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!

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!

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 :)

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!

Main reason I got it as a kid because they were the only one who had the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden.

this was great dude, love the "round the world" retrospective concept! keep up the great work!

My dad got one of these for me in 1991. I loved playing Rygar, rampage, Batman Returns, and Roadblasters.

Anyone else notice that a young Toby McGuire was in the original TV advert!

So JACK finally got his own back at Amiga in a roundabout way :)

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.

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.

Well to be fair mr Top Hat - Atari did AXE the LYNX ;D

The Lynx was the Ferrari of 90's handheld systems.

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...

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.

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

I never knew that the Lynx was this good.

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

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)

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.

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.

Top quality once again.

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.

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.

No Turbo Express or PC Engine GT comparison?

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.

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.

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?!*

Mrs Pac-Man on Lynx is awesome! !

Loved Toki on the Lynx! :) Great vid, Top Hat GM! :) Cheers!

I just discovered your channel a few weeks and now i am a fan. Keep up the passionate and serious work!

CYBERNOID ZX128 playing in the background. You win KZfaq today.

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! :)

According to the graphics of the console's game library, i see that is more like an 8bit console.

Is that Tobey Maguire in the commercial? 3:42

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.

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.

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.

Ashens, Guru Larry and Top Hat Gaming Man. Best gaming content on youtube...and they are all english.

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

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.

Cool video. Lynx is a system not appreciated, unfortunately. When I saw The Lynx The first time I was very impressed.

I had the 1st gen lynx. My favorites were Xenophobe and Chips Challenge

This us seriously one of the only videos I've ever seen that said anything good about attari after 1983 lol

Gameboy is much more like a portable ZX Spectrum in terms of hardware.

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

This top hat guy is tough and looks like he can kick your ass.

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

Ashens brought me here.

The one you keep showing is the Lynx II. No mention of the Lynx I?

Atari lynx was awesome

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.

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.

Top Hat Gaming Man!!!! I love you Top Hat Gaming Man! YEAH!!!

The worst thing the designers of the Lynx ever did was go to Atari.

Since Spacies is a cool guy! It's nice that he helped you out.

Top hat gaming man what’s your opinion on the evercade?

And yet...the Sega Genesis sold more numbers than any Mega Drive...see what I did there?

I still play mine ! Thumbs up

thanks for the information regarding this portable console! I'm now going to hunt this down now. excellent video as always!

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!😊

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!

Poor Epyx. You shake hands with Jack Tramiel & you'll pull back a bloody stump every time.

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

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.

That kid in the first ad in the toilet looks a lot like Toby Maguire!

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

My first handheld system was a model 2 Lynx. I had a small, but lovely collection.

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.

Awesome!

Strangely enough there was a handheld console called the Game Axe. Used to have it when I collected, it was an unofficial NES handheld.

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!

Love that theme from PLOK in the beginning ;)

so many bloody in just one video!

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.

should mention the battery pack uses 6 D cell batteries ..... so yeah real bargin there

Love the top hat gaming theme! subbed.

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.

It’s worth it

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...

It even a TV tuner for it I got mine in 93 😊

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.

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.

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

The answer is hell yeah! Because it kicked ass then and still does now! Ps Vita be danged!

LYNX is AXE here in the states, but the jokes are the same!

It saddens me that you display a model 2.

if I had that I'll modify it to work with the power bank battery rather than a normal double-A battery.

Was that toby maguire?

Had one when while I was I the 3rd grade

What happened to that top 50 video? Can't find it anywhere lol

sounds like a cool classic for me to collect

Awesome video, very informative.

I had one as a kid.

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.

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.

Is that the prototype Switch?

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.

I really miss this system. Klax,xenophobe, gauntlet, and others. I want it again soon bad.

Nintendo really trolled the Epyx team.