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The first handheld gaming console was released by the Milton Bradley Company late in 1979. This mysterious device with a whopping 32 nibbles of RAM (that’s 16 bytes) and a 16 x 16 resolution was known as Microvision. With a staggeringly small pool of games (around a dozen), little support from a fragile gaming industry, and high hardware failure rates, it’s no wonder it had a short 4 year life-span. It was an ambitious step in gaming history; to take video games wherever you wanted. However it was ahead of its time. These were the dark ages of video games after all. It would take Nintendo revitalizing the video game industry with the NES to spark interest in the idea of a portable console and it would be Nintendo to first put out such a thing nearly a decade after Microvision; the Game Boy. Continue reading