullet and buy one from eBay. I remember drooling over the pictures of Lynx games in the Sears and JC Penney's catalogs my younger brother and I would browse at our grandparents' house. I remember being awestruck at color graphics on a handheld, compared to my Game Boy, and thinking games like Gates of Zendocon and Electro Cop looked so awesome and futuristic that there was no way Atari could lose. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Still, a technical marvel for its day, and certainly a system worth a look. Good video. I'd never seen some of the prototype images of the Lynx, so that was very interesting.
@roberthornibrook63446 жыл бұрын
No Turbo Express or PC Engine GT comparison?
@zdp-1896 жыл бұрын
Love it, Chips Challenge, Qix, Bill N Ted, Stun Runner, Gauntlet...lot of good on the go games with MUCH better screen AND sound than regular gameboy of same time period. I got mine late in life also, and to my suprise (it was an eBay purchase with NO game included...or so they said) it came with Lemmings inside the slot!!! I couldn't believe when I looked it up it was on of the rarer games for it, probably only dam decent luck I've had in anything in life.
@mandude836 жыл бұрын
Love the Lynx l, I was the only kid to have a lynx at school when everyone else had a gameboy or gamegear. I bought myself anouther one last year and am in the process of getting all the games i used to have back then again but they gotta be boxed! Xenophobe has gotten stupid rare to find boxed in good condition.
@hatednyc5 жыл бұрын
IS NO ONE ELSE WATCHING THIS?! *Can you not all see that this man’s Mustache is an Absolutely EPIC Being all it’s own?!*
@dad72756 жыл бұрын
Mrs Pac-Man on Lynx is awesome! !
@itsaPIXELthing7 жыл бұрын
Loved Toki on the Lynx! :) Great vid, Top Hat GM! :) Cheers!
@rsucesso4 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel a few weeks and now i am a fan. Keep up the passionate and serious work!
@MartijnvanGene4 жыл бұрын
CYBERNOID ZX128 playing in the background. You win KZfaq today.
@SilverSoldierCS7 жыл бұрын
I still have mine (1st model), which I got since I was a kid. It's still working and I love to play every once a while.. And of course back in the day I've had a Gameboy too. Nice video! :)
@Konstantinosmo3 жыл бұрын
According to the graphics of the console's game library, i see that is more like an 8bit console.
@jared19325 жыл бұрын
Is that Tobey Maguire in the commercial? 3:42
@Anarkkie4 жыл бұрын
I had one of these when I was 4 or 5 around '97-'98. Before I got my Game Boy Color. Pretty sure it was a hand me down from my cousins or they let me borrow it for a long time. Never knew what system this was since it was locked in my childhood memories. Re-discovered it as a teenager through emulation but never actually tried to run anything. Finally got around to getting a Lynx emulator on the Wii set up. Booted up each ROM until I found the games that I remember. I played the SHIT out of Checkered Flag and Scrapyard Dog. 23 years later and the memories came flooding back. Crazy stuff.
@omegasupreme19707 жыл бұрын
great video as always.. Do you need any accessories for your lynx. I have a lynx battery power pack for it, the thing is soo big it could be used by a bobby as a back up club...several posters and manuals and 2 games one is even sealed...let me know and they are yours.
@carlopton6 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is worth playing. But it is better with earphones, stereo. Also you will be better off with it plugged into the wall. I still have the one I originally bought way back when, and not too long ago found some new games for it. Three of which I have not yet opened. I also have the Atari case, and the very useful sunscreen that clips on. As far as I'm aware it is the only handheld that was ever designed for both left and right handed people.
@GreatSageSunWukong5 жыл бұрын
AdHocFuture wonderswan was designed for left and right
@foughtthelol3 жыл бұрын
Ashens, Guru Larry and Top Hat Gaming Man. Best gaming content on youtube...and they are all english.
@1984potionlover3 жыл бұрын
oI! dON'T FORGET sLOPES' GAME rOOM AND kIM jUSTICE! hAppY nEW yeAR!
