Twenty years after Game Boy, the variety and strength of dedicated gaming handhelds has turned a novelty into a viable industry. The Game Boy’s distant cousin the Nintendo DSi ($169) is still on top, but Sony’s new PSP Go ($249) eschews hard media for downloadable games, and Linux-based units like the Pandora ($330) and Gamepark’s GP2X Wiz ($179) are as open-source as it gets for the homebrew and emulation community. Throw one in your bag and bring the arcade wherever you go.
As an addendum to our glimpse into the future of mobile gaming in the 2009 Style & Design package from our latest issue, we’re taking a look back at the 10 best handheld games of all time…
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20 years ago today, Nintendo’s Game Boy dropped, and it was a wrap. Surriously. There were handheld game systems before that, but nothing was able to catch fire the way this lovable little brick did. 100 million+ units later, it’s a legend. And in honor of the happy day, we took a trip back to pull together as many portable systems as we could find. Check the history, game on, nerds…
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The 9/11 propaganda video at last week’s RNC made Keith Olbermann maaaad, so wait ’til he gets a load of the newest Nintendo DS game from Japan. Called Air Traffic Chaos (Majesco-Nintendo DS), it continues the Japanese tradition of turning seemingly mundane, uninteresting tasks'in this case, controlling the takeoffs, landings, and gate assignments at a bustling airport'into addictive video games.
Which would all be fine, if it weren’t for ATC’s release date: that’s right, a game called Air Traffic Chaos, in which you can crash planes mid-air, comes out in the U.S.A. on September 11. Uh, Bad Idea Jeans, anyone? See a gameplay trailer below…
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With all the titty-slips and vag shots this week, we just want someone classy, like Minka Kelly. [Bastardly]
Good news for Nas, Al Sharpton is riding with your new album title. [Nah Right]
Nintendo DS got hooked up in summer-friendly colors. Flossy! [CtoTheJL]
These dudes knocked each other the F out. [Double Viking]
This doohickey allows you to re-cover your can of coke. [DVICE]
