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Never played Lynx before, just purchased my first two games. Excited to try them out! Any specific games that I should hunt for moving forward?
I never played it on Lynx, but California Games was like the Wii Sports of the NES.
My favorite thing was hitting the seagull with the hackey sack.
I can now confirm that it's great hitting the seagull with a hackey sack on the Lynx version too!
That is a great juxtaposition. I played it on the Lynx and the game had so much to offer.
I remember playing mostly surfing and skating for months and nothing else. Eventually I tried Hacky Sack and never played anything else!
omg … memories
Lynx was as much "the Epyx console" as it was "the Atari portable". Epyx had so many high-quality games on Commodore 64; I have not played all of the Lynx ports but I can tell you that Electrocop was a sequel to Impossible Mission, in spirit. All of "The Games" (unlicensed Olympics) series were pretty great on C64.
Early on, one of Epyx's founders got sick of just reusing the Apshai engine over and over and left to found Free Fall, who created Archon - one of Electronic Arts' first games.
Those were two of my favorites. Mainly played BMXing on California Games and I'm still "As good as James" (playing on Steam Deck nowadays)
I was going to make a YT video on a certain topic this week, but doing research for it, I found all the cool little gadgets being sold now that are pre-loaded with emulators.
...and it made me so happy to know that younger generations are being exposed to our cool, old games in an easy, cheap, accessible way.
Zarlor Mercenary, like R-Type but vertical. Lots of fun and, IMO, one of the games that better used the Lynx's capabilities.
My buddy down the street had a Lynx when we were kids. I remember playing Rygar, Slime World, Chip's Challenge, and I think Xenophobe? The battery life was pretty bad though, which made me appreciate my Game Boy and its glorious 4 shades of spinach-green.
I liked Gates of Zendocon as a kid. I wouldn't swear to you that it's good, but I got a kick out of it.
California Games, A.P.B., Lemmings, Blue Lightening, and Todd's Adventures in Slime World were all favorites of mine on my Lynx.
I am convinced that I somehow got the highest score possible on the downhill skateboarding thing in California Games. I was going to take a picture of it to send to GamePro or EGM, but we didn't have any film.
Slime world was not bad.
Gauntlet: The Third Encounter was a decent take on the gauntlet style.
Good luck!
So good. I had the first lynx. I had a nice collection of like 10 games. Either it was lost or stolen in like 7th grade. I'm still sad.
i heard it has a good port of pacland and how you can go wrong with pacland
I didn't know Chip's Challenge got a Lynx port of all things, I could swear it was strictly a PC game! Enjoy!
The Lynx version came first.
Loved my Lynx, used to spend hours playing on it. Had both those games, too.