@jimmylopez63945 жыл бұрын
The lynx model 1 defined my childhood. I got one of these in the early 90s as a Christmas present and used it for many many years. I still had it up to 5 years ago when I moved and found it still in its box and it brought a smile to my face that was short lived when I realised the batteries I had stupidly left in for 10 years or more had leaked destroying the electronics and screen. Wish I still had it working best memories of playing California games, blue lighting, a spaceship one that u went thru teleporters shooting stuff and batman which I hated as a kid cause it was so hard lol. Was a awsome device that I used on many car trips with my parents just remember to bring a shitload of batteries with it lol it chewed them like crazy. Thx for the vid awsome memories of my childhood wish i still had one of these. I'd prefer one of these over my ps4 any day because of nostalgia that this thing would bring if I still had a working one. I never had a Sega, gameboy or anything like that but all my friends that did when I was a kid would always be in awe of the lynx, none of them had one and the fact it had a coloured screen was a huge deal back then. Such good memories
@KetwunsGamingPad7 жыл бұрын
I know we can love Nintendo products, but holy shit, everything associated with Nintendo corporate in its entire history sounds horribly douchy. The more and more I learn about the executive board and the way they behaved is outright terrible.
@JoelRiter5 жыл бұрын
Nintendo is an evil corporation. I refuse to support them. For fuck sake, they still use conflict minerals.
@Fellipe2k57 жыл бұрын
Cool video. Lynx is a system not appreciated, unfortunately. When I saw The Lynx The first time I was very impressed.
@krazytaxicabbie5 жыл бұрын
I had the 1st gen lynx. My favorites were Xenophobe and Chips Challenge
@delanoarts37032 жыл бұрын
This us seriously one of the only videos I've ever seen that said anything good about attari after 1983 lol
@TechRyze5 жыл бұрын
Gameboy is much more like a portable ZX Spectrum in terms of hardware.
@Dementiumfan19904 жыл бұрын
I think the problem with the Lynx was its rather funky control scheme. Usually with handhelds, the controls are pretty self-explanatory and you knew where to hold the system. With the Lynx, it varied and it was rather confusing as you never knew which way to hold the system when the game started
@tylarjones92816 жыл бұрын
This top hat guy is tough and looks like he can kick your ass.
@Stuart-Grant7 жыл бұрын
i have collected for the Lynx for many years and have the 72 commercial titles released, but it is not 16 bit, it does have 2 x 8 bit chips but its not the same as being the old fashioned 16 bit like the megadrive. it basically was an Amiga in your hand with the 512 pallette 0f 4096
@TopHatGamingManChannel7 жыл бұрын
Indeed, I do not recall making any comparisons to the Super Nintendo or Megadrive, I just stated it was more powerful than the Gameboy and Game Gear. I agree on the Amiga stand point as I pointed out in the video, I found it amusing when someone on twitter told me I was silly comparing it to an Amiga rather than the ST.
@zombiecrusher11007 жыл бұрын
Stuart Grant and remember they also lied about the Jaguar. wasn't 64 bit. their commercials said do the math. idiots false advertising it. it was a terrible system with puke like graphics. and the atrocious controller. I do hope their new system will be a worthy competitor to Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. if not, they are totally done!
@segaunited38556 жыл бұрын
Jaguar was 32-bit. It used 4 16-bit processors and had one 32-bit Register and one 32-bit Thread.
@adammccarthy29617 жыл бұрын
Ashens brought me here.
@TopHatGamingManChannel7 жыл бұрын
lies! You are here every video!
@WillJBailey3 жыл бұрын
The one you keep showing is the Lynx II. No mention of the Lynx I?
@user-gf3vb7xj3h3 жыл бұрын
Atari lynx was awesome
@rebelscum63567 жыл бұрын
Great video. I am so glad you did a retrospective on the Lynx. It's the only Atari console I don't have that I wan't. I also enjoyed the guest speakers, as well. It's a nice touch.
@gargonovich7 жыл бұрын
I think Atari really missed a trick here. If they would have beefed up the sound and increased the resolution and colour count, the Lynx would have been a really badass console at the time. They could have avoided the Panther/Jaguar fiasco altogether.
@AlexOjideagu27 жыл бұрын
That would have drowned the battery even more. And the Sound Effects were awesome. Some games even have speech. Load up Toki and listen to the quality of the samples.
