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              The first handhelds were these LED light arrays overlayed with different painted designs like the different sports fields. I played all three of the ones shown below which came out in the late seventies alongside Atari 2600 and then Intellivision in '79. Me and my neighborhood friends played the heck out of these things to the point where we wore the buttons right off and the casings were so beaten up, the circuit boards showed through. I picked up these again off of ebay a few years ago for nostalgic reasons.                                                             

     The years 1990-1994 were my return to consoles after turning to Apple PCs after the video game crash of '83. My favorite games of this time were mixed evenly between Genesis and SNES except for one PC holdover. What a great time that was for gaming!

       I had to share Jenn Frank's web site, http://theboobjam.com/why, with everyone here on Pixlbit because it is so good, smart and an inspiration. It's one woman's attempt to get developers to do something differnet with breasts in video games. It's also just a fun read and a good resource to related articles such as a Kotaku article called: "Behold, Rediculous Penis Physics".

                                                                                                        Pokemon Snap [N64] (1999)

2005 - Advance Wars: Dual Strike [DS]: If I was to be stranded on a desert island with a solar panel and one video game system, I would have the DS and Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Maybe with all that time on my hands, I could finally figure out how to beat this difficult turn-based strategy game containing some of the cutest cartoon tanks ever drawn.