Atari Lynx Part 2: Some games | Ashens 

"bloody hell that thing really was huge"-Ashens 2017

"Not like dogs and you make them fight. That would not be such a good concept for a game" Pokèmon.

When would you ever, ever get 16 Lynx's linked up!? I think there were a grand total of 2 Lynx owners in my secondary school of 1200 pupils. So if we'd managed to somehow contacted 7 other secondary schools and arranged a meet up then it would just leave the small matter of finding 16 copies of the same game....

I like seeing Ashen's reflection in things. Like some kind of Ghost Ashens.

"Todd's Adventures in Slimeworld" Sounds like something off The Simpsons lol

More gaming and food specials and less loot crate crap please

"He'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a whole chicken in a can and drown it in tea"

I don't know why people don't stick for the whole video when it's long. They're long but Ashens never drag them out. I loved the Pandora video because I learned so much about it, and open handhelds in general. You should do more and longer videos about old consoles, handhelds and computers. I would always watch the whole way through. It's never boring when Ashens does it.

Pokemon is a (massively popular) dogfighting simulator. It's just cleaned up for the kids.

interesting fact gordo 106 developers would later go on to create condor and later blizzard and make World of warcraft

As good a game as it undoubtedlty is, my favourite thing about _Chip's Challenge_ is that if you entered the password *MAND* you had yourself a Mandelbrot generator. Fractals on a Lynx... now THAT'S how to outgeek the geekiest geek who ever geeked.

The sprite scaling chips on this really makes me image how amazing an outrun, space harrier or other super scaler game port to it, even though the resolution would need to be dropped significantly.

The pixel art was bloody fantastic on the Lynx!

7:15 - Actually, the dog fighting concept was used before and it became one of the most popular game franchises of all time. Pokemon.

Goddamn, 2017 seems like a lifetime ago, thank you for making and leaving us the time capsules of another time Ashens, it's always so nice to see what gamers in the past had versus what we have now, makes the Switch seem like a Jetson's level flying car lol.

My parents got me the original lynx for Christmas the year it came out. That was hands down the best Christmas I ever had. I looked beyond all the flaws and just loved this thing to death. It did have some stellar games: Gates of Zendocon, Lemmings, Slime World, Klax, California Games, Zalor Mercenary, Rampage and Chips Challenge. The screens have faded considerably. My 2 linxs have the same contrast and ghosting problems that did not exist when I first got them. I was lucky enough to have 2 other friends that had linxs, so we played a lot of California games and gauntlet. Still to this day I have yet to have more fun with a console than I did with this beast.

I literally just clicked onto ashens and this video came out 1 second ago. I love ashens and the content that you put out. Keep it up!

"...and for my money is much better than Sega's Columns" You WHAT M8 I would only come near accepting that if it had music as good as Columns.

love your channel almost as much as I love my LYNX! I've had it since the early 90s and still play it once in a while. Ninja Gaiden, California Games, Rampage, and Rygar are must own games.

your knowledge of obscure old games from old systems of electro-antiquity never ceased to amaze me

Ashens: You have dogs and make them fight. That would not be such a good concept for a game. GameFreak: $_$ $_$

Mr. Ash should review every game ever made exactly like he did in this video. Nicely done.

congrats on the biggest understatement of 2017! You did it!

great video, was a huge fan and have collected the 72 commercial releases since childhood and really don't want to let them go i guess.

Impressed by some of those arcade conversions, really wouldn't expect them to be that good.

HAAASSSSSSSS

i didnt knew that atari even existed. Thanks!! waiting for nex vids. especially some mistery bags :D

It's nice to hear Toki getting a mention. I used to play it when I was about 7 and it was really difficult. There was a lot of trial and error involved.

In addition to what you cover here, I remember Roadblasters and Gauntlet being fun. The BMX bit in California games was Epic! (A hardy-har-har!) ;) Happy memories! I was about 11 sad onions at the time.

Love some Lynx. I used to have one as a kid, a fair few games too.

thx for this awesomely ha bisky game play review i loved this a lot seeing these old type of game systems

Ashes you review all the stuff i enjoy to watch well done sir👍. Good man for putting your Chanel together for all to enjoy. I have a can of pears in syrup for you in the cupboard will be ready for review in 29 years 😀

Let's talk about Rampart, people.

Nice, i almost forgot about S.T.U.N. Runner, i also quite liked it. And California Games, Toki and Rampart.

The Rygar port was absolutely gorgeous. I remember Turbo Sub was really fun. Good port of Ninja Gaiden. Oh, and Hard Driving was really impressive at the time too.

awesome - I love your channel ashens

Epic review, the only thing I was hoping to see was Gates of Zendocon, one of the most epic games on the little big handheld. Keep up the creativity :)

Hey Ashens, been a fan for a long time, matter of fact, since the first POP station. Keep up the good RU-vid work Stuart, (If I can call you that)

i could watch ashens doing good game bad game for hours

I can't get over just how good these games look

Fantastic vid Ashens.I may give some of those good games ago via emulastion at some point.

jumping from just small mentski inserts and one frame pop ups to a full blown video of him hopefully he gets recognised from this more.

Aaahhhhh! I remember Chip's challenge! I was beginning to think I had imagined the whole thing, because I never see *anything* about it in any videos about old games. That game was the shit back in the day, the only MS freebie game with any meat to it

Excellent, cheers for that - most enjoyable.

Yay! More Ashens!