@gargonovich6 жыл бұрын
I meant as a home console, not a portable. The 7800 had already failed by that point, and they could have been really competitive in the 16-bit market. The sound is fine for a portable, but it would have needed some help to match up to the TG16 and Genesis. The DACs are nice when used properly, but at only 4 channels, there would be a lot of drop out or you'd have an Amiga situation where you could play with music or sound effects, but not both in a lot of games.
@Hektols5 жыл бұрын
@@gargonovich Agree, they could have added a video port for a small increase of price an boom, you have a 16 bit home console that is also a hand held system.
@RocKnight117 жыл бұрын
Top Hat Gaming Man!!!! I love you Top Hat Gaming Man! YEAH!!!
@ViciousAlienKlown3 жыл бұрын
The worst thing the designers of the Lynx ever did was go to Atari.
@Anonymous-oh4xw Жыл бұрын
I feel like it would've done better if they pitched it to NEC or Hudson.
@BriansManCave6 жыл бұрын
Since Spacies is a cool guy! It's nice that he helped you out.
@austinblack7991 Жыл бұрын
Top hat gaming man what’s your opinion on the evercade?
@Sinn01005 жыл бұрын
And yet...the Sega Genesis sold more numbers than any Mega Drive...see what I did there?
@killachief1876 жыл бұрын
I still play mine ! Thumbs up
@dalekalan7 жыл бұрын
thanks for the information regarding this portable console! I'm now going to hunt this down now. excellent video as always!
@thomasdesposito11 ай бұрын
One thing I was curious about was that if the lynx was a 16 bit system, why don't the games look as good as the Sega Genesis? Now the lynx actually has a much larger color palette than the Genesis but still doesn't look or perform as good as Genesis. The lynx games actually look similar to the game gear system (which I owned) and that's an 8 bit system. Then if you compare lynx to the nec turbo express that was a 16 bit system where the games are 10 times better than the lynx. But I'm not slamming the system as it was still ahead of its time and looks really cool to me. I definitely want to buy one soon. (preferably the 2nd model that Atari put out)I don't know maybe I'm looking too much into this lol. Love your channel buddy just subscribed this morning! Keep up the fantastic content!😊
@EvaFanUnit0016 жыл бұрын
I happened to find a Model 2 Lynx from a local charity shop a couple of years ago. It came in a carry case like the one you showed, with 2 games. And I got it for $5!
@wolfgangfrost80436 жыл бұрын
Poor Epyx. You shake hands with Jack Tramiel & you'll pull back a bloody stump every time.
@socillizt4life4 жыл бұрын
There was only one lad who owned a Lynx back in my primary school days,he was the spoiled kid of the class,while everybody else was playing Tetris or Mario on their gameboy.I played a couple of his games.It had better graphics but I actually preferred my gameboy,plus I didn’t have to get my games imported but yeah it was still considered the elite portable system back in the day
@coopershoes7 жыл бұрын
I had one, my cousin had one. That was it for the people I knew who had one which is a shame because it was a great system,it was safe to say between us we had most of the games available for it. Unfortunately the Lynx had a problem which I had many times, the power supply connection on the system would break and it happened to me a few times with the original Lynx system. Lynx 2 was a better model but was much fatter, it also did away with the game card being entered via the side to being entered on the back. Another great video top hat gaming man, I'm thinking your next handheld video should be the tiger gizmondo which has an awesome story behind it.
@herrmayhem19157 жыл бұрын
That kid in the first ad in the toilet looks a lot like Toby Maguire!
@TopHatGamingManChannel7 жыл бұрын
It is Toby Maguire I think, bloody Spiderman loves a bit of Lynx too!
@rvcklvss5 жыл бұрын
Between this and his appearance in 'The Wizard', Tobey has a lot of retro cred
@recht_voor_zijn_raap55066 жыл бұрын
Atari lynx was way beyond any handheld and even consoles back then.... My childhood right there ... Electro cop ... Rygar... Checkered flag ... California games... Blue Lightning ... Todds adventure in slime world ... Chips challenge ... Klax ... Shadow of the beast... Batman returns... And the fenominal Gates of Zendocon
@Drewbe8217 жыл бұрын
My first handheld system was a model 2 Lynx. I had a small, but lovely collection.
@swampdonkey49194 жыл бұрын
You're a funny dude, and your old lady is easy on the eyes. I always wanted the Lynx when I was a kid, but it was so damn expensive.
