At 10:14 AM 7/1/00 -0400, Ruffin Bailey wrote:
>it seems to always concentrate on the 2600. But if you're going to go for a
>truly market competitive handheld, I'd think you'd have to create a "7800
>superchip", not just 2600. The 7800 certainly had games that could push the
If you're going to go for a "truly market competitive handheld", you pretty
much have to be Nintendo. Atari, Tiger, SNK and Sega (twice) could never
compete with their lousy little platform and I really doubt a bunch of
hobbyists using 18 or 23 year old hardware as a base can do any better,
Hasbro deals or no (and don't forget Hasbro owns Tiger and keeps trying to
resurrect game.com.)
I really don't mean this to discourage anyone, as I'd pay a couple hundred
bucks for a portable 2600/7800 with TFT screen that could play any game I
threw at it. But by the time the members of this list could bring this
kind of thing to market at the quantities that would actually sell, I think
you'd be able to get a color pocket PC running wince or linux and an
emulator for around the same price anyway and it would be at least as cool.
Rob
kudla@xxxxxxxxx ... http://kudla.org/raindog ... Rob
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