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Just a quick report that even inspite of several days of "serious commuting", I have´t been able to beat Conquistador yet

Freezing is indeed not normal sorry. I thought there is a checksum thingy at the beginning of firing up a Lynx game, so if it were faulty, it wouldn´t even boot... My obvious first guess would have been "dirty contacts of the cart or inside the Lynx" but you have just unboxed it and also tried it on other Lynxes... My Steel Talons does the very same behavior, I got it as loose cart which stuck over a decade in a used Lynx 2.

Thank you for this collection looking forward to play through them on the commuting train tomorrow morning

The Rygar hiscore music is very nice (I mean the full tune, it goes a few minutes)...as well as its general theme The only thing I like about Basketbrawl is its A-Team-like intro ... Reviews tend to love the tunes in Lemmings, too. EDIT Ok, I think they are all ports.

Haha, just back from half an hour of re-playing Hard Drivin´- and memory served me badly - I remembered it better than it is: It is not exactly "perfectly playable" but playable I still wouldn´t say it stynx. It´s a nice effort on the Lynx, but stripped down by so much. I´m honest: Hard Drivin´on a Sega Nomad is better, plays better, feels better. I always crashed and lost all fuel in Hydra, cannot remmember ever having played it longer than 30-40 seconds until I crashed/lost all fuel again, After this happens the tenth time, nowadays you tend to lose interest, especially since yes Roadblasters is so much more accessible and better. For me, Hydra was like one of these shooters where you see "start screen, publisher´s screen, options: easy, lives: as many as possible, twenty seconds playing GAME OVER, Hiscores, start screen, publisher´s screen, options: easy, lives: as many as possible, twenty seconds playing GAME OVER, Hiscores, etc

If you are familiar with "Stunts" (DOS) then it is much like it, only slower, and all you have to do is to learn the two Hard Drivin´ tracks (there are only two) by heart, a bit like in many old-time shooters, and I find it becomes perfectly playable. Just be fair: Don´t compare it to the MegaDrive/Genesis game Like Steel Talons, the frame rate is low. The two Lynx games I simply never managed to steer well or to even get warm with are Hydra - and the Chess game.

I find the list pretty much fitting my own taste. But Double Dragon is actually quite fun, in multiplayer you can play it for ages and even have a proper conversation besides because unlike Rampage, it doesn´t get harder.

As a gamer, who, right after the Atari VCS, came of age and grew up with DOS shareware collections, I think Viking Child fits its time, no more, no less; I wouldn´t call it hugely disappointing but it is average and mediocre and could have been much more like Sega´s Wonderboy...gameplay-wise, I find it much like "Switchblade II" which is is really enjoyable, just quiet throughout. Try something like Rygar, or Battlewheels - either is far from lame and you feel you are actually making progress and getting somewhere

Yes, same guy (not me!)

Thank you for this, frankodragon

You need to do this on cmd, like in the good old DOS days: ren *.txt *. lnx (Or like I did, in the file manager on Linux-run Pandora). If you do not manage it, shoot me a PM Are the treasures at the exact same places? Still exploring....

Runs great here as well on Lynx 2 with Lynxman FlashCart fantastic port, I mean: clone, no: work EDIT Here with an "authentic" picture taken in errr 1991

Thank you so much. LX.NET this is much appreciated. Feels good to play it with its music runs fine in Handy (Windows7). Will try on Lynx Flashcart and GP2X and Pandora all over the weekend and report if problems .

Very cool Add "Gameboy advance" to the list - I only played Jungle Jack just earlier this week on the AnthoIogy. Now the GBA can go back into winter hibernation

Thank you for your work, BadPricey

Exaclty. I think the multicart is a win-win situation for both gamers only and game collectors.

Stereo speakers would be good. Since handheld consoles like the bigger DSi I know that good stereo sound without extra headphones is possible. Would be lovely for games such as Checkered Flad or Xybots.

Thank you, Ninjabba all news are so appreciated.

Supposedly, after over 20 years, the New Old Stock is finally....sold. When I came here in autumn 2010, there were also more Atari-dealers around than now. Plus, which is actually very desirable, I believe the recent hardware upgrades have really pushed the Lynx hobby forward and won new players, especially those guys who before on did not like the "classic" screen vision .

I agree with portable old DOS computer, and would add some GBA feel (the first "landscape" one), in which you play some of the better Gameboy Color arcade conversions; thinking of GBC ports of Rampart, Joust, Shanghai, Qix, or games like Duke Nukem (to which "Power Factor" resembles a bit).

We did a two-player multiplayer a few times over here (which was probably the Central Europe Relief Pitcher Lynx Multiplayer Premiere, ha!), it was definitely well playable and the only crash I remember was at the end when the newspaper came up. Worked all very fine otherwise apart from that i mainly remember that the vocal comments regarding my comlynxer came out off HIS Lynx and the one regarding my player came from MINE, which is somehow odd when you sit against opposite walls in a room.

Thanks for rehosting it the AA was both my first ever GBA game I imported from the US and it also brought me back, after over 10 years of hiatus, to love the Atari 2600 again

Thanks, looking forward to seeing it on real Lynx

Just played it a good while on Handy on Openpandora. Very funny, fantastic work for done in just 12 hours (it has no sound but I don´t feel it´s missing, some irritating G&W tick tick tick)

Thank you