Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?

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:

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Yes, I was serious. Ugh, passive LCDs. Yeah, I didn't like those on
computer screens. Hence I preferred CRT back then.

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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.
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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.