Handheld Gaming

Handheld gaming has become a new thing these days. Everyone wants to still play, while mom is yelling informing them that they’ll miss their appointment at the doctors in a bit, so take it with you? The handheld consoles have really evolved as of late too become quite remarkable. From the 70’s to present, there have been many changes, and I’ll be speaking of those starting from the beginning.

The first handheld gaming consoles were made back in the 70’s for those of you who don’t know, as I had no clue! They were big, bulky, and only played one game but hey at the time they were probably the greatest thing ever, right? As these non-TV video games started evolving, Nintendo, as we know now if you’ve been following my blogs from the start, are definitively the trend setters. Once again Nintendo did it, with their first big hit the original “Game boy”; the public’s interest grew, resulting in a large amount of sales worldwide. Released in 1988 it had reached 25 million sold by 1992. As the graphics obviously weren’t too impressive, who didn’t want to play Mario on the go?

The list of new handheld consoles keeps on growing, a number that have really made an impact are: Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PSP (Playstation Portable). Recently released were the Nintendo 3DS with actually 3D capabilities! Lastly the PlayStation Vita launched not too long ago either. All types of games really worked on these handheld gaming devices as obviously Mario and such were the selling point and still are for Nintendo.

Handheld gaming devices are still growing rapidly; as we’ve seen the first 3D one hit the market last year! Honestly, I’m not big on handheld gaming, all though I wouldn’t mind having one to play some classic Nintendo games, but probably won’t get one until they’re extremely thin, light and pocket size until then none for me! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_game_console