I love the music at the end of your videos

Switchblade II was one of my favourite games on my Lynx II, which I still have along with a bunch of games & most of the accessories as well.

Thank you for admitting that some of us care about Klas after that last video. :P

Dracula the Undead is my all time favorite Lynx game :)

Wow the smach z looks amazing, nice review

I've been waiting for this

I don't know why that quote about linear time suddenly caused a strange existential moment for me. Now I'm suddenly sad about dying.

looking forward to more LYNX videos!!

I can recommend Dracula for the Lynx! A wee bit frustrating that there are no way to save the game, but that I'd say was more of the Lynx not being thought through enough. Gates Of Zendocon was really nice too. The Tetris I have though isn't exactly the bee's knees.... The cartridge looks weird, so there's a pretty good chance it wasn't a very official version though.

Thank you Ashens, for not trying to connect Dog-fighting with Pokemon like the comment section seems to enjoy doing. It's certainly not the same thing in context to the universe they exist in.

I pretty much own a Lynx for Rygar. That was my favorite platformer back in the day, and is still fun as hell to play today. But he's right about Xenophobe. I've owned it on several consoles, and the Lynx version was by and large the best of them. You can even play as the Snotterpillar if you get enough players together.

i remember xenophobe for the nes since my cousins had it for their nes. what a funky game

Wow I remember getting one for Christmas when I was a kid and we ran out of batteries in no time! I spent hours playing California Games 👌 Good time

omg Chip's challenge, I've played that on the PC a whole bunch! didn't know it was a Lynx game!

that soccer game (with the sprite scrolling) would have looked amazing at the time.

A reminder that the opening screen of Klax is the greatest opening screen in video game history. You launch the game and it's a black screen, with plain letters that just say: "IT IS THE NINETIES, AND THERE IS TIME FOR KLAX."

"That's the way linear time works" Oh, Ashens!

Fav Lynx game from my childhood is Blockout, a 3d top-down version of Tetris.

Ashens quote of forever :bloody hell!

I love that the soccer game pitch is about 4 miles long

Ah man. I LOVED Gordo 106 back in the day.

I love Klax :) Used to play it in the arcades when I was a kid but I was terrible. Now that I have it on my Lynx, I'm finally getting good.

I had one of these as a kid, I remember having some fun with Rygar and California Games. It stopped working for some reason though.

OMG Chips Challenge! I loved playing this back in the day on Windows 95 lol

I haven't watched your channel in ages

Holy hell that Neopets snowball fight game is based off of Rampart. That was quite possibly the only Neopets game I ever got good at.

I can't believe they ported S.T.U.N Runner to the Lynx. Looks like a lot of fun!

Long live the Lynx...so many more games which were very good.

Slime World got mentioned.. twice! That's all I ever wanted from this video

Still have a fondness for this ungainly beast.

That was astonishingly brief.

There's no way a game named 'Xenophobe' would be able to be made and sold in today's times...

Make more videos like this, you know going over specific consoles, and other things I enjoyed the format

I got a Lynx for Christmas one year when all I wanted was a game boy and Pokemon red so I could play with my friends. : / I remember my mum being so excited when I opened it and me feeling crushed. I played it probably twice and it lived in a draw for many many years.

An excellent video!

Holy fuck, STUN Runner! I played that game exactly once (on the big cabinet, no less) when I was a sprog, totally forgot the name, and had been wondering if I'd dreamt up the entire game ever since. I have no idea why the experience stuck with me that much, but it did. Jesus, that was a long time ago.

Looking forward to the DSwhenever that may come

Pah, where was Gauntlet? I remember it was a good version, but I was circa 11 and possibly an idiot.

Sad, no mention of Hard Drivin’. I have many a memory of summer holidays being driven around France and completely ignoring everything around me because I was too busy playing this racing simulator at about 2 FPS on the Lynx 2. Games were harder back then, sure, but a fair bit of it was down to them being much harder because one frame had you driving perfectly, then the next frame you’re slamming into a cow beside a barn due to a misestimation of how much steering would be applied between screen refreshes.

I always loved APB that was really fun

Loved the lynx. Was working in a computer store when it was released. Unfortunately my pay wasn’t enough for me to buy one ☹️

Bundling Batman with the Atari ST computer had sold gangbusters. I am sure that's why Batman Returns was bundled with the Lynx.

My theory for what happens at 50 seconds, Ashens was possessed by the spirit of an angry narrator from a BBC documentary.

I forgot Gordo 106 existed. Now I know it did and I know the cart should be in the house somewhere. Thank you, this will be a day spent obsessive searching. 🙄

Wow I need to try some of these. Who knew atari made something good!

I remember the Windows Entertainment Pack versions of Chip's Challenge and having played them... a little... Anyway, wow, the Lynx version looks SO much better than that version did (and no surprise, I never saw that version when I was a kid).

I'm currently remaking Klax in Unity, so I'm glad it got a mention. You're right though... it is terminally unloved and underappreciated!

Roadblasters was another great conversion.

Because you are able to handle the power of colour, I'll bet you'll come back to this system with a retrospect of all the other games no doubt....When you've seen everything that Cambridge's Computer Museum has to offer. :D

That soccer games framerate killed me XD

"In the last video" *HE EVER MADE* 👽

I watch in 144p for the most Ashen's quality

oh god the poor sofa now has both a hole and a burn mark

It may have only sold 1,000,000 systems, but that's 3 times as many systems sold as the Phillips CD-i.

Dirty Larry sounds like an action figure Ashens would review