Atari Lynx - Worth Playing Today? - Full History, Review and Retrospective! - Top Hat Gaming Man
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A man in a Top Hat with a Moustache reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life. The Top Hat Gaming Man is currently traveling around the globe, playing the best games for the handheld around the world. The Best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today Top Hat Gaming Man looks at The Atari Lynx, the 16 bit competition of the Nintendo Game Boy and the Sega Game Gear. - เกม
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!
@Dominic J A you can borrow it ntsc
What a waste. 😆 🤣
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!
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.
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!
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.
I'd forgotten how big the Model 1 was. I always think of the Model 2, when I think Lynx.
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 :)
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".
@@jackrussell3084 You'll be surprised how many games back then didn't even crack the 100k mark in japan ;)
My dad got one of these for me in 1991. I loved playing Rygar, rampage, Batman Returns, and Roadblasters.
Main reason I got it as a kid because they were the only one who had the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden.
Love arcade ninja gaiden
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.
this was great dude, love the "round the world" retrospective concept! keep up the great work!
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...
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.
So... 22 games?
The Lynx was great but so was the PC Engine GT
Anyone else notice that a young Toby McGuire was in the original TV advert!
britishskiing yup. Unknown to a lot of people.
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.
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.
So JACK finally got his own back at Amiga in a roundabout way :)
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
The Lynx was the Ferrari of 90's handheld systems.
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)
Well to be fair mr Top Hat - Atari did AXE the LYNX ;D
Real1Gaming Is that a reference to butchering rare animals or something?
Its a reference to deodorants.
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.
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 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
Correct, its on par with NEC PC Engine.
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! :)
thanks for the information regarding this portable console! I'm now going to hunt this down now. excellent video as always!
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.
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 TH-cam.
Loved Toki on the Lynx! :)
Great vid, Top Hat GM! :)
Cheers!
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I never knew that the Lynx was this good.
My first handheld system was a model 2 Lynx. I had a small, but lovely collection.
No Turbo Express or PC Engine GT comparison?
Love the top hat gaming theme! subbed.
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!
Awesome video, very informative.
Since Spacies is a cool guy! It's nice that he helped you out.
great videos, btw! Thank you.
I had the 1st gen lynx. My favorites were Xenophobe and Chips Challenge
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!
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.
Love that theme from PLOK in the beginning ;)
I love my lynx! I need a mcwill upgrade but it's still worth playing.
Mrs Pac-Man on Lynx is awesome! !
Is that Tobey Maguire in the commercial? 3:42
I still play mine ! Thumbs up
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.
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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
According to the graphics of the console's game library, i see that is more like an 8bit console.
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.
AdHocFuture wonderswan was designed for left and right
Good video mate but could do with some mention and pictures of the original model 1 I reckon. Keep up the good work!
CYBERNOID ZX128 playing in the background. You win TH-cam today.
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
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.
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!
Jaguar was 32-bit. It used 4 16-bit processors and had one 32-bit Register and one 32-bit Thread.
sounds like a cool classic for me to collect
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
Strangely enough there was a handheld console called the Game Axe. Used to have it when I collected, it was an unofficial NES handheld.
Gameboy is much more like a portable ZX Spectrum in terms of hardware.
I just got one today and it is really an awesome system
Top review! You should look into getting the custom LCD screen for it. I just put one in my Game Gear and it's the same kit for the Lynx. It makes a world of a difference. It's the McWill screen mod.
Sounds good, I have zero soldering skills though, so doubt I have the ability to do such a thing. Zero background with that sort of thing.
The seller of the kits offers the option to send the system or motherboards in to have it done for you. I think it usually runs about 50 quid (on top of the screen purchase).
Cool video. Lynx is a system not appreciated, unfortunately. When I saw The Lynx The first time I was very impressed.
im happy that 1 own 3 lynx`s 1 bougt 1998 and 2 later nice vid thank you it`s a great unit ans under apreciated
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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...
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Awesome!
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.
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
Atari lynx was awesome
We've got Axe in the US too. I roll my eyes whenever I see it, but I *think* I got one of their products once for budget reasons - low on cash, it was on sale. Most likely deodorant or something like that, NOT their cologne.
It isn't Christmas in the UK, unless some stingey bastard has bought you a Lynx Deodorant gift box.
Axe here today was like old spice for your dad..kids use way too much its cheap and like beer they think it will get them laid. LOL im waiting for axe to be sold in gallon jugs right next to the adult diapers and constipation aids....
It's also Axe in The Netherlands. It's a Unilever brand and that's a Dutch-British company.
This us seriously one of the only videos I've ever seen that said anything good about attari after 1983 lol
Top hat gaming man what’s your opinion on the evercade?
Would you review either the NEC TurboExpress or the GPD Win as part of Handhelds Round the World?
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!😊
It even a TV tuner for it I got mine in 93 😊
Gauntlet, Rampart, had some good games
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.
Hell yea Lynx is still worth playing. Ninja Gaiden, Hydra, Rygar, what more could you want?
Had one when while I was I the 3rd grade
I really miss this system. Klax,xenophobe, gauntlet, and others. I want it again soon bad.
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.
if I had that I'll modify it to work with the power bank battery rather than a normal double-A battery.
I had one as a kid.
yeah
do a video on the Mega Duck!!!
The one you keep showing is the Lynx II. No mention of the Lynx I?
Cool system btw have you herd of a odd system called the net jet from mid 2000s from hasbro under the Tiger electronics brand
A system they killed remotely. :(
very true kinda a shame tho because it wasn't a bad system and was ahead of its time i still got one the but it sorta works but itl never be online again
I had a Lynx in my middle school years. I loved it but unfortunately I only ever saw 1 game. Gauntlet. I don't remember how I got it but it was the only one I ever saw.
This top hat guy is tough and looks like he can kick your ass.
i LOVED double dragon on this sucker. was a really good arcade port for what it was. what i loved about gameboy was its battery life and awesome music in those games like tmnt and motocross maniacs and ninja gaiden. i HATED the pixel ghosting though. was really bad.
Who's the tool bag at 12:53?
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
so many bloody in just one video!
I had a lynx buy never found any games for it besides the ones it cave with. I liked it but wish they sold games for it here in Houston
Only know 1 person with 1 and only played Batman and California games but it was excellent
Ashens brought me here.
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