@iamlokingforchange5 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@AdiSneakerFreak7 жыл бұрын
Strangely enough there was a handheld console called the Game Axe. Used to have it when I collected, it was an unofficial NES handheld.
@paulsit36244 жыл бұрын
I got the Lynx 2 when it was on clearance from Index. Never put any batteries in it though, always ran it off a power adapter. After building up quite a good selection of games I traded it in for a Saturn. Looking back it was probably a bad decision but I had gotten some good use out of it and Sega Rally was just too irresistible!
@rvcklvss5 жыл бұрын
Love that theme from PLOK in the beginning ;)
@josecarlosxyz4 жыл бұрын
so many bloody in just one video!
@geneares50637 жыл бұрын
Great video! I remember wanting a Lynx when I saw it in EGM, especially for Ninja Gaiden Arcade. None of our local video game stores carried it, so I got the Game Gear.
@omegasupreme19707 жыл бұрын
should mention the battery pack uses 6 D cell batteries ..... so yeah real bargin there
@fleksdesign7 жыл бұрын
Love the top hat gaming theme! subbed.
@IgoByaGo4 жыл бұрын
Also, my Lynx has had a bad power button from day one. If batteries are in it or it has a power adapter plugged in, it is always on. Gen II by the way.
@thefifthdoctor67803 жыл бұрын
It’s worth it
@jamescameron1495 жыл бұрын
The scaling and rotation were interesting. Not sure if any other handheld ever did that. I'm sure the net will correct me if i'm wrong...
@jeus2884Ай бұрын
It even a TV tuner for it I got mine in 93 😊
@RetroGamePlayers7 жыл бұрын
Love the Lynx, it just makes you feel cool when playing it. Even though I'm right handed I like to play it left handed just for fun. On those days the coolness level is through the roof.
@TechyMantis7 жыл бұрын
When i found out that lynx was called Axe in other countries i thought that was the original name, but found out that lynx is the original name but couldn't use it for legal reasons.
@UuddlerLeRoyBaStart4 жыл бұрын
Dude.... I'm 17 minutes and 21 seconds in. No mention if gameplay or anything. How am I supposed to know if its worth playing today???? Edit... Now I'm at 20 min... And here's Blie Lightning. Thanks
@GTV-Japan6 жыл бұрын
The answer is hell yeah! Because it kicked ass then and still does now! Ps Vita be danged!
@sogero23 жыл бұрын
LYNX is AXE here in the states, but the jokes are the same!
@mercster6 жыл бұрын
It saddens me that you display a model 2.
@AshNonokPlays3 жыл бұрын
if I had that I'll modify it to work with the power bank battery rather than a normal double-A battery.
@OzagSalo4 жыл бұрын
Was that toby maguire?
@mohammedzaidi90814 жыл бұрын
Had one when while I was I the 3rd grade
@oliverjoel58702 жыл бұрын
What happened to that top 50 video? Can't find it anywhere lol
@Gamsterjeff6007 жыл бұрын
sounds like a cool classic for me to collect
@Jikyuu7 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, very informative.
@kenvererer5 жыл бұрын
I had one as a kid.
@crienospmoht6 жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or are you going for the noir style of a Ninja Gaiden cut scene? No criticism I'm enjoying this clip very much.
@jimmybiggs92306 жыл бұрын
I always felt that atari lynx should have been able to connect to the tv and have the same resolution as genesis with a few more sound channels.
@banzaicroc92277 жыл бұрын
Is that the prototype Switch?
@amuzulo5 жыл бұрын
No, it's a prototype Wii U.
@naekemuel19914 жыл бұрын
Yeah Atari travel back in 2017 to rip off the switch in 1989
@ricky-sanchez4 жыл бұрын
Lol. When nintendo got wind that the three guys wanted to sell them a handheld, nintendo invited them to japan to try and see what epyx/atari had, knowing that they already had the gameboy developed. Atari/epyx must have known ahead of time (or sensed it), and tried to get nintendo to agree to a deal, without exposing the prototype system. Business was cut throat, even back then! I'd say both sides played their cool.
@krazytaxicabbie6 жыл бұрын
I really miss this system. Klax,xenophobe, gauntlet, and others. I want it again soon bad.