Your birth year
2006
Atari Lynx
19891980s
Atari Lynx is 17 years older than you
It's from 1989, before you were born.
- Maker
- Atari
- Type
- Handheld console
- Debuted
- 1989
- Note
- First color backlit handheld
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About
As of 2026, it's 37 years old.
The Atari Lynx showed up in 1989 with a gorgeous color backlit screen, hardware scaling, and the ability to link 16 players together. It was, by every spec sheet, a marvel.
Then the Game Boy strolled in with a green-tinted swamp of a screen, four AA batteries to the Lynx's six, and a little game called Tetris, and proceeded to bury it. Power isn't everything when your rival fits in a pocket and runs all weekend.
The handheld that won the benchmark and lost the war.
