In Pictures: 3 decades of hand-held game systems

Three decades after the debut of Milton Bradley's Microvision, here's a look at how handheld video game systems evolved, from early flops like the Atari Lynx to the gaming innovations of the iPhone.

Nokia N-Gage (2003) and Tiger Telematics Gizmondo (2005)

These two unfortunate (but unrelated) consoles have one thing in common: They were impressive flops. The N-Gage combined a cell phone and a handheld video game console in a single device that performed neither function very well. The Gizmondo was an utter train wreck, complete with a terrible game library and an embarrassing marketing effort.

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