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2 32-bit processors? Atari would have called it 64-bit.

Fascinating video, great facts 👍🏻

Now I know why the Atari Lynx failed, some games look horrible for a 16-bit system, sega Nomad looked far way better.

You could run power to the Lynx through the headphone jack

I bought one late in its life when it was very cheap. I liked it. Beast on the lynx put the amiga original to shame game wise. I also liked gauntlet too. I originally had the game gear. The game gears sprite shearing was very off putting - unlike the lynxs almost unlimited sprite capabilities

3:05 viacom?

One of the things that made many consoles of this era (including the Genesis and SNES) powerful was the ability to change the video chip registers on a per-scanline basis. So many amazing graphical effects were done via that mechanism.

Earlier examples would be Poy Poy and Poy Poy 2 by Konami. They sure look primitive compared to Power Stone just a few years later, but they were great 4 player party games back in the day.

Holy crap, that Mode 7 implementation in Ace no Narae! is INSANE!

Can it run doom?

A little tidbit i got out of reading the developers manual, the games run from internal memory and not from the cartridge, that one is essentially used as a ROM disk. According to the developers manual the BIOS even should have support to load from tape. One downside of the carts was that none of them had any way to save data, so no complex RPGs where ever done for the system sadly. One cool thing i remember tough, if you have Chips Challenge, my most favorite Lynx title by the way, enter MAND as a password. 😁

One time I was playing the BMX game on California Games and I somehow managed to get over 1000 points by doing an absolutely insane flip off the top of the big drop, hit a ledge perfectly, do a reverse flip and then manage to land it. I didn't want to turn my Lynx off for days so that I didn't lose the score.

Road Riot 4WD on the Lynx puts the SNES version to shame.

Did top gear 3000 do anything unique?

I was a very happy kid since I has the gameboy, the Game Gear and the Lynx. I am 45 and still own these 3 consoles. I have changed the game gear and the Lynx capacitors. I love the 3 consoles for different reasons

Not sprites, framebuffer-blitter. Fundamentally different from tilemap and sprite based consoles where the actual line pixel data is composed during the line output. Including the sprite-only NeoGeo. More similar to next generation consoles like Saturn, 3Do and Playstation. Some similarity to 16bit home computers.

loved the lynx still play calafornia games and chips chalange on steam deck. I always loved batman returns and kung food amazing graphics hard but i finiashed both

Thanks for reminding me how much I loved the Lynx. :)

Superb video as always, and this time about one of absolute favorite consoles! Thank you! ❤

Everything on the Lnyx just looks ugly and blocky. Even on Atari 50 with the Lynx games, they all look terrible.

Interesting machine

As a kid, I always wanted a lynx. I had a gb and gg. But never asked my parents for a lynx because I already had those 2. They prob would have said yes as I was a in and out of hospital alot. If I had known it had battlezone. I would have. Lol. Some of these games are really impressive for a handheld from 89

The Lynx sucked... like everything Atari ever made. I had an Gamegear. Sucked as portable but was a great travel Master System (with the cart adapter). The PC engine GT was the best overall (excluding the PC Engine LT). The Gameboy was the only real portable back then though.

Sadly, the resolution of the lynx is too low. The screen needs to be very small for it to look acceptable.

The Lynx was an amazing console, and unlike a lot of other failed consoles, had a surprisingly high quality library too. It would've been really cool to see Atari release a home console based on the same tech - just scale everything up in it a little bit and give it a beefier CPU and it would've trounced the competition (at least technically), especially if they got the jump on them in terms of release date. Instead, we waited for ages and got the Jaguar - a massively disappointing machine given what came before it. If anyone's looking to try the Lynx, I highly recommend playing Xenophobe as an entry-point. It's by far the best version of the game, including the arcade original, and holds up pretty well even today!

for people who are committed enough to collect for this console it probably won't be enough to discourage them from picking it up but it's unfortunate how badly the sound was mangled in that otherwise rock-solid port of ninja gaiden iii. the nes game, like the two before it, features some of the most excellent music in the system's library. an attempt was made to port the same compositions to the lynx version but they're out of tune, lifeless and barely recognizable

Great video, really, but please can you speak a little slower and articulate cause without the subtitles, I am missing 60% of the speech which quite technical. Otherwise great contents.

