The BEST of the Atari Lynx | Johnny Grafx  

Lamb of God t shirt confirms we are kindred spirits. lol

I'm always really interested in the Lynx. I remember discovering it at a pawn shop in the late 90s. Never even knew it existed until then.

It is no longer the 90s, and there is no time for Klax. 😞

Hope for a part 2! I’ve never played a Lynx game.

I tuned into your channel as recent owner of PC Engine. But I’ve had a Lynx since the 90s and I loved this video. Please make Part 2.

I do love the Lynx’s quirky library. There were a few collections released for the Evercade, but they’re sadly discontinued now. Definitely rooting for a second installment of this video!

Considering that most of its library is on the evercade now

Stun runner, klax and chips challenge were my favourite games on the lynx, played a lot of switchblade 2 and scrapyard dog.

That take on the PC version of Chip's Challenge is a little ironic since most are more familiar with and nostalgic for the PC version. In fact the long lost sequel for PC was finally released on Steam a few years back.

The Lynx was more of a pocket Neo Geo than the pocket Neo Geo with its sprite based graphics architecture

Even as a the kid who spent every Friday at Funcoland, I never saw one of these bad boys in wild. I would’ve been all about it!

I liked when you said the word "cadence", it hit me right in the feels. There isn't any meat in this video, but the graphics are outstanding. I also appreciate the subtle hint of Terry S. Taylor thrown in for legal reasons, and to ward off the homeless. Don't think I didn't notice, Pal. I'm Random. Hi!

These are retro games! What were you expecting? Personally I like Klax and just about all the games on the Lynx plus now the homebrews are going crazy!

Maybe 6 months before release Atari sent me some promo material for the lynx and it's launch titles. I never saw one in my local stores though. Althoughbindonremeber seeing the Jaguar at Kaybee Toy Store and I think they had that Altered Beasts running on it. I think that was the title but I could be wrong. It's been ages ago

Back in the 90s, someone loaned me a Lynx for a couple weeks. I remember having the game Rygar, but I don't remember what other games (if any) he loaned me. My two biggest memories of the Lynx (original version) are that the cartridges were ridiculously hard to get out of the console, and that the screen was quite hard to see if the lighting conditions weren't perfect. Of course, being used to playing games with right-handed Atari era joysticks, I absolutely sucked at playing ANY console that used d-pads, so I sucked at playing all the Lynx games. I still can't play action games with a d-pad, or even a left-handed thumbstick. As for emulation, I've found the best stand-alone emulator is the multi-system Mednafen. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a GUI, so you have to spend a great deal of time figuring out the command line usage, or use a frontend. Chip's Challenge - I love these types of puzzle games, and I had a copy of this for the Amiga. I was working my way through the levels when I came to one that had a huge amount of bugs hopping back and forth on just two squares. You had to get the timing exactly right, or you'd die and have to start the level over. Getting past a couple of these is bad enough, but having to do a dozen or more is just nerve wracking. I eventually gave up on that level as I could get past a few of them, but then I'd invariably get hit.

Ziggy's Shop lolz! Hydra reminds me of RoadBlasters a bit, nice selection!

This and my turbo express are my 2 favorite handhelds that I never was able to own as a child but do own today

I have 2 that haven’t been played in 25 years.

I owned most of these. I miss my Lynx and the faves I had. Crystal Mines was great and I played the heck outta that one!.Hydra… man that one was fun too. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Lynx’s Toki. It felt like he was swimming in mud the whole game. I never had Xybots. That’s an interesting one. Great vid, John!!! (And as we talked about before, one of my faves was Xenophobe. I think that’s the best translation/port of that game on any console outside of the actual arcade ROM)

Great selection! This is one of my favorite libraries and at one point I had almost all of it including the unreleased Aliens demo, today though emulation and digital collections suit me just fine 🤷🏼‍♂️ Fun vid John!

Shadow of the Beast has a great port on the lynx

Thank goodness for emulation. Gamers get to either relive or try out gaming consoles of yesteryear. I've always wanted to try out the 3DO, but as a kid obviously couldn't afford it, and this Atari Handheld looks intriguing.

I need to get a Lynx eventually.

Although not unique to the Lynx, I do like the Blockout that was released for the Lynx.

Loved my lynx, the gameboy just wasnt good enough, I swapped my gameboy with 2 games for a lynx 2 with 8 games, no regrets

In regards to Crystal Mines II, I have two things I'd like to add. 1. There was a remake one time on Nintendo DS and PSP. 2. If this is Crystal Mines 2, then where is Crystal Mines 1?

Trust me, the Genesis version of Toki is not the better one🤣🤣

Gates of zendocon was so boring, it just went on forever and and it was too easy, it's no r type and it has way too many eyes in it