For me, it has to be PSP, it was WAY ahead of its time.
Also remember that I added windows 95 in it to see the capabilities and it was taking 10 minutes just to boot into windows hahaha
I broke it when I got drunk one day though, still miss it :(
Y’all are sleeping on the PSP. I loved the gameboy and ds, but Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PSP with friends at school was incredible!
PSP is definitely the handheld with the most time on it for me. I was hanging around on QJ.net when the original Wipeout Pure exploit was released. Then came a tidal wave of homebrew and emulators. It was an amazing time.
At one point it wasn’t possible to downgrade firmware yet, so I was (as a kid) hassling a Best Buy employee to help me find one with v1.50 instead of v1.51 or higher.
“Grew up” with the game gear which got a ton of use.
But the PSP was amazing in college for passing time between classes. What a device ahead of its time.
damn i never owned any sega console or games, i have missed out
For me it was the Game Gear, I had so much fun playing that. Although I did have to fashion my own external battery pack for it.
Nintendo DS Lite as it had a slot for DS and GBA games.
Definitely PSP for me. I used to spend so much time listening to music with the audio visualizer app
Gameboy Advance SP. So many fond memories of playing Mario pinball land on road trips and spending a majority of my time in Sonic Advance 2 in the chao garden :3
SP with the NES color scheme for sure.
I played so much Mario Kart on my SP. The backlight was such a game changer for me.
Game gear, I loved that thing. Sonic games, the Itchy and Scratchy game, and I also remember a creepy vampire game too that I would play late at night and it would scare me so much.
I also have some memories of a Spiderman game that was my brother’s.I still have my green Gameboy and some games, and that was awesome too. I just wish I still had my Game Gear.
I grew up in the 1980s and I loved my original brick Game Boy. I have all the accessories like the lense and the front light etc. My parents wouldn’t let me play video games on the TV so I never got a SNES or Mega Drive etc. Later I got the original psx on my own but that was in 1997 or 1998 when Final Fantasy 8 was released in Europe.
It’s hard to imagine now, but the original Game Boy blew my mind because it used cartridges. I don’t know of an earlier handheld that had interchangeable games.
Growing up it was my OG Gameboy. I played it daily for years and still remember getting it on Christmas the year it came out. However, I was already an adult when I got my Gameboy Advance, which still holds a place in my heart as my favorite handheld. Minish Cap was a banger!
that was my first handheld, we had some pirated cartridges that had 99 games in (10 really though) and they were so much fun!
Me and my brothers had game gears growing up, those things chewed through some batteries, but had some darn good sonic games on them
Game gear for me as well. When your a kid, your favorite console is whichever one you were lucky enough to own, be it a gift from a parent, or one you bought with chore money from a friend.
I loved my Game Gear. I always had the AC adapter, so I didn’t actually burn through many batteries (never played in the car because the motion gave me a headache). Although I eventually had quite a few games, the ones that I played the most were Sonic 2, Mortal Kombat, and Spider-man/X-Men Arcades Revenge.
Nostalgia alone will probably always keep the Game Gear my favorite handheld, despite how awesome all the Gameboys, DSs, and PSP things that get made. That said, the Neo Geo Pocket holds a high place in my heart as well.