I was a little git and unhappy when my Mum got me a Lynx instead of a Gameboy. She was right that it was better, and I DID enjoy it. Stun Runner was awesome and the sound effects of Toki released a wave of nostalgia for me there. I kinda wanna play it again, even though I remeber it being hard as nails. 😅

0:43 Flashback music? Nice!

Other than when you have to find the @%&! bullet, which you showed, I really enjoyed this game. Showed what FMV could have been.

With it's sprite scaling, could the lynx pull off a competent port of outrun?

Now I don't KNOW the reason for the chip names per se But Atari's tradition was to name their chipsets after partners. Like spouses or girl/boyfriends of the engineers. So the chips would carry on their person names into the production version. Like Stella for the original 70s VCS. The Amiga was designed by former Atari engineers, so all _its_ chips had person names too. Agnes, Paula, and Denise. That way they "could talk about their project in public without fearing corporate espionage"

Such a great, beautiful and polished game. The end sequence could have been a little more rewarding with more eye candy instead of a text … but I loved every moment of it, thanks for the memories

I had a Lynx II back in the day. I had a lot of fun with it, but I did have an issue where perspiration would get in the function buttons (not the action buttons) and short them, so they seemed pressed all the time, and then I would spray it with electrical cleaner, and/or let it dry for a long time to get the buttons to work right again. I read that the Lynx was actually quite profitable for Atari, and they were determined to use the money they made from it to become successful in the home console market again with the Jaguar. Some feel that if they had concentrated on the Lynx, and perhaps a successor, they might have stuck around longer. I did have a Jaguar also, though, and I had a lot of fun with some of the games on that as well.

Just to add some more confusion it's also not fair to call the 68000 a 16-bit processor as it's 32-bit internally. So if you can call the CPU in the SNES 16-bit then the 68000 is 32-bit, or the CPU in the SNES is 8-bit and the 68000 is 16-bit. In other words you could argue that the Megadrive is a 32-bit console ;)

Always loved my lynx more than my gameboy.

pfff Lynx was for the rich kids bro

I wish I could hear the songs playing in the games too

I have the impression this series' video titles doesn't satisfy CrappyTube's algorithm, because it's DAMN good and funny, but it ain't got the nice views and likes it deserves Thank Goku I'm marathoning your channel, otherwise I wouldn't have seen this gorgeous lost gem!!!

Screen choice killed the Lynx

wow - this whole time I only thought California Games was the showcase title - boy was i wrong!

That mock FPS mode in Gauntlet 3 is actually rather good!

Wow, Lynx rocks

I always assumed the Turtles throwing soldiers on the screen was Mode 7 because the Genesis game didn't have anything like that. Now Im even more disappointed with the Genesis game that it didn't do that effect in some way

Such an interesting and unique system. A buddy of mine had both versions. It’s a shame it never took off

3D/pseudo 3D looks amazing, and that sprite scaling, that wasnt even on smd and snes... oof

I got a Brand New Model2 Lynx for $20 when they denigrated Atari when I was a kid and it was the First Console I Ever Owned... asside from my Commodore... I wish I still had it if only for the Nestalgia since they're pretty impossible to get ahold of these days... I wanted to buy two of them so I could hack one one day (i was that kid) but them days I was lucky to have one at all...

Weird thing, I lived in Japan from 1989 through the late 90s and while interested when coming back to the states about once a year, the cat name thing confused me and between it and the Jaguar I was not sure which was which when hearing about the consoles casually. I thought the Lynx was like a Sega Nomad, capable of playing the same games and didn't know until today that the Lynx was actually first!

Loved the lynx back in the day it did look fantastic on that screen, intresting video mad it could scale sprites bigger and smaller like you were saying not even neogeo or system 16 could do that they all scaled the size down.

Another selling point that doesn't get brought up is that you don't need reading glasses to play these systems. It looks the same with your glasses on or off.