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That pack came with the 32MB Pro Duo and the movie The Lords of Dogtown, both of which you should be able to find easily on the cheap... I'm not sure of the motherboard revision, but it's a pretty safe bet that it's a TA-082... It's easy enough to check anyway ( How to check for TA-082 MB on PSP )...

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Geeze Smeg, you actually play your game.com? I've got two of those things in my collection and I've hardly touched them since I received them... What games do you run on it? I'd love to find something worth using them for... the way I feel about the games I've bothered to try on mine, I'd be more worried about damaging my Lynx Adapter than killing the game.com...

Last time I tried to go to the USA was about 7 years ago, they turned me back and said I was lucky they don't impound my car. EDIT: And so everyone knows the "massive" crime I am guilty of that makes me not able to get into the USA....drum roll.... Being a pothead when I was a teen and getting busted for it. So pay up the fees and get a full pardon. You can have the charges completely removed from your record. That's what I did, and now I go back and forth across the border all the time... Contact any criminal lawyer; they can get it done for you. You can probably do it yourself too, if you're willing to invest the time and energy... Check out CanadianPardons.ca or Assured Pardons of Canada for more info...

Wow, this one look great. Too bad it´s not working. Agreed... That is a really cool looking proto... I wonder what it sold for?

That was a pretty good "popular" intro to the Lynx... I wonder if there will be a run on Lynxes in Australia for the next few weeks...

I picked up the original box and packaging with my Pokekon, and two of the five games (MiB), and though I hold little hope of finding the other three for a reasonable price, I do hope to get my hands on Astro Bomber one day... I was very pleased with the system's excellent overall condition when I received it; probably due to their exorbitant original pricing and a lack of software... Ah yes... the Palmtex Super Micro... I've only ever known of one that was for sale, and the asking price was a cool $1000, so I had to pass... Of course, if by some miracle of fate I should happen across one in the wild one day - at a garage sale or priced at $2 @ Goodwill, I would be most pleased...

That was me in the Nights cover Christmas issue of Retro Gamer... And I'm still looking for one, Thom, so if you ever want to let yours go, you drop me a line... I have found my other two "Holy Grails of Handhelds" however: My Epoch Game Pocket Computer and Koei PasoGo Gamates are rare, but I'm sure I'll get a nice one some day... they sold far more than either of these obscure Japan-only systems. As for the other handhelds mentioned - the Nomad, GP32, game.com, R-Zone, Virtual Boy, Pokemon Mini, etc. - we have those, too...

I saw these on Ebay a couple weeks back and was trying to decide whether or not to buy one when a new west coast seller brought a bunch on-line last night with a BIN about $10 less than anyone else was selling them for, so I jumped on one... I can't wait until it arrives!

I buy about half of my "modern games" used, "modern games" being DS and PSP games for me... I tend to wait on most new releases, however, and the majority of PSP games I buy new I pay less than $20 for - often, much less... Of course, with a PSP collection numbering 180+ games, I can afford to be patient because I know I'm not going to run out of stuff to play any time soon... Still, games like Castlevania, God of War and Crisis Core will get my cash on launch day - some stuff I just can't wait to play!

I agree with Gunstarhero - the BEST way to play a Lynx is Lynxed up with a friend... and if you haven't experienced it yet, it is worth your while to BUY A SECOND LYNX so that you can get some two-player Gauntlet or Zarlor Mercenary or Slime World happening! I'd vote the Battery Pack - I bought one back in the day and never, ever used it... In fact, I have external D-Cell or rechargeable battery packs for my Lynx, Game Gear and Nomad, and I never used any of them more than once or twice... a great idea in theory which was way too much a pain to carry around...

What is it with some Ebay sellers? eBay Auction -- Item Number: 180233890224 I mean, really, how can anyone be so stupid that they don't bother to do 5 minutes of homework on the very auction site they're posting to? It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if someone is regularly selling new Lynx II's for $70 or less, you're not likely to get a BIN of $250! and this is a re-listing!! The idiot originally had this up with a BIN of $300! This kind of crap just drives me nuts... You just know there's gonna be a handful of Pawnshops looking up Lynx prices on Ebay this week, and they're going to throw their Lynx IIs under the counter with a $200 price tag on them...

I bought my first Lynx at a Majestic Warehouse Direct - one of the first "big box" stores - in the winter of 1989-1990... I can't remember if I treated myself for Christmas or my birthday (which is in January), but I remember the Lynx I box with California Games and an AC Adapter cost me $230+tax... Yeeouch! Of course, I immediately set about convincing my best gaming buddy that he had to have one too, and he picked one up about a week later. We would play Lynxed up constantly - Gauntlet, Slime World, Zarlor Mercenary, California Games (Australian Rules Surfing!!), we played these games to death!! I absolutely loved that system... I bought my last Lynx I from Best Electronics; exactly the same box set I'd bought in 1989, but brand new in 2007! And this one only cost me $100!!

