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From: H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:40:18 +0100
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Zaghadka wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:16:10 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:49:26 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>> Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes, I was serious. Ugh, passive LCDs. Yeah, I didn't like those on
>>> computer screens. Hence I preferred CRT back then.
>>
>>
> [snip]
> 
>> But even the Gameboy's competitors -like Sega's
>> GameGear and the Atari Jaguar- languished on the shelves partly
>> because they opted for better, battery-hungry screens. In almost every
>> respect, the GameGear was a far, far better machine than the Gameboy,
>> but its 6 AA batteries lasted 3 hours, compared to the 15 hours for
>> the two AA batteries in the Gameboy. Sure, that meant that, with the
>> GameBoy, you were stuck with only monochrome color, but you were
>> 'stuck' with it for 15 times the length of time it would take to power
>> a GameGear.
>>
> Yeah. Nintendo made the right choice. The GameGear had an amazing
> experience, but the backlight was too power hungry. Nintendo was right;
> battery life was more important. I had a Gameboy. It lasted forever
> because it was a simple, tiny, unlit LCD.
> 
> Most people don't even know what a Jaguar is, because Atari was no longer
> a player in consoles. Started its plummeting decline around the 7800.
> 
> Does anyone even remember the benighted Lynx? You didn't. That was the
> Gameboy contemporary, and it also made the mistake of backlighting. The
> Jaguar was years later. They should have taken Nintendo's example to
> heart by that time. ;^)
> 
This is the end of the chain, so I suppose it will be more readable here.

I have had up to three GBAs over the years, but nowadays all I have left 
is a GB Micro, and let's face it: 20 years after buying it, presbyopia 
is starting to become a problem with a 2 inches screen. I am fine with 
playing those on a modded 3ds with the bare metal gba firmware, but 
after Deck and Switch it's hard to go back.