I did it kilt Atari... d/l'd all the LYnx ROMz! LOLz! Handy rulez! pwned...

My first Lynx I purchased around Christmas '89 or early 1990 was $250CDN with California Games and the AC Adapter... Add in Blue Lightening and another game (Gauntlet?) and it came to a pretty serious chunk of change for me back then... My first Lynx II was $125CDN; still have the box with the price tag on it...

I have two 16 year old daughters and a 15 year old son... All of them are gamers; I remember Zoe sitting on my lap when she was three and playing Ridge Racer with me on our brand new PlayStation... They played with the NES and SNES when they were little, but the first game the three of them showed a consistent, long-term interest in was Nights Into Dreams on the Saturn... We bought them all Pokemon Gold Color Gameboy packs for Christmas when they were 7 and 6 years old, and that was it! They've all been pretty hard-core gamers ever since... My son's the PC gamer; the girls pretty much stick to their PSPs, DSs or the PS2, except for SIMS 2 which runs on their 3 year old laptops just fine...

I've never seen one... which is too bad, 'cause I'd buy one in a heart beat just to save on the cart slot wear and tear on my fave Lynxes....

Get batteries you know are new and give it a try... if it doesn't work then it's probably not going to work on batteries... As for official Atari Lynx AC adapters, you can get them on Ebay for peanuts (like, less than $12 + shipping) if you can't find a cheap one in the Marketplace here...

Ya, my Pocket Pro is the backlit one... I got it NiP too, and I was surprised to see the colored, non-backlit models displayed on the packaging - I'd always presumed that they were different manufacturing runs; a smaller version with backlighting, and then a more colorful, kid-friendly, cheaper version as kind of a last ditch attempt to salvage the system before it disappeared entirely... The Microvision's LCD is only 16x16, so it's really pretty pointless for anything but Block Buster - but my son and I play that on it all the time! We just sit on the floor and pass it back and forth trying to get the highest score... It ramps up so crazy fast and the screen is so blurry that it's actually a great challenge!

Here are my other handhelds: from the top left and flowing down in semi-logical columns : MIB Atari Lynx I, MIB Bandai Wonderswan (Pearl White), MIB Bandai Swancrystal (Violet), Wonderswan, Bandai Wonderswan Color, Swancrystal (#2), SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color version 1 (crystal), SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color version 1 (silver), SNK NeoGeo Pocket (blue camo), SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color version 2 (metalic blue), (btt) MIB Tiger R-Zone, NEC TurboExpress, Game Park Holdings GP2X, original Nintendo Game Boy (x3), Game Boy Pocket (black), Game Boy Light (silver), Pokemon Edition Game Boy Color (x2), Game King I, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Game Boy Micro (x2), Game Boy Advance SP (x4), Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite (x3), (btt) Milton Bradley Microvision, Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong Hockey, Atari Lynx I (#2), Atari Lynx II (x2), Sega Nomad, Sega Game Gear (x2), Tiger game.com, Tiger R-Zone, Sony PSP (x2), Quickshot Supervision and a Watara Supervision... Not pictured are my game.com Pocket Pro, another PSP phat, a PSP slim, a couple cool Mattel LCD games and my Virtual Boy....

I recently picked up After Burner Black Falcon for the PSP, and ever since I turned this game on, all I can think about is how much like Blue Lightning this game is... The handling of the plane, the way objectives are laid out, the furious maneuvering and shooting, it is quite stunningly Blue Lightning in a modern wrapper... I've often thought that the PSP was probably very much like what a Lynx Advance SP might be like, and this just seems to confirm it! I love this game!

I've got Wheel of Fortune and Fighters Megamix in my game.com, and Indianapolis 500 in my game.com Pocket Pro... Wheel of Fortune is actually playable and a little bit fun, in a sad, my-Grandma-would-really-like-this-game kind of way... Other than that, I think the system is a cool addition to my handhelds collection, but it's without a doubt one of the very worst video game machines ever sold... I agree with the Reverend that I've had more fun with my R-Zones (the head mounted one is especially cool in an '80s Geek-Out vibe), and the Virtual Boy is a far superior system in every way...

I think it looks really cool - I'd like to see a banana yellow Lynx!

One thing I neglected to mention in my previous post but wanted to: packages coming from the UK or Japan arrive consitently faster - and cost little if any more $$ to ship - than packages I order from the United States. I don't know why this is, but it is - years of experience have convinced me of this... most recently, I ordered some R2 DVDs from the amazon.uk and some Criterion stuff from deepdiscount.com on the same day; the UK package arrived four days faster